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Zapatero's treasure that the PSOE does not want to lose

The socialists want to preserve the political legacy of the former president

The three-way cinema of Bardem, Sorogoyen and Luengo

'The Loved One' will hit theaters at the end of August after passing through Cannes. The director wrote the script with Isabel Peña for them, but did not let them rehearse together

Do you use citronella candles as a mosquito repellent? you're wasting money

For years I thought they were a must for summer dinners. Now, I have discovered that they do not work and that there are much more effective alternatives

Notice to high-end humans: no matter how much they drag me this summer, I'm not going to back away

Arrogant drivers who go 1,000 miles per hour are one of the best embodiments of the spirit of these times.

José María Maravall, sociologist: "We were friends with Felipe González. I don't understand his current political position"

The former Minister of Education of the PSOE of the eighties publishes a book about political intrigues. He says that the discontent of some young people with democracy is not new

To San Andrés de Teixido, along the Camiño Vello

A walking route along the wild Costa Ártabra, in the far north of Spain, looking for the second most visited sanctuary in Galicia, which has stood since ancient times at the foot of the highest cliffs in Europe

Students of the Opus and the Jesuits, McKinsey consultants or state lawyers: these are the clans that run the large Spanish companies

Many of the directors and directors of the Ibex 35 share ties as they come from the same consulting firms, business schools or certain public administration positions. Experts warn of the risks of these power networks due to their endogamous nature

Sofía Balbuena: “In Iowa I realized that those of us who write in Spanish are a zero on the left and that put me in my place”

The writer explores different female life stages in the stories of 'Secondary Character'

Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Byung-Chul Han: how to be a 'rockstar' of ideas

There are authors who jump out of the thoughtful academic seminars and reach the general public, among whom they arouse passions. Why do they have fans and not just readers?

This is how the secret sale of luxury homes works: “The price starts at 1.5 million euros, reaching operations of 12 or 14 million”

'Off market' transactions, executed privately and outside traditional channels, gain weight due to the desire for privacy of large fortunes

How to ensure that the wind also blows in favor of rural municipalities where wind farms are installed

The creation of an association whose purpose is to make the generation of wind energy compatible with the protection of the environment or Vitoria's plans to continue being a world reference for a green city among the positive news of the month

Vall d'Hebron performs the first transplant in Spain among people with HIV

The intervention, a robotic surgery to implant a kidney, comes one year after Health authorized donations among HIV-positive people

Gregorio Casamayor: “I would give anything to understand string theory”

In 'Rafa wants us to have a child', the writer constructs three stories based on the trigger of the phrase that gives the novel its title.

Christopher Anderson, the last man who photographed Epstein: “The first thing I remember is the young woman who opened the door”

In 'Index' the war correspondent and photojournalist reviews 30 years of career that includes everything from territories in conflict to celebrities and powerful people

From the ball to the weights: why the gym is becoming the new playground for teenagers

There are more and more minors who choose to go to the gym to train as a sport, although it may not be the most appropriate space for these ages.

Two large fires advance in France, with 20,000 people evacuated near Bordeaux

The French Government has estimated the area burned since the beginning of the year at around 44,000 hectares, a figure much higher than that of 2025 in the same period.

A new map of the human genome reveals a key dimension to understanding life

Major research shows how the physical organization of DNA controls gene activity and shapes cell identity

Concha Alós, the forgotten novelist who chronicled the middle class during the Franco regime

The writer belongs to the generation of children of the war, and was an anomaly in the Spanish literary system. His novel 'La madama' is recovered without the clumsy cuts of censorship

The Guadalajara fire corners species such as the wolf, the shrew and the Apollo butterfly

Castilla-La Mancha fights to save highly valuable Scots pine groves in the Sierra de Ayllón

Agora, the platform that checks whether nutrition videos on the networks are reliable or hoaxes

The project fights scientific misinformation with the help of almost 300 professionals, who assess the reliability of viral content sent by users

Agustín Gregori, the grandfather who at the age of 73 founded a clothing brand with his grandchildren and his colleagues

A little over a year ago he was recovering from an operation. To leave the house, he began to walk with his grandchildren and his crew. This is how the urban clothing brand Salpi was born, a brand where decisions are made together.

The guide to lettuce: how to buy it, preserve it and choose the appropriate type according to use

Making the vegetable shine is simple if you know how. It is also possible to remove it from salads and take it further

Starmus celebrates ten years of the Stephen Hawking Medal in the Canary Islands

Starmus, the global festival of science, arts, exploration and music, returns to Tenerife and La Palma. Physicist Brian Cox will receive global recognition for his contribution to curiosity, creativity and scientific discovery at the festival. But he won't be the only one. The anthropologist Christiana Figueres will be the first recognized in a new category

Chess videos | Timman's creative boil

In one of his most sophisticated works of art, the immortal Dutchman includes a pawn sacrifice that can be captured in four ways, all of which lose.

The water that makes the population of an entire region grow

The Bezoya plants in Ortigosa del Monte (Segovia) are an example of how innovation, adaptation, sustainability and corporate responsibility manage to retain neighbors from the entire area who want to work and live in the same place

Can you survive summer without air conditioning? I have tried several alternatives for a week to find out which ones are worth it

Fans, a cooling blanket and several homemade tricks: I test the most popular alternatives to beat the heat without air conditioning

Alain de Botton: "The worst thing about being single is that you can't stop thinking about love. It's like when you don't have money: you don't think about anything else"

Swiss based in London and trained as a philosopher in Cambridge, he has sold millions of books writing on topics such as love, painting or architecture, from 'Art as therapy' to 'The architecture of happiness', 'The consolations of philosophy' or 'How to change your life with Proust'. Becoming a therapist, in 2008 he founded The School of Life, a school that through books, videos, courses and therapy helps to investigate self-knowledge.

Andrea Rizzi stars in the first meeting for Friends of EL PAÍS

The newspaper's Global Affairs correspondent chatted with journalist Ana Alonso de Blas in an exclusive meeting that could also be followed in virtual format

Luis de la Fuente: “The best Lamine is yet to arrive; now he is very dangerous for rivals”

The coach, very relaxed before Spain's quarterfinal match against Belgium, believes that the Blaugrana needs to recover his “brilliance” after the injury

At least 12 people die in the Los Gallardos fire, in Almería

Several victims have been found inside burned vehicles. It is “the fire with the greatest consequences to date” in Andalusia

Alcaraz's return is “on the right path”

The Murcian is evolving positively from the wrist injury that kept him off the slopes since April. He will not return to Canada, but he hopes to be able to do so in August

Judge Piña orders to locate “indications of criminality” in Cospedal's conversations with Villarejo

The magistrate asks the Police to investigate the material seized from the commissioner and agrees to request an audio where the politician supposedly states that they “cleaned” Bárcenas “everything he had.”

France takes to the streets to celebrate the victory against Morocco

The police sealed off large French cities due to fear that the altercations of 2022 would be repeated, when both countries crossed paths.

France takes out the roller and the brush against Morocco and is already in the World Cup semi-finals

Mbappé and Dembélé defeat the African team with two great goals and put the Frenchmen in the penultimate round on the way to the title

Boric to Kast: “We have been rivals in ideas, we will continue to be, but we are deeply united by Chile”

The former left-wing president reveals that on the day of the change of command he delivered a letter to the Republican assuring him that he would be available for whatever the Republic requires

The Mossos turn to AI to recreate the face of a woman found dead in the Segre river

The police manage to identify the deceased in parallel to the request for help from citizens

Volkswagen announces a production cut and the elimination of half of its model range

The German automobile group announces that it will focus its offer on the “most attractive” market segments amid its staff's fear of massive layoffs

Roca Rey and David de Miranda, on shoulders with “portable plaza” ears

The president joined the populace atmosphere of a cycle in which the quality of bullfighting is the least important

The Czech shadow extends at Wimbledon: Muchova and Noskova guarantee another champion

The first beats Gauff in a very exciting outcome (6-2, 1-6 and 7-6 (10-8) and the second beats Kostyuk (double 6-4). They secure the fifth title for their country in 15 years

Florida officially renames Palm Beach airport after Trump

The airfield, a public facility, was renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport. It is the first commercial airport in the US named in honor of a sitting president

The president of the bishops blames the lack of ethics for the State becoming “a gang of thieves”: “I refer to the facts”

Minister Félix Bolaños replies in a letter to Luis Argüello: “What would you think if a member of the Government described the Church as a ‘gang of sexual offenders’?”

South Africa's anti-immigration groups go from ultimatums to door-to-door threats

This Thursday's protests barely bring together hundreds of people, but they leave a new strategy: go through humble neighborhoods to point out immigrant homes and demand that they leave the country

Santander refuses to grant early retirement from the age of 50 as requested by the unions

The parties, far from an agreement, are scheduled for a new meeting on Monday, July 13

The Eurogroup cools the Spanish proposal for a permanent Eurobond issuance mechanism

The Finance Ministers commit to studying the approach in a technical field, but the Netherlands and Finland reiterate their rejection of the instrument

The partner of the murdered woman was arrested along with her daughter in Mijas on Wednesday

The bodies of both, aged 61 and 31, were found in their residence by firefighters, alerted by a fire.

The Labor Party opens a primary process aimed at 'crowning' Andy Burnham as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The last of the former mayor's potential rivals, Al Carns, throws in the towel. Burnham criticizes Starmer's initial response on Israeli offensive in Gaza

The Supreme Court opens a door to the definitive departure from Mexico of works by Frida Kahlo

The full court reviews whether the 1984 decree, which imposes the restrictions, undermines the rights of the owners. A tension embodied by the controversy over the Gelman Collection and its departure to Spain after the transfer to Banco Santander

The Government aspires to protect dependency with the reform of the law that commits it to cover 50% of the system's expenses

Congress has approved the opinion and it will be voted on in plenary next Tuesday, along with a financing decree of 6.2 billion euros

Rufián and Junqueras clash over the assessment of ERC's electoral expectations

The Congress spokesperson emphasizes the rise of Aliança Catalana that the Catalan CIS foresees and sees “childhood triumphalism” in the positive reading promoted by the management

Arancha González Laya, appointed president of World In Progress

The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation will chair the international forum promoted by the PRISA Group, whose third edition will be held on November 2 and 3 in Barcelona