Finding a rental apartment in Mollet del Vallès seems like a treasure hunt. No sign of offers in the windows of the real estate offices in the city center. Inside, there is no better luck either. “To rent, sign up on the waiting list,” they explain in one of them. Among the information they request are marital status, salary, or possible guarantors.
In 1973, the advertiser Lluís Bassat was walking down Consell de Cent street when, at the height of the Sala Adrià, which was run by Francesc Mestre, an exhibition by Serra de Rivera caught his attention. Inside awaited Bañista, an enigmatic painting (the naked figure of a woman in a flooded room who sinks an arm into the water that reaches halfway up her leg) that not only stole his heart but changed his life. That afternoon he not only left with the canvas under his arm but also with 35% ownership of the gallery (he later convinced seven friends to acquire another 35%), and until 1980, when it closed its doors, they organized more than eighty exhibitions. “There I began to get to know the artists; and with my wife, Carmen, we bought one or two works from each of them. And so, almost unintentionally, we built a collection that today has more than 3,000 works.”
When the trial for the Kitchen operation started almost two months ago, there was doubt in the National Court about whether the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior during Mariano Rajoy’s government – with Jorge Fernández Díaz and Francisco Martínez in it – would end up stabbing each other to avoid being tagged with the “X” of the parapolice plot, financed with reserved funds, to steal compromising information for the Popular Party whose treasurer was Luis Bárcenas. With the extremely high-voltage confrontation they both protagonized during the investigation as a precedent, it did not seem far-fetched that they would go into hand-to-hand combat with a every man for himself attitude. But yesterday, that idea vanished: there was a non-aggression pact.
The fires in central Spain in the provinces of Madrid and Ávila affected more than 100,000 people and had a direct impact on the residential stock in those areas, whose recovery could cost around 157.1 million euros.
The meteorological services and Civil Protection of Catalonia are monitoring the episode of rains forecast for this Thursday and the coming days, which could generate locally intense storms. Civil Protection has activated the pre-alert of the Inuncat plan and has asked the population to take extreme precautions.
The Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic will officiate the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on Sunday at the New York-New Jersey Stadium.
Spain is currently reviewing its regulatory framework with the draft Medicines Law. In your opinion, what is the main opportunity and the main risk of this reform?
Just a few hours ago, Kiko Rivera announced on his social media the cancellation of his summer tour due to a “serious health problem” of which many details were not known. However, it has now been revealed that Isabel Pantoja’s son has confessed that he has suffered another stroke that has completely paralyzed his life. A health problem that has worsened compared to the episode he experienced in 2022 and that once again forces him to put an indefinite pause on his professional projects.
“I want to have a job that gives me a decent income to finish my 40-hour work week and be able to go out for a drink with my partner, with my friends, with my family.” Woman, 22 years old.
On July 8, after the NATO summit in Ankara (Turkey) ended, Donald Trump announced to the world that he was going to board his “old Air Force One,” instead of the one Qatar gave him this year, the Boeing 747-8 he had been using and had brought on the outbound trip. The president boarded the presidential plane, a scene captured by television cameras, but minutes later he was secretly transferred to a third, smaller one, the Air Force C-32. The Secret Service made this extraordinary and unprecedented decision after detecting a credible assassination threat from Iran, according to an exclusive report tonight by The Washington Post and confirmed by other U.S. media.
