News from El Punt Avui

When on the night of November 9th, 1989, Berliners hit the streets to bring down the wall that had divided their city for over 20 years, many saw this as a turning point, which should have been the first...

There were more arrests on Wednesday night, as running confrontations between protestors and police forces continued in Tunisia. These battles started when Abderrazak Rezgui, a 32 year old photo-journalist...

Further activity at the Anak Krakatoa volcano, which last Saturday caused a tsunami, killing 430 people and leaving over 150 missing, in the Strait of Sonda in Indonesia, has meant that the Volcanology...

An eight-year-old child from Guatemala died in US government custody on Tuesday at a state hospital in New Mexico after having crossed the Mexican border with his family. This is the second child who has...

Japan is going to start hunting whales for commercial uses next July. The Japanese government confirmed yesterday that it was leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The decision, which has...

Indonesia’s emergency teams continued to search for survivors yesterday in the rubble left by the tsunami that hit the Sunda Strait on Saturday between the islands of Java and Sumatra. So far 371 deaths...