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The Iranian regime is trying to survive without leader Khamenei

Ethel Bonet

How did Israel manage to assassinate Ali Khamenei? The CIA held the key.

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Iran vows revenge: nine Israelis and three American soldiers killed

Cristina Mas

The absurdity of attacking Iran

Nicholas D. Kristof | 7

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France, Germany, and the United Kingdom close ranks with the US and warn Iran of "defensive actions"

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King Felipe VI calls for finding "a diplomatic solution" to the conflict with Iran

Carlota Serra

OPEC+ agrees to increase oil production following attack on Iran

Xavier Grau del Cerro

The football final between Spain and Argentina has been cancelled following the attacks on Iran.

Toni Padilla

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

Catalina Serra

This was the special artist edition of ARA, presented by Eugenia Balcells: download it here

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

Carlota Serra

Three mobile phones to take center stage at MWC 2026

Albert Cuesta

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

Arnau Blanch

The betrayal that ended Andorra's dream

Martí Molina

Espanyol is a fake

Marc Mosull

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Antoni Bassas analysis

Political deadlock, social emergency

Political deadlock, social emergency

Weather

The week begins with many clouds, and rain is expected.

Low clouds in Sant Quintí de Mediona.

Periodisme lliure i compromès

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

Gerard Pruna

Nazanin Armanian:

"The future? Pray Pahlavi with a soldier"

Carla Turró

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

Alejandra Palés

"What happens if a woman catches her husband having an affair with their daughter's babysitter?"

Jordi Nopca

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

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Enrique Tomás:

"I will live well until I am 100 years old, it is a personal decision"

Albert Om

The atomic bomb, Trump and Netanyahu's excuse to attack Iran

Cristina Mas

Ali Khamenei, the guardian of the essence of the Iranian regime

Ricard González

The war against Iran unites Israelis around the government: "When you see that you are being attacked, there is no other option."

Catherine Carey

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

Martina Alcobendas and Aniol Costa-Pau

"Have you seen what a disgusting army this is?" The 23-F papers and Feijóo's botched job

David Miró

The Valencian Academy of Language rejects changing 'Valencia' to the PP and Vox invention of 'Valencia'

Roger Palós

Yolanda Díaz, the minister of the "turning point" in the labor market

Paula Solanas Alfaro and Núria Rius

The governability of the State

Who could replace Yolanda Díaz?

Andrea Zamorano

What do we eat?

The healthy invention of the food industry to eat

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

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

Daniel Martín Fernández

Debate on the full face veil

The PSC advocates banning the burka without penalizing women: "They are victims"

Martina Alcobendas

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

David Segarra

Catalans are the second highest spenders on basic expenses.

Agustí Sala

The Goya Awards celebrate 'Los domingos' and bless 'Sirat'

Xavi Serra

Are there more food allergies and intolerances?

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

45 years since the most memorable royal marriage proposal

Joan Callarissa

Sideshow protagonist

Protagonista col·lateral |

Vox is left without its number 1 candidate: Ansaldo, the 'green beret' of aristocratic blood

Roger Palós

Stop machines

Àlex Gutiérrez

Supreme leader kills supreme leader

And this is news?

Pink Requiem

Premium Club

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

Language games

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The reader's advocate

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

Before now

The 'Misa solemnis' by Beethoven and the Orfeó Català (1927)

The food bank run by two retirees that helps 300 families is at risk of disappearing

Cursed mountains, gift mountains

Retirees receiving the minimum pension: “I end the month with one cent in the bank”

Marcos Torío

Tanja Miškova: "Many countries have already reached a 'water crisis'; water is no longer a renewable resource."

Escaping through language

One million, they sang one million euros

Laura Serra

Noemí Pasquina, the conductor who challenges a world of men

Laia Forès

This is how Gaudí was buried

Ignasi Aragay

"I've never broken anything external, and perhaps to compensate, everything inside has broken."

Alejandra Palés

Sánchez Piñol settles scores with the Process: a review of his new book

Pere Antoni Pons

The three calls that made possible the historic premiere of 'Alma' at the Tivoli

Laura Serra

"We want to show music lovers the potential of the Municipal Band."

Xavier Cervantes

"Today's capitalism leads many children to self-harm and suicide."

Jordi Nopca

First Division - Barça

Lamine Yamal's laughter sets the course for a more dominant Barça.

Toni Padilla

"The clubs told us that Barça's women's team was a gang."

Raúl Zambrano Lozano

Football - La Liga

Hansi Flick's greatest joy speaks Catalan

Albert Nadal

From making history with Girona to working at Nestlé

Jordi Bofill

Marc Márquez has started the World Championship on the wrong foot and already knows who his new main rival will be.

Toni Padilla

"Three years at Espanyol are like dog years."

Marc Mosull

Why has Mongolia become the preferred destination for millennials?

Lauren Jackson

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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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Is Catalonia prepared to face the diseases that will come?

Raquel Villanueva

Who are the great Catalan families of Passeig de Gràcia?

Elisenda Forés Català

Magazines

"I became an entrepreneur so I could be a mother"

Júlia Riera Rovira

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

UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve displays one of its vehicles in Tokyo in April of last year.

London, battleground of both driverless vehicle models

Quim Aranda

How many liters of water are used in each ChatGPT consultation?

Eduard Forroll and Sònia Sánchez

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

The outfit worn by Juliana Morell.

25 objects that make us rethink the role of women in history

Aure Farran

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

Bea Cabezas

Misha and his mother Madona at the hospital consultation room.

Rare diseases: "We must isolate your child"

Judit Monclús

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

Students in a daycare.

Full-fledged teachers

David Altimir

László Krasznahorkai: "Even now I find it hard to accept that there is so much poverty in the world"

Jordi Nopca

Joel Joan in 'Vania' at the Teatre Romea.

Joel Joan overcomes the great challenge

Santi Fondevila

Valentín Roma, Marko Daniel and Elvira Dyangani

Changes in museums: directors leaving and new figures arriving

Antoni Ribas Tur

Attendees entering the Monastery of Ripoll.

Discovering the history of the Ripoll monastery, capital of a bygone Catalonia

Cesc Maideu

Andrea Motis in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona.

"Brazilian music has a special 'flow'"

Xavier Cervantes

Susan Sarandon in Barcelona.

Susan Sarandon: "'Sirat' left me speechless"

Xavi Serra

Lists and rankings

These are the 15 best restaurants in Catalonia and the ten discoveries made by the 'Macarfi Guide'

Rosa Rodon

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

The entire Trü team, with Artur Martínez in the center.

Trü: the new Catalan cuisine tavern by chef Artur Martínez

Rosa Rodon

Paula Cuenda, best sommelier in Catalonia

The defense of natural wines by the best sommelier in Catalonia 2026

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

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

A woman wearing a niqab, in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona

The legal limits to prohibit the burqa

Sánchez challenges electoral calendar and weakness in Congress with new laws

Anatomy of a declassification

A school in Minab, in southern Iran, destroyed by the US and Israeli attack.

US and Israel attack Iran and declare the supreme leader dead

"Hamenei is dead!": In Tehran, people celebrate the death of the supreme leader from their balconies

Between the beach and the shelters, Israel awaits Iran's response

Victor, 59, has been imprisoned for nine years and lives in the Brians 2 prison.

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

Evicting Goya to prevent 13,000 vulnerable families from becoming homeless

María José Tavira: "For mothers with children with disabilities, the administration is more exhausting than the caregiving."

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The pig business

Curbing speculation: Will fewer large landlords improve the housing situation?

Iran begins maneuvers to close the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic point for international trade

🔴📡 Red carpet of the 2026 Goya Awards

Goya Awards live

Men don't have hairy penises.

The three deaths of Gerardo Pisarello

Victor Font, during a campaign event

Decisive hours for the unified candidacy against Laporta

Marc Ciria: "Voting for Laporta is a waste of money"

The referees are driving a team crazy that can't seem to get going: the immediate takeaways from Girona-Barça

A moment from the opening of the Goya Awards gala

Some very boring Goyas

After signing Felipe González, now the right wants the king

Antonio García Ferreras's adrenaline-fueled special

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

Iñigo Martínez wearing the ikurriña around his neck and a T-shirt from his hometown.

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

Nicole Kidman's suitor who has become news (before the first date)

Science and Technology

A man works with a computer in a dimly lit environment.

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."

NASA will send another crewed mission to the Moon on March 7