The Nepal disaster clearly illustrates a problem that climate scientists have been warning about for years. The icy structure of the Himalayas is destabilizing, exposing millions of people to increasingly unpredictable dangers. “Warming can lead to more glacier collapses and more formation of glacial lakes that can collapse,” summarizes Ignacio López-Moreno, researcher at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. (CSIC).
A Chinese citizen trapped in the tunnel of a hydroelectric plant and a 64-year-old woman buried by mud in a house were rescued alive this Saturday in Nepal, on the eleventh day after the devastating floods, two findings that keep hopes alive of finding more survivors.
the same care and the same esteem for the pieces. The same delicacy and the same treatment for loyal customers and for those who are new. Amid so much news of stores closing forever, of businesses that have seen how screens and globalization stole sales, and those that have said goodbye due to lack of succession, the new stage of one of Barcelona’s emblematic establishments stands out. The third generation of Sant jewelry ensures the future of the family business by moving and updating the spirit that reigned in Petritxol to one of the most charming alleys of the Eixample, the Mercader passage.
The company OKM Química Ortopédica, S.L., an industrial company specialized in designing and producing products and materials for orthopedics, has received the 2026 SME of the Year Award in Girona, an award granted annually by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and Banco Santander, in collaboration with La Vanguardia.
Never has a summer tasted as bitter as that of 2017, when the people of Barcelona received the news of a mass hit-and-run on La Rambla. Time stood still; vacations were on hold; WhatsApp was on fire. With Cronos, by Fernando González Molina, we relive those 124 hours of anguish until the last terrorist fell, from the other side of the news, as experienced by the communications officer of the Mossos (Patricia Plaja, played by Diana Gómez); a police officer from Ripoll (Mónica López) and Inspector Jordi Rodón, who launched the operation that gives the film its title.
In the world of video games, there are a handful of proper names with great weight. None has as much as Shigeru Miyamoto. His importance is paramount, and the video game as it is today is unthinkable without him. And although sometimes he is credited with more than he has actually done, it is undeniable that his work is essential to understanding the evolution of the medium and what Nintendo is today.
Passengers on American Airlines flight AA618 from Dallas to New Jersey will take a long time to forget what happened this September. When the plane was about to perform the landing maneuver, a passenger identified by various local media as Arthur Lundeen, 67 years old, had to be restrained with zip ties and duct tape in his seat apparently due to his disruptive behavior on board.
In autumn she will turn sixty, but the energy of this nun born in Argentina and settled in Manresa for more than three decades is overwhelming. In fact, in this interview, Sister Lucía Caram assures that she is possibly at her best moment. Her tireless presence in the media defending the voice of the vulnerable and questioning certain aspects of the Church proves it. She is direct and involved, and that has made her one of the most media-exposed religious figures in the country.
Six years after leaving the United Kingdom, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, return with their children, Archie (7) and Lilibet (5), to spend a period –presumably long– in Great Britain, although for the moment there is no intention to resume the royal duties they once held. This is an unexpected turn for a couple who sought to build a new life in the U.S., including a Netflix documentary, and who have been distanced from their families by circumstances. According to the Daily Mail, they are already staying as guests of a millionaire friend on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, where they lived between 2018 and 2019, near Highgrove House, the second residence of King Charles III and with neighbors as illustrious as the Beckhams, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, and Liam Gallagher of Oasis. The couple landed on British soil on August 27.
Scientists from the United States have announced a possible breakthrough in the search for the enigmatic dark matter that makes up most of the matter in the universe and has so far never been directly observed. They have identified the trace of a particle that does not match any currently known particles, but fits with some theoretical models of dark matter.