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society

Barcelona to ban bicycles from pavements on Jan 1

From January 1, bicycles will not be allowed to circulate on pavements between 3 and 4.75 metres in width. The measure comes after an expansion and renovation of the city’s cycle lanes, which now make...

society

Sixth Grossa lottery aims for consolidation

The sixth edition of the Grossa end of year lottery draw takes place tomorrow with a higher top prize of €200,000 for a 10-euro ticket. The reason is to definitely establish the Catalan government run...

Robots created with 3D printed muscle tissue

A research group from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) working on smart nanobiodevices has created hybrid robots that combine synthetic material with muscle tissue created by 3D bioprinting....

The past year in numbers

SPAIN

Sánchez warns Vox, Ciudadanos and the PP

In the final Council of Ministers of the Spanish government for the year, President Pedro Sanchez warned the three constituent right wing parties who recently formed a government in Andalusia, that that...

CULTURE

Moncho, the Catalan king of Bolero, dies, 78

Ramon Calabuch Bastida, known as “Moncho”, Catalonia’s most famous Bolero performer, has died, aged 78, in Mataró. He dedicated his life to the musical genre, only retiring when doctors told him...

EUROPE

Open Arms docks in Spain with 311 refugees from

The Open Arms arrived in Spain yesterday, at the Bay of Algeciras (Cadiz), with 311 refugees aboard, from nineteen countries, rescued a week ago in the Mediterranean. They have been interned at the temporary...

Trump threatens to close US border

POINT MADE

Citizens and their discontents

Macri’s 2015 victory in Argentina marked the beginning of a Latin American slide to the right. The triumph of the ultra-rightwing Bolsonaro in Brazil has completed the flip of a region which was a leftist...

1-O judicial anomaly: cases across 4 courts

The Supreme Court (SC) upheld its decision to keep hold of the 1-O trial, despite demands from defence teams to hold the trial in Barcelona. However, unpredictably, the court declined to try the six former...