Gabriel Jesus arrived in Barcelona recreating his most characteristic celebration: hands on both sides of the head, with fingers spread. It is a celebration that the Brazilian popularized during his time at Manchester City and has repeated throughout his career.
If Anna Wintour, the all-powerful queen of fashion from the pedestal of Vogue, believed herself invulnerable, she has now discovered that her influence had a limit. Not even she is untouchable.
One of the consequences of the situation that Ceuta has been experiencing since the massive arrival of migrants from Morocco in July is the sexual attacks on young people who arrived in this wave, including nine minors.
The restart of the political course has clearly shown a new deep rift within the coalition Government, adding to the already existing one regarding the response the Government must give to Morocco concerning its responsibility for the massive assault on July 30 and 31. The Minister of Culture and spokesperson for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, staged this midday the direct clash of his party with the socialist wing of the Government over the management of the migration crisis in Ceuta. While the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has flatly ruled out the option of transferring the migrants who remain in the autonomous city to the Peninsula, the junior coalition partner has described this measure as “urgent” and “essential.”
Mallorca has built an average of three swimming pools a day over the last decade, a pace that contrasts with the increasing difficulties some municipalities on the Island face in ensuring water supply during the summer months. Between 2015 and 2024, 10,680 pools were built, according to a study presented by the environmental organization Terraferida, which amounts to 1,166 per year.
The presidents of Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, along with a dozen partners, such as the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, support their Iranian colleague, Masud Pezeshkián, for two days in Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia) amid a military and economic war with the United States. In Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meet this Monday and Tuesday to deepen their regional ties and confront Washington’s influence.
From the apartment or bungalow on the coast to the rural house or glamping in the mountains. The Spanish tourist has made non-hotel accommodations one of their usual ways to spend vacations, and last July they were also the ones who sustained its growth, against the decline of foreign tourists. Specifically, their overnight stays increased by 4.2%, while those of international travelers fell by 2.2%. The sector thus exceeded 22.5 million nights across the country, 0.9% more than a year ago according to provisional INE data for July, in a summer once again marked by rising prices.
The electricity bill for August will be the most expensive in the last four years for consumers whose bill is referenced to the regulated electricity tariff, known as PVPC. According to the analysis carried out by FACUA-Consumers in Action, the electricity bill for the average user with this tariff has reached 96.65 euros in the month ending today, representing an increase of 19.8% compared to the 80.71 euros paid exactly one year ago. And you have to go back to October 2022 to find a higher bill, when it reached 103.34 euros.
La Generalitat has decided to open proceedings against three people – two officials and a senior executive – responsible for organizing and supervising the latest edition of the PISA test, held in the first months of 2025, and due to its poor execution Catalonia has been excluded from the international comparison. The councilor Esther Niubó has also just announced the dismissal of the Secretary General of Education, Teresa Sambola, “to open a new stage.”
Pedro Sánchez has not missed the opportunity to return some of the attacks that the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso has launched at him during this summer and has found in the controversy over the luxury penthouse of the president of the Community of Madrid the most favorable flank to return to political combat. The difficulties of the regional Government to close a controversy that continues to accumulate questions have allowed him to go on the counterattack, accusing Ayuso of having wanted to buy a “big penthouse with the money of the Madrilenians” and that “she has been caught.”
