Lamine Yamal, about his injury: “I was afraid it was serious and that I would miss the World Cup”

Lamine Yamal, about his injury: “I was afraid it was serious and that I would miss the World Cup”

Natural, spontaneous, friendly, uninhibited and also, as he is, a bit playful. For the first time since he got injured against Celta on April 22, Lamine Yamal explained how he experienced the moment he got injured at the Spotify Camp Nou and what he felt in the hours afterward. He does not hide the panic that overwhelmed him at that moment at the possibility of missing the World Cup. After taking and scoring the penalty in which he suffered the injury, Lamine experienced fear. “I remember the sequence in which I got injured. I was praying inside that it was nothing, that it was a cramp or something, because I saw myself very close to the World Cup moment. I was afraid it was very serious or that I could relapse and miss the World Cup,” said the Barcelona forward in statements to the Spanish Federation media.

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More child- and adolescent-friendly courts: "It's about humanizing justice"

More child- and adolescent-friendly courts: “It’s about humanizing justice”

If a courtroom causes some discomfort to any adult – being an environment that is not very friendly at first glance – imagine for children and adolescents. There are doctrinal studies that offer recommendations to make that space more welcoming for them, but the Departament de Justícia de la Generalitat – in coordination with the Drets Socials – has wanted to go one step further. How? By creating a practical guide, in the civil field, for the hearing of children and adolescents in family judicial proceedings.

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Illa claims to have left behind "a decade of paralysis" and warns of the rise of extremisms

Illa claims to have left behind “a decade of paralysis” and warns of the rise of extremisms

One month before the Catalan elections that brought him to power, the then PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, presented his plans for when he would take the reins of the Govern at a crowded conference. There he promised to lead the “third great transformation of Catalonia” through good management, to recover excellence in public services and leave behind “a lost decade” in the ideological battle of the procés. Yesterday, the president revisited that conference with a track record of two years of management that few approve of, but which he strove to present as successful. At the same time, he warned of those times when Catalonia was presented as the “project of a part” and of “a world heading towards a worrying dehumanization” in which “extremely divisive and confrontational politics” predominates.

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A study demonstrates cows' memory: they recognize familiar faces and associate voices with faces

A study demonstrates cows’ memory: they recognize familiar faces and associate voices with faces

The demonstration of intelligence that Verónica, a Swiss Brown cow specimen, showed in January made the scientific community reflect. Verónica became the first cow recorded using a tool: a stick that allowed her to reach parts of her body she could not scratch. Researchers from the National Institute for Agricultural Research, Food, and Environment of France observed the phenomenon and considered studying the memory of cows. Specifically, whether they could “discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar faces.”

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Climate change makes extreme heat in the Mediterranean common

Climate change makes extreme heat in the Mediterranean common

The European sea usually reserves its highest temperatures for August or September. But this year, at the end of July, it already reached its highest value since daily satellite records began in 1982. The same happened in the western Mediterranean. A new analysis shows that that previously extraordinary heat is becoming part of the usual climate. Human-caused warming has added around 1.4 °C to the highs off the peninsula and nearly 1.9 °C in the western Mediterranean.

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