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Aura or Laura?, do you gain 1,000 aura points or lose them? The phenomenon of the “aura” has crossed screens this 2026 and materializes in hundreds of young people gathering in parks and squares for the so-called “aura farming battles.” For some, these concepts will sound completely strange, and for others, they will be familiar, but behind this whole movement there is much more than some laughs, memes, or judgmental looks. Experts point to a form of generational communication that shows how young people and adolescents build their identity, relate, and respond to the society around them.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, accused of triple murder for killing her children, kept a fixed gaze. The jury that holds her fate in their hands was going to enter the room fully for the first time after three days of deliberations, shortly after starting their fourth day. In the Plymouth (Massachusetts) court, the feeling spread that something important was going to happen in this case that has captured the attention of the United States.

Errors in the execution of the PISA tests could have been corrected in time because there were up to seven warnings from the Ministry of Education. These were ignored by the coordinators of the Consell Superior d’Avaluació, who did not pass them on to the educational centers to correct the high exclusions, nor to the political leaders to redirect the situation. They never reached the desk of the consellera Esther Niubó, according to her own statement, who learned of the problem a year later. By then, the technical and political leaders were no longer working in the Department of Education.

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.”

The Aragonese Pyrenees, the area of the mountain range that concentrates the most peaks over 3,000 meters in altitude, is a faithful thermometer of what happens in the mountains. Captain José Manuel Mora of the Civil Guard, head of the Greim (Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group) in Aragon and Navarre, indicates that between January 1, 2026, and last Wednesday, his area of operation recorded 661 people rescued, of whom 506, 76.5%, required this help “due to an overestimation of their abilities, whether due to lack of technical, physical, or mental capacity.” Mora details that daily they encounter cases of “so-called city hikers who take routes from internet applications, want to do the same, and are not qualified for it.”

The Department of Education and Vocational Training has prepared a series of emergency measures to improve the educational system in the 2026-2027 school year, which will begin on September 8 for 1,604,988 students, a slightly lower number than last year, and 85,052 teachers and professors, 1,103 more than the previous September. The new school year, which will continue to be marked by teacher protests as predicted by the unions, has already received the new budget for the department, 25% more than the previous year.

Two women, two mothers accused of killing their children, and the same fate?

Teachers will continue with the protests they ended last school year with, during which they accumulated 23 days of strike. After the summer break, and to leave no doubt about their determination in their fight to improve the conditions of public education, they have called a strike on September 8, the first day of the school year.

Ceuta aside, this has been a juicy week in two matters of heated debate. The super-luxury penthouse of the Community of Madrid for Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the signing of the lively Erola Jons, supposedly to liven up the Vuelta a España cycling race. Notice that there are…

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