Soledad Gallego-Díaz, who died this Tuesday in Madrid at the age of 75, achieved the major journalistic scoop of Spain’s democratic transition at just 26 years old: the publication in the magazine Cuadernos para el Diálogo of the draft of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, which, for reasons that now seem incomprehensible, was kept under strict secrecy. From then on, Sol, as she was known, was a force to be reckoned with in Spanish journalism: the first female editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS from June 8, 2018, to June 15, 2020; deputy editor under three different editors (Juan Luis Cebrián, Joaquín Estefanía, and Jesús Ceberio); correspondent in Brussels, London, Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires; special envoy to numerous international events, such as the end of the dissolution of the Soviet Union; political reporter; bureau chief in Seville; readers’ advocate; editorial writer; and professor at the newspaper.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and Spain’s Ministry of Health have agreed that a team of epidemiologists will examine on Tuesday afternoon the condition of the 147 people on board the luxury cruise ship MV Hondius before deciding on the port where passengers will be allowed to disembark. The shipping company responsible for the vessel, which sails under the Dutch flag, is Oceanwide Expeditions.

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When he took over as vice president in 2018, Luis de Guindos, 66, faced what seemed like the most uneventful term in the history of the European Central Bank (ECB). “I thought we weren’t going to move interest rates, neither up nor down; they had been unchanged for a long time, and I thought they would stay that way,” he recalls now.

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It’s no secret that the Republican vote continues to grow in the progressive state of California, and that boost has become visible in a tight race where the Republicans hope to reclaim the governorship, held by Democrats since 2011. Steve Hilton, a political commentator who enjoys the backing of U.S. President Donald Trump, has led or is in contention for the lead in several recent polls, a surprising scenario that would not only put the Democratic Party in a difficult position but also call into question the results and the momentum of outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom, who has been tipped as a contender for the White House.

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It all started in the retina of a chicken. The career of biochemist Gabriel Rabinovich, 57, discoverer of a kind of molecular switch that regulates the immune system, took its first steps there, in a biological chemistry laboratory, shortly after graduating, how to manufacture antibodies in rabbits against proteins from the chicken retina.

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Unconsciously, Mario Rielo adopted certain postures to conceal his pectoral malformation. At the beach, at the pool, when he took off his shirt, he would raise one arm and touch the back of his neck. The gesture stretched his chest, evened out his silhouette, and disguised the indentation he had on one side of his ribcage since childhood.

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The 20 crew members of the Don Maca were sailing near the Galapagos Islands, in Ecuadorian waters, when they spotted a gray drone flying low, with a small tube pointed at them. They waved, assuming they were being filmed. They never imagined that the small device was carrying explosives.

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Corruption cases continue to plague Javier Milei’s government. Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni reappeared before the local press on Monday and denied illicit enrichment, but just minutes after his statement, new developments emerged in the legal case investigating him: a supplier testified that Adorni paid him $245,000 in cash without an invoice for lavish renovations on one of the properties he has acquired since becoming a public official. Meanwhile, a new scandal has reached the courts regarding millions of dollars in irregular expenses detected at Nucleoeléctrica Argentina, the company that operates Argentina’s nuclear power plants. These expenditures include payments for five-star hotels, beach services, hair salons, bars, duty-free shops, and cash withdrawals.

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Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a Spanish conservative politician who is the regional premier of Madrid, has landed in Mexico like a meteor, ready to use provocation as her most effective political weapon. Ayuso had been stirring things up for months with remarks about Mexico that have particularly irritated the Mexican left. Speaking from Spain, she had likened Claudia Sheinbaum’s government to the Cuban dictatorship, and defended the Spanish conquest of the Americas as a civilizing process rather than a genocide.

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Beyoncé may have brought her family and worn a silver-and-crystal-jewelry dress made to look like a skeleton for her first appearance in 10 years at the Met Gala. Bad Bunny may have looked like a venerable old man dressed in a Zara suit. The Kardashians may have brought out the big guns—and big corsets—to wear on the most famous steps in the world. But this year, beyond the celebrities, the beautiful dresses, the much-needed inclusivity, and the messages about the conversation between art and fashion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s gala in New York will be remembered for another issue, one that seems even more important than highlighting body diversity, or how fashion itself is also art: how wealth, changing with each generation, can alter the narrative, take over culture, create a rarefied atmosphere and even usher in a new era.

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“I wrote to five CEOs and four replied,” says Ben Horwitz, a student at Harvard Business School. CEOs don’t usually respond to emails from strangers. He also asked them to get coffee or attend a meeting with students — nothing too important. But Horwitz had a trick: he had created an app that mimicked the writing style of these executives, with typos, no greetings, just a single line of six or eight words. And it worked.

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It had been almost three years since Vladimir Putin had kissed a child in public. On April 27, amid an unprecedented wave of — albeit mild — criticism regarding the country’s situation, the Russian president repeated a gesture of closeness to the people that he hadn’t practiced since the Wagner Group rebellion in June 2023. The Russian leader kissed a young gymnast on the forehead and smiled as his approval ratings plummeted to their lowest level since the start of his offensive in Ukraine. Three days later, he hugged another girl in public. Support for the president remains immense, but its decline has been notable since the economic crisis became visible last year, and the situation appears set to worsen.

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