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Trump says the war will last for weeks

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The war spreads: Lebanon, the Gulf and Cyprus under fire

Ethel Bonet

Macron will increase the nuclear arsenal and threatens to use it to protect France

Laia Forès

Spain refuses to provide aid to the US in the war against Iran: it will not use the Rota and Morón bases

Núria Orriols

China assures its support for Iran but calls for de-escalation

Majority of Americans reject war against Iran, according to initial polls

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The price of gas and oil skyrockets

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Opposition's show of force against Laporta

Martí Molina and Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Congress attendees fail to arrive and activities are cancelled: MWC kicks off amid international chaos

Carlota Serra and Cristina Martín Valbuena

The new (and bizarre) career shift of former Ciutadans leader Albert Rivera

Carlota Serra

Endocrine disruptors: kitchen utensils and hygiene products make children sick

Cristina Sáez

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Antoni Bassas analysis

Trump is taking the world into uncharted territory

Bassas Miniature March 2, 2026

Weather

Possible episode of widespread rain this week due to Storm Regina

Storm Regina is coming: possible widespread rain this week

"I noticed my pants were falling down"

Àlex Gozalbo

Mar Bermúdez i Jiménez:

"What was written about me devastated me, and no one has apologized to me."

Albert Llimós

Are you a puddle or do you have "a thousand auras"? 10 Gen Z expressions you don't understand

Laura Serra

Interview Josep Sala i Cullell:

"Immigration is a subsidy for businesses"

Carla Turró

Investigator Salvador Macip reports identity theft

Cesc Maideu

Catalans trapped in the Persian Gulf: "We hear the missiles exploding, but people here are living normal lives"

Marc Toro

Major European powers align with Trump on Iran

Gerard Fageda

The turbulent history of Iran and the West: a CIA coup, a hijacked revolution, and an aborted nuclear deal

Quim Aranda

Israel expels international teams from major NGOs from Gaza

Cristina Mas

The Catalan government assures ERC that it will comply "100%" with the investiture agreement but asks them not to block the budget.

Martina Alcobendas

"I've been brought here because of slander": the questions Zapatero answered about the Plus Ultra case

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The tempting offer from Aliança Catalana to a councilor in the heart of Catalonia

Xavi Tedó

Blackrock exits Naturgy's capital for almost 3 billion

Núria Rius and Agustí Sala

The Ministry of Public Works is considering taking the limitation of speculative housing purchases to the Constitutional Court.

Agustí Sala

Three out of every four cars sold in Catalonia are alternative engine options

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Amazon will invest €33.7 billion in Spain to boost data centers in Europe

Carlota Serra

The big confession at MWC: the incompatibilities between iPhone and Android were a lie

Albert Cuesta

European technological sovereignty under debate: "In the US everything works better in technological terms"

Carlota Serra

Half of the 16-18 year old students at risk of poverty did not receive a scholarship last year

Carla Pérez Brichs

Puente says that work on the Garraf tunnels will begin this month

Núria Rius and Natàlia Vila

Adamuz's investigation finds "inconsistencies" in the information about the welding of the tracks

Laia Galià

When only a little brother can heal you: "I will love him forever"

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

The Catholic far right attacks Silvia Abril for saying that the Church "has set up a lucrative racket"

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Stop machines

Àlex Gutiérrez

Supreme leader kills supreme leader

And this is news?

Pink Requiem

Premium Club

Catalonia's funding, in the ARA Premium Club chat

Language games

Try ARA, the best games and pastimes site in Catalan

The reader's advocate

Information and opinion on teaching and a note on the editorial line

Before now

The lifeblood of Joan Miró and Max Ernst (1926)

The Latin American vote in Barcelona

Resilience fills in March

An open door to epilepsy

"If we don't prioritize the Mallorcan customer, in the end we will lose those who have helped us all our lives."

Sebastià Vanrell

Escaping through language

The unanswered questions surrounding an ultra-right-wing crime in Maresme

Sílvia Marimon

Rosalía has done it again at the Brit Awards

Magda Polo Pujadas

Zendaya and Tom Holland have already married, according to her stylist

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The 7 most outstanding video games of March

Eduard Forroll

Cultural facilities

The Ministry of Culture confirms that it will move the Tarragona library to the old Tabacalera building.

Jordi Mumbrú

"Brazilian music has a special 'flow'"

Xavier Cervantes

Lamine Yamal's message to the Barça fans

Albert Nadal

Another setback for the Barça member who has filed a complaint against Joan Laporta

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Why has Mongolia become the preferred destination for millennials?

Lauren Jackson

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Content in catalan

Who are the great Catalan families of Passeig de Gràcia?

Elisenda Forés Català

25 years since the Balandrau tragedy: "I thought my eyes would freeze"

Arnau Segura

Carme Elias: "I'm not angry with life, I'm grateful to it"

Xavi Serra

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Content in catalan

Is Catalonia prepared to face the diseases that will come?

Raquel Villanueva

Magazines

Interview Sandra Doix:

"Priorat is not like France, but the new varieties being planted are white grapes."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Pasta made from legumes.

The healthy invention of the food industry to eat

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A bakery employee inserts the gluten-free product label into freshly made brownies.

Are there more food allergies and intolerances than ever before?

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

The flaonas from Cacao Pastelería de Olot, made every Friday with bun dough and filled with cream.

La Garrotxa revives a (nearly) forgotten medieval dessert: the flaona

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

The journalist Julia López.

Entrevista Júlia López:

"At first, I was very scared of working weekends."

Elena García Dalmau

Brothers Rona and Daisuke Yamashita observing a piece of tuna belly in one of the rooms of the Yashima restaurant in Barcelona.

The Yamashita family has been setting the pace for Japanese cuisine in Barcelona since 1978

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

Interview David Cordero:

"I'm afraid that life will pass them by while their heads are buried in a screen."

Francesc Orteu

Misha and his mother Madona at the hospital consultation room.

Rare diseases: "We must isolate your child"

Judit Monclús

Babou Cham of little

"When I came to Catalonia at the age of fourteen, I barely knew my parents."

Bea Cabezas

Ona, Vera and Unai are cousins and they meet up to play every day

When cousins play the role of siblings

Esther Escolán

Chess elective subject at the Institut escola Turó de Badalona.

The activities that schools carry out to make students more independent

Paula Mateu

Jenni Rodà

Entrevista Jenni Rodà:

"Being a mother also means having to keep quiet more often than you'd like."

Francesc Orteu

Wars and market volatility

Andrei Boar

García-Milán

Business owners fed up with trying to please everyone

Agustí Sala

Francisco Fajula, CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Francesc Fajula:

"Barcelona is where the technological future of Europe will be decided"

Carlota Serra

Woman's hands checking the water temperature in the shower.

Technology to avoid wasting water in the shower

Daniel Martín Fernández

A high-speed train in a stock photo

Abundance

Albert Solé Ollé

The president of Holaluz, Carlota Pi.

Carlota Pi: "I became an entrepreneur so I could be a mother"

Júlia Riera Rovira

These are the largest ships in the world

Esther Utrilla

Restoration of photos damaged in the Valencia storm.

"It's my story": a university project tries to save the memory of the families affected by the DANA storm.

Daniel Martín Fernández

Orangutans like these also kiss on the mouth.

We had our first kiss about 21 million years ago

Sònia Sánchez

A mystery to you (5)

A mystery to you (5)

Annadiplosis

Gisèle Pelicot's book and everything that can be read between the lines

Mònica Planas Callol

A girl at the Therians' meeting this Saturday in Barcelona

Why do they bother us 'therians' so much?

Sílvia Rosés

Kidnapped footballers, violent neo-Nazis and an eccentric detective

Lluc Casals

The writer Carlos Zanon photographed in the Plaza Real in Barcelona

A journey to the hidden side of Barcelona

Quim Aranda

THE NOW by Eugenia Balcells.

This was the special artist ARA, hosted by Eugenia Balcells

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Eugenia Balcells.

Eugenia Balcells, the artist who made the stars dance, has died.

Catalina Serra

Rosalía at the Brit Awards in Manchester this Saturday.

Rosalía's stunning performance with Björk singing 'Berghain' at the Brit Awards

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Bad Gyal singing Gato Pérez at the Goya Awards.

"Good night, 'good night'": the best moments of the Goya Awards

Arnau Blanch

Do you know how to put on snow chains?

We'll show you how to put on snow chains.

Ara Motor

Porsche 911 Turbo S

Andorra, the country where more Porsches and Ferraris are sold than Dacias or Suzukis

Ferran Vital

New Toyota RAV4 1

Toyota presents the new RAV4, the benchmark hybrid SUV

Ferran Vital

Juan Carlos I in Abu Dhabi during a visit to the United Arab Emirates in 2014.

Everyone can rest easy: Juan Carlos I is living in a hotel in Abu Dhabi

Girona's pro-independence movement chooses its rival: Sílvia Paneque

Catalonia's funding, in the ARA Premium Club chat

A shopkeeper stands in front of his store with stuffed animals and bouquets of flowers the day before Valentine's Day in Kabul.

The Taliban's crusade against love and red color

Nazanin Armanian: "It's the end of the ayatollahs' regime."

Iran responds to the Israeli and US attack with the threat of a regional war

Chaos at Sants station.

Natàlia Vila: "Infrastructure projects are not very electorally profitable, since the results are not seen within the same legislative term."

The Mariposa block replaces the Casa Orsola as a symbol of the struggle for housing

Growing old in prison: "With a long sentence, you know you could die here."

Francesc Fajula, CEO of MWCapital, during the opening lunch of the congress.

Honor stands up to Apple, AI speaks Catalan, and Cellnex pays too much rent.

Felipe VI calls for finding a "diplomatic way out" of the conflict with Iran

Mobile World Congress celebrates its 20th anniversary in Barcelona in an edition marked by the war in Iran.

Still from 'Scarlet'

What if Hamlet were a teenager in an epic anime?

Ginestà is the most nominated group at the 2026 Enderrock Awards

Noemí Pasquina, the conductor who challenges a world of men

Jabari Parker.

Jabari Parker seeks a second redemption in the cradle of basketball

The Champions League final between Spain and Argentina will not be played in Qatar following the attacks on Iran.

Celta reminds Girona that they can't live life to the fullest.

Iranian citizens protest in Tehran against the bombings

Word of Grok, we praise you Lord

Three mobile phones protagonists of MWC 2026

Rachel Weisz's sexual obsession and Quini's kidnapping, the standout series of March

Actress Lucia Garcia

Where has the color of the Goya Awards gone?

The best outfits at the 2026 Goya Awards: who are the brave souls who dared to wear black?

A master of haute couture revolutionizes the classrooms of Barcelona

The marriage proposal of Carles and Diana

45 years since the most memorable royal engagement: Charles, Lady Di and a blue (catalog) ring

The Catalan name that Iñigo Martínez and his wife have chosen for their son born in Barcelona

Dies at 42 years old Katherine Short, daughter of actor Martin Short

Science and Technology

Archive image of a classroom in a Barcelona school

Why do Catalan children know more English than physics or biology?

A study questions whether screens are the main cause of myopia.

Ricard Solé: "There is no machine or AI capable of time travel like humans do."