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Cell phones have become a key element when it comes to maintaining and sharing experiences. However, they can be detrimental to natural memory and create excessive dependence

The police have arrested the suspect in the killing of a young man in Getafe, who allegedly belonged to this criminal group; the accused killer is a minor from the Trinitarios gang

Novo Nordisk’s campaign, which aims to speak ‘without filters’ by declaring obesity a disease, has been strongly criticized on social media: ‘It’s indecent’

The head of the ‘The New York Times’ literary supplement visited Spain for the 2025 Madrid Book Fair

In the last year, 535 people have been hired through public-private partnership initiatives managed by the State Secretariat for Migration

The 2025 Madrid Book Fair is dedicated to the American city. Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca made it a key muse of Spanish poetry in the 20th century. Since then, successive generations of writers have continued to nourish New York’s inexhaustible narrative

The Spanish actress returns to star in a series in her native country, ‘Matices,’ after 20 years focusing on her family and international projects. Married to actor Chris Hemsworth since 2010 and mother of three children, the Madrid native is facing a new stage in her life

The Complutense University of Madrid is clearing out the Olavide Museum — an invaluable repository of medical history, with wax figures representing hundreds of patients afflicted by harrowing diseases

EL PAÍS talks with the actor about his career, his life, his social activism, the US president, and the world we live in, from his new home in Madrid: ‘I don’t think Trump was honest with the American people’

New targeted therapies allow for the treatment of a disease that is already the fifth leading cause of fatal tumors globally

Five people were arrested in an operation targeting livestock farms, industrial warehouses, and illegal facilities in Ávila, Toledo, and Madrid that were sending untraceable meat to restaurants

No other major European state has deported anyone wanted by Beijing since the Court of Human Rights banned Poland from handing over a Taiwanese man in 2022 due to the risk of violating his fundamental rights

Five renowned venues — including nightclubs, bars, and restaurants — were chosen by the Amazon founder for the celebration

Andrii Portnov, a one-time advisor to former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, had recently registered one of his mansions in the name of his children

The victim was a former adviser to ex-president Viktor Yanukovych and was under investigation for corruption, according to police sources, who indicate that two or three assailants were involved

For the second time, Guillermo Galoe brings Europe’s largest irregular settlement to the French festival in a feature film that expands on the short he presented in 2023

EL PAÍS visits the terminals and speak with the highly vulnerable individuals, both Spanish and foreign, who are taking shelter there

New research reveals the potential of drugs that have been on the market for decades to treat diseases other than those for which they were approved

The Spanish capital is experiencing a period of success and expansion. After years of trying to carve out a niche in the global city scene, it finally seems to have found a model and a brand to go with it. Is it all real or just a facade? And does it lead to an inclusive place to live or is it just for a select few?

Scientists project that by 2026 the results of clinical trials being conducted in 25 countries, including Spain, will be approved

Three American siblings and six other children born with a rare, life-threatening disease are returning to normal life thanks to a genetic treatment developed in Madrid

Jerry Saltz quit his job as a truck driver to write about the New York art scene. His self-deprecating, direct style has earned him a Pulitzer Prize, as well as hundreds of thousands of followers on social media

Energy experts were surprised by the inability to isolate the blackout to a single area, forcing the system to be rebooted from scratch, but they say restoration of service was quick given the circumstances

PM Pedro Sánchez says he will seek accountability from private operators and pledges changes: ‘This cannot happen again, ever’

More than 99% of the country’s power supply has been recovered, but some rail service is still suspended in Madrid and Barcelona

The government is reluctant to speculate on the cause of the outage, despite the hypotheses that have emerged in the hours without power, such as a possible cyberattack