News from El Punt Avui

Quimi Portet and Albert Pla’s surreal contributions on TV3’s Natura sàvia (Wise nature) program, filmed in some sort of tinkerer’s workshop, where they expounded theories about weird behaviours...

A day late, the UN COP24 climate change summit closed Saturday evening in Katowice, leaving a bittersweet aftertaste for environmental campaigners. A tenuous positive: The representatives of 200 countries...

The left-wing, pro-independence party, CUP, has decided not to put any candidates forward for the European elections next May. The party, which held its national council yesterday in Artés, justified...

Senior citizens protested in cities, such as Barcelona, Tortosa and Lleida yesterday. In the capital of Segrià, some 80 people called for dignified pensions of at least €1,080, which is “the minimum...

Barcelona’s Clínic hospital has successfully used a new technique for eradicating malign tumors from kidneys that avoids a full nephrectomy (removal) and improves the partial form of the operation so...

Barcelona city council has issued a decree suspending for a year licences for new buildings, major refurbishment projects, and the demolition of buildings in the Vila de Gràcia district of the city, as...

Colombian pop star Shakira has been charged with tax evasion by Barcelona prosecutors. Yesterday, prosecutors alleged she failed to pay more than €14.5 m in taxes between 2012 and 2014. While Shakira...

The consumer price index (CPI) in Catalonia stood at 1.9% in November, some five decimal points lower than in October and the lowest registered since April, according to Spain’s national statistics institute...