At least three people are injured and four others are missing. Sources say up to 40 individuals could have been inside the building, which was undergoing renovation to become a four-star hotel
The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is hosting the largest retrospective in Spain of the photographer’s work, with 250 pieces, including images, publications, and objects on war and life
The Harvard Medical School professor warns of the dangers of new technologies to enhance brain capacity, because what improves some abilities can worsen others
A team of scientists describes how malignant cells use ‘highways’ of hardened tissue to spread to other organs, and how blocking two proteins can stop them
Calls for a boycott over the Gaza massacre are spreading throughout the worlds of culture, sports, and economics in more and more countries
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was in Madrid, Spain for the talks. The US president said he will speak with China’s Xi Jinping on Friday
José Luis Cordeiro, the Argentine president’s friend and muse, talks about his ideas of eternal youth, which he claims will be available by 2045
‘The debate that has opened up about what happened in Spain should grow and reach every corner of the world,’ said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Various studies have attempted, without success, to analyze whether reading can increase our empathy. The evidence is clearer regarding its power to enhance culture and mental health
The vulnerability of addicts makes them easy targets for recruitment by cult-like organizations
In 1635, Spain sent an envoy to England to make purchases. When Charles I was beheaded, the dismantling of the English art collections became the opportunity of the century
The National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid houses one of the largest malacology collections in the world. The scientific team that curates the seashells shows EL PAÍS the most emblematic pieces from its collection
A play recounts the astonishing story of the religious man who created a universal language of numbers
The Copernicus satellite monitoring system estimates that 350,000 hectares of land have been affected by fires this year
EL PAÍS features the stories of three American families who arrived in the European country this year, in the face of the US’ downward spiral and the loss of freedoms: ‘Things are getting ugly’
A fire that started in the Galician town of A Mezquita spread to Castile and León on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of 1,700 people
Firefighting professionals denounce their precarious working conditions and the lack of coordination within regional government operations. The blazes have now claimed three lives
The blazes, which have extended across several regions, have caused two deaths, devastated thousands of hectares, and forced more than 5,000 people to evacuate their homes
The fires have scorched thousands of hectares, forced residents from homes in multiple regions, and claimed one life near Madrid
‘The real deception lay in the impossibility of paying for the return ticket,’ says Natalia Ortiz, a researcher of these expeditions that provided domestic service for Australian families
One million Spaniards emigrated to Latin America after the Civil War. Today, their grandchildren — many with dual nationality — are residents of the Spanish capital
A leading scientist, a businesswoman and a disease-free patient come together to tell the full story of the promising experimental Spanish tumor drug
Petar Mirchev, a Bulgarian linked to Viktor Bout, the ‘Merchant of Death,’ was detained at the request of the United States for negotiating with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Spanish start-up Habitacion.com, with revenue of $1.65 million, says it has more than 21,000 people on a waiting list for a unit
Devastated by the news that the killer was freed in a prisoner exchange with Venezuela, the families of the three victims have received no information from the Spanish government
Are the estimated 700 million felines on Earth the sacred animals of our times?
The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and genitals