The mother investigated along with her partner for alleged serious injuries and sexual assault with penetration to her six-week-old baby in Barcelona has assured the judge today that she never saw any signs of ill-treatment from her partner towards the little one and has reaffirmed her innocence: “If I had seen it, I would have reported it,” according to judicial sources.
It was a forced water landing 74 years ago. An accident that changed the way air safety was understood and whose mechanical protagonist has finally been found this week near Puerto Rico. The plane, a Douglas DC-4 from Pan Am, a mythical American company that even then covered every imaginable route. Pan Am was a symbol of a modern world and a planet that was getting smaller. Initially called Pan American World Airways, it was the epitome of air glamour in its time, and also the involuntary reason why cabin safety on all commercial aircraft radically changed since that plane’s accident.
The judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno has opened oral proceedings against two executives and the captain of the Pitanxo ship for 21 negligent homicides and imposes a bail of 44 million euros.
Night heat causes more deaths in Barcelona than high daytime temperatures in the current context of climate change, according to two studies, which advocate for the incorporation of minimum values into public heat alert systems and the prioritization of housing cooling needs to preserve rest.
The story of Curra, who is 94 years old today, is that of many other women in the 1950s. Young girls who became pregnant by a man who disappeared and were forced to disguise their situation for fear of what people would say. It happened to Curra with Benito 73 years ago, when she became pregnant. Curra’s parents hid her throughout the pregnancy and concealed the real kinship, making Benito, in everyone’s eyes, the son of her grandparents and Curra’s brother. Now, 73 years later, they have been able to register in the Civil Registry of Tarifa (Cádiz) as what they really are: mother and son.
Health has become one of the main factors that determine what we eat and what products we choose when we are in front of the shelf. According to a NIQ study on eating habits and trends in Spain, 68% of Spaniards claim to be proactive in improving their well-being, actively seeking products that provide specific health benefits.
Desolation permeates the Sierra Norte Natural Park, in Guadalajara, which since last Friday (six days!) has been devoured by flames. More than 32,000 hectares have burned (these are estimates; until it is extinguished, the burned area cannot be reliably verified, forest agents clarify), a good part of one of Spain’s most beautiful and unknown natural spaces, mainly due to its proximity to Madrid, which always turns nearby regions into transit areas.
The Community of Madrid activated this Wednesday Operational Situation 2 of the Forest Fire Plan due to the forest fire in Almorox (Toledo), which has forced the evacuation of the El Encinar del Alberche urbanization in the Madrid municipality of Villa Del Prado, where the population has been confined.
The Archbishopric of Barcelona has intervened in three foundations linked to the Church, where it has the capacity to appoint trustees, after detecting several irregularities in the administrative area. These are the Valldejuli Foundation, the Sant Josep Oriol Foundation, and the Mare de Déu dels Desemparats Foundation. In the first case, there has been a depatrimonialization, while in the other two, simply poor management.
The administrative contentious court number 14 annuls the decision of the rector of the University of Barcelona (UB) to suspend a Sociology professor from employment, involved in the alleged abuses of professor Ramón Flecha, and obliges the institution to reinstate “the full exercise of her teaching, research and management functions from which she was provisionally suspended.”