The number of epidemic outbreaks in the Community of Madrid grew by 4.5% in 2025, reaching a total of 442 episodes, with acute gastroenteritis (AGE) of non-food origin being the most frequent and with a special prominence of those related to the flu, which multiplied the associated cases by almost six and hospitalizations by six compared to the previous year.
With or without Santa Claus, more and more Christmas gifts will arrive at European homes through Arctic landscapes. But they will not come by reindeer, but on container ships chartered from China. Like the one that will set sail next Wednesday from Ningbo to reach the English port of Felixstowe twenty days later. Thus inaugurating the first weekly line of the Polar Silk Road.
The legendary boxer José Legrá, “the puma of Baracoa,” has passed away in Madrid at the age of 83, leaving memorable fights and extraordinary charm in memory. In his human legacy, he was the protagonist of the best sports anecdote one can remember: his first audience with the dictator Francisco Franco at El Pardo, where he was received, as was customary, after winning the world featherweight title in Cardiff against the local idol Howard Winstone.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, sent a letter yesterday to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, urging the Irish presidency, which holds the rotating presidency this semester, to convene an emergency meeting due to the reaction he described as “selfish, polarizing, and illegal” of countries like Italy in response to the crisis triggered this week in Ceuta by the irregular crossing of the border.
Catalan teachers have ample reasons to show their discomfort with the state of education in our country and with their low salaries. Up to this point, public opinion can only agree. The continuous results of the PISA reports that…
The King participated this Friday, by videoconference, in the meeting of the State Coordination and Management Committee (CECOD) of the State Emergency Plan. From the operations center of the General Command of the Balearic Islands, the head of State, who this morning began his official stay in Palma with audiences with the Balearic authorities, is following from Marivent the evolution of the fires unleashed in the Community of Madrid, and in areas of Castilla-León and Castilla-La Mancha, which have forced more than 20.000 people to evacuate and another 25.000 to be confined.
It is already breaking news, not so much for what it does, but for what is hinted to be happening behind closed doors.
Delivery drivers, on motorcycles or bicycles, are already part of the urban landscape in large European cities. In Paris, they are especially visible at night, adding more chaos and danger to traffic. Their working conditions are controversial, to the point that on Wednesday four associations filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office of the French capital against the Uber Eats and Deliveroo platforms for human trafficking, an accusation of unprecedented seriousness, and for labor exploitation.
As president of Barça and a culé, I am very proud that today eight players from our team, Cubarsí, Pedri, Olmo, Lamine Yamal, Gavi, Èric Garcia, Ferran Torres, and Joan Garcia, can be crowned world champions. And also that many players from the national team…
What seemed like just another eccentric character on social media has ended up alerting the authorities of a country for taking advantage of a legal loophole to become “king.” Jona Lauwiner (31) is a young technician who in 2019 proclaimed himself king of Switzerland and organized a coronation in a church for it. With cape, crown, and all.