The popping of the Cristiano Ronaldo bubble
El País Englishby Diego Torres·6d ago
On December 6, 2022, hours before facing Switzerland in the last 16 of the Qatar World Cup, Portugal coach Fernando Santos summoned Cristiano Ronaldo to his room at the team hotel.
Debts are strangling Brazilian families despite a slight economic improvement
El País Englishby Naiara Galarraga Gortázar·6d ago
Never before have so many Brazilians held a job, but never have so many families — eight out of 10 — been strangled by debt.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy to EL PAÍS, on the new Russian offensive against Kyiv: ‘Putin isn’t afraid of Europeans’
El País Englishby Luis De Vega Hernández·6d ago
One way Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confronts Russian attacks and seeks to show resolve is by appearing in the most dangerous places.
Relatives of California welder accused of fuel theft in Mexico say they have gone weeks without news of him
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado,Andrés Rodríguez·6d ago
Joel René Cárdenas Carrillo, a Mexican immigrant who became a U.S. citizen and works as a welder, has lived in the United States for more than 25 years.
Cornell, abolish your fraternities
El País Englishby Joseph Paz-Soldán·6d ago
In recent weeks, I have received messages from Kazakhstan to Peru about the alleged sexual assault on Cornell’s campus.
‘The truth is Cuba has already fallen’: the United States’ strategy to subdue the island
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·6d ago
Sandro Castro, Fidel’s influencer grandson who runs several Havana nightclubs, was asked a question on Instagram a few days ago that was seen by his more than 165,000 followers.
Jahel Queralt, essayist: ‘Those who most criticize meritocracy are those who need it the least’
El País Englishby Noelia Ramírez·6d ago
Her life could inspire one of those biopics about personal triumph, but Jahel Queralt, 43, says her fate is pure chance.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Tom Cruise loved this film because it freed him from the handsome, strong man that he is’
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·6d ago
Digger is like a mango. It’s an acidic film, but also a bit sweet; outwardly it seems one thing but inside it contains surprises, and it needs time to ripen.
New ‘atlas’ of respiratory infections suggests Covid is no longer just a winter virus
El País Englishby Oriol Güell Domínguez·6d ago
A comprehensive atlas of the 18 main respiratory viruses circulating in Catalonia, produced for the first time in Spain by researchers from that northeastern region, reveals that the coronavirus...
Trump says he is following Brazil’s elections ‘very closely’
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy,Joan Royo Gual·6d ago
Asked by reporters about Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, to be held on Sunday amid heightened tension between Washington and the leftist government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, U.S.
Eric Sadin: ‘AI reeks of death’
El País Englishby Daniel Verdú·7d ago
Éric Sadin gets up and paces around the living room of his Paris apartment when an argument excites him. His own voice urges him to do so.
Garry Kasparov, threatened with death by Putin’s circle, ties his security to Ukraine’s victory
El País Englishby Leontxo García·7d ago
Garry Kasparov, 63, is the only one still alive of three very prominent opponents of Vladimir Putin who were threatened in 2012; the other two were Boris Nemtsov, murdered near the Kremlin in 2015...
A living tissue factory: printed cells to create everything from bone marrow to lab meat
El País Englishby Michaela Nesvarova·7d ago
Nature has perfected the art of creating living cells over billions of years. A team of researchers is now learning from that process and looking for ways to speed it up.
Brett Christophers, economic geographer: ‘In contemporary capitalism, the right to housing does not exist’
El País Englishby Lluís Pellicer Mateu·7d ago
Brett Christophers, 55, has spent years studying the strategies of large corporations. He began by examining big investment banks such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
Laura and Cristina, a Brazilian couple with four kids: ‘If Bolsonaro wins we will be a bunker of resistance’
El País Englishby Joan Royo Gual·7d ago
It’s Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro’s financial district and there are nothing but closed offices and dark streets, but around a corner, a three-story house lit in the colors of the rainbow...
The just-world hypothesis and other mental traps that guide us, but that we can avoid
El País Englishby Olga Carmona·7d ago
We like to believe we are rational. That we make decisions based on data, that we analyze reality objectively and that our opinions stem from clear thinking.
María Corina Machado’s party stakes its strategy on the uncertain return of its leader
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·7d ago
Vente Venezuela, the party founded by María Corina Machado, is preparing again for the imminent return of its leader despite delays, skepticism, and uncertainty.
Tanker transits through Strait of Hormuz approach prewar figures
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza ,Nuria Salobral·7d ago
The Strait of Hormuz is far from what it was before Donald Trump blew everything out of the water: a maritime route that, although located in a hotspot region, allowed the free and safe passage of...
Trump rides to the rescue for Republicans in the midterms but Paxton doubts his effectiveness
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·7d ago
President Donald Trump told reporters this week he would embark on a 32-day campaign tour to try to save Republican races ahead of the midterm elections.
Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton clash in CNN debate on economy, AI, and ICE raids in California governor’s race
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·7d ago
It was the first face-to-face between the two men vying to govern California, the most populous state in the United States, with more than 39 million residents, just over a month before the midterm...
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