Last Friday, a passenger on a Ryanair flight between Thessaloniki (Greece) and Memmingen (Germany) was sucked out of the airplane window after it came loose during the flight. The passenger, a 61-year-old Serbian man, was saved by the seatbelt and the efforts of other passengers to prevent him from being thrown into the void. The plane was flying at 6,000 meters altitude.
When her husband died two years ago, Siri Hustvedt (Minnesota, 1955) began writing Ghost Stories (Seix Barral/Edicions 62), a book that helped her face the abyss of “vanished time,” start the grieving process, and adjust to life alone after 43 years of marriage. If the one who left, a victim of cancer that the author describes with harshness but without losing her sense of humor, had not been Paul Auster, it would be the same, she admits, because this work is not a biography of the novelist, but a lost love song. “The most painful reality in this world is not loving someone and losing them to death, but the inability to love,” she argues.
The former president of Plus Ultra Julio Martínez Sola has confirmed today, as he had already stated in writing, that he agreed with the Zapatero group on the payment of a 1% commission in case of success for the aid so that the Government would grant the airline a bailout of 53 million euros.
The very bold and eye-catching signs of the latest bakery mainly aimed at occasional visitors to the green axis of Consell de Cent street are irritating many nearby residents. However, this is not just a matter of taste. The tremendously flashy setup of prominent eyes, yellow color, and different reliefs intended to evoke the happiest cheese blatantly violates the urban landscape regulations of the Barcelona City Council. They might even get fined.
A man from Asturias with character and feet on the ground has achieved what French pride and Qatari money could not for years. In France, there is unanimous consensus that Luis Enrique has been the true architect of PSG’s success in the Champions League, the club’s obsessive goal, because the Spanish coach, as a providential man, has worked the miracle of transforming the team, not only football-wise but in spirit, in method, in soul.
The homicide group of the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested on Thursday afternoon a man accused of being responsible for the homicide hours earlier in Nou Barris. The victim had started a romantic relationship with the ex-partner of the detainee, according to what La Vanguardia has learned from the victim’s environment. The deceased and the woman had met at the workplace. The detainee has a record for fraud and gender-based violence.
It has been almost twenty years since the then president of the Generalitat José Montilla warned of the growing disenchantment of the citizens towards the institutions. He was then talking about the Catalunya-Spain relationship since we were in the preamble of what later happened because…
In the mixed zone, from which the Argentine players fled stealthily and treacherously after losing the final, demonstrating their nonexistent greatness in defeat, a Brazilian journalist was summarizing what was seen in the longest World Cup in history: “Football finally won.”
The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard has asked the judge to delve deeper into the financial movements of both the PSOE and the PSC over the last two years. In a written request, the agents intend for the investigating judge Santiago Pedraz to give them the green light to demand the banking and tax movements of the socialists in search of alleged diversions of money that could have ended up in the hands of the plot led by the former organization secretary Santos Cerdán and his right-hand woman Leire Díez.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have fired at the vehicle of a multiple repeat offender who tried to escape by running them over this afternoon around 4 p.m. on Torrent del Gornal street in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, a very busy road. No injuries have been reported, although the car of the person who tried to flee, who was eventually arrested, was damaged.
