For weeks, Germany has closely followed the story of a humpback whale trapped in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea. This Saturday, that story reached its most awaited moment: the animal, nicknamed “Timmy” or “Hope,” was finally released into the North Sea in a complex operation that combined technique, private funding, and remarkable public anticipation.
On August 3, 1965, a modest article appeared in the pages of La Vanguardia without a signature announcing the result of a surgical milestone. A 35-year-old woman with a terminal illness had received the first organ transplant (kidney) performed in Spain, at the Clínic hospital in Barcelona. “The operation took effect on the 23rd [of July], but the news was not released until the results had satisfactorily fulfilled the intended success,” the text indicates, one of the few mentions of the event.
Barcelona, thanks to its 28 victories, 80 goals scored, and 11-point lead, has earned five championship chances. The first opportunity is this weekend. Although it does not depend on itself, Barça only has one result that matters if it wants to celebrate the title now: winning at El Sadar tonight. Otherwise, there will be no possible combination because in this first scenario it cannot be champion on the pitch but only later.
Its beauty is such that it seems to have been hand-painted, which is why it has been officially recognized as one of the Most Beautiful Villages in Spain. Unofficially, it has earned another title: “village of the artists.” Perhaps it is because it offers a perfect symbiosis between historical heritage, artistic avant-garde, and landscape richness.
The most emblematic bird of New Zealand, the kiwi, has returned to inhabit the hills of Wellington after more than a century of absence thanks to an ambitious citizen initiative. The so-called Capital Kiwi Project, driven by neighbors, scientists, and indigenous communities, has managed to reintroduce 250 specimens in the surroundings of the capital, in an unprecedented effort to recover local biodiversity.
Eduardo Casanova wanted to tell the world that it is perfectly possible to live with HIV and nothing happens, that stigmas only feed hatred. This is what the Spanish actor and director explains in Sidosa, the documentary released last week in some cinemas with which he has decided to “break years of silence.” The film, produced and hosted by Jordi Évole and directed by Lluís Galter and Màrius Sánchez, is conceived as a cathartic journey seasoned with humor, emotion, memory, and cinema, which allows understanding the reality of people with HIV today.
Michael, the biopic about Michael Jackson, is making a splash globally: 217 million in its first opening weekend and number one at the worldwide box office. And that despite the bad reviews. The biopic genre has long since made an important place for itself in cinemas. The lives of real people are usually a good draw to attract the viewer’s attention and, in the process, manage to boost box office revenue. The approval of the critics is another matter.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso has claimed the Community of Madrid as a “trendy” region in Spain because it is a territory free of “nationalism and identity ideologies.” At the institutional event celebrating the Community of Madrid Day, the president spoke positively about Catalonia and pointed out that the Madrid region has become “the economic, political, and social engine” of Spain.
The failure to update the IRPF rate to inflation caused tax revenue to increase by almost 2.3 billion during last year. The calculation is official. It is reflected in the Annual Progress Report that the Ministry of Economy sent to the European Commission on Thursday night. The document confirms that the lack of deflation, an issue that has been part of the public debate in recent years, is generating considerable additional income for the public coffers.
The United States will withdraw 5,000 troops from its NATO ally, Germany — one seventh of those present in the country —, the Pentagon announced on Friday, following a public confrontation over the war in Iran between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz.