The payment processing company Stripe and the private equity fund Advent International announced yesterday a $53 billion – or €46 billion – takeover bid to buy the digital payment service PayPal, a pioneering firm in online transactions. The bidders offer $60.50 per share, with a premium of about 28% over the previous closing price. Its shares rose 15% yesterday.
Luis de la Fuente has decided to repeat the same eleven with which Spain defeated Belgium in the quarterfinals and France in the semifinals, to face Argentina in the World Cup final.
It is 11 in the morning on a working day in mid-July in Barcelona and the humidity and heat are starting to be difficult to manage. Stephany Hijar, a 25-year-old student, walks with both hands occupied: in one, the mobile phone; in the other, a handheld fan. Her sister-in-law gave it to her this year and she admits that it is now a must-have for going out on the street. Until last summer, it was the fan that helped her to mitigate the heat, but she has grown tired of fanning herself.
Carlos Garaikoetxea, the first lehendakari after Francoism (1980-1985) and a key figure in the recovery of Basque self-government, has died at the age of 87 due to a heart attack, according to the Basque public television portal Orain.
One expects that, in some office of some department, in some ministry or European subdelegation, a group of eminences, advisors, jurists, economists, scientists, and politicians have been working for years on a plan for Africa. Because, as David Trueba wrote a few days ago,…
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.
Two women have died this Sunday after trying to pull a three-year-old boy out of the water who was drowning in the dam of the town of Baños de Cerrato, in the municipality of Venta de Baños.
At seven in the morning, Hansi Flick arrived at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper to welcome the players and start the preseason of what will be his third season in charge of the men’s first team. The day began with the usual medical check-ups.
The advertising and public relations company Whathefav, owned by Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, the daughters of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, received more than one million euros in the payment scheme linked to the former Prime Minister following the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra, according to the court order in the case.
The National Court tribunal trying the Pujol family has summoned the former president of the Generalitat in person for next Monday at 9:30 in the morning, who is to open the round of statements by the accused in this case.