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The cost of war: stock markets plummet and oil surpasses the $100 mark

The G7 is considering using strategic oil reserves

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Iran and the US: let's prepare to loosen our purse strings

Andrei Boar

Mokhtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader

Cristina Mas

Why do Gulf countries want to imitate Dubai?

Ricard González

Iran reveals that "America First" has always been "Trump First"

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Xavi breaks his silence and lashes out at Laporta and his right-hand man

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Francesc Sánchez:

"Any other family that wasn't named Pujol would have spoken with the tax authorities and reached an agreement."

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

The social housing scandal in Alicante spreads to brothers and cousins of councilors

Daniel Martín Fernández

"The renter generation is sustaining the global economy"

Albert Rigol

Disappearances of children between the ages of 0 and 12 increased by 26% in 2025

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A woman fires a gun at Rihanna's Los Angeles home while she is inside.

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Antoni Bassas analysis

Nobody wants elections, but we still haven't reached an agreement on the budget.

Nobody wants elections, but we still haven't reached an agreement on the budget.

Weather

The weather won't be clear this week, with a bit of everything.

Partly cloudy sky seen from the Sau marsh

"People who are slightly overweight live longer"

Carla Turró

Do you know how to 'talk dirty' in Catalan? 20 words to 'smear' and not 'fuck'

Laura Serra

Celebrities trapped under Middle Eastern bombs

Joan Callarissa

Are we more intolerant to food than ever before?

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

"The dream I still have to live is to see my daughter Lola making whatever wines she wants."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

What is happening in Gaza while the whole world looks towards Iran?

Catherine Carey

"I'm considering returning to Palestine": the complaint of a group of asylum seekers in Catalonia

Albert Llimós

'Cowboys' and pharaohs inside shelters: Israel's Carnival at war

Catherine Carey

Iran's Revolutionary Guard: the backbone of a militarized regime

Neil MacFarquhar (The New York Times)

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From Hezbollah to the Houthis, the war in Iran exposes the internal fissures of the resistance axis

Ethel Bonet

Europe is being drawn into Trump's war

Gerard Fageda

The Greens retain control of the government in the state of Baden-Württemberg, while the far right doubles its votes.

Beatriz Juez

A former rapper, a leading figure for Generation Z, sweeps Nepal's first post-uprising elections

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Political parties

The secretary general of the PP youth wing switches to Vox

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The Constitutional Court changes the process due to the PP-PSOE conflict

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

Electric scooter accidents are down, but three riders are still injured every day.

Cesc Maideu

The Government chooses the president of Enagás to chair the social council of the UB

Carlota Serra

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

And this is news?

Pink Requiem

Premium Club

Catalonia's funding, in the ARA Premium Club chat

Language games

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The reader's advocate

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

Before now

Politics and the Word (1936)

Controversy in Sant Adrià de Besòs over the registration of 207 people at the Town Hall

Eugenia Balcells, here and beyond

The rental price scandal reaches rural Mallorca: a shack on a rural property is advertised for €695

Aina Vidal

An open door to epilepsy

Resilience fills in March

Theater criticism

Now that young men despise feminism

Santi Fondevila

"Armenian music has a component that captivates me and that I cannot describe rationally."

Xavier Cervantes

Benet Salellas portrays Francoist Girona in his debut as a novelist

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

The secrets of Vallespir, a region of contrasts and unknown riches in North Catalonia

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

A highly original thriller and a tribute to a recently deceased author: what you can't miss this week

Thais Gutiérrez and Jordi Garrigós

In Praise of the Spoken and Sung Word by Clara Noble and Joan Maragall

Xavier Cervantes

"Laporta has reason to be nervous"

Xavi Hernández Navarro and Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

The boy who escaped a war in Africa with the help of Espanyol

Marc Mosull

Lamine Yamal sets a record against a Real Madrid legend

Albert Nadal

Apunts en calent |

And that, my friends, is how leagues are won.

Toni Padilla

A flower appears in Girona's ass in the Ciutat de València

Jordi Bofill

Basketball - Endesa League

Instant Replay |

Jabari Parker is moved by his redemption

Àlex Gozalbo

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

Pedralbes, 700 years later: the tomb of the founder and the noblewomen will reveal mysteries of the past

Sílvia Marimon

Is Catalonia prepared to face the diseases that will come?

Raquel Villanueva

Magazines

What do we eat?

Yogurts with added protein: the industrial trend that makes you double your nutrient intake

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Turnips and cabbages

We eat more cabbage than turnips, and most of it is grown abroad.

Esther Utrilla and Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Chef and head waiter Jaume Subirós and biographer Xavier Pla, in front of the painting of Josep Pla, in one of the rooms of the Motel Empordà

The writer who was accused of being a Franco spy and who praised the fish of the Empordà and Negronis

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Miquel Puig.

Entrevista Miquel Puig:

"When I watch 'Card Game' and see that they don't drink wine, I don't understand it."

Elena García Dalmau

René Redzepi in an archive photo.

Mistreated workers in fine dining: a complaint implicates the prestigious Noma restaurant

Rosa Rodon

Jordi and Rosa, the duo who opened the Binomi restaurant in Sant Just Desvern.

From carved meat to Thai bacon: contrasts with their own distinctive style

Ivan Díez , Carles Domènech and Adrià Albets

When dressing like an adult starts at a young age

Elisenda Rosanas

Josep Tarradellas, Josep Roca and Josep Carreras.

There will no longer be Juans, Josés and donkeys in every house

Elisabet Escriche and Lara Bonilla

Teenager doing exercises in class.

Is he overly demanding? How can I help him?

Elisenda Rosanas

Students giving a class

How to learn music (even if you don't know how) through mathematics

Judit Monclús

David Cordero

Entrevista 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

For as long as I can remember

Need plus-size bras? Head to Singuerlín!

Toni Vall

Alberto Nadal during his speech at Pimec

The PP is missing a key element in Catalonia: funding

Agustí Sala

Marc Riera, president of the F3 group, during the association's events organized this February.

"It will take time to equalize the cost of combustion engine cars with that of electric cars."

Núria Rius

Industrial estate in Osona

From overdiagnosing to executing

Tatxo Benet

Jeremias Adams Prassl, Vice Dean of Law at Oxford University, at the Palau Macaya.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl:

"The AI productivity revolution is not noticeable"

Paula Solanas Alfaro

The Arc de Triomphe with the Paris business center in the background.

The law imposing quotas has led to a surge in the number of female executives in large French companies.

Laia Forès

"After Spielberg's film, mass shark killings were organized in the United States."

Sònia Sánchez

Be whatever you want, but don't get fat.

Mònica Planas Callol

Sensitive topography (01)

Sensitive topography (1)

Margalida Vinyes

Interview with Andrea Fuentes

Andrea Fuentes:

"I wanted to train differently and I told them that if I didn't get results I would become a hairdresser."

Toni Padilla

Elsa Rabanales and Cintia Julissa Rivas, visiting the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

"Women taught me to stop feeling guilty: I didn't choose to be assaulted."

Isabel Muntané

Where are the men at the gym?

Anna Manso

The unspoken violence of the male gaze

Anna Carreras Aubets

Panoramic of the exhibition 'Antoni Cumella. Architecture of form

The uncompromising ceramics of Antoni Cumella

Antoni Ribas Tur

French writer Emmanuel Carrere at the Anagrama publishing house in Barcelona.

Emmanuel Carrère:

"When the mother announced that she was going to die, I immediately started taking notes."

Xavi Serra

Presentation of the Schubertíada 2026

The Schubertíada pays a great tribute to the memory of Jordi Roch

Georgina Gonzàlez

A moment from 'Absalom, Absalom!'

Séverine Chavrier at the TNC: imposing form over content

Santi Fondevila

The team behind the short film "Gilbert" celebrates the Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 40th Goya Awards ceremony in Barcelona.

The man from Girona who cooks for the homeless has won a Goya Award

Aniol Costa-Pau

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

Image by Carlo G. Angrisano

The general secretary of the PP youth wing moves to Vox

Llach banishes critics and electoral adventures in his first term at the ANC

Together they already fish in the far right to block Catalan Alliance

Donald Trump praying in the White House

Trump has fallen into the legacy trap

Why the nuclear threat increases with the war in the Middle East

Trump threatens "total destruction" of Iran amid doubts about his strategy

A wild boar hunter in Berga during a recent raid due to the outbreak of African swine fever.

Sant Just Desvern and Esplugues enter the high risk area for swine fever after detecting a new case

Algorithms are also sexist: this is how they amplify discrimination against women

A body has been found in the area where the driver disappeared after being swept away by the water in Llinars.

View of the Madrid Stock Exchange panel

In the long run, the stock market always wins.

Salvador Illa asks for budgets to confront the consequences of the war in Iran

Jordi Hereu: "To ensure Europe's strategic autonomy, I must relocate production."

Teaser We are 17 years old

Teaser We are 17 years old

Olivier Assayas: "What's happening in Russia could happen in any other country."

The patron and collector Lluís Coromina will open a museum near Lake Banyoles

Interview with the pioneers of Barça women's team

"We used to skip work so we could go train": the seed of the current Barça women's team

Lluís Carrasco: "If Font seeks a confrontation with Laporta, he will probably lose."

Víctor Font: "The Barça of the few excludes Messi"

Preparing graves for victims after an Israeli attack on a school in Minab

Watch out for the regime

And you, what AI are you from?

Juan Pedro Quiñonero: "If Pla had written in French, he would not only be a Nobel laureate, but a global authority."

Insecurity makes you prettier: what's behind beauty on social media?

Why is it so hard for us to disconnect from the fast pace of life?

The lesser-known Darwin: what role did an orchid play in the theory of evolution?

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah explodes against the series about John Kennedy Jr. and the portrait it makes of her: "It's terrible having to defend myself"

The actress who ditched Brad Pitt mid-date to go off with a hotter rocker

The Catholic far-right attacks Sílvia Abril for saying the Church "has set up a good racket".

Science and Technology

A woman going through menopause and taking hormone replacement therapy.

Menopause: Yes, hormone therapy is safe

Are you sure Neanderthals had sex with modern humans?

Endocrine disruptors: kitchen utensils and hygiene products make children sick