The News

The news Beetle plague reaches BCN (-,-,2007) Catalonia Today Two phoenix palm trees in Barcelona’s Parc Ciutadella have fallen prey to the red palm evil, a beetle from to the Southern and Melanesia. The larvae of the “weevil” is the main cause of destruction to the palms, the adult female lays 200 eggs. Happy Birthday, Hergé! (Thursday, February 15, 2007) Catalonia Today This year 2007 is the centennial of the creator of the intrepid journalist, Tintin, and his trusty sidekick, snowy, and the other characters how: captain Haddock, Calculus, Nestor, Thompsons, B.Castafiore and Rastapopoulous. The adventures of these characters have been translated into 58 different languages and have sold more than 200 million copies. Kameni on his way to England? (Thursday, March 6, 2008) Catalonia Today Espanyol’s Cameroon goalkeeper, Carlos Kameni, could be on his way to England. Catalan sports paper how El Mundo Deportivo reports that Espanyol have already had talks with London club, Tottenham, Hotspur and also with Manchester United. Barça’s Messi out for six weeks (Thursday, March 6, 2008) Catalonia Today FC Barcelona star Leo Messi will be out of action for six weeks after an injury during Barça’s Champions League victory over Celtic on March 4, when Messi left the Camp Nou in tears in the first half. Berga Celebrates La Patum (June 8, 2006) Catalonia Today La Patum one of the most spectacular celebrations of Catalonia is just around the corner. It takes place every year during the week of Corpus Christi, in Berga from 14 to 18 of June. This time the celebration promises to be bigger than ever main to that La Patum was awarded a place in the category of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Celebrating Rusinyol (Thursday, June 8, 2006) This year marks the 75th anniversary of the death of the artist and writer Santiago Rusinyol. He made Sitges a centre of the modernist movement when he founded the cultural centre Can Ferrat which was the focus of a series of exhibitions an art between 1892 and 1899. L’any Rusinyol is being inaugurated on June 13 by Catalan president Pasqual Maragall, with an exhibition of over 100 of his works.