The Prague Zoo uses tons of ice this Thursday to help its animals cope with another heat wave hitting Europe. The polar bears Aleut and Gregor waste no time and start rolling over piles of ice cubes as soon as they go out to their outdoor enclosure in the morning.
La Torre Galatea of the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres became the painter’s last place of residence after the fire in Púbol. Salvador Dalí lived there from 1984 until his death in 1989, and experts on his work say that from his room he watched how the evening light transformed the textures of the stone into a play of shadows on the exterior walls of the museum. On these same walls, photographs and audiovisual fragments of Dalí and his complex universe are projected until August 23, in a play of lights, images, music, and sounds, including the voices of Dalí and a brief fragment of Gala, in the only sound document known to the foundation.
The concept of short king may be unfamiliar to many people. It is an expression that has become widespread on social media to celebrate a new form of masculinity, freer from prejudices and rigid aesthetic standards. Because although the pressure on appearance usually mainly affects women, there is a stigma that has pursued men since the beginning of time: height.
Choosing life insurance is usually a decision made at very specific moments in life: when signing a mortgage, when a child is born, when starting a business, or when wanting to organize an inheritance. In all these cases, the important question is not only how much the policy costs, but what level of protection it offers and whether it will truly cover the beneficiaries in the event of death, disability, or a serious illness.
The mayor of Ripoll is right. The controversy over the hiring of Sílvia Orriols’ daughter as an interim local police officer only aims to damage her image. And she is scrutinized in a way that others are not. Of course, placing family members, friends, and acquaintances is…
Arriving at the midpoint of the term, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, made this Friday an assessment of his first two years leading the Government in which he claimed that they have managed to “stabilize the country, improve coexistence, and be predictable.” These are elements that, in his opinion, deepen the goal of making Catalonia “the best country in Europe to live in” in the coming years, although he admitted that there is still much to be done in housing, education, or Rodalies.
The 52-year-old man murdered on Wednesday afternoon at the doors of a bar in the La Mina neighborhood, Mohamed Alohun, born in Palestine, had a police record with 39 previous offenses. Most of the arrests were made by the Mossos d’Esquadra of Badalona and Sant Adrià de Besòs, where he was classified as a repeat offender with a high level of conflict and aggressiveness, according to sources familiar with the investigation who spoke to this newspaper.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have received notice this Friday of the discovery of a corpse in Lloret de Mar (Selva). The body was found in a container, with signs of violence.
Several accidents and traffic jams are marking this Friday the start of the second special operation of the Summer Operation 2026, with 5.6 million trips expected.
If the most-watched comedy of recent years returns, acclaimed by both the public and critics, it is automatically placed on the list of television priorities for this August. It is the sports comedy Ted Lasso, of course, which returns to focus on a women’s soccer team and repeat the play: to entertain and move with the good intentions of coach Lasso.