These days the metaphor of World War II bombs that resurface in the dried riverbeds of European rivers, drained by the climate crisis, is used. A projectile that has reached today without exploding, as a legacy of an era in which totalitarianism…
Two people died in Michigan due to the parasite that causes severe diarrhea and has already sickened thousands of people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday.
Sensational. Spectacular. In April, she couldn’t even run. A lumbar ailment had sent her to the stretcher and she couldn’t train. Excessive gym workouts had short-circuited her preparation and she was theoretically out of shape. But she is a top competitor. A wonderful athlete who inaugurated the Spanish medal tally at the European Championships in Birmingham. Marta García from León (28 years old), a trained doctor, earned her doctorate again by winning silver in the 5,000 meters final with a time of 15m39s98. Two years ago in Rome, she won bronze and this time she climbed one step higher. As in 2024, at the very top was the untouchable Italian Nadia Battocletti (15m37s84), who defended her title. “You had to believe it like in the Football World Cup and I believed it. Everything went as I wanted, I gave the maximum I could. I was always where I had planned to be during the race,” García said. Behind her, the bronze medal went to the Italian Micol Majori (15m40s65).
The National Police have rescued a baby in Seville from inside a vehicle parked on a street in the capital, which was completely locked, with the door locks activated and one of the windows partially open, subsequently proceeding to the arrest of the parents for their alleged involvement in a crime of child abandonment.
An archaeologist based in Torredembarra (Tarragonès), with a company specialized in excavations, now retired, has spent three decades allegedly irregularly appropriating more than 300 pieces from archaeological surveys in which he himself participated. Among the pieces that the Tarragona Urban Guard has been able to recover, in collaboration with the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Tarragona Prosecutor’s Office, are items from the Roman era and a thousand coins from the Peninsular War (19th century), which were minted in Tarragona.
Only a few days remain until Pope Leo XIV’s historic visit to Barcelona, and the preparations are already palpable in the air. The signage for the Popemobile’s route, the placement of flags on balconies, and the anticipation of a public eager to sing the visit’s anthem, Alza la mirada. Even the pontiff himself, it is said, has already mastered his blessing in Catalan.
The open case against Jonathan Andic for the death of his father, Isak Andic, could have significant financial consequences in the hypothetical event that the eldest son of the deceased businessman is convicted. The main one, the loss of the inheritance received, one third…
The great political debate at the start of the term moves in the realm of nuances, omissions, and calculated silences. Four weeks after the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, left the Marivent palace, assuring that Felipe VI was “committed to visiting Ceuta,” the conflicting versions between the Executive and the Royal House have placed the trip in an uncomfortable no-man’s land. Everyone assumes it will happen, but no one sets a date for a visit whose uncertainty is beginning to become a wear for Moncloa.
The employers’ association and the hotel sector criticize the possibility of increasing the tourism VAT to 21%. It is a position they have held for some time, but to which they have now added a new element. It is the report from the Institute of Economic Studies (IEE), published yesterday, which openly disagrees with this possibility recommended by the European Commission, the OECD, and also the group of Catalan economists who prepared the Fènix report.
The case of the luxury penthouse in Chamberí acquired by the Community of Madrid has experienced in recent hours a qualitative leap that tightens the seams of the regional Government presided over by Isabel Díaz Ayuso. What began as a first-rate political controversy due to shadows of opacity and the changing explanations from Puerta del Sol has formally entered the courts, after the head of the Court of Instruction number 8 of Madrid, magistrate Rosario de Fátima Espinosa, has opened preliminary proceedings in relation to five complaints focused on the purchase of a property worth 6.3 million euros executed by a Madrid public company.
