The two teenagers aged fifteen and sixteen arrested this week for allegedly killing a man in Manresa during the main festival had already been arrested before for cases unrelated to this week's fatal stabbing in the Bages region. In fact, one of them—the fifteen-year-old—had been interned until a few weeks ago as a precautionary measure in a case in which he is being investigated for a robbery with violence and attempted homicide in April, and at the time of the crime he was on supervised release, according to sources familiar with the case who spoke to ARA.

The controversy over the errors in the Catalan sample for the PISA tests continues to cause a stir. After the FECC, which represents two-thirds of state-subsidized schools, requested that the end-of-stage tests –the former basic competencies– be administered again in all schools and institutes, this Friday the Agency for Evaluation and Prospective of Education (APE) issued a statement defending that it already guarantees sufficient data to the schools and the Government so that they can make decisions regarding the academic level of the students. In this way, the APE closes the door to making the end-of-stage tests universal, which since last school year are no longer held in all schools and institutes.

The 147 families in Valencia who make up the Nicet Patraix residents' association report that they have been waiting for more than ten months for a judicial resolution to determine whether the cancellation and de-registration of the licenses for 24 tourist apartments located in the building's commercial premises complied with Valencian legislation. "It cannot be considered concluded, nor can it be affirmed that the situation has been resolved," the community states regarding the situation.

New milestone in the use of animal organs to improve human health. A 66-year-old man with kidney failure has survived for nine months with a genetically modified pig kidney while waiting for a human kidney transplant, which was also successfully performed. The case is detailed in a study published in The Lancet and represents a new survival time record for an animal organ transplanted into a person.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a woman who is allegedly related to the death of the baby who was found dead this week, inside a plastic bag, on a landing of an apartment building on Llevant Street, in the La Mina neighborhood of Sant Adrià de Besòs. The arrested person is the mother of the child and is 33 years old, according to sources close to the case who explained to ARA. The arrest took place this Thursday, the day after the baby was found, and the woman has been released on provisional bail and is under investigation after appearing before the court this Friday.

Roger Ferrer has been waiting for years for a response to his claim regarding medical negligence. In February 2022, he underwent an appendectomy at the Granollers Hospital and an error in the machine that supplied his anesthesia caused him to feel the incisions during the entire operation, even though his muscles were sedated and he could not move or warn about what was happening. "I felt the pain of the operation's incisions and them probing. I lived an experience of death in life and I haven't been the same since," he explained in an interview with Eldiario.es.Accompanied by his lawyer, Lucia Gonzalez-Cuevas, he initiated an administrative claim, a mandatory procedure in cases like this before being able to file a lawsuit. The lawyer explains to ARA that the goal is for the administration to acknowledge negligence and compensate Ferrer for the psychological aftermath he still carries today and which have caused him to leave his job as an educator with minors under guardianship. "He has claustrophobia, he is on alert for everything," explains the lawyer.

Ana Buza Mira was only 18 years old when she started dating Rafael, who was 26. A year later, in the early hours of September 7, 2019, she was found dead behind the safety fence of the A-4, a highway near the town of Carmona, in Seville. Rafael explained to the police that the young woman had jumped from the vehicle he was driving. At 7:30 in the morning, a pair of civil guards woke Antonio and his wife with the words no parent would ever want to hear: "Your daughter has died under strange circumstances." "I went crazy," explains Antonio to ARA.

The Mossos d’Esquadra found this Thursday the remains of the missing young boy in a house in Santa Bàrbara, in Montsià, where he had been searched for since last weekend. The child's parents were already arrested Wednesday morning in Valencia for allegedly having killed the boy, and this Thursday afternoon they were brought before the Amposta court, which will have to decide whether they are sent to prison or released. For the moment, the case remains under seal.

Confirmed. On the first day of this 2026/27 school year there will be a teachers' strike. This was announced by USTEC –the majority union within the education sector– and the CGT after meeting this Thursday morning with the Minister of Education, Esther Niubó. Upon leaving the meeting, where for the first time, members of the new Educational Assembly of Catalonia (AEC) were also invited, the spokesperson for USTEC, Iolanda Segura, criticized that, in the union's view, the Government is not members of the new Educational Assembly of Catalonia (AEC), yet willing to open a new cycle of negotiations to address the problems of public education. "They have not made us a proposal for a calendar of these meetings where we can negotiate [...], therefore, we invite the entire collective to join the strike to move towards the public school that our country needs and that our students need," argued Segura. For her part, from the CGT, the secretary general of the Federation of Education, Laura Gené, stated that the group's demands are clear and are "exactly the ones that existed" and that led to a "resounding no" to the May pre-agreement. "This is not about wages, this is about resources," she said.

The judge from Catarroja in charge of the criminal case regarding the management of the DANA, Nuria Ruz Tobarra, has raised to 232 the official number of fatalities caused by the Valencia floods of October 29, 2024. The latest recognized victim is a woman residing in the municipality of Guadassuar, in Valencia, who suffered from severe chronic respiratory insufficiency and, following the floods, was left without oxygen when the electricity supply was interrupted.

Six hours after the accident in which a truck driver died near Montjuïc, the Ronda del Litoral has finally reopened once the tasks to remove the vehicle and clean the area have been completed. Traffic has been very complicated throughout the morning and this road was cut off in the Llobregat direction, disabling all entrances. Only the exits remained open to clear the accident zone and facilitate the work of the rescue teams, as the driver was trapped in the wreckage. Firefighters had been working there since 7:30 a.m.

More than 80 people, including a baby and a girl, have died on a small boat that left Gambia 26 days ago bound for the Canary Islands with 128 occupants. The vessel was rescued this Thursday at dawn drifting south of the Canary Islands, when only 44 survivors remained on board. All are men of sub-Saharan origin. Five corpses were also located, which emergency services were unable to recover due to poor weather conditions and the urgency of evacuating three of the occupants to hospitals, according to Maritime Rescue.

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.

On December 14, 2021, a former employee of the company Securitas in Tarragona entered his former workplace armed and wounded three former colleagues. During his escape, he also shot and wounded a Mossos d'Esquadra officer and finally barricaded himself in a farmhouse in Riudoms (Baix Camp), where the police force's elite unit shot him down. The shooting left Marin Eugen Sabau with serious injuries, which after several judicial appeals ended up receiving euthanasia that he/she was asking for. With his death, the case against him was closed, but another one was still underway in which the eleven officers who neutralized the gunman were being investigated for injuries. Now the instructor of this case has prosecuted two agents of the Special Intervention Group (GEI) who shot him in an action he describes as "uncontrolled, disproportionate and with a purpose that could go beyond neutralizing Sabau, which was to riddle his physical integrity".

The National Police have arrested a couple in Valencia for allegedly killing a baby in Santa Bàrbara (Montsià). The girl had been missing since Friday in a property in the municipality, which the Mossos d'Esquadra searched without finding any trace of the child, but did find about thirty dead or malnourished dogs.

To the already known list of beneficial health effects of semaglutide medications, such as Ozempic or Wegovy, associated with weight loss and improved glucose control, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (United States) have now added another: they could contribute to increasing longevity and, above all, quality of life. In a study with aging female mice that received semaglutide for three months, the researchers observed that the animals improved their physical, metabolic, and cognitive function and, furthermore, lived longer than those that did not receive this drug.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the discovery of a dead baby inside a plastic bag, in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelonès), as reported by Metròpoli and confirmed by ARA. The events took place this Wednesday at noon when a person alerted to the presence of a plastic bag with blood on the landing of a stairwell in an apartment block on Llevant street, in the La Mina neighborhood. After 5 PM, the Catalan police continue to ask from apartment to apartment and in nearby shops to try to clarify the events.

The transformation of the border between Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, and Esplugues de Llobregat in the upper part of Diagonal, which will involve the relocation of the Hospital Clínic, continues to take shape. This Wednesday, the general council of the Porta Diagonal – Campus Clínic consortium has given the green light to the progress of the urban development plan (PDU), the document that will guide the entire metamorphosis of the area. This plan, for the first time, puts forward a figure for how much housing will be built around the campus. Specifically, it plans to build 1,125 apartments. Of these, at least half will have to be protected housing.

The judge ordered this Wednesday evening the internment in a closed regime for the two minors arrested for the violent death of a man in Manresa. For one of the adolescents, in addition, therapeutic treatment has been decreed. Both are charged with a crime of homicide. The juvenile prosecutor had already requested this afternoon as a precautionary measure the admission of the two arrested individuals.