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The first day of school, amidst new backpacks and old problems: "I'm not thinking about the PISA tests today."

Jaume Cladera Mas

The PISA hangover marks the start of the school year: "We cannot pit skills against knowledge"

Jaume Cladera Mas

Where should education go after PISA? "We must stop the educational reform and look at what we do next."

Jaume Cladera Mas

Events in the Balearic Islands

A stinging boss wreaks havoc on the Son Sardina estate: "It's like a bomb has been dropped"

Héctor Rubio

The director of nursing at Son Espases resigns due to disagreements with the manager

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The Council will commission a new, "more robust and extensive" audit before deciding on the Tirme concession.

Mercè Pinya

Real estate developers are asking to build apartments without a guaranteed water supply.

Jaume Perelló

Autumn will be warmer than usual, following a record-breaking summer in the Balearic Islands.

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Should we charge for having empty apartments? Brussels' new recommendation

Núria Sala Ventura

"Mallehaters go home": the German song that defends tourism on the 'Ballermann 6'

Héctor Rubio

Rats, filth and unusable bathrooms: residents denounce the decline of the slaughterhouse

Héctor Rubio

Prohens attacks the PSIB over the controversy with Aena: "They see our airports as a recording device"

Anna Mascaró

Galmés defends the vehicle restrictions in Mallorca in Parliament: "We are regaining the trust of the citizens"

Anna Mascaró

A thief drags a shop assistant with his car to escape after stealing perfumes in Marratxí

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A 63-year-old woman drowned during the storm in Felanitx

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Opinion

And Palma, for whom is it a priority?

Open tribune

The miracle of R&D&I at the University of the Balearic Islands

Can Canut opens in Binissalem: "We want to remove the aura of experts that alienates the consumer from wine"

Aina Vidal

25,000 years ago, one of the world's most popular drugs was already being consumed.

Sílvia Marimon

Will AI lead to our extinction?

Cal Newport

The house of the poet Guillem Colom is for sale for 1.5 million euros in the center of Sóller

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The B! Fair returns to Palma with more than 80 music and performing arts events

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"When a price is put on life and death, morality changes."

Núria Juanico Llumà

Cort says he couldn't "prevent" a third party from buying Can Pesquet and admits he doesn't know what they're going to do: "We'll see."

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Night of Art Algaida

Algaida becomes a large open-air art space with more than 30 exhibition spaces

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Severe storms, flooding and more than 115 incidents in the Balearic Islands

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Ana Rosa Abejón presents her candidacy for the Podemos primaries in the Catalan Parliament

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Trump seeks a miracle in Dallas and promises a $5,000 check if Republicans win the midterms

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Why is the AfD the most feared far-right party in Europe?

Núria Sala Ventura and Víctor Sanz Guerrero

US bombs five Iranian oil tankers and Tehran responds with attacks in Jordan

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Night of Art 2026

Palma's Night of Art celebrates 30 years with a hundred artists

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Musicologist Bàrbara Duran compiles half a century of choral singing in Sant Joan in a book

T. P.

"I like that good characters can do horrible things, because they do them for a reason."

Núria Juanico Llumà

Image of the party.

The Egyptian swimming pool of Sant Antoni makes the water glass of Ibiza overflow

The Government opens proceedings for the artificial lake at the Sant Antoni party

Lafuente denies having dismissed the general director of Costs "due to external pressures or specific files"

The poster of the rates denounced by the GOB.

Two hammocks and a parasol reach 125 euros a day in Cala Major

The SAMU 061 attends to more than 2,100 cases for suicidal behavior in the Balearics until August and registers 35 deaths

These are the traffic cuts and the changes to the EMT for the Rels B concert in Palma

The courtyard of the IES Son Pacs, with portable classrooms in the courtyard

The PISA results portray an educational system in permanent storm: it is not one column that trembles, but the entire building

Education will open files to the subsidized nursery schools that breach the regulations

Balearic Islands disaster in the PISA: they sink in Mathematics and Reading

The president and chief executive officer of Aena, Maurici Lucena.

Aena says that the Balearic airport co-management law is "unconstitutional" and threatens to act if it is approved

Unemployment rises in the Balearic Islands in August despite there being 26,872 more affiliates than a year ago

The Balearic Islands receive 9.16 million international tourists until July, 1.8% more

Youths participate in an aura battle in Seville on September 1, 2026

Ears

The flag

Nationalist heritage

The advertising poster of the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest.

The Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest closes the edition with 1.57 million views on Filmin

More than 1,500 people recreate in Santa Ponça the landing of King En Jaume

Why do the Balearic Islands not have a great natural science museum?

Josep Renalias Wikipedia

Was the good king James II so good?

The joy of living of the workers of the tourist boom

The total solar eclipse of 1905 in Mallorca: scientists and smokeless factories

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

An essential series and one of the best books of 2023: what you cannot miss this week

Recipe for summer soups with figs: a fresh dish with local and seasonal produce

Xisca Alzamora: "Home cooking has a price and what they take out of a bag should have another"

The hamlet of Les Coves was born between the 18th and 19th centuries from the consolidation of the settlements that took place there.

From the Caves to the Potteries, through the surroundings of Santa Eugènia

The hermitage of Betlem along the path of Can Canals

The Pudent pond, the legend of an estate under the waters

The tower of Albarca, built on the tip of La Falconera in 1751 to watch the channel between Mallorca and Menorca, then British.

The tower of Albarca, at the starting point of the GR 222

The marina of Sa Vallet, the southern and driest extreme of Mallorca

Tennis player Nick Kyrgios, provisionally suspended after testing positive for cocaine in Mallorca: "I have made a serious mistake"

"It's not just about rebuilding, it's about preserving a culture": three years after the Morocco earthquake

Fabio Lovati

"Pablo Neruda helped us": Living memory of those who fled Franco by sea

Iker Mons

Morgan Freeman:

"I will work as hard as I can, as long as someone keeps asking me, 'Do you want to do this role?'"

Jonathan Abrams / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

The day Mercè Rodoreda went to see 'Emmanuelle'

Jordi Nopca

When a universe is confirmed to be even larger

Jaume C. Pons Alorda

A good book against domestication

Anna Carreras Aubets

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Summer soup recipe with figs: a fresh dish with local and seasonal produce

Caterina Gelabert

The family that laser-engraves your name on table olives: the innovation that wants to break into the market from Terra Alta

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The scallops we buy in cans will be real scallops from January onwards.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Macaroni and cheese, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada