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The Government simplifies incentives for hiring researchers and scientists in companies

Labor and Social Security launch the operational framework for companies to apply bonuses in the quotas of personnel linked to R&D&i

Foreigners accelerated the purchase of houses worth more than half a million euros in the last months of the 'golden visa' life

Non-EU citizens triggered operations during the first quarter of 2025, which fell sharply after golden visas disappeared

The cut in funds for the cooperation of European countries could cause more than 11.5 million avoidable deaths until 2030

An investigation analyzes the domino effect of the closure of USAID, which has translated into a major blow to development aid in Europe. Germany, the United Kingdom and France, the three major donors, have cut their budgets prioritizing military spending

The dancing and the chat are over, everyone goes home: the countdown begins for 1,554 grandparents due to the closure of a Madrid senior center

The Montemadrid Foundation will close the Conde de Elda space on June 1 without offering any alternative to users after 47 years of activity

Happiness, relief and broken hearts after the first triumph of homeless residents due to Metro line 7B: “Lives have been sunk”

After the improvement in compensation decided in the courts, those affected remember the deceased and the neighbors who still have cracks in their homes

Peter Liljedahl, the mathematician who wants students to stand up: “Thinking improves without furniture in the classroom”

The creator of the 'Thinking Classrooms' method visits schools around the world. He argues that more thinking can be encouraged in the classroom with vertical whiteboards, random groups and open problems.

The president of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry: “Companies ask us what to do with mental health leave”

Work disabilities related to mental illness increase by 80% in a decade. Psychological ailments caused directly by work increase by almost 500%

The foreign voice

Cinematographic dubbing protects from the strange, and shows that we cannot translate without loss, without error, without friction

Instructions to change the world

Everything is repeated in history, politics and morality, the forms are modified daily, but the substance is always the same

Science at night

The creative mind is not based on the mere application of a method, but rather arises from lost steps and the dark side of existence.

Flavita Banana: public bathroom

Vignette from May 23, 2026

lecture me

That we are tired of sacred oratory is not new, but it is better than the political preaching of something we do not believe in

Dear PSOE, thank you for promoting the right

The game seems to be sailing on a rotten ship where the water only seeks to claim the big piece: the self-absorbed captain

Sergio Ramírez, RAE academic

With the election of the Cervantes Prize, the Academy incorporates a voice that has paid with exile for its defense of freedom

Is the embedder the 'sex symbol' of the 21st century?

For many women, the erotic model of masculinity is limited to a dominant and direct attitude, with little time for seduction or foreplay. Is it a return to traditional gender roles, a tendency towards male objectification or misunderstood passion?

Bruce Dern, living legend of cinema at 90 years old: "I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence. Hollywood will not disappear"

The American actor presents a documentary in Cannes that reviews his seven decades in front of the camera, from Hitchcock to Tarantino, and a way of acting guided by instinct

Chronicles of the young people whose adolescence was stolen by covid: “Send balls that the only time life smiles at me a pandemic arrives!”

Five years ago, with the end of confinement, a cohort of young people who had become adults in the limbo of their room took to the streets. Now, they become aware of all that

Paco Roca's new comic breaks down how a romantic relationship breaks down

In 'The Journey', the artist mixes his own separation, similar stories from his surroundings and fictional elements for a complex reflection on love and its point of no return.

Barcelona - OL Lyonnes: Oslo celebrates the clash of the two giants in the Champions League final

Barça, the current European reference, faces Lyon, the historical dominator of the tournament, for the fourth time for the continental title in a match between two antagonistic club models

'Here Tamén Se Fala', the teenage phenomenon that makes Viggo Mortensen speak Galician and amends the name of Dépor

The students of the IES Rafael Dieste in A Coruña, with a majority of immigrants, accumulate awards with a viral project to support the Galician language and culture

Don Tomás, the self-made businessman who buys the historic headquarters of Telefónica

Tomás Olivo is one of the richest people in Spain thanks to his shopping center company and has experienced several judicial controversies

Justice lets a minor hitman escape accused of a crime on the Costa del Sol in 2024

The accused was handed over by Belgium, but he served the maximum period of detention without being tried in Spain

The 2 for 1 'pack' is already offered in 18 private universities: higher vocational training degree + degree in less time

These paying campuses validate more subjects than public ones, which certify with more suspicion subjects that their teachers have not taught.

How much do households pay for energy in Spain? The first street-to-street map

A pioneering atlas of energy poverty identifies the most vulnerable neighborhoods when it comes to facing electricity and air conditioning bills

The dejected left

The heavy backpack of global causes that some citizens carry does not find an echo in daily politics and hopelessness takes its toll on the electoral results

Smell of weakness in the Kremlin

Putin is not about to fall, but serious setbacks are piling up. Europe must take advantage of them and prepare for a negotiation that may begin to be possible

The burial of progressivism

There is not much more to expand on in terms of representation, equality or sexual freedoms and identities. And now what will the left do?

Two portraits of humanists

It is comforting in this increasingly difficult world to sit and talk with friends who combine knowledge and wisdom without conflict.

Joan Collins, the star who continues to dazzle at 93 years old after eight decades of career, five marriages and zero concealments

The last job of the villain from 'Dynasty' was playing Wallis Simpson during her last years of decline for 'The Duchess', a film she presented at Cannes. The actress, on the other hand, personifies the opposite: a happy and fit woman, despite a life full of setbacks.

Spanish cinema reaches the final stretch of Cannes with aspirations of winning awards

The phenomenon of 'The Black Ball' encourages expectations of awards for which the actor Javier Bardem is in the running for his work in 'The Loved One', or a possible recognition for Almodóvar

Silvia Arenas, model: "When I was 15 they told me to have a nose job. Well no. This nose is me, my story, my family's nose"

At 34, with a totally different life and profession, Silvia Arenas received a call from several big brands. Now she is the Spanish model with the most presence on the Paris catwalks. Her friend and colleague Laura Ponte talks with her about this vital change

Booksellers' favorite books: 66 essential titles for the Madrid Fair 2026

With just a few days left until the books arrive at the Retiro Park booths, 16 literary bookstores throughout Spain recommend new releases and reissues: from narrative in Spanish and other languages ​​to essays on history or economics, from poetry or comics to biography, among other genres.

The 'Plus Ultra case' uncovers an operation of false invoices: “We can agree on the concepts”

Zapatero's indictment includes messages from those involved with instructions to prepare supposedly fraudulent commercial documents

Tennis players keep an eye on the big tournaments: “They don't listen to us, they just use us”

Players from both circuits protest by limiting their presence before the media, and insist on demanding a greater percentage of the total profits and more dialogue

Russians withdraw cash en masse due to internet blockages and transfer controls

Problems in online payments and ATMs have pushed citizens to withdraw record amounts of money in the last three months

The unexpected preserves of a fermentation wizard: from ñora ketchup to pickled cheese

Robert Ruiz publishes 'Conserve', a guide to extending the life of food through physical and chemical methods that is also a full-fledged cultural demand

Begoña Román, philosopher: “We adults have not apologized for leaving young people a deforested, consumerist and stressful world”

The Alicante ethics specialist explains that we must rebuild an environment that strengthens social and material ties, such as housing and work.

The desperation of the Cubans, between the suffocation of Trump and that of the regime: “How are you going to resist if you have nothing?”

The Cuban Government is castled in the face of the overwhelming offensive on all fronts by the United States and appears increasingly disconnected from the citizens

Kill your father for money

The judge has pointed out “obsession with money” as a possible motive for the crime of the owner Mango. That is, thinking too much about wealth can lead you to kill

Pizza from E.T. made with mortadella? These are the creations of Asier Sanz that appear in 'Pizza Movies'

Inspired by iconic scenes and characters from cinema, the works of this graphic comedian and collage artist have become the sensation of the film starring Judit Martín and Berto Romero

The Torres brothers open a bar at popular prices in the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona

The large central bar dominates a 440-meter space with a terrace that can seat 160 diners.

Florentino Pérez's Real Madrid, more than a club: a mandate to protect corporate reform

Prepare a key referendum in order to legitimize an eventual segregation of assets that will be integrated into the new company open to investors

The United States will require Green Card applicants to remain outside the country during the process

The Citizenship and Immigration Service will tighten measures for permanent residence applications

Musk launches his third-generation Starship, the rocket that the US needs to set foot on the Moon again

SpaceX has renovated its rocket and made it even more powerful, but several of its engines failed during its 12th test flight and it still needs many improvements so that NASA can use it on the next Artemis missions.

García Montero, on the Spanish language congress: “Spain abandoned all the imperialism of the Franco era”

The director of the Cervantes Institute and the Minister of Education of Panama sign an agreement that confirms the Central American country as organizer of the XI International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE) in 2028

'Macondo York', the look of a García Márquez overwhelmed by the Big Apple

The designer Iván Onatra rescues in a graphic book the turbulent six months that the Colombian writer lived in New York, through a typographic and visual journey through the New York asphalt and quotes from the Nobel Prize in Literature

Police clash in La Paz with protesters trying to block access to the airport

The city that is the headquarters of the Government of Bolivia has been holding protests against President Rodrigo Paz for days, which have generated supply problems due to road cuts.

Mexico and the European Union seal their alliance with an ambitious agreement amid Trump's protectionist measures

Modernized Global Agreement promises tariff-free trade and close collaboration on key policy, security, human rights and environmental issues

Bad Bunny sets Barcelona on fire with a huge shared identity party

The Puerto Rican inaugurates his Spanish tour with a varied concert, as romantic as it is rhythmic, that explains the reasons for his global validity

Lamine Yamal, Marc Giró and several Barça players visit Bad Bunny's house at the first concert in Barcelona

Bad Gyal has been the surprise guest artist with the songs 'Yo perreo sola' and 'Dame'