The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, announced this Monday that the Government will waive undue charges and administrative delays that the Catalan administration has been claiming after the death of people who received economic benefits for dependency, as well as in cases derived from changes in their economic situation or in the assessment of their degree of dependency.
A man in his 60s pleaded guilty on Monday to systematically drugging and raping his wife at their home for more than two decades. During a hearing at the Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, the defendant admitted to a total of 60 charges just before the start of his trial.
A group of striking teachers blocked access to Casa Batlló this morning as part of protests to improve their working conditions. The action is part of a protest march associated with the strike that will take place this Tuesday along Passeig de Gràcia, called by the minority unions CGT, Intersindical, and COS.
At 94 years old, Raúl Castro has to play hide and seek.
Real Madrid footballer Vinicius Jr is making headlines these days for a notable physical change, though not so evident at first glance. What’s new about his face that makes him more attractive? His chin. It’s undeniable. And it’s because a square jaw is a cultural archetype of masculinity, not a trend in aesthetic medicine. The genealogy is recognizable from Superman and Captain Trueno comics, continuing with Batman or Captain America: a strong jaw, defined cheekbones, and even a dimpled chin set an aesthetic standard. In classic cinema, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and Charlton Heston embodied it. There is, therefore, a connection between jaw, power, and masculinity: a square face visually functions as a kind of armor, making the character appear stronger, more determined, dominant, or resilient.
On August 3, 1965, a modest article appeared in the pages of La Vanguardia without a signature announcing the result of a surgical milestone. A 35-year-old woman with a terminal illness had received the first organ transplant (kidney) performed in Spain, at the Clínic hospital in Barcelona. “The operation took effect on the 23rd [of July], but the news was not released until the results had satisfactorily fulfilled the intended success,” the text indicates, one of the few mentions of the event.
The European Commission will present tomorrow a legislative proposal to prohibit access to social networks for those under 15 years old, which will be accompanied by new safety requirements for online games and artificial intelligence chatbots, defined as “virtual tools that can offer advice on mental health and personal development to minors.”
OpenAI claims to have found a solution to one of the deepest problems in mathematics that has remained unsolved for 90 years. The company led by Sam Altman has announced that it shares “a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems,” which represent some of the deepest questions at the forefront of mathematics.
Seven weeks of strike. The workers of the municipal nursery schools of Madrid, on strike since last April 7, gathered again this Monday in the Plaza de la Villa to demand wage improvements and to protest against the extensions of the bidding contracts for these centers, coinciding with the meeting of the Commission on Social Policies, Family, and Equality in the Cardenal Cisneros building.
If we review the archives of the last three years, we will see that the current legislature is being fought more in the courts than in the Congress of Deputies. The judicial cases involving politicians fall on the two main parties in Spain, with the…
