The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda has opened sanctioning proceedings against Polymarket and Kalshi, two prediction platforms where bets are placed, for a possible violation of gaming regulations. They would be operating in Spain without the mandatory administrative authorization.
Chargers that cause burns, toys with toxic chemicals for children, or even jewelry harmful to health. The European Commission imposed a fine of 200 million euros on the Chinese giant Temu this Thursday for critical failures in its security system when preventing the sale of illegal items to European consumers that can be potentially dangerous, with the intention that the platform increases its controls while it sweeps across the continent. Temu alone reached an average of 115 million monthly users in the community bloc last year.
Russia wants Armenia to stop moving closer to the European Union. After several weeks of economic pressure, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, secured this Friday the support of his allies from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), who joined his demand that the small former Soviet republic in the Caucasus choose whether it is with them or with Brussels.
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals that of some of the largest countries in the world, according to a report from the United Nations University, which also predicts what water and energy consumption will be. The emissions that warm the atmosphere will double in less than five years, as the use of artificial intelligence grows.
As a child, the movie The Butterfly Effect left me with a disturbing and ingrained idea: that a minimal, almost invisible gesture could completely alter the course of a life. Years later, this chaos theory is glimpsed, not in the wings of a butterfly, but in the red and black body of a queen ant.
Twelve employees of the Radboudumc university hospital in Nijmegen, in the eastern Netherlands, have been placed under preventive quarantine for six weeks after potentially being exposed to the hantavirus while treating an infected patient from the Hondius cruise ship.
A literary party. But not just any one. This is one of the big ones, La Vanguardia’s. There isn’t a writer signing at Sant Jordi who doesn’t stop by, even if just to say hello, at the Alma hotel on the eve of such a significant day. And not just writers. “It’s already a tradition,” assured Jordi Juan, director of the newspaper, in his welcome speech, in which there were no shortage of words of remembrance for journalists Lluís Permanyer, Joan de Sagarra, and Arturo San Agustín, who passed away in 2025 and were much loved in the newsroom.
La defensa de Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, has requested the Provincial Court of Madrid that, if it goes to a jury trial, she be acquitted of the four charges brought against her by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, as “the facts presented do not constitute any crime.”
For ten years, Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, has been investigating the conduct of President Donald Trump. A former researcher and professor of Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, affiliated with Harvard’s psychiatry program, she directs the World Mental Health Coalition, which investigates the psychological capacity of politicians. Not without controversy, her book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, published in 2017 during his first term, compiled essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other experts on the president’s mental health, an issue that is once again coming to the forefront.
Volkswagen Group España Distribución (VGED), responsible for distributing vehicles, parts and spare parts of several brands of the German giant in the country, is experiencing a sweet moment. Despite the challenges of the European automotive sector, it closed 2025 with record revenue figures. The Barcelona-based company achieved a turnover of 5,045 million euros, after growing 23% over last year, and breaks the 5,000 million mark for the first time.