Russia has once again bombed Kyiv fiercely this week, but that attack, far from being a victory, reveals growing frustration: things are not going well for the Kremlin on the battlefield.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has requested Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to justify within five days that she used the passport only for the trip that the court itself had authorized, that is, to fly to the United Kingdom for her daughter’s graduation.
Thousands of drones, missiles, and sea mines have disrupted the perfect oil and gas export business that the Persian Gulf enjoyed, which seeks to recalibrate its alliances while the vital Strait of Hormuz remains blocked by the United States and Iran.
Two days ago we wondered in this section if everything surrounding the judicial investigation into José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was enough for Pedro Sánchez to call elections. The answer was given yesterday by the president from Rome: “It is not enough”….
As is customary every August, Lyst Index has published the ranking of the most desired brands for this second four-month period, showing slight changes in consumer tastes and the appeal of each brand. Chanel maintains the leadership of this ranking, fueled by the excitement sparked by Matthieu Blazy. The launch of its Coco Beach and Métiers d’Arts 2026 collections has helped maintain interest in the French house, while searches on Lyst for Chanel sunglasses grew by more than 70 percent in the last quarter.
The master’s program Global Challenges for Sustainability, designed by nine European universities led by the University of Barcelona (UB), has received the quality label created by the European Commission to highlight degree programs born from European university alliances. In addition to the UB alliance, the master’s program of the alliance in which the Catholic University of Valencia participates has also received this distinction.
With a grand parade of flags waved by children, a military review of the honor guard, a visit to the sacred Temple of Heaven, and an opulent banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Xi Jinping has charmed Donald Trump with a pomp superior to that usually granted to his visiting counterparts. The American leader has returned the hospitality with a level of praise that his European allies, including the kings of the United Kingdom who visited the White House two weeks ago, will hardly hear.
Decisive for Barça to hold on in the toughest moments of the Champions final against Lyon and the soul of the party in Oslo, Cata Coll (Marratxí, 2001) speaks to La Vanguardia after her third European final. Today she is a more mature Cata, but without losing the touch of madness that defines her. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t be me,” she confesses.
The European sea usually reserves its highest temperatures for August or September. But this year, at the end of July, it already reached its highest value since daily satellite records began in 1982. The same happened in the western Mediterranean. A new analysis shows that that previously extraordinary heat is becoming part of the usual climate. Human-caused warming has added around 1.4 °C to the highs off the peninsula and nearly 1.9 °C in the western Mediterranean.
Errors in the execution of the PISA tests could have been corrected in time because there were up to seven warnings from the Ministry of Education. These were ignored by the coordinators of the Consell Superior d’Avaluació, who did not pass them on to the educational centers to correct the high exclusions, nor to the political leaders to redirect the situation. They never reached the desk of the consellera Esther Niubó, according to her own statement, who learned of the problem a year later. By then, the technical and political leaders were no longer working in the Department of Education.