Marc Orriols, Egyptologist: ‘Hollywood has done great damage to our perception of sex in Ancient Egypt’
El País Englishby Jacinto Antón·29d ago
Exactly 20 years ago, a young Marc Orriols surprised attendees at the III Ibero-American Congress of Egyptology held in La Laguna, Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands, with a paper on the sexual...
And he never came back’: In El Salvador, mothers desperately search for the disappeared
El País Englishby Bryan Avelar·29d ago
Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on August 4, 2021, Herbert Argueta got up from the chair where he had spent the last six hours answering calls at his computer.
Russia uses arrests and coercion to send more recruits to the front in Ukraine
El País Englishby Javier González Cuesta·29d ago
Russian authorities have been paying people to enlist in the army, and now they are also paying them to recruit others.
Wanted: Oil tankers at any cost as tensions in the Gulf trigger a global scramble
El País Englishby Nuria Salobral·29d ago
The war in Iran is reshaping global shipping, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery that until March carried 20% of the world’s hydrocarbon supply, forces the industry into...
The Falklands: The open wound that unites Argentines
El País Englishby Mar Centenera·29d ago
The Argentine collective joy after winning the Qatar World Cup in 2022 was played out to a soundtrack that began like this: “In Argentina I was born, land of Diego and Lionel, of the lads from the...
Zohran Mamdani: ‘Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t afford their basic needs’
El País Englishby Paola Nagovitch,Luis Doncel·29d ago
“All that’s standing between me and my vacation is you guys,” Zohran Kwame Mamdani jokes as he welcomes EL PAÍS on a Friday afternoon.
What happens to people who start wildfires? From two years in prison for a barbecue that caused 11 deaths to 10 years for an arsonist
El País Englishby Esther Sánchez García·12 Sept 2026
Penalties for those who start wildfires are severe. The Spanish Criminal Code provides for sentences of between 10 and 20 years in prison when a fire endangers people’s lives or physical safety.
The Red Bull generation: How energy drinks became the fuel for a fast-paced society
El País Englishby Enrique Alpañés·12 Sept 2026
Energy drinks aren’t consumed for pleasure. They aren’t served in a glass with ice and a straw, nor are they sipped with blissful leisure.
Spain’s purebred horse business leaps past the $8.6 billion mark
El País Englishby Miguel Ángel García Vega·12 Sept 2026
In the 16th century, Lorenzo de Medici admired both Leonardo Da Vinci and his Spanish stable groom — who, on foot, could stop a galloping horse with a single hand.
Alexia Putellas: ‘I would have loved for previous generations, the real pioneers, to have experienced what I’ve experienced’
El País Englishby Sofía Ruiz de Velasco·12 Sept 2026
Alexia Putellas, 32, is left-footed, though not entirely. Alexia has what is known as cross-dominance: she’s left-footed but right-handed.
Carmody Grey, the philosopher who said no to Anthropic: ‘We are becoming lonelier and less intelligent’
El País Englishby jordi perez·12 Sept 2026
Anthropic contacted theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey, a 43-year-old professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
John Ternus, the hardware man who will steer Apple in the AI era
El País Englishby Daniel Soufi·12 Sept 2026
John Ternus’s salary as Apple’s new chief executive will be $3 million a year, plus a $55 million stock package.
The escalating threats on Europe’s borders
El País Englishby Claudi Pérez·12 Sept 2026
A grim trend returns: 2025 was a year marked by the highest number of armed conflicts in the world since 1946 — 65 in total, which left a quarter of a million people dead — and 2026 is on track to...
Claire Valdez, Democratic candidate for Congress: ‘We have to plan for life after the Trump administration’
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·12 Sept 2026
She was seen in her round glasses near the DBK4 warehouse in the quiet Queens neighborhood of Maspeth, alongside Amazon workers frustrated with the multinational that dominates e-commerce in the...
Deported from the US to Liberia: ‘They had us chained up the whole trip’
El País Englishby Graziana Solano·12 Sept 2026
“I found out that I would be deported to Africa just hours before the flight. No one notified me; I found out myself by chance when I managed to see my name on the list of people who would be...
From purple ketchup to clear cola: Commercial mistakes worth learning from
El País Englishby María Fernández Lago·11 Sept 2026
Cristina Pérez, Innovation Director at Kantar, has spent more than 30 years researching the launch of new products.
Another US court rejects detention of some migrants without the right to a bail hearing
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·11 Sept 2026
A Donald Trump immigration policy has suffered another judicial setback. A federal appeals court rejected the administration’s strategy of detaining certain migrants without giving them the...
Benjamin List, Nobel laureate: ‘Chemists have always been seen as a dark force’
El País Englishby Nuño Domínguez·11 Sept 2026
Benjamin List, 58, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside his colleague David MacMillan for discovering a new pathway in chemistry: asymmetric organocatalysis.
Deported migrant who testified against drug traffickers is seized by ICE on his return to the US
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·11 Sept 2026
John Doe managed to get out of Mexico safely, but as soon as he set foot on U.S. soil, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him and attempted to deport him again.
Guantánamo, the torture legacy of 9/11 that remains open
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy·11 Sept 2026
“I was only 18 when they kidnapped me, sold me to the United States and took me to one of the CIA’s black sites. They tortured me for months.
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