The traditional saying blesses the goodness of everything that comes “like May rain,” but it does not clarify what happens when the water arrives in the form of snow. And that is what has happened in the Vall d’Aran, which this advanced spring Friday has woken up under a white blanket.
Maldivian authorities carried out a high-risk search on Friday to recover the bodies of four Italian divers who died in a diving accident in a deep underwater cave the previous day. The body of a fifth diver was recovered on Thursday, according to local authorities.
The league has ended. Well, almost. With Barça crowned champions at home against a directionless Real Madrid, the victorious footballers have not only celebrated it in style with the parade that paralyzed Barcelona. It is spring, the work is done, and youth is brimming with oxytocin, that love hormone that seems to have once again revolutionized Lamine Yamal. And just like the gossip press, as well as the sports press, feeds on rumors, everything indicates that the Barça star has fallen in love again. This time, with the Sevillian influencer Inés García. But unlike what happened with the forward’s other summer love with Nicki Nicole, he would have preferred to keep this new relationship secret.
The cruise ship Ambition, affected by an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by a norovirus, will dock this Saturday at the port of A Coruña with thirty active cases on board, according to Port sources. Afterwards, it will depart for Gijón.
The last few weeks have been very eventful within Real Madrid. After the fight between Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouameni and the tense situation inside the Real Madrid locker room, this Thursday the Madrid fans had Kylian Mbappé as a target to direct their criticism towards.
Jordi Martí has presided over the Junts municipal group in Barcelona since Xavier Trias left the City Council in July 2024. Even then, discussions began about the candidate for the 2027 municipal elections. The former CiU mayor backed his protégé within the neoconvergent ranks, who so far is the only one to have publicly expressed his desire to lead the list, along with other names linked to the party, such as Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas or Jaume Giró. The party leadership, however, leans in favor of Josep Rius, also a councilor in the Catalan capital, as well as a deputy and vice president of Junts. From Waterloo, they perhaps thought they could convince Martí to give up. Let’s see.
The Court of Auditors has ordered the former director of the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (OAC), Daniel de Alfonso, to pay 142,484.47 euros unduly collected as seniority bonuses. The institution has partially upheld an appeal filed by the OAC itself and the Prosecutor’s Office against a ruling issued on October 31, which required De Alfonso to return 82,341.27 euros. The two appellants initially claimed 205,000 euros.
After a two-day summit with Xi Jinping, Donald Trump has not yet decided whether to approve the sale of US weapons to Taipei worth 14 billion dollars. The Chinese leader warned him that Taiwan was a red line. That a mismanagement of the island issue could put both countries in “an extremely dangerous situation.”
The latest controversy of MasterChef has opened a wound in RTVE as sharp as Macbeth’s dagger. Uncomfortable, deep, and too visible to pretend it does not exist. A crack that exposes the ethical and reputational wear of a public television whose level of demand and exemplary behavior should be far above that of private channels.
The business sectors that pay their workers less than 27,500 euros per year, such as tourism, the meat industries, or home delivery services, “have impoverished” the whole Catalan society. This provocative idea is one of those that arise from the Fènix Report prepared by a group of seven Catalan economists who try to elucidate the reasons and consequences of low productivity.