The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported this Thursday that it found evidence of a bird strike before the tourist helicopter carrying a Catalan family (a couple and their three children) crashed into the Hudson River in New York City in April 2025, causing the death of all six people on board (the family and the aircraft pilot).
The pediatrician at a CAP in Barcelona who attended to the 6-week-old baby whose parents are being investigated as alleged perpetrators of serious injuries and assault with penetration assures that the little one did not have serious injuries on March 13, three days before being admitted to the ICU at Vall d’Hebron and the protocols for abuse were activated, judicial sources explained to Europa Press.
After two years of intense national debate, the deeply divided French National Assembly approved this Wednesday, by 291 votes in favor and 241 against, the bill on “the right to assistance in dying.” The decriminalization, under strict conditions and protocols, of assisted suicide and euthanasia – words that the legislative text avoids naming – has had the support of President Emmanuel Macron, who has urged the Government to accelerate the process.
The New York auction house Sotheby’s has witnessed the most expensive purchase ever recorded for a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The fossil “Gus” was sold for a value of 50.1 million euros, the highest ever offered for a dinosaur to date. The T-Rex was already the most valued dinosaur before the bidding started, with an approximate value between 20 and 30 million euros. After just ten minutes, an anonymous buyer ended up acquiring the dinosaur and broke the world record.
The new edition of the employment insertion study of university graduates by the quality agency AQU Catalunya is filled with interesting indicators. The Catalan agency has surveyed almost 26,000 young graduates, who graduated three years ago, about the conditions under which they obtained their first job, job satisfaction, and their contract and salary conditions. And it has compared it with previous editions. Here are some of the conclusions of this study presented this morning by the Minister of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat.
Last Friday, extraordinary news broke: Apple announced that it had filed a 41-page lawsuit in a San Jose (California) District Court against OpenAI for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract, and requested a jury trial. The reason for the lawsuit is that Sam Altman’s company hired 400 Apple employees whom it allegedly asked to take confidential information and prototype materials, which, if proven in court, would constitute an industrial property theft of enormous magnitude. The question everyone asked from the very beginning is: what could one of the leading AI companies have stolen from one that has proven to be behind precisely in this area? The answer would be that OpenAI took from Apple Park what it did not have: talent to build devices of the highest quality.
An outbreak of the parasite Cyclospora, whose most common symptom is very severe or “explosive” diarrhea, has already caused nearly 5,000 cases in the United States. For the moment, it is unknown which foods may have caused this outbreak, although authorities are investigating the relationship of the Taco Bell franchise with it.
The Princesa de Girona awards go to young people and are enjoyed in the process by those over 40, numerous in the Liceu, because they know better than anyone that talent requires perseverance and a country, youth with drive. “You are never fully formed,” warned singer Luz Casal,…
In a world that seems dominated by so-called influencers and artificial intelligence, Leonor has claimed the value of the “natural intelligents.” The princess, in the speech at the Princesa de Girona awards ceremony held at the Liceu, confessed that her favorite influencers, the people who inspire and influence her “are not characters considered successful or famous or glamorous, nor do they have the official label of aspirational nor measure their worth by certain achievements they post on their networks,” but rather those who “fall in love with problems with the intention of solving them; who tell something important with talent and accompany their craziness with rigor, discipline, and critical thinking.”
A volunteer firefighter is detained after confessing to having caused one of the fires in the large blaze that has already burned more than 2,000 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest, about 60 kilometers south of Paris, a natural gem with a large number of visitors throughout the year.