The band’s former drummer is releasing a country album at the age of 84. ‘If a country act was going around England, they always went to Liverpool. Sister Rosetta Thorpe blew me away,’ he tells EL PAÍS
About to enter its fourth year of conflict, Kyiv sees out 2024 in the face of territorial advances and the military superiority of Russia. Trump’s victory brings the possibility of a negotiated end closer, but Zelenskiy distrusts the Kremlin
Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia
The Spanish Treasury monitors more than 170,000 uber wealthy individuals to prevent them from charging undue expenses to their companies. The Tax Agency recovered more than $502 million in 2023 through almost 1,000 audits
The world’s wealthiest businessman, now a close confidant to Trump, is leveraging his newfound political influence to advance his agenda unchecked. But how long can his honeymoon with the president-elect last?
The Democratic state is preparing to lead the legal battle against the president-elect’s policies on immigration, reproductive rights, and the environment
The Seoul government is resisting calls to answer whether the deadliest accident in the country’s history, which claimed 179 lives, was solely caused by a bird strike
Donald Trump, who mocked the former president in October when he turned 100, now says that the United States owes ‘him a debt of gratitude’
The Democrat, whose influence grew after leaving the White House, served only one term (1977-1981), weighed down by inflation and the Iran hostage crisis
Stolen children discovering their roots, the end of malaria in Egypt, snails saving crops, the resilience of Gazans, or the loud and clear voice of African artists are among the most optimistic reports that have published by EL PAÍS
The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a day in her new life
An exhibition by the Hawaiian artist, ‘Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom,’ will be shown at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through March 16
Following the pandemic, the surge in demand for health professionals has further weakened the already fragile systems of African countries. Experts are calling the situation a ‘global health emergency’
Soldiering through nightly suspended animation, a (nearly) all-sugar diet, backwards flight and long migrations, the birds’ tiny physiques prove mighty
A group of 25 activists from the Nahuat Pipil, Lenka, and Kakawira communities are working together to highlight abuse. More than half of Indigenous women in the country have suffered from some type of aggression
Tourists and foodies from all over the world are flocking to Spanish bars, restaurants and bakeries for a slice. An inside look at one of the most unexpected gastronomic phenomena of recent times
Some have created a buzz, others have elevated new fashion icons, and some have shattered the last taboos of ageism. Here are the outfits that made the biggest impact of the year
Tassos Stassopoulos travels the world photographing refrigerators in an attempt to understand what differentiates the rich from the poor and how consumer habits are changing in the much-examined emerging markets
It is the brightest point in a constellation first described 2,000 years ago and was the first distant star captured in a photo by scientists in the 19th century
Many thinkers supported fascist regimes in the 1930s, a precedent that is very disturbing today
‘The New Yorker’ reporter is publishing a Spanish-language compilation of his articles. After abandoning X, he says, ‘Social media is a toxic swamp’
In the small village of Oostduinkerke, on the shores of the North Sea, a community of 12 families maintains an ancient custom declared by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage
A myriad of new restaurants fill the vacuum left by the pandemic and inflation-induced rent rises
The doctor has assisted more than 10,000 people in 136 countries after revolutionizing operating theaters with minimally invasive single-cut video surgery on the chest
Mohamed Solaimane finished writing his thesis in a tent for displaced people in the Strip, overcoming unimaginable obstacles. This is his first-person account of how his work became a symbol of resistance against adversity
The English actor is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as a heroin-addicted writer in Luca Guadagnino’s new film and is tipped to work again with the Italian director
The Albanian essayist warns of the risk of unintentionally slipping into a world war. She believes European political parties are failing to make a significant effort to redefine the concept of class in today’s world
Group theory allows us to study this game invented in 1974, which has more than 43 trillion valid states and can be completed in 20 moves
If Musk can monetize the angst of teenage girls who hate their bodies, he will. It’s already happening
The most popular cryptocurrency has rebounded by more than 120% since January. The year 2024 has marked a turning point for the industry, with increased adoption from both retail and institutional investors
In an 11-second video, which was restricted on the X platform for its violent content, the 25-year-old simulates an execution and calls for this measure to be applied to ‘any illegal that rapes or kills an American’
The outgoing president, who commuted 37 death sentences to life imprisonment without parole, excluded three prisoners due to the severity of their crimes and four others convicted by military courts
The new vice rules have led to a spike in depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts. According to a U.N. report, 68% of women rate their mental health as ‘bad’ or ‘very bad,’ linking their distress to the ‘systematic’ removal of women from public life
The Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires has described the detention of two diplomats who refused to take the breath test and present the documentation for the vehicles they were driving as a ‘serious violation of international law’
Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research
The president has the change of power in the White House and the controversy over the reelection of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela as the main international challenges her administration faces at the start of 2025
President-elect names Kevin Marino Cabrera as ambassador to the Latin American country, who promises to defend the Republican’s ‘bold approach to international diplomacy’
Police, soldiers, and army officers who served under the old regime are registering with the new authorities to demonstrate their renunciation of the dictatorship
The photojournalist and poet B.A. Van Sise explores the fragility of endangered languages in his book and Los Angeles museum exhibition, showcasing 50portraits that tell the stories of languages on the brink of disappearing forever
The city suffered 33 days of occupation in the early days of the invasion and was exposed to the cruelty of Russian troops
Democrat Eric Adams criticizes Biden administration to curry favor with the president-elect on the eve of being tried for corruption
Stars such as Marlon Brando, Michael Caine and John Wayne have won prestigious awards and are true legends of the screen, but there was one day when they made a misstep and accepted a role that would become an indelible stain on an otherwise (almost) perfect career
Today we use words and concepts coined by thinkers such as Plato or Epicurus, although often with a different meaning
Edward Leffler created the first open-end mutual fund, democratizing investment by offering small-scale savers a low-cost financial product managed by professionals. His original fund has achieved an annual return of nearly 9.5% over the last century
Thirty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, a ‘mental wall’ continues to divide the country, including in its literature. EL PAÍS took a trip through Berlin, Jena and Leipzig in search of the great German novel, written today by authors like Jenny Erpenbeck and Clemens Meyer
More than 74 land defenders from various First Nations have created an online space they say is free of ‘racism and neoliberal discourse,’ designed for the posting of stories from Mesoamerican lands and their diasporas
The scientist presents a new book in which he predicts drastic changes in Europe due to the lack of energy and materials
Violent, funny and visually iconic, the show by Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk was the most-watched series on Netflix. In an interview, the director confesses that success has left him exhausted. The second season is coming out on December 26, while the third will be released in 2025
NASA’s probe will enter the star’s atmosphere on Christmas Eve, making the closest pass ever of the Sun’s surface, to try to unravel the mystery of why it is so much hotter than its surface
The far right, polling second in voting intention with 19%, is trying to take electoral advantage of the incident two months before the general elections, ignoring the fact that the attacker sympathized with its ideology
Perhaps we’re more sensitive to the suffering of others, but that’s hardly due to us being better people — and doesn’t give us the right to arrogantly judge the past
The British researcher defends the validity of his most famous theory, 30 years after formulating it. Despite social media, he explains that humans can only have a maximum of 150 friends
The government has created a Ministry of National Unity that hopes to attract residents abroad and ease the demographic crisis to address the reconstruction of the country
An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid brings back memories of the lakeshore home that the artist and her famous partner Wassily Kandinsky shared in Murnau before the war tore them apart
With Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House, desperation is growing among the beneficiaries of immigration relief programs that the tycoon has promised not to renew
The possibility that the United States could assume powers that violate the sovereignty of its southern neighbor forebodes a period of extraordinary tension in the bilateral relationship
The former Florida representative, Trump’s nominee for attorney general until he withdrew over the scandal, fought unsuccessfully to prevent the investigation from becoming public
Families at the Floyd Bennett Field camp, one of 25 centers that will shut down in the next two months, worry that the closure and relocation process will be disruptive for their children
The labor shortage in some sectors is driving legislative changes and training programs for the recruitment of female workers
The country’s industrial capital, a religious melting pot and a strategic crossroads, is trying to rise from the devastation with which the regime punished this opposition stronghold
Thousands of former military personnel are hired for large sums to fight in wars or to serve as private security abroad. The network behind this business is in the government’s sights
A new study in the journal ‘Nature’ suggests the brain plays a key role in this process
We spoke with the unlikely partners Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers about the challenges they overcame to get the video game marketed beyond the Berlin Wall. Their adventure inspired a movie and forged a relationship that endures four decades and 520 million games later
The tycoon faces ethical and legal barriers to achieving his anti-immigration goals, such as revoking birthright citizenship or raiding schools
