Ebola outbreak out of control in Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO says: ‘It is spreading faster than our ability to contain it’
El País Englishby Prosper Heri·20 Aug 2026
Hubert Nendakala no longer describes Ebola as a distant threat. In three weeks, the 40-year-old architect has lost a cousin and her husband, both border police officers in the Democratic Republic...
Andalusia’s rivers are being destroyed by tourism: ‘You don’t see anything, it’s all dead’
El País Englishby Nacho Sánchez·20 Aug 2026
Refreshing, clear, clean water. Narrow gorges, waterfalls and pools amid dense vegetation. The Chíllar River, in Nerja (Málaga province, population 22,187), offers almost everything a summer...
The parenthood paradox: Parents are less joyful but feel more fulfilled
El País Englishby Rodrigo Santodomingo·20 Aug 2026
When studied together, parenthood and happiness form two clearly distinct layers. In the foreground are sleepless nights and financial juggling. Endless negotiations and untimely crying.
Has the tradwife bubble burst?
El País Englishby María Arranz·20 Aug 2026
“Stop calling me a tradwife.” That is the title of a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast in which model and influencer Nara Smith rejects the label that has followed her ever since she...
Buried treasure: Belgium hunts for the owner of a $10 million gold hoard
El País Englishby Silvia Ayuso·20 Aug 2026
Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a buried treasure? The fantasy came true a week ago in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, northwest of Brussels, when a teenage student working a summer construction job...
Life in the dark: The daily agony of Venezuela’s power crisis
El País Englishby Florantonia Singer·20 Aug 2026
Sonia Soto’s days are six hours shorter. Those are the hours she spends without electricity. During them, all she wants to do is lock herself in her bathroom and cry. “It is very hard.
Angie Nixon’s victory puts the Democrats’ progressive wave to the test in Florida
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·20 Aug 2026
A democratic socialist won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida, a state that has become a Republican stronghold over the past decade and where the term “socialism” has long...
La Newyorkina, the Spanish granola brand inspired by a bad breakfast in New York
El País Englishby Ángela Rico·19 Aug 2026
Sometimes businesses are born not out of big ideas, but small disappointments. In Pelayo Pérez’s case, that disappointing moment came one morning in New York, in front of a coffee machine, a tray...
Breakthrough in neuromedicine as human mini-brains are kept alive for years
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·19 Aug 2026
Popular scientific lore has Archimedes, 22 centuries ago, shouting “Eureka!” as he watched water spill over the edge of his bath.
The ICC stands firm against US pressure: ‘We are taking blows aimed at international law’
El País Englishby Ferrer Ferrer·19 Aug 2026
A phone call from Washington on July 23 was enough for Chad, a Central African country that has been a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2007, to announce four days later that...
Paying for a concert with no view: Bruno Mars opens the debate on ‘audio-only’ tickets
El País Englishby Frankie Pizá·19 Aug 2026
On July 18, at the start of the first of six nights of The Romantic Tour at Wembley (London), before about 90,000 people — many waving hand-held fans bearing the slogan “Hot for Bruno” — Bruno Mars...
The great drought devours the heart of Europe: Record-low harvests, historic restrictions and a stalled economy
El País Englishby EL PAÍS·19 Aug 2026
The great European drought has not only turned once-lush parks into dry wastelands. It has unleashed a complex cascade of emergencies with multiple effects that collapse like dominoes across...
Mallorca 1820: X‑raying Europe’s last major plague epidemic
El País Englishby Miguel Ángel Criado·18 Aug 2026
That summer must have been terrifying: between May and October, one in three residents in the area died of plague.
Between the jungle and the oil: The Amazon municipality to which Colombia owes an energy transition
El País Englishby María Mónica Monsalve·18 Aug 2026
In Orito, Putumayo, a Colombian municipality in the Amazon foothills, the classic tourist sign reading “I love” followed by the place name is set against a backdrop of a pumpjack and an abandoned...
Can the existence of an afterlife be proven? The scientists looking for God
El País Englishby Daniel Soufi·18 Aug 2026
Now that singer Rosalía has embraced mysticism and the “[Spanish protest movement] 15-M philosopher” Ernesto Castro has converted to Christianity, it is not surprising that science is being seduced...
A government of multimillionaires: Trump appointed 57 officials worth as much as $100 million
El País Englishby Jesús-Sérvulo González Moreno·18 Aug 2026
Donald Trump measures success by the number of zeros in a bank account. The U.S. president has put some of the richest people in the world in charge of running the country.
Rocky Balboa’s lesson: How to combine cardio and weights to live longer and healthier
El País Englishby Aser García Rada·17 Aug 2026
Any film buff passing through Philadelphia should sprint up the steps of the city’s Museum of Art, the institution in the birthplace of American independence immortalized by Rocky.
Sara Wickström, cell biologist: ‘Cells do not just follow chemical orders; they also sense the forces around them’
El País Englishby Daniel Mediavilla·17 Aug 2026
For decades, scientists described biology as a chemical conversation. Cells made decisions by following a manual written in their genes, executed through chemical signals.
A flop album, ‘Camp Rock’ and a place in Disney history: How the Jonas Brothers have stayed on top
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·17 Aug 2026
How wonderful failures can be, at times. Even though nobody likes them, of course, and they are not always positive, sometimes a stumbling block is the best way forward.
Jolina Gisèle, the Pokémon princess, is selling her multimillion‑dollar card collection: ‘We could no longer keep it at home because of its size and its value’
El País Englishby Nerea Basterra·17 Aug 2026
Long before he became the father of Pokémon, Satoshi Tajiri spent his childhood roaming the rural outskirts of Machida, west of Tokyo, collecting insects and studying them with the curiosity of a...
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