Intense heat returns to the Peninsula (if it ever left this summer). The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has warned that Spain begins today its third heat wave which will likely last until Thursday, the 23rd.
This week we have learned the number of victims in traffic accidents that occurred during the summer. We sometimes read the death toll very quickly, but each number is a person who no longer lives. And behind every bouquet of flowers held to a traffic sign there is…
Every nationalism is based on symbols, liturgies, and acts. And there is nothing that resembles a nationalist more than another. That is why competing to dominate urban space is key. Not for the places themselves, but for what they represent. Even if they are only important within the…
It’s not every day you get to speak with someone who has privileged knowledge of their subject and knows much more than they say, which is already quite a lot. A Vatican correspondent for many years, he knows like no one else the complexity of the Church and the power struggles hidden within it. He is very aware that he is facing a reality for which simplistic analyses are not valid.
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 northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which goes to the polls this Sunday to renew its regional Parliament, an electoral battle is being fought that resonates throughout Germany following the recent overwhelming victory of the far right in another eastern federal state, Saxony-Anhalt.
Donald Trump needed only a phone interview to shatter any illusion of détente with the Vatican. The president, in an interview on the ultraconservative Salem News Channel, once again attacked Pope Leo XIV: “I think he is endangering many Catholics and many people; for him, it is fine that Iran has a nuclear weapon.”
Microsoft has presented its new quantum chip, Majorana 2, which is 1,000 times more reliable than its first version, presented in February 2025. The company has announced that the material architecture of this chip multiplies the reliability of its qubits, the minimum unit of information in a quantum computer, by 1,000. The qubits of Majorana 2 have an average lifetime of 20 seconds and peaks reaching one minute compared to the microseconds of conventional quantum chips. After the chip presentation, the company sets its goal to build a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving the initial target timeline.
The preview of the World Cup semifinal between Spain and France has been surrounded by the last two precedents that favor the Spanish, with special prominence of Lamine Yamal against Kylian Mbappé, but the history of the encounters between La Roja and the Bleus goes much further back with more encouraging chapters for the French.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso has turned her institutional trip to Mexico, to “intensify” relations with what is the second largest investing country in the region, into a new episode of the cultural battle that she has been fighting in Spain for years around Hispanidad, which has earned her quite a few criticisms in the North American country. Even from the president, Claudia Shienbaum, who has warned that those who seek to vindicate Hernán Cortés and his atrocities are destined for defeat.
