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The Spanish government pardons Laura Borràs and reduces her prison sentence

The Supreme Court grants amnesty to the first female councilor of the October 1st government and four members of the Parliament's governing board

Núria Rius and Martí Odriozola i Marcé

Fires in France

France evacuates missile plants as the fire advances towards Bordeaux

Pedro Sánchez: "Climate denialism is the worst kind of fuel"

Roger Hernández Pujol

A man kills his wife in front of at least one of their children in Barcelona

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Josep Vilarasau dies, the power of La Caixa and the counterpower of Pujol

Agustí Sala

José, I'm not exaggerating.

Isidre Fainé

Seven-year terms (extendable) and an end to handpicked appointments: the Government approves the public manager law

Mireia Esteve

PISA: The Spanish government warned a year ago that too many Catalan students had been excluded

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More Spanish in a school group in Maresme: the TSJC uses for the first time the ECHR 25% ruling

Laia Galià

24 hours without stairs: the longest flight in history successfully lands

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter renounces her father's surname

Biel Roura Amat

Laporta will not travel with the team to England after suffering an arrhythmia

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Antoni Bassas' analysis

When the lufa is hanging on a whole department

The weather

Heat warnings return for many days

What happened to 'topless'?

Sílvia Rosés

"The village of my parents is the antithesis of Barcelona"

Olga Vallejo

Does my sexual partner know how to please me?

Beti Badia

What has become of Sanna Marin, the prime minister who was criticized for having too much fun?

Núria Vila Masclans

"In summer we allow ourselves to stop and become more aware of living"

Selena Soro

Sánchez denounces the "political charges" against his inner circle and maintains that he will serve out his full term.

Núria Rius

The Kitchen case trial is ready for judgment: what were the Spanish police looking for in Luis Bárcenas?

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) sends the complaint about Judge Peinado regarding Begoña Gómez's bodyguards to the courts in Madrid.

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The Treasury postpones the regional financing meeting until September at the request of the PP governments

Núria Rius

Junts and Esquerra demand Isla's appearance regarding the PISA tests

Zaragoza wins out over Barcelona and will be the headquarters of the State Public Health Agency

Gemma Garrido Granger

The major fires in Madrid and Ávila are easing: the first evacuees are returning home

N.R.M

Two people injured, one critically, after being hit by a car on Rambla Catalunya

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The illegal route of more than 700 tons of toxic waste from Vallès

Laia Galià

Confused animals and a sudden change in weather: what will happen during the eclipse?

Xavi Segura

Zelensky wants to capitalize on Trump's failure in Iran.

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

With the Iran war stalled, Trump and Netanyahu meet quietly

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Several people trapped in a shopping mall that collapsed due to a powerful earthquake in Japan

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The government and Vietnam Airlines are exploring establishing a direct flight between Barcelona and Hanoi.

Man arrested in Belgium following European arrest warrant for allegedly setting fire to his ex-partner's apartment

Unemployment at record lows: registers the best second quarter in the last 18 years

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Grifols leverages its biopharmaceuticals division to boost profits to €227M in the first half of the year

Albert Cadanet Vilà

The list of Catalan municipalities where rental prices will be regulated has changed: 22 have been removed, 53 have been added.

Laura Casserres Capdevila and Marc Toro

The Spanish government unlocks 17.9 billion euros to improve the electricity grid

N.R.M

The family of the cleaning worker who died last summer is suing the Barcelona City Council and the company

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

Premium Club

"I joined the Premium Club for a year... there will be many more!"

Send us the summer postcard and you will participate in a raffle

'A summer of postcards', the ARA's new initiative to reconnect with paper

Ombudsman

The Devil and Captions

Opinió

There's no need to cut back on small, everyday expenses.

The two major fires that ravaged half of Montserrat: the shadow of the far right and three deaths in a cave

"Relationships between men and women are strained"

Ninety years of a dream. The People's Olympiad

Traditional cuisine

Can Biel Felip, one of Mallorca's flagship bars for variety, is closing.

Josep Genovard

The story of an extraordinary incunabulum from 1485

Jordi Nopca

Aragon accuses the MNAC of failing to meet the deadlines for returning the paintings from the Sijena monastery

Antoni Ribas Tur

The praise of alcoholic wisdom that has triumphed in Italy

Gerard Casau

Xavier Grasset recommends the uncensored translation of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

Sílvia Marimon

Audiovisual industry

'Episódico', the series to discover the talent pool of Catalan audiovisual production

Alejandra Palés

The controversial Katharina Wagner presents an "exceptional" tour that will kick off in Barcelona

Jordi Nopca

Carly Simon, known for the hit 'You're so vain', announces she has Parkinson's disease

Biel Roura Amat

A key summer for Aitana Bonmatí

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Interview Pere Millet:

"After winning the Olympic medal, my father told me I had to get to work."

Toni Padilla

Why are players under contract leaving Barça basketball team?

Àlex Gozalbo

Zinedine Zidane, new French national team coach

Rayo Vallecano, without a stadium less than a month before the start of the league

The Catalan coast is disintegrating: is there still time to save all the beaches?

Gemma Garrido Granger

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Content in catalan

Want to age healthily? Here's what science says you should eat

Cristina Sáez

Perhaps you are an alcoholic and you don't know it

Mònica Bernabé

Who's who in Lamine Yamal's circle

Albert Nadal

Spain's richest and most invisible man

David Valero-Carreras

Magazines

From Vendrell to L'Ampolla, seven restaurant terraces with a taste of the sea in Tarragona

Jordi Mumbrú

The company Sal Maldon has the oldest workshop in the historic center of the town; the rest are on the outskirts

Maldon, the salt of a small English town that is sold in bulk in Catalonia

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Sandra Baliarda and Santi Colominas, on the terrace of Toc al Mar. In the background, Aiguablava beach

Entrevista Santi Colominas:

"I have received all sorts of offers to buy my Toc al Mar, but I don't intend to retire"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A jar of industrial mayonnaise.

The danger of homemade mayonnaise and the poor taste of industrial

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Ada Parellada: "Since all grandmothers do Pilates, we no longer see them making croquettes"

"As all grandmothers do pilates, we no longer see them making croquettes"

Albert Om

The cook who has lived in Tarragona since he was twelve years old says that his education is based on respect for everyone

Mohamed Quach: "They have painted the name of Vox on my restaurant's signs twice, and with respect and coexistence I change and clean them"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The trap of the perfect summer

Cristina Gutierrez Lestón

A child studies with the help of a teacher

How to study during the summer for failed subjects

Elisenda Rosanas

A father uses the mobile phone

The role of adults in the use of mobiles and men during gestation: what has most caught our attention this week

Lara Bonilla and Sergi Llanas

A child plays with sand on the beach, on a holiday

"And if someone takes a photo of them?": the fear of many families at the beach

Núria Bigas Formatjé

Efteling a fairytale park.

15 amusement parks to rediscover magic as a family beyond Disney

Cristina Torra

Eugenia Broggi

Eugènia Broggi: "I spent the day reading and dreaming of other lives and other worlds"

Bea Cabezas

Alberto Mir: the dream of sailing to Antarctica

Toni Padilla

Permanent exhibition (5)

Permanent exhibition (5)

Cristian Robles

Image of the Cosmocaixa Planetarium.

Two very summery black novels and a space to navigate the mysteries of the Universe

Thais Gutiérrez and Jordi Garrigós

Maricarme, Jordi, Anna Maria and Hoggo with a tray of roasted pork cheeks.

The secret of Can Facundo is not only its rice: it is Jordi

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

Present and past form part of the landscape of our cities.

The cosmopolitan city in the 21st century

Francesc Muñoz

One of the campaign images

Dress democracy... and cause secondhand embarrassment

Sílvia Rosés

Inputs and outputs to the Catalan wine sector

Alberto Prieto

A group of students, in a high school in Barcelona

The lesson of the educational system

Oriol Aspachs

Relief for family businesses.

The Catalan family business seeks (the best) succession

Albert Cadanet Vilà

Pau Xifra, president of Comexi and grandson of the founder of the Girona company at the plant in Riudellots de la Selva.

The Girona technology behind the supermarket packaging

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

President Trump this Wednesday in Washington, at the events commemorating the independence of the USA

White House, Inc., the Trump business

Agustí Sala

Gessamí Caramés in a recent image

Gessamí Caramés: "I am a cook, not a businesswoman"

Júlia Riera Rovira

The 10 literary trips for this summer

Jordi Nopca

Leire Martínez, Nacho Vegas and Miki Núñez will perform at La Mercè 2026.

Leire Martínez, Nacho Vegas, Miki Núñez and Els Amics de les Arts, the concerts of a parity and plural Mercè

Xavi Serra

The Paimio Sanatorium, by Alvar Aalto

Historic milestone: UNESCO declares thirteen Alvar Aalto buildings World Heritage

Antoni Ribas Tur

Pep Parés in a 2011 archive image.

Pep Parés recommends a criminal intrigue about Ramon Llull

Laura Serra

Montse Barderi, at the Ona bookstore

Montse Barderi recommends a translated classic with "very high beauty"

Jordi Nopca

Michaela Cole and Anne Hathaway in 'Mother Mary'

A great movie about two women and a dress

Joan Pons

A road where nearly 50 people died burned, in one of the forest fires that have burned this year in Portugal and Galicia. This image of the so-called road of death, by photographer Patricia de Melo, from the AFP agency, closes this selection of images from the ARA editing team.

Three basic tips for driving in case of a forest fire

Ferran Vital

Galaxy E5

Geely E2 and E5, these are the affordable electric SUVs that will be manufactured in Valencia

Ferran Vital

SANTANA CAJAL

Santana Cajal, the Chinese 4x4 driven by an Argentinian and that wants to be Spanish

Ferran Vital

Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz at the congress

Sánchez finds no support for housing measures

What did they vote in your town in 1936? The electoral map of the Second Republic

What sticks in the wheels has amnesty found after the CJEU?

A forest fire is burning in the southwest of France.

"It will be the fire of the century": the fire threatening Bordeaux could last "weeks or months"

The surname that never disappeared returns to power in Peru

Kilometre by kilometre through the new southern border of Lebanon

The director of Cercanías, Antonio Carmona, in statements to the media.

Renfe dismisses Antonio Carmona, its historic spokesperson in Catalonia

Can I take off my glasses during the eclipse?

Without trucks on the AP-7 and a large police deployment: this is how Catalonia prepares to avoid mobility chaos due to the eclipse

VILARASAU REMEMBERS
Josep Vilarasau before the interview, at the CosmoCaixa complex. He is honorary president of the Board of Trustees of the La Caixa Foundation.

Josep Vilarasau: "That the president of La Caixa commands more than the President of the Generalitat? Lie"

Justice prohibits H&M from searching workers' bags and lockers: "It is an invasion of privacy"

The Pascual workers in Gurb approve compensation equivalent to that of an unfair dismissal

Actress Rosa Boladeras photographed in Barcelona

Rosa Boladeras: "With the years I have learned to accept love when they offer it to me"

Jorge Drexler: "I hate ageism, which is the only discrimination that is still well-regarded"

Six songs by Antònia Font in memory of Joan Roca

Cristhian Stuani, celebrating a goal with Girona

Cristhian Stuani and Girona: the legend continues

Florentino Pérez goes crazy again

Everyone wants to convince Hansi Flick

A moment from the program 'Vamos a ver' of Telecinco.

Stirring up the fire against Pedro Sánchez

The cause of the fire that is not of interest

Ibai Llanos's most obscene show

Lydia Pérez and her partner have converted a van to be able to go on getaways from time to time.

A van that is a dwelling: when life happens on wheels

The most economical holidays of the summer: the countries where prices have not yet skyrocketed

3 tips to recover desire

Emma Roberts at the premiere of 'After the hunt' in New York.

Emma Roberts marries in the presence of her aunt, Julia Roberts, but not her father, Eric Roberts

Miguel Bosé attacks environmentalists for the Ávila fires: "I hope in the next hell it is they who burn"

"Love has no borders": Maxima of Holland, first queen to participate in Pride Day celebrations

Science and Technology

A total solar eclipse from Mazatlán, Mexico, on April 8, 2024.

The best places to enjoy the eclipse: check how it will look from your municipality

Josep Masalles: "It is the phenomenon of greatest beauty in nature"

The guardians of the underwater forests to the rescue of the Mediterranean