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Ábalos suggests that Jessica Rodríguez colluded with Aldama: "I am convinced that she has been coerced"

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

A wave of layoffs hits the Catalan labor market

Pol Casaponsa Sarabia

Empty schools: in Barcelona there haven't been so many I3 places available in pre-registration since the pandemic

Diana Silva

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Parlon disassociates the Esplugues crime from jihadism

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Most Catalans support the cordon sanitaire against Vox but not against Aliança

Aleix Moldes

Merz to Trump: "If you want us to help you with the war, you should have called us before starting it."

Beatriz Juez

Experts answer the toughest question: Where is the Iran war headed?

Francesc Millan , Quim Aranda and Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The pro-Spanish guerrillas show no mercy in removing the Catalan independence flags: "They are cowards."

Xavi Tedó and Roger Palós

Electricity fraud in Catalonia is equivalent to the consumption of 144,000 households

Xavier Grau del Cerro

"Sometimes it stinks so bad it's hard to breathe"

Carla Turró

The Last in Line settles a debt with the Olympic Stadium

Xavier Cervantes

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The reasons behind Alexia's tears at Camp Nou

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Periodisme lliure i compromès

04/05/2026

How to prevent Barcelona from losing more children

Antoni Bassas analysis

A dark photo of Catalonia

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Weather

Showers and thunderstorms will gain strength and extent today

Rambla rain

Anxiety is keeping me awake. How can I get some rest?

Amanda Schupak / The New York Times

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"I worked as a computer engineer at a multinational company, and one day I left it all to work in the wine industry."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Millionaire donors and judges halt Trump's attack on US public broadcasting

Marc Nofuentes

Oil, the dollar, and vacations: what awaits us this summer

Andrei Boar

Aliança Catalana surpasses Junts and the left retains its majority in Catalonia

Aleix Moldes

An incident forces Pedro Sánchez's plane to make an emergency landing in Türkiye

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Rufián and Orriols, the two most highly rated politicians in Catalonia

Mireia Esteve

Municipal counterweight to Ayuso in the Community of Madrid

Andrea Zamorano

Most Catalans support restricting immigrant access but guaranteeing equal rights

Aleix Moldes

A minor has been arrested for fatally stabbing a man in the center of Barcelona.

Albert Llimós and Cesc Maideu

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Halving homelessness: the pilot plan that has sparked debate in Barcelona's ombudsman's office

Gerard Pruna

The Minister of Education says that teachers' salary demands are "very difficult" to meet.

Outrage among R13 users at Valls station on the first day of closure due to works

How do mass regularizations of immigrants affect a country's security?

Cesc Maideu

Broken dishes at the White House

Núria Ferragutcasas

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Trump to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany sends shockwaves through Europe

Beatriz Juez

Members of the Trump administration are moving to military bases for security reasons

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Lebanon's inability to disarm Hezbollah demonstrates the country's institutional weakness.

Ethel Bonet

Iran prepares for renewed war after Washington rejects peace plan

Catherine Carey

Nuclear power plants under scrutiny due to the blackout

Xavier Grau del Cerro

Former PP politician María Dolores de Cospedal joins Naturhouse

Xavier Grau del Cerro

GameStop launches a takeover bid for eBay worth €47.335M

Alberto Prieto

Sàmper highlights the potential of the defense sector to create jobs in contrast to mass layoffs.

Laura Casserres Capdevila

Brussels has a diagnosis: it is necessary to fight against the concentration of wealth

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Opinió

Towards a Catalonia of 9 million?

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Reader's Advocate

Crossword puzzle, sex and sensitivity

Opinió

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

One of the three European spaces responsible for preserving blues music is in Hospitalet.

"A relationship can become a very destructive and dark place."

From Torricelli's point to the origins of mathematics

"The boomers have an interest in keeping housing as it is, and young people don't have the capacity to change it."

Marcos Torío

Daring ones, April is for you

"If anyone has pointed the finger at Pedro Sánchez, the PSOE or the PSC from the Process until today, it's me."

Àlex Gutiérrez

The century-long story of resilience of a major Barcelona bookstore

Daniel Romaní

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The World Congress of Architecture in Barcelona in 10 emblematic works

Antoni Ribas Tur

"Too many people think their life is exciting and book-worthy."

Xavi Serra

The prodigious year of soprano Sara Blanch

Xavier Cervantes

Willy Bárcenas and the haunted house (of his parents)

Joan Callarissa

The age-old struggle of the Ianomamí people: "Protecting the Amazon means protecting life"

Nicola Zolin

Champions League Semifinals

Alexia and Salma propel Barça towards another Champions League final

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

"I want to go to the supermarket and have them speak to me in Catalan."

Albert Nadal and Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Vinícius prolongs Real Madrid's agony and leaves Espanyol without oxygen.

Marc Mosull

The false myth that haunts Espanyol

Marc Mosull

Instant Replay |

A bizarre suspension raises alarms in Badalona

Àlex Gozalbo

"People who say that coaching Barça is easy have no idea."

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

The secret to having great sex at 77

Selena Soro

Walden 7: This is what life is like fifty years later

Catalina Serra

Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf or Kandinsky: did their talent stem from suffering?

Laura Saula

Why is the whole world becoming nearsighted?

Anabel Herrera

Are there more conflicts between neighbors than before?

Cesc Maideu

Magazines

"It makes sense to take Nutella on a space mission; we had one too."

Sònia Sánchez

I would have liked to look at my phone a little more

Mònica Planas Callol

A Saint George's Day at the Herder bookstore in the middle of the last century.

The century-old story of overcoming of a great Barcelona bookstore

Daniel Romaní

The giant Renau (4)

The giant head Renau (4)

Genís Rigol

A person with the Trader Joe's tote bag

Neither Prada nor Gucci: the new fashionable bag is from the supermarket

Sílvia Rosés

The giant Renau 3

The giant head Renau (3)

Genís Rigol

Grefusa, the Valencian king of sunflower seeds and snacks, with a turnover of €166 million

Marc Amat

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A user of West in La Maquinista.

The Catalan AI that acts as a 'personal shopper'

Xavier Grau del Cerro

A Royal Oman Police Coast Guard patrol boat inspects the area as traffic is reduced in the Strait of Hormuz.

Winners and losers with the new (dis)order world

Agustí Sala

Workers in an office.

Working better is guaranteeing labor rights

Josep Ginesta

Suitcases Vall.

Travel with us

Toni Vall

Overview of Stegra's facilities, the world's first large-scale green steel plant, located in northern Sweden.

Stegra, the first major bet on green steel in Europe, avoids bankruptcy

Òscar Gelis

Letting your children practice sex at home

Núria Bigas Formatjé

Francesc Balagué has written a book that pays tribute to grandmothers.

A tale to honor Grandma Carme

Esther Escolán

Books on the bedside table to read.

And after Sant Jordi, what?

Magda Minguet

Maryam El Hamidi, teacher of Moroccan origin.

Maryam El Hamidi: "They see you as very integrated, but in the end they end up asking you if your mother wears the veil and if you eat pork"

Laura Serra

Alba Florejachs

Entrevista Alba Florejachs:

Being a mother is exhausting, you don't always enjoy everything, and that doesn't make you a worse mother

Francesc Orteu

Marc Cartes, Marc Márquez and Marc Giró.

The most given name for three decades

Elisabet Escriche and Lara Bonilla

The Priorat winery that has been twice blessed with luck

Rosa Rodon

A pack of cookies.

The bitter dilemma of choosing a pack of industrial cookies

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

A worker from the agricultural cooperative L'Olivera works on the Reverter farm in Collserola where L'Oli Nou de Barcelona is produced.

Recover the oil made in Barcelona: "If the Verdi cinemas disappeared, there would be a outcry, right? Well, the same should have happened in Collserola"

Sònia Sánchez

The 'pain au chocolat' and the Swiss brioches stir passions in Paris, and in Barcelona some bakeries, like Canal Marvier, have started to prepare them

The chocolate cane resists in Barcelona while in Paris they are food of resistance

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Anna Roig in Barcelona.

Entrevista Anna Roig:

"The hardest moment is when you know what you don't want but you don't know where you are going"

Elena García Dalmau

Josep Bullich in a file photo.

Josep Bullich dies, historic chef of El Reno, El Agut del Avinyó, Via Veneto or La Dama

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Who was the prince of Barcelona's bohemian scene?

Joaquim Armengol

Manolo García and Quimi Portet at the El Último de la Fila concert at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium.

El Último de la Fila settles a debt at the Olympic Stadium

Xavier Cervantes

Manolo García and Quimi Portet at the El Último de la Fila concert at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium.

El Último de la Fila pays off a debt at the Olympic Stadium

Xavier Cervantes

The writer Amitav Ghosh in the CCCB garden.

"To think of the Earth as a dead mass has been the worst of delusions"

Sònia Sánchez

Cruz Novillo in his studio

Modernize post-Franco Spain with a blow of logos

Xavi Serra

The designer José María Cruz Novillo

José María Cruz Novillo dies, the artist who designed post-Franco Spain

Sílvia Marimon

Volkswagen ID Polo 1

Volkswagen ID Polo: the usual car, but in electric format

Ferran Vital

Ebro electric

What is known about the electric car that Ebro will manufacture in Barcelona?

Ferran Vital

The electric car
It does not start

Electric cars are already more reliable than gasoline ones, according to a German study

Ferran Vital

European flags in front of the Berlaymont, the headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels.

Only one in four Catalans would increase defense spending

Ábalos declares (today yes) in the trial for the case that keeps him in prison

A week of (artificial?) row in Euskadi

The spokespersons for the Global Sumud Flotilla, Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila.

Israel extends the detention of the two Flotilla activists, who begin a hunger strike

Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia strains ties between Kyiv and Tel Aviv

Berlin has woken up, and this can change everything

A teacher in a nursery

Empty schools: in Barcelona there were not so many I3 places left over in pre-enrollment since the pandemic

Arrested for murdering a woman in the middle of a street in Esplugues de Llobregat

"I braked to avoid hitting a tourist": the pending conversation after an accident

Railway tracks at the BEST container terminal, the largest in the port of Barcelona.

Foment figures the deficit of investment in Catalan infrastructures at 49,543 million euros

Josep Soler: "80% of savings is invested with very low returns, below inflation"

Is the Ibex-35 immune to war?

A picture of the last book fair in Paris

Literary predators

The memories of a great captain of 20th century novel

Genís Rigol: "Entering Fatbottom made me a comic book author"

Barça players celebrating the triumph at El Sadar

Barça ties up the League in a crazy finish at El Sadar

A monument will have to be made to Lewandowski.... The notes in heat of Osasuna-Barça

The Osasuna player for whom Barça and Real Madrid are fighting

Many of those who have now elevated Ryszard Kapuscinski to journalistic altars (here in an image from 1989) would not dare to publish any of his committed reports.

Who has the right to define what a journalist is? (2)

Who has the right to define what a journalist is? (and 3)

Language Week: good intentions, little ambition

Spectacular image of Pedraforca

The 7 best-rated excursions in Catalonia

What can you do this weekend? Festivals, fairs, and more gastronomic and musical proposals

It is not the nose, it is the brain

Queen Elizabeth II

One hundred years of Queen Elizabeth II: these were the worst controversies of her long reign

Four siblings claim to have been victims of sexual abuse and manipulation by Michael Jackson

Parade of famous lovers for Coachella: has a love affair begun between Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi?

Science and Technology

A young girl with an infinity rainbow pin, symbolizing autism awareness

Why do there seem to be fewer autistic women?

The uterus and ovaries do not age at the same time or in the same way: a Catalan study takes a new X-ray of menopause

Conny Aerts: "Each star has its symphony, its musical tones"