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The study commissioned by the Catalan government rules out that the African swine fever outbreak originated at IRTA: "It's a strain that has never been found before."

Diana Silva

Did Feijóo lie about the DANA storm?

Roger Palós

Barometer: Aliança Catalana, fourth force in Barcelona, ahead of Junts

Gerard Pruna

The problem hidden by Silvia Orriols' hyper-leadership

Víctor Sanz Guerrero

The municipality in Catalonia where housing is cheapest

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Israel expels Doctors Without Borders and 36 other NGOs from Gaza

Cristina Mas

Two Catalan tourists died and two were injured in a traffic accident in Saudi Arabia

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25 personalities who have left us this year

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Vilarrubí: Civil society bids farewell to a "man of principles"

Agustí Sala

Authorities are investigating whether the fire at the iconic Cala Estreta barracks was arson.

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"The Sijena murals will be moved at all costs. And if any damage occurs, that's what the restorers are for."

Antoni Ribas Tur

Bad vibes and little cinema: the adaptation of the viral bestseller of the moment

Manu Yáñez

Joan Laporta's change of habits

Martí Molina

Periodisme lliure i compromès

30/12/25

The nameless ones who continue to die trying to reach Europe

Weather

Cloudy skies along the coast and fog inland make for a very calm end to the year

Sun, fog and dark clouds on the central coast

INTERACTIVE

Are you well-informed? Play the 2025 current affairs trivia game

What needs to happen for Ter Stegen to end up at Girona?

Jordi Bofill

The Catalan man who has become a hero in Finland

Gorka Urresola

Netflix's huge hit show bids farewell amid controversy

Alejandra Palés

From Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau to Laura Escanes and Joan Verdú: the most surprising new couples of the year

Alejandra Palés

George Clooney and his wife, Amal, obtain French citizenship

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The 30 best books of 2025

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The 20 best films

Xavi Serra

The 20 best exhibitions

Antoni Ribas Tur

The 20 best albums

Xavier Cervantes

Performing Arts

The 10 best shows

Núria Juanico Llumà , Laura Serra and Santi Fondevila

Inflation ends the year with a slight moderation compared to 2024

Leandre Ibar Penaba

Guide to the new prices: everything that will go up in 2026

Cristina Martín Valbuena and Núria Rius

The clash between Barcelona City Council and the Restaurant Guild leaves the terraces of Enric Granados in limbo

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"The Generalitat gets its act together with the B9 when it realizes that Albiol is making it big"

Marta Rodríguez Carrera

Balearic Islands: the busiest migration route and the one with the most shipwrecks to reach Spain

G.G.G.

The Sagrada Família is offering half-price tickets to Barcelona residents for a year.

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Barcelona will rethink access routes to the city

Gerard Pruna

The PSOE audit rules out illegal financing, but finds "surprising" expenses by Ábalos

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Political parties

Joan Tardà asks ERC for a joint candidacy with CUP and Comuns

Martina Alcobendas

The Middle East

Bazaars closed amid wave of protests over runaway prices in Iran

Ara

Imagine you can fly: virtual reality glasses to heal the trauma of children in Gaza

Kariman Mashharawi

The Spanish government is demanding that seven platforms withdraw their tourism offerings in occupied Palestinian territories.

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The Spanish government uses the exception to the arms embargo on Israel and authorizes a transfer of them

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25 years since the Balandrau tragedy: "I thought my eyes would freeze"

Arnau Segura

Stop machines

Àlex Gutiérrez

The dead man says to the slaughter: "Who made that hole in you?"

SPECIAL

The great journey through gastronomic Catalonia

Premium Club

The last private guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, the one for the ARA Premium Club

Premium Club

The Prize Club visits the futuristic columned hall hidden inside the Susqueda dam

Language games

Try ARA, the best games and pastimes site in Catalan

Reader's Advocate

Christmas Chronicle

Before now

Deadly attack against General Prim (1870)

Barcelona's little-known castle that was built without permission

What are the grapes hiding?

25 years of speculation that have made it impossible to own a home in the Balearic Islands

Marcos Torío

The restoration of memory, in the heart of December

An unexpected journey

Catalan sounds to be received in Barcelona in 2026

Xavier Cervantes

A New Year's Eve concert in Vienna with "joy" and a sense of renewal

Xavier Cervantes

'Honesty', a magnificent professional psychodrama revolving around nudity

Santi Fondevila

The New Year's Eve countdown is almost here: who will we be ringing in on TV in 2026?

Alejandra Palés

Goodbye to Cecilia Giménez, the woman who 'restored' the 'Ecce Homo' of the Borja sanctuary

Alejandra Palés

TV3 secures sixteen consecutive years of leadership while La2 Cat begins to climb

Àlex Gutiérrez

Football - Spanish Super Cup

Iñaki Williams, on the Super Cup: "It's rubbish"

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The composite sketch of the signing Flick is requesting in January

Xavi Hernández Navarro

The ghost that threatens Barça's return to Montjuïc

Martí Molina

Scientists discover the anomaly that makes Mount Everest grow taller than the other 8,000 peaks.

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Why is cancer on the rise?

Salvador Macip

19

Content in catalan

The science behind Kilian Jornet's feats

Hèctor Garcia Morales

The four traps you should avoid when buying an apartment

Albert Rigol Baulenas

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Boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?

The Economist

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Magazines

The self-taught winemaker who has just put her first two wines on sale

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Siscu Martí, inside the Vila Viniteca store, located on Agullers street in Barcelona

Entrevista Siscu Martí:

"Why can't I produce a sparkling wine that falls under the Cava DO in Esparreguera, but they can in La Rioja or Extremadura?"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Alcohol-free wine.

Are you also toasting to the New Year with 0.0?

Jordi Bes Lozano

A bottle of One-Off.

A very funky wine!

Empar Moliner

Gamba Lagosti Web Opening

Don't let them pass off prawns as shrimp.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez and Eduard Forroll

Enric González, during the conversation held in Barcelona, stated that Spain is now a "sweet deal" for a journalist.

Enric González: "Before, in newsrooms, if you drank water, you hid it."

Elena García Dalmau

Parents with ASD: "Unexpected events and changes in a child's routine throw me off much more"

Esther Escolán

The invisible violence

The invisible violence

Jana Gornet (pseudònim)

Dani Gómez

Entrevista Dani Gómez:

"Inventing a game is easy, making it work is the hard part."

Francesc Orteu

A sick child

When should a child take antibiotics and when is it not necessary?

Esther Escolán

Carme Riera as a child

Writer Carme Riera: "It was very difficult for me to learn to read"

Bea Cabezas

Illustration of a pregnant woman in a polluted city

Fleeing Barcelona when you get pregnant

Judit Monclús

Who was the Valencian Verdaguer, and why is it worth reading him now?

Jordi Nopca

An image of the Paseo de Colón, in 1929

Prudencio Bertrana, great chronicler of pre-war Barcelona

Joaquim Armengol

Asparagus and cigarettes in the rationing queue in Madrid around 1940

"Between 1939 and 1943, 200,000 people died of hunger in Spain, and it was a political decision."

Sílvia Marimon

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman in the documentary 'Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse'

The best comic book in history finally has a documentary

Joan Pons

A still from 'Manina, the daughter without veils', featuring the iconic bikini

Brigitte Bardot: Liberation or body at the service of patriarchy?

Sílvia Rosés

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot, sex icon of cinema, dies

Xavi Serra and Sílvia Marimon

Where do I go if I have a vintage party and I don't know what to wear?

Toni Vall

The Caixa Bank towers in Barcelona.

CaixaBank restructures its management committee

Carlota Serra

Indra's headquarters

Indra and the controversial defense boom in Spain

Núria Rius

The CEO of Axel Hotels, Albert Olivé.

Axel Hotels steps on the gas to reach major European capitals

Cristina Martín Valbuena

The 3Cat Marathon

Solidarity against confrontation

Oriol Aspachs

The lawyer Carla Vall

Carla Vall: "Three men broke into my home to steal a pen drive."

Júlia Riera

Kate Hudson i Hugh Jackman:

"There's a constant struggle in Hollywood."

Marc Tió

The new and incomprehensible trend of walking an invisible dog

Mònica Planas Callol

Laia Bové

"In Catalonia, she was always the only racialized skater."

Alejandra Palés

Reform schools under Franco: "They threatened to shave our heads if we didn't follow the rules"

Reform schools under Franco: "My crime was smoking and wearing a miniskirt"

Mònica Bernabé

Jungle Fever (1)

Jungle Fever (1)

Marc Brocal

Yukio Mishima photographed at his home in 1970

Yukio Mishima, the literary genius who committed harakiri

Guillem Pujol

The V-16 Help Flash beacon

The DGT withdraws the homologation of four V-16 beacons and generates more doubts among drivers

Ferran Vital

Car sales

What car will you be able to buy from 2035 onwards?

Ferran Vital

Abarth 600

The electric Abarths just haven't taken off yet.

Ferran Vital

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, at the beginning of his appearance to take stock of 2025

Feijóo assumes subordination to Vox despite Sánchez's “total collapse”

The new commuter rail service in Catalonia will start with a budget of 1.6 million euros.

The judge asks Feijóo for all the messages he sent to Mazón regarding the DANA storm.

A US plane at Rafael Hernandez Airport in Puerto Rico, amid tensions in the Caribbean Sea.

Trump says the United States has attacked "major facilities" in Venezuela

"Israel has complied 100%": Trump closes ranks with Netanyahu and pressures Hamas to disarm

A guide to understanding the world in 2026: the 10 issues that will shape the agenda

The Three Kings Parade last January.

The three bridges in the center of Lleida were affected for five hours by the Three Kings parade.

Three skiers die in an avalanche in the Pyrenees of Huesca

Why are there now more cases of the human papillomavirus in men over 45 years of age?

Passengers in front of a Eurostar train at the Gare du Nord in Paris on Tuesday.

Eurostar suspends all services due to an electrical problem in the Channel Tunnel

90% of phones used in calls on behalf of Endesa are suspected of fraud

Isla attends the wake for Carles Vilarrubí

Presentation of the Gaudí Year at the Palau Güell.

Gaudí Year: everything you still don't know about the genius

Hat Rabbits and Other Sleight of Hand by Pol Estrada

The most passionate mass phenomenon in Catalonia (and it's not football)

Florentino Pérez, in the Bernabeu box.

The great leader who puts Real Madrid up for sale

Clàudia Peña: "She was a 10-year-old girl and she wanted to play against giant men."

Vicky López, the phenomenon that Barça recruited thanks to a holiday in Benidorm

'Holding Liat'

The long-awaited return of Liat

One coffee a day separates you from being a big fork

The 9+1 most famous media pranks

Voluntary celibacy

Voluntary celibacy: "Taking sex and relationships out of the center of your life is liberating"

What can you do this weekend? Christmas and Three Kings Day markets

Antoni Bolinches: "Men are afraid of sexual women"

Celebrity magazines

What does the gossip press have in store for us in 2026?

Lamine Yamal makes his YouTube debut, shows off his house, and confesses: "That's why I can't have a girlfriend."

The most talked-about breakups of 2025

Science and Technology

Yellow crispy ridged potato chips close up. Food background, banner, header, wallpaper.

Ultra-processed foods, as addictive as they are dangerous: "They make people sick"

"We need to legislate so that everyone can access fresh produce."

The recipe for a masterpiece: panettone according to science