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Adolescent “La Manada”

POINT MADE

China competes in space, too

China took its place as a power in space too, yesterday, landing on the hidden side of the moon. Significantly, this came a few days after the United States managed to send a probe beyond Pluto, and in...

Vox party membership up dramatically in Spain

The extreme right-wing Vox party burst onto the stage with 400,000 votes in Andalusia and as the potential key to a Partido Popular and Ciudadanos coalition government in the Andalusian parliament last...

OUTER SPACE

Chinese on the dark side of the moon

SOCIETY

New rental bikes to be installed in Barcelona

Leaders of Barcelona City Council and Pedalem presented the new Bicing service yesterday. From January 8th, the replacement of the 424 stations will take three months, in which time the old and new systems...

SPAIN

Ex-Falangist prior denies access to exhume Franco

The prior of the monument where Francisco Franco’s remains are buried, La Valle de los Caídos, Santiago Cantera, has said he will not grant the government access to the site to undertake the exhumation...

Global warming in an unruly climate

Culture

Discovering the image at CaixaForum’s ’Una certa foscor’

society

Traffic accidents cause two deaths in two days

Traffic accidents cause two deaths in two days in Catalonia. A 25-year-old motorcyclist died on Tuesday before nine at night. He fell from his motorcycle on the B-124 road between Sabadell and Castellar....

Denmark

Six dead and sixteen injured in train crash

Six passengers were killed and sixteen more were injured yesterday in a train crash that took place on Storebaelt bridge, one of the Great Belt bridges linking Denmark’s main islands, Denmark officials...