The wife of the Prime Minister Begoña Gómez has had to hand over to the investigating judge, Juan Carlos Peinado, the plane tickets to prove that she indeed flew to the United Kingdom to attend her daughter’s graduation and that she did not go anywhere else. Specifically, she has provided the tickets for the flight to London and the return from Bristol.
The New York auction house Sotheby’s has witnessed the most expensive purchase ever recorded for a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The fossil “Gus” was sold for a value of 50.1 million euros, the highest ever offered for a dinosaur to date. The T-Rex was already the most valued dinosaur before the bidding started, with an approximate value between 20 and 30 million euros. After just ten minutes, an anonymous buyer ended up acquiring the dinosaur and broke the world record.
The legendary boxer José Legrá, “the puma of Baracoa,” has passed away in Madrid at the age of 83, leaving memorable fights and extraordinary charm in memory. In his human legacy, he was the protagonist of the best sports anecdote one can remember: his first audience with the dictator Francisco Franco at El Pardo, where he was received, as was customary, after winning the world featherweight title in Cardiff against the local idol Howard Winstone.
Los Bombers de la Generalitat are working on a new vegetation fire with several hotspots in the municipality of Querol (Alt Camp), specifically in the Santa Maria area. They received the alert at 15:53 on Wednesday and have deployed twelve teams, with seven ground units, three helicopters, and two planes.
Asclepius (Escolapio) the Greek god of medicine, welcomed, this Wednesday, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, at the gates of the ruins of Empúries. The daughters of the Kings took a walk through the origin of the territory, now known as Girona, which twenty-seven centuries ago was a commercial hub throughout the Mediterranean thanks to Empúries, the market founded by the Greeks that, after a period under the Roman Empire and being lost in the early Middle Ages, was reborn last century as the most important Greco-Roman archaeological site in the Spanish Mediterranean.
The national deputy secretary of Sectoral Coordination of the PP, Alma Ezcurra, has announced that the party will submit a proposal to reform the Organic Law on Foreigners with the aim of providing legal coverage for immediate returns, known as ‘hot returns,’ of those who try to access Ceuta and Melilla irregularly and by swimming.
The new edition of the employment insertion study of university graduates by the quality agency AQU Catalunya is filled with interesting indicators. The Catalan agency has surveyed almost 26,000 young graduates, who graduated three years ago, about the conditions under which they obtained their first job, job satisfaction, and their contract and salary conditions. And it has compared it with previous editions. Here are some of the conclusions of this study presented this morning by the Minister of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat.
Among the amalgam of festivals and digital centers such as Sónar+D, Mira, Offf, or Ideal, Barcelona is advancing towards becoming the capital of digital art. It is practically already so in Europe, but the ambition is to become a benchmark by crossing even more borders in the medium term. To achieve this latter goal, the Biennal d’Arts Digitals has been launched, with the essential support of public administrations: the City Council and the Generalitat Government, together with the Barcelona Creativity & Design Foundation and the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture. The platform aims to serve as an umbrella for all digital initiatives to, in addition to that primary goal, promote co-production between local and international agents and bring digital arts closer to the public.
Contrary to expectations, the 24-year prison sentence for José Luis Ábalos for corruption offenses when he was Minister of Transport not only harms the PSOE, but seems to boost it, according to the July barometer of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), published this Wednesday, in which the socialists gain almost two points in estimated vote (33%) compared to June and recover an eight-point lead over the PP (25.1%), which loses two points in a month. Vox continues to lose momentum and would now obtain 15.3%, half a point less than in the last survey, and Sumar (6.1%) also loses three tenths.
“Today the last wall of continental Europe falls,” celebrated Pedro Sánchez this Wednesday, after attending in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) the symbolic act of dismantling the Gibraltar fence ten years after Brexit, with the entry into force of the agreement sealed the day before between the European Union and the United Kingdom.