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The US is considering dropping "the mother of all bombs" on Iran, according to CNN.

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The EU criticizes Trump for reaching out to Putin: "We must pressure the aggressor, not the victim"

Núria Sala Ventura

"Size matters": European leaders are stuck on the budget

Núria Sala Ventura

Content in catalan

The ARA awards Catalan technology with impact at the first FAR awards

Alberto Prieto

Can Sánchez raise pensions and the minimum wage during his campaign?

Núria Rius

Comunes blames Rufián for hindering the unity of the left

Marc Toro and Gerard Fageda

Trump cancels live broadcast of guerrilla firing squad execution

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Planeta Prize for Isabel Allende, the best-selling author in Hispanic literature

Jordi Nopca

Social emergency

A woman dies while sleeping at the entrance to a museum in Santa Coloma de Gramenet

ARA

The Crown of Aragon reunites in Poblet 15 years later, reclaiming Spain

Roger Palós

The ANC throws out the mayor of Aliança Catalana

Xavi Tedó

Social use of Catalan

How is the mental framework of Catalanophobia constructed?

Laura Serra

"Arnold Schwarzenegger and I want to make another movie together."

Xavi Serra

Kathleen Belew:

"They believe that racial apocalypse is imminent."

Carla Turró

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Weather

Last hours of calm: rain and cold knock at the door

Last hours of calm: rain and cold knock at the door | ARA meteo

Antoni Bassas analysis

Puigdemont's electoral asset

Puigdemont's electoral asset

"It was night, I was in the ocean, tired, and right below me was a shark."

Toni Padilla

Guess who's coming over tonight for an orgy

María Adell Carmona

David Selvas: "We need migrants; we are an aging society and there are jobs we don't want to do."

Núria Juanico Llumà

The goalkeeper from Verneda who took free kicks and penalties

Marc Mosull

Necessary beauty, but with a gasoline engine

Ferran Vital

The most-watched series in the UK is a friendly mystery for fans of detective stories.

Alejandra Palés

Defense Ministry sends to courts the audio recordings in which soldiers boast of having assaulted migrants in Ceuta

N.R.M

The residents of the Papallona blog launch a rent strike against the fund that wants to evict them

ARA

The former government official accused in the Moncada cement plant case denies preferential treatment

ARA

Four former advisors' proposals to revive the education system

ARA

Apartur threatens Barcelona City Council with legal action over the increase in property tax on tourist apartments

G.P.

Yemen, the reignited war that has become a hot potato for Trump

Cristina Mas

The EU is considering imposing quotas on Chinese chemical exports to reduce the trade deficit.

Núria Sala Ventura

The SNP launches a major campaign to pressure Burnham and secure a second referendum for Scotland

Quim Aranda

Zelensky defies Trump and will resume attacks on Russian refineries

Cristina Mas

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Content in catalan

Brazil approves reducing its working hours to 40 hours per week

ARA

Who do left-wing voters want in La Moncloa?

Andrea Zamorano

Sánchez closes ranks with his spokesperson over his partner's real estate dealings

Núria Sala Ventura

Who benefits most from Aliança Catalana not running in the Spanish elections?

Aleix Moldes

Who will place Podemos on the ERC electoral list?

Aleix Moldes and Andrea Zamorano

The Central Electoral Board opens disciplinary proceedings against Pedro Sánchez for violating institutional neutrality

BBVA predicts that Catalonia's economy will grow more than Madrid's in 2027

ARA

Low-cost gas stations lessen the impact of rising fuel prices

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Molinos lands in the United States with a factory in Oklahoma

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

The most accurate acknowledgments are those of the scientists.

Àlex Gutiérrez

Content in catalan

Misc

Saint Teresa and the inexhaustible magic of the Old square

The Nens have unloaded the 5d8 at home after nine years

Hit the ceiling

The problem of housing rentals

Troba els plans que vols fer a Barcelona

Premium Club

What a privilege to sail in front of Barcelona!

Reader's Advocate

The headline about the new head of the Mossos, history and gender

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

The Gen Z bus driver who champions the profession on social media: "I've been able to buy an apartment"

"There is a desire to prevent Catalan cinema from becoming mainstream."

The Mallorcan woman who is bringing back to the writers sidelined by prejudice and sexism

Josep Genovard

An October of shifting borders

Barcelona celebrates Rafael Moneo, the "thinking" architect

Antoni Ribas Tur

Mexico, through Companys' widow: "His name will be a symbol in the history of democracy"

Sílvia Marimon

John Berger: writing with the eyes, seeing with prose

Pere Antoni Pons

Eva Baltasar is back: she's now a finalist for the Médicis Étranger prize

Laura Serra

Content in catalan

Which nine novels are vying to win the Planeta Prize?

Jordi Nopca

What can you do this weekend? Barcelona Draws, Biennial of Thought and other events

ARA

An offering to the Valencian people opens the Fira Mediterrània

Xavier Cervantes

The five iconic dribbles that changed Barça's history

Albert Nadal

Marc Márquez and Iris Tió, Catalans, best athletes of 2025

"Brands don't want to send their workers to a country that's at war."

Toni Padilla

Football - The League

Exemplary punishment for Vinícius: the Brazilian will miss the derby (and more matches)

Albert Nadal

More reasons to leave Gordon and Rodri speechless

Xavi Hernández Navarro

Catalonia imports 80% of the wood it consumes

Núria Rius

"Capitalism keeps working, and music is falling into the hands of three agencies and three ticketing companies."

Dani Colmena

Living in a brand new apartment without being an owner or a tenant

Aniol Costa-Pau

AI and the future of human knowledge

Joseph Stiglitz and Màxim Ventura-Bolet

"I live alone in a cove that Franco didn't expropriate because he died two days before."

Xavi Tedó

Magazines

Journey to the African Machu Picchu, origin of the legend of King Solomon's mines

Xavier Moret

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, attends a campaign rally at The Oncenter in Syracuse, New York (USA), on October 9, 2026.

Why does Trump wear a cheap suit?

Sílvia Rosés

Photograph awarded with the prize for the best dog photographer of the year at the 2026 Dog Photography Awards.

Dogs, the new creatures

Mònica Planas Callol

Dull reflections (1)

Dull reflections (1)

Elva Lombardia

A view of the facade of the house.

The house that talks with the neighborhood

Cristina Ros

The Mexican actor and director Diego Luna photographed this week in Barcelona.

"We must take care of those who are here to take care of us"

Xavi Serra

May the Maldà Cinema last forever

Toni Vall

EUREKA Pritt WEB

The lipstick that inspired the first glue stick in the world

Marc Amat

The resurgence of Nokia thanks to AI

Òscar Gelis

Mr. Ernesto Anastasio Pascual

The sailor who founded Trasmediterránea

David Valero-Carreras

Image of the World Bank's facade in Washington / ACN

The World Bank appoints a new chief financial officer and Ibai and Piqué invest in chocolate

Alberto Prieto

Panoramic view of Barcelona

Housing: 0.47% of the budget

Andrei Boar

How many extracurricular activities are too many?

Carlos Bueno

School zone sign in Sweden.

This is not Sweden (or is it!)

Pau Gaitán

Participants in a Barcelona Dibuixa workshop from a previous edition

Cinema, drawings and poetry: what to do with children this week

Mar Domènech

And my frustration, what about it?

Without shouting or punishments: how to teach to tolerate frustration

Olga Vallejo

Cristina Canamases.

Cristina Canamases:

"For the generation of my children it is unthinkable to meet a person in an analog way"

Francesc Orteu

The infallible method to choose our daughter's name

Your surname or mine? The dilemma of registering a child at the Civil Registry

Maria Labró

John Berger: writing with the eyes, seeing with prose

Pere Antoni Pons

Eva Baltasar, in Barcelona, this winter

Eva Baltasar is at it again: now she is a finalist for the Médicis Étranger prize

Laura Serra

Austin Abrams in 'Whalefall'.

Hallucinating journey through the digestive system of a sperm whale

Ignasi Franch

The filmmaker and musician Boots Riley at the Sitges Festival.

Boots Riley, the communist filmmaker who has brought the revolution to Sitges

Xavi Serra

Ceramic fish from the shipwreck near the coast of Turkey.

They claim to have discovered the oldest shipwreck in the world

ARA

A moment of the show 'How romantic'.

The most cutting-edge international shows land in Barcelona

Núria Juanico Llumà

"Being the first female president of the Lyceum Circle is a great responsibility."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Jayzer, Beta, Guillem, Ahmad and Antoni with a puff pastry cake with figs and mascarpone

Debut vindicates from l’Hospitalet a Catalan cuisine without labels

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

Zucchini flower with cod brandade and rotisserie chicken oil from La barra de l'Avenir.

Contemporary Catalan cuisine in Barcelona and a porró to wash it down

Rosa Rodon

Mercè Cabrisas, with a box of corks in front of her pastry shop

The historic pastry shop of Cadaqués closes after one hundred years

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Pau Santamaria, son of the chef Santi Santamaria, sells local food products to the restaurant industry

"After watching the series 'Gènesi', I feel like making an escudella and having a wine with Ferran Adrià to talk about it all"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

picapoll

These are the 10 grape varieties that are most cultivated in Catalonia

Esther Utrilla and Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Production line in Martorell

Seat maintains the growth of sales in Spain

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Citroën 2CV

This is the new Citroën 2CV: electric, charming and for less than 15,000 euros

Ferran Vital

The CEO of Seat and Cupra, Markus Haupt.

Seat does not have planned to electrify any of its models and its future will depend on the path of combustion

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Pedro Sánchez Saturday at a campaign event in Ponferrada.

The CIS catapults the PSOE and places it almost twelve points above the PP

Colau offers to renounce as candidate and change the name of the Broad Front for unity with Podemos

Who will accompany Rufián on the ERC list?

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, speak on the day of the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium.

"Size matters": European leaders get stuck with the budget

Sánchez, "prepared" for the duel with Meloni in the migratory debate

Ukraine will return to attack Russian refineries without the support in defense of the United States

Les Botigues de Sitges beach, next to Port Ginesta and bordering Castelldefels.

Illa confirms that the body found in the sea of Sitges is that of the minor who went missing in Granollers

140 years selling sashes and shawls: Barcelona loses one of the oldest shops in the Gothic quarter

The Mossos point against a former high-ranking official for the permits of the Montcada cement plant

Image of the conference, with Carla Turró, Manel Delgado, Carme Trilla and Josep Oliver.

Housing, between morality and pragmatism

The most exact acknowledgments are those of the scientists

Farmers paralyze the center of Barcelona with a tractor protest to demand aid for the sector: "It is time to say enough"

Guillem Gisbert - The Lie Detector (Official Music Video)

'The lie detector', by Guillem Gisbert, video clip.

The geographer accused of being a traitor who made the first modern map of Catalonia

The cheesy bad conscience

Lamine Yamal and Fermín after a Barça goal in Istanbul.

Too early for so much pleasure?

Sekulic's sense of smell balances Barça

The demons dress in blue and garnet in the Turkish hell

Toni Clapés on 'Cervells mínims'.

The other radio program of Toni Clapés

Thirty-five hospitals or dying of hunger

Javier Gurruchaga: “With Camilo José Cela I shit myself a little, the truth”

A scene from 'Gilmore Girls'

An essential documentary and an autumn tradition: what you cannot miss this week

Why observing a painting can make you feel better

Eating to feel better: the relationship between food and emotions

Hilary Swank announces that she is pregnant with twins

Hilary Swank announces that she is pregnant at 52 years old

Amaia Montero responds with irony to the attacks on her physique

'Breaking bad' actor RJ Mitte dies at 34 years old

Science and Technology

A person painting a unique picture.

Why science needs the humanities more than ever

The stratospheric cost of not acting in the face of the ecological crisis: the figures of the European Union

The woman who made the arrival of man to the Moon possible dies