Subsidies to incorporate Catalan into video games, a national pact against hate speech, and limiting the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in public services and facilities for children up to 14 years old. These are some of the 67 measures that the Government wants to deploy in the coming years to combat the inappropriate use of digital technologies among children and adolescents and ensure their digital well-being. Among the different actions, the Catalan executive plans to implement screening in primary care to detect addiction risks for children up to 15 years old and recommend a digital plan to families.

The streets are also applying pressure just hours before Pedro Sánchez's government brings the new housing decree-law to the Council of Ministers. Also in Barcelona, where this Monday the Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, held various events and ended the day at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya at the awards ceremony for La Vanguardia. 2,000 people according to the Guàrdia Urbana and 20,000 according to the organizers gathered on Avinguda Diagonal to demand that the new decree include, among other things, the indefinite extension of rental contracts and the suspension of evictions.

Choosing between the multitude of similar products offered by a supermarket has become almost an escape room. The options for basic foods such as bread or milk have multiplied, the range is increasingly wide, and deciding can sometimes be complicated. A good way to tip the scales one way or the other is to look at the labels of different products, compare them, and choose the one that best fits each person's nutritional needs. However, interpreting them is not always easy, as processed foods include a long list of ingredients, some of which are additives associated with a number or a technical name, and it is complicated to separate the wheat from the chaff. ARA has consulted various experts in nutrition and endocrinology to create an easy guide that allows understanding food labels and leaving the supermarket with the conviction of having chosen the best option.

The eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old neighbor from Madrid who uses a wheelchair, has been the catalyst for a wave of protests across the country. Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in eleven cities to show their unrest and fed-up attitude regarding the lack of housing policies that protect cases like this woman's. In Barcelona, about 1,200 people, according to data from the Guàrdia Urbana, gathered in front of the Spanish government delegation to demand urgent solutions and send a message of solidarity to Maricarmen: "You are not alone!".

One of the Government's pending tasks regarding social services was to update the budget allocated to municipalities and county councils for the care of people in situations of social vulnerability, dependency, and poverty, which had not been renewed since 2025. With these funds, the local level finances the care for children and adolescents and people experiencing homelessness, as well as the salaries of workers who provide home care, to name a few examples. This Wednesday, the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, signed a new agreement for the 2027-2030 period that plans to allocate more than 2 billion euros and incorporate more than 1,000 new professionals into local social services over the next four years.

This Monday, Sílvia Sanz, a resident of Barcelona's Gràcia neighborhood who had lived right in front of the Fructuós Gelabert School for 13 years, was evicted. She moved in in 2013 with her partner, who was officially on the lease, and when they broke up, he left Barcelona and she stayed in the apartment. Since then, she has been in a state of total administrative helplessness and without access to certain public housing-related benefits because she was unable to get on the contract despite having requested it on numerous occasions. "It's as if I didn't exist," she explains wearily to ARA. This Monday, a large police force executed the eviction order despite Sílvia's willingness to reach an agreement for a negotiated departure.

Changing the priority with which about sixty patients were to be operated on, without informing them or the doctors who had determined the maximum deadlines for entering the operating room, with the aim of doctoring the waiting lists. This is what, allegedly, has happened at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. Faced with these facts, the Minister of Health, Mónica García, asked the Community of Madrid to clarify the "apparent alteration of the waiting list data" and demanded guarantees in the control and veracity of the records. The news has set off alarm bells: Could there be more centers modifying the number of people pending an intervention, bearing in mind that for years they have been one of the great challenges of the health system? Could it happen in Catalonia?

The journalist from Ceuta, Carmela Ríos, is an expert in social media and disinformation. Since the last weekend of July, she has been following with concern the unprecedented crisis that the autonomous city is experiencing, as well as the treatment it is receiving on social media, which has played a decisive role in the massive entry of people from Morocco.

Working but not being able to pay rent and having to sleep on the street is a growing reality in Catalonia. The rise of precariousness means that there are more and more people who are forced to live without a roof over their heads, to the point that the profile of those affected has changed and now there are workers who cannot even afford to pay for a room. In addition, other social problems must be added, such as addictions and mental health pathologies, which have a direct impact on the increase in homelessness across the country. This Friday, the Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Raúl Moreno, announced that the Catalan executive will allocate 30 million euros –double what is currently invested– so that municipalities can deal with it.

Printing a hip prosthesis for a surgical intervention, recreating a tumor to rehearse an oncological operation before entering the operating room, or simulating a birth with a plastic baby are some of the possibilities offered by having 3D printing at the service of health professionals. Now, for the first time in Europe, this will be possible in Catalonia. The Consorci de la Zona Franca, the Hospital del Mar, and the Hospital Clínic signed a collaboration agreement this Friday to promote the use of this technology and develop 3D-printed elements that provide solutions both in patient care and in the field of training and research. "Patient care is in the hospitals and we will have the factory in the Zona Franca with high-tech machines," explained the Director of Innovation at the Clínic, Jorge Fernández.

Waving with your hand, shrugging your shoulders as a sign of doubt, or nodding your head are some of the body gestures that underpin human communication, which by nature combines speech with these types of movements. People who suffer a cardiovascular accident, such as a stroke, or a neurodegenerative disease, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), have less ability to make themselves understood, as the resulting paralysis alters both speech and body movement. Now a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has created a brain implant that is capable of decoding the speech and gestures of people with severe paralysis and channels them through an animated digital avatar.

“They live off this imaginary, off the cousin who studied in a public school and now works in what she wants,” says Àsia. She is 24 years old, was born in Catalonia and is the daughter of Moroccans. They often visit family, especially in the summer. “What do they tell you?”, I ask her. “Well, that I can choose and do what I want,” she replies. She recently graduated in law, and is doing an internship at a law firm while studying for a master's degree in legal practice.

So that everyone understands her when she talks about her work, the Catalan astrophysicist Clàudia Soriano (Esplugues, 1997) says that she is a weather woman for distant worlds. The point is that she investigates the atmosphere of exoplanets –those that are outside our Solar System and orbit a star other than the Sun– through simulations that allow her to understand what happens in the gaseous layer that surrounds these planets that are thousands of light-years away from her laboratory. Since she was very young, she has had a great fascination for space and distant galaxies, and now she has become one of the young voices with the most projection in Europe in the field of space research. She currently works there from the University of Southampton, where she is doing her postdoctoral fellowship, but she does not hide the fact that she is looking forward to being able to do research from Catalonia when she finishes her stage in the United Kingdom.

State doctors are returning to strike and will do so with an indefinite work stoppage starting in October. This was announced this Wednesday by the Medical and Faculty Union (Umyts), an organization that brings together various union representatives from across the State, including Metges de Catalunya, the majority medical union in our country. Over the last year, doctors have held 12 days of strikes to protest against the Ministry of Health's Framework Statute and to demand their own agreement, distinct from other healthcare professionals. Now they are raising the tone and calling for an indefinite stoppage starting in October, although it has not yet been specified when the strike will begin. Union sources explain to ARA that the expectation is for it to start in the middle of the month.

After 35 days in Ceuta, Aiman is returning to Morocco. He crossed the border shortly before the massive entry of thousands of people in late July with the hope of achieving a better life, but he has not endured the blockade situation experienced in the city. He says he is exhausted after having spent a month sleeping on the street and this Thursday, finally, he decided to make the journey back. Like the majority of immigrants who remain trapped in the city, he is dirty, wears flip-flops, and carries a small bag where he keeps everything he owns. Although he tried, he did not manage to enter any of the temporary accommodation resources provided by the State, saturated by the high demand of people who are still in the city, and he has fed himself mainly on the food distributed by social organizations. On some occasions, he has even taken food from the trash.

The fight against hunger is part of the daily life of many people in Ceuta. Although many of the immigrants who crossed the border illegally at the end of July have decided to return to Morocco and many others are already in temporary accommodation resources set up by the State, there are hundreds who are still trying to make a living as best they can in the city. They queue in front of supermarkets, restaurants, and bars in the hope that someone will give them something to fill their stomachs, they ask for money, fish, or even take food from the trash. At El Trampolín beach, a couple of boys have improvised a grocery store; they buy food and then resell it at the settlement. "Now we work for Mercadona," joke Ayoub and Imad, who show the purchase receipt to prove that they have not stolen anything. There are so many mouths to feed, however, that the help of neighbors and the solutions they come up with are not enough, and it is the social entities that are ensuring that these people can eat every day, weeks after their arrival in the city.

At the border that a month ago leaked from all sides with the massive entry of more than 80,000 people, normality now reigns, beyond the presence of some of the immigrants who crossed it illegally, who wait to see if someone gives them food or money. The traffic at this point between Ceuta and Morocco –the El Tarajal crossing– is constant; thousands of people cross it every day, whether to go to work, visit relatives, or go sightseeing.

El Trampolín beach is one of the hottest spots in Ceuta's migration crisis, having turned into a village of shacks and survival over the last month. Hundreds of migrants sleep in tents or structures they have invented from reeds, blankets, plastics, and waste collected from the street, under the watchful eye of police and military personnel, who constantly supervise the more than 800 meters occupied by the largest settlement in the city. Cleaning crews do not stop either: they collect the filth to ensure the camp's hygiene, even this Wednesday, Ceuta Day, when many people were off work and the vast majority of businesses were closed.

The rift between the Spanish government and Ceuta is total one month after the start of the migration crisis that still paralyzes the city. About 20,000 people, according to calculations by the National Police, flooded the streets of the city center this Wednesday afternoon, in the umpteenth protest against immigration and the executive of Pedro Sánchez, whom they accuse of abandonment and point to as the main person responsible for the blockade situation they experience day by day since the end of July. To the cry of "Invaders, expulsion", "Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta defends itself" and "Ceuta is Spain", a flood of Spanish and autonomous city flags filled the streets in a mobilization called to coincide with the celebration of Ceuta Day. The attendees put their heart into it, after an atypical August in which they have not been able to celebrate the festivities or go to the beach like other years due to the unprecedented situation being experienced in the Spanish enclave, where there continue to be hundreds of migrants from Morocco who want to make the jump to Europe.

"If you don't live it, it's very difficult to understand. From the Peninsula you can't imagine what this month has been like," explains the security guard of a large supermarket in Ceuta. A month later, there are still hundreds of people who have nowhere to go, wander aimlessly through the city, and eat, sleep, and relieve themselves in the street, even though many migrants have returned to Morocco and many others are already sleeping in emergency shelters. This fully affects the daily lives of the city's residents, a population that is increasingly tense, as they are the ones responding to the day-to-day crisis. Whether by getting involved in caring for these people or by going to work at the supermarket, restaurant, or mobile phone store. Therefore, no matter who you ask about the management of the administrations, everyone talks about abandonment.