Three Finnish divers arrived this Sunday in the Maldives to develop a new plan to search for the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be inside an underwater cave. The initial search was suspended after a local military diver died during a dangerous mission to try to reach them.
A dozen new potential victims of the American financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have come forward to the French justice system, which has not yet taken their testimony, explained Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau on Sunday.
Five days after publicly announcing that she had terminal cancer, British soprano Felicity Lott has passed away at the age of 79. The singer, who had been ill for a year, had recently announced that she would donate some of her costumes for a charity auction intended for a palliative care center, where she was also informed that the disease was progressing without remedy.
In the absence of the publication of official international television audience data to verify the extent to which Eurovision has suffered this reputation and participation crisis, the 2026 edition already shows a first sign of wear in its digital broadcasts. The final held this Saturday in Vienna lost viewership on YouTube compared to the previous year, while RTVE also failed to fill the gap left by the festival with La casa de la música, its major alternative bet for Saturday night.
The constant technological transformations and advances in digitalization are providing endless new opportunities for companies to consolidate increasingly innovative, efficient, and sustainable models. This is precisely what the Expo Foodtech will highlight in its sixth edition, the great technological fair of the food industry, which will return once again to Bilbao on May 27 and 28. Under the motto Optimize Everything, Accelerate Success, this important event will focus especially on various key tools, such as automation and food processing solutions, designed to optimize processes and improve the production and distribution of their products.
Carlos Sainz, driver of the Williams team, has become the first driver to complete a lap of the Madring, the circuit of the Spanish Grand Prix of Formula 1, which will be held in Madrid on the weekend of September 11 to 13, 2026.
Israel came close to victory in the world’s most important music contest, boosted by massive popular vote that contrasts with its weakened external image. Neither the thousands of protests against the genocide in Gaza, nor the boycott by five countries — Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Iceland — managed to take away the second place in Eurovision from the Israeli Noam Bettan.
For decades, working at Freixenet has been synonymous with stability and a secure future for the residents of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia. It is no coincidence that the cava leader was known as “the big house”: the company with the best working conditions in the area, with the best Christmas hamper – they even gave away a turkey – where the owning family maintained a personal connection with many of the employees and no one was ever fired. “There was a relationship of absolute closeness with the territory,” recall former employees consulted.
Barcelona strengthens its role as a space for economic reflection after hosting the first Mapfre Forum on Economy and Wealth Management in the city. The event, held on Tuesday, brought together experts from the legal and financial fields at the Torre Mapfre to address the major challenges of wealth management, from taxation to the behavior of global markets, with one premise: without planning, wealth is exposed to avoidable risks.
Earthquake at the Palau. If the first and glorious stage of Xavi Pascual (Gavà, 1972) at Barça lasted eight years, the second will barely reach eight months. The coach made the decision this Sunday to leave the club at the end of the current season, fed up with the lack of demand he detects in the entity and the numerous unfulfilled promises by the section leaders and the board. His destination will be the Middle East, specifically an exciting project like Dubai Basketball, already established as one of the teams in the EuroLeague, which guarantees him the financial muscle necessary to tackle more ambitious goals than those currently managed by the team of his heart.
