Air traffic controllers cancel planned strike in August
The Air Controllers Union (USCA) and AENA resume talks on workers? labour rights, avoiding huge disruptions to air travel in peak summer season
August 11, 2010 11:49 PM
Current affairs and social issues
The Air Controllers Union (USCA) and AENA resume talks on workers? labour rights, avoiding huge disruptions to air travel in peak summer season
August 11, 2010 11:49 PM
Councils of el Vendrell and Calafell negotiate with blanket street vendors in a move to regulate their activities and to avoid illicit competition with local businesses
August 11, 2010 11:08 PM
Spanish government clarifies that there is no controversy in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands regarding the use of Catalan and Spanish languages, a U.S. government report suggests
August 11, 2010 12:07 AM
Government invests 8.7 million in a new informatic platform that integrates details of emergency operations to facilitate the work of fire-fighters in Catalonia
August 10, 2010 11:34 PM
NGOs in Catalonia meet to prepare an aid strategy for the victims of the recent heavy flooding in Pakistan. They are ready to act as soon as international organisations decide exactly what is needed in the field
August 10, 2010 11:16 PM
wo hundred and fifty-two days later, aid workers Albert Vilalta and Roque Pasqual are still being held in the northern region of Mali by a Magreb Islamist terrorist group
August 9, 2010 09:08 PM
Brand new technology could be of great service to Catalan fire-fighters in the near future. It would monitor vital signs made by fire-fighters working in emergency situations
August 5, 2010 11:25 PM
Mossos d'Esquadra have detained a suspected Islamist terrorist from Pakistan in the southern Catalan town of Tortosa, where he lived since last week
August 5, 2010 10:49 PM
Catalan Government will spend €661 million to improve the infrastructure and equipment of the main universities in the country
August 3, 2010 11:52 PM
The Economist criticizes the decision of the Catalan Parliament to ban bullfighting and states that the country has a ?spam of intolerance?.
August 2, 2010 11:58 PM
Groups for and against the bullfighting prohibition clash in front of Barcelona's only bullring just days after the Catalan Parliament decided to ban the fiesta
August 2, 2010 10:58 PM
Prestigious newspapers such as The Times and Le Figaro published the story in their front-page and argued that the decision widens the gap between Spain and Catalonia.
July 29, 2010 08:33 PM
The Catalan Parliament will vote tomorrow on a popular initiative to ban bullfighting in Catalonia. The initiative has spurred great expectation abroad, as well as lively controversy in Catalonia and the rest of Spain.
July 28, 2010 12:09 AM
A 52-year-old Dutch man went missing last night while trekking near Espot in the Catalan Pyrenees. Catalan fire fighters have found his dead body this afternoon.
July 27, 2010 01:08 AM
4 months after the surgery, the patient is said to be "happy" with his new image. The Vall d?Hebron Hospital of Barcelona performed the operation. It is the 1st full face transplant, after 13 partial face transplants in the world.
July 27, 2010 12:57 AM
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