Summer in Catalonia smells like the sea and, above all, sweet fruit. But, what is the undisputed queen of the season? According to the 1st edition of the Flavor Thermometer presented by Ametller Origen, the verdict is clear: watermelon (39%) is the fruit with the preferred flavor of summer for Catalans.
A Serbian blue helmet from the UN peacekeeping mission deployed in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, has died and two other soldiers of Spanish nationality have been slightly injured due to a mortar shell attack on Wednesday night against a peacekeeping troops position near the Spanish mission base, in the Lebanese town of Marjayún, in the south of the country.
Fifteen years have passed since the most important social outbreak in democratic Spain. The 15-M emerged on a Sunday in May at Puerta del Sol in Madrid as a demonstration called via the internet, with a success that surprised even the organizers. And those outraged by economic precariousness and the political system did not go home after the protest. They set up a camp that spread to Barcelona, in Plaça Catalunya, and then throughout the country. There was a willingness to participate in politics. Thousands and thousands of hours of assemblies to outline possible roadmaps turned the squares into laboratories of direct democracy. What remains today of that movement? Could it happen again?
The Pentagon expands its partnerships with the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. The command center of the U.S. defense announced this Friday agreements with eight companies, including giants OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SpaceX, Oracle, and Nvidia, to deploy their AI capabilities in the classified networks of the Department of War (Defense). Several of them were already working with the entity. According to a Pentagon statement, they will now be integrated into its secret and top-secret network environments, which will involve greater use in sensitive matters.
The football career of Fernando Marqués (Madrid, 1984) was never separated from his off-field problems. Alcohol, accidents, and disorders created for him at a very young age the image of a troublesome and undisciplined guy. He debuted at 17 years old with his Rayo Vallecano, in 2002, and before turning 23 he had already played for five teams —Rayo, Racing de Santander, Atlético de Madrid, Atlético Madrid B, and Castellón, as well as the under-20 national team— and three different categories. A ten in talent, a zero in attitude, was said about him.
He took his first steps in the family restaurant near San Sebastián, but his family’s know-how mixed with the innovation he learned from great chefs in France, such as Alain Ducasse, prompted him to remodel the old tavern where he grew up and transform it into a restaurant that quickly caught the attention of the Michelin Guide. He achieved one, two, and three stars in a few years and today he is one of the big names in world gastronomy and the Spanish chef with the most Michelin stars accumulated throughout his career. No less than twelve.
The journalist from La Vanguardia specialized in science and health, Josep Corbella, shares with readers the status of the evolution of hantavirus cases detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. As he emphasizes, this is a virus “that has great difficulty transmitting between people,” so “we can be calm, because there is no risk that hantavirus will spread uncontrollably around the world.”
Radio Caroline, a local radio station in southeast England, apologized this Wednesday after mistakenly broadcasting the death of monarch Charles III, attributing the incident to a computer error. “The ‘Monarch’ protocol, which all British radio stations have prepared in the hope of never having to use it, was mistakenly activated on Tuesday afternoon, erroneously announcing the death of His Majesty the King,” wrote Peter Moore, the station’s director, on Facebook.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero admitted this Thursday, in his first public interview on TVE since he was charged with alleged corruption offenses on May 19, the enormous concern that these accusations have caused in the socialist ranks. “I suffer a lot thinking that the PSOE could suffer because of the situation I am in, I suffer a lot,” he acknowledged. But to all socialists who maintain confidence in his innocence, starting with Pedro Sánchez, he conveyed: “I am not going to ask for an act of faith.”
Her disappearance made her legend greater. She was an aviator who never declined, unlike pilot Charles Lindbergh, consumed by his far-right drift, or actor James Dean, turned into a myth for dying young with only three films made. Amelia Earhart built her myth and made good use of her success in life.