Just walk a few streets up or down to come across the yellow color of the construction fences. The total number of ongoing works in the public space of Barcelona today is 293. Some are larger, others smaller, and they are spread throughout the city.
An effective and minimally invasive surgery, which facilitates the fastest and least painful recovery possible, is the wish of every patient who has to undergo a surgical intervention. Medicine advances every day, and what years ago was faced with more aggressive procedures is now approached in a way that is more respectful to the body. Also in the safest possible way. In the case of abdominal, colorectal, and digestive surgeries, progress has been especially noticeable in recent years. These are interventions that have evolved from classic open surgery to current minimally invasive techniques.
The National Day of Norway has left a bittersweet image this year for the royal family. While the traditional May 17 celebrations were taking place in Oslo, Princess Ingrid Alexandra commemorated the date more than 15,000 kilometers from home, from Australia, where she is currently pursuing her university studies. Her message from Sydney, broadcast by the Norwegian Royal House, quickly became one of the most talked-about moments of the day.
Barcelona has identified for the first time the presence of a new butterfly species, the Provence hairstreak or verdeta d’ull ros in Catalan (Callophrys avis). The finding, which was reported today by the City Council, was made a few weeks ago within the framework of the urban butterfly monitoring program of Barcelona, the uBMS observatory, during a sampling in the Laberint de Horta Park. With this observation, there are now 52 species of diurnal butterflies recorded in Barcelona, a figure that represents approximately 26% of all species present in Catalonia.
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.