“Wake up, Link!” High in his treehouse, a pointy-eared boy named Link is roused by the call of a fairy. He is the only resident of the Kokiri Forest without a winged companion, until Navi bursts into his dreams to tell him that his destiny lies far beyond that sheltered corner of the woods. Thus begins a journey that will lead him to a princess, pit him against a threat determined to plunge the kingdom of Hyrule into darkness and, seven years later, task him with saving a world that has fallen into the clutches of evil.
How many days of work does it take to earn enough to buy a basic food basket of 10 items? If we ask that question in Ireland, the answer is just 1.2 hours of work. The picture changes dramatically in the Central African Republic, where a worker needs about 30 days to purchase the same basic basket. In Finland, a person can pay for a week’s groceries with only 1.7 hours of work, compared with the 20.4 days required for someone living in Malawi.
At 27, Javon Daniels will vote for the first time on November 3 in the U.S. midterm elections. He will be the first member of his family to cast a ballot. He also believes he will be one of the few in his neighborhood to do so — Third Ward, a predominantly Black community southeast of Houston where nearly 43% of residents live below the poverty line.
In barely a day, hurricane Polo, which formed in late September in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico, reached the highest category — level 5, corresponding to winds above 252 kilometers (156 mph) per hour. It was the second most powerful tropical cyclone recorded in the Pacific to date. Polo later weakened before making landfall as a storm — at category 2 — in Baja California Sur, Mexico. It left behind torrential rains, floods and infrastructure damage in northwest Mexico and the southwestern United States, and five deaths linked to those floods in Mexico.
Invertir interesa a los jóvenes españoles. El 42% asegura tener un interés muy elevado por la inversión según una encuesta exploratoria realizada por Banco Santander. Sin embargo, cuando la pregunta pasa del interés al conocimiento, la cifra cae hasta el 12%. La distancia entre ambos porcentajes dibuja uno de los principales retos financieros de una generación que empieza a tomar decisiones que condicionarán su futuro económico.
Esta fue precisamente una de las realidades en las que la entidad financiera decidió poner el foco en las actividades programadas por el banco con motivo del Día de la Educación Financiera, celebrado el pasado 5 de octubre. Una iniciativa impulsada por el Banco de España y la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) que ya se ha consolidado como la cita anual de referencia para poner en valor la importancia de este tipo de formación en las diferentes etapas de la vida de las personas y cuyo lema este año ha sido “Ahorra. Invierte. Avanza”, un mensaje con el que se quiso destacar la contribución de la educación financiera al desarrollo de conocimientos, habilidades y aptitudes que permiten gestionar mejor las finanzas personales y adoptar decisiones económicas más responsables y fundamentadas.
Si el pasado año Banco Santander centró sus esfuerzos en dirigirse a los colectivos financieramente más vulnerables con amplia información y consejos prácticos para evitar que las personas mayores sufrieran fraudes y abusos patrimoniales, en esta ocasión la actividad de la entidad ha puesto el foco en las personas más jóvenes.
La entidad ha realizado un estudio exploratorio entre personas entre los 18 y los 30 años que muestra resultados muy interesantes.
Mientras que el 42% de los jóvenes consultados afirma tener un interés muy elevado por asuntos relacionados con la inversión, solo el 12% considera que sus conocimientos sobre esta materia son también muy altos.
Este salto entre deseo y realidad no solo se circunscribe al terreno de la inversión, sino que en el del ahorro sucede prácticamente lo mismo. En este sentido, solo el 22% de los encuestados reconoció dominar esa parcela tan importante del presente y del futuro de las personas, mientras que prácticamente todos los jóvenes consultados reconocen tener interés sobre cómo ahorrar de la mejor manera posible.
Al mismo tiempo, dos de cada tres encuestados son plenamente conscientes de que disponer de estos conocimientos será muy importante para tomar sus propias decisiones en los próximos cinco a diez años. Pero solo el 13% reconoce que su nivel actual de conocimientos financieros es alto.
La fotografía no es nueva. El macroinforme internacional “El valor de aprender”, elaborado por Santander a partir de las respuestas de 20.000 personas en diez países ya mostraba el año pasado esa demanda de conocimiento: en España, el 71% de los participantes manifestó interés por ampliar sus conocimientos sobre ahorro y prácticamente el mismo porcentaje, el 67%, expresó lo mismo respecto a la inversión.
Con estos resultados y la realidad más que contrastada en la calle, Banco Santander desarrolló una agenda de actividades a lo largo de una semana con más de 40 sesiones de educación financiera por toda la geografía española a través del programa Finanzas para Mortales (FxM), la iniciativa sobre educación financiera promovida por la entidad y Santander Financial Institute (SANFI) que formó en 2025 a cerca de 37.000 jóvenes.
Además, Marco López, responsable de Negocio de Valores y Mercados en Banco Santander, fue el responsable de impartir un webinar sobre inversión para jóvenes en el que se abordaron conceptos básicos y claves para ayudar a los más jóvenes a adentrarse en ese mundo. “Nos encontramos”, asegura López, “con una generación que tiene curiosidad por la inversión, pero que muchas veces no cuenta con las herramientas necesarias para distinguir entre información fiable y ruido. El interés ya existe; el reto es acompañarlo con conocimiento para que las decisiones se tomen con criterio”.
Pero la labor de Banco Santander para acercar la educación financiera a todos no termina en ningún momento del año. Para todos aquellos jóvenes interesados, Santander pone a su disposición dos cursos gratuitos y online: El camino del inversor y El camino del trader, que pueden encontrar en la plataforma Santander Open Academy.
Además, Marcos López, entre otros especialistas, continuarán con distintas sesiones formativas presenciales durante las próximas semanas en diferentes Work Café de Barcelona, Las Palmas y Valencia.
Porque si algo muestran los datos es que a los jóvenes españoles no les falta interés por tomar las riendas de su futuro financiero. El reto se mantiene en transformar esa curiosidad en conocimiento para que puedan tomar decisiones con criterio y seguridad.
The last two years have been, she says, “an emotional roller coaster.” She voted for Donald Trump for president, immigration authorities took away her husband, she was left alone to run the freight trucking business and care for their three children, and she watched her life plans slowly slip through her fingers. Now there are exactly 20 days left until the U.S. midterm elections and no campaign promise—neither from the Republicans nor the Democrats—has convinced Jessica Ruiz about the need to get up on November 3, drive through the streets of Miami and go to the polling place for Florida’s 28th District.
A woman in her 70s holds a sign against the World Health Organization (WHO) in the rain outside the World Health Summit in Berlin, one of the main international forums on global health. The image catches the eye of Gevorg Tamamyan, an Armenian physician and candidate to lead the agency. “When I was a child, the WHO meant trust. Why has that trust become so fragile?” he asks hours later during the first debate among several of the seven contenders to succeed Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Despite years of political defeats in Texas, Democrats are hoping that the 2026 midterm elections will finally turn a Senate seat in the staunchly red state purple. James Talarico, a rising star within the party, is seen as one of the keys to achieving that new shade. For Republicans, he has become one of the biggest challenges in this closely contested campaign. So much so that a substantial share of the money being spent in the race has gone not toward promoting their controversial Senate candidate, Attorney General Ken Paxton, but toward attacking his opponent.
Artificial intelligence is also making its way into the world of books. EL PAÍS examined the use of AI in a sample of 119 popular books published in 2025 and 2026, analyzing titles that appeared on the bestseller lists at Amazon.es and the Spanish bookstore chain Casa del Libro, as well as the winners of a major literary prize.
The latest economic forecasts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) do not bring good news on inflation for Donald Trump, who, less than a month before the midterm elections, is facing his lowest approval ratings, largely because of his handling of the economy.
There are three versions of Saint John’s Book of theApocalypse, a text that never loses relevance and now seems to presage the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI).
This past summer has been, for Europe, “the summer of truth,” as Ursula von der Leyen said a couple of weeks ago in her State of the Union debate speech. The president of the European Commission was warning about the consequences of global warming, which has again struck the continent hard. And the Copernicus Climate Change Service quantifies this sweltering summer in its seasonal assessment, published on October 2. The season in Europe was marked by heatwaves that were unusually intense and early (the first arrived in May). Across the continent this was the third-warmest summer on record. But focusing on western Europe, the summer of 2026 was the worst on record. It surpassed 2003, which shocked many EU countries with tens of thousands of deaths linked to extreme heat.
Digital surveillance and data leaks may seem far removed from everyday life, but they are becoming increasingly common. In Venezuela, for example, authorities blocked messaging apps and social media platforms including Signal, X, TikTok and Telegram, as well as YouTube, VPN services and websites. In Nicaragua, independent media outlets had their domains blocked. In Paraguay, a leak from the electoral authorities exposed the data of nearly seven million people. And in Argentina, more than 665,000 medical records were put up for sale.
The Colombian city of Medellín woke up on October 1 to good news. According to official figures from the city administration, September recorded the lowest number of murders in 50 years: just five homicides in the city of 2.5 million inhabitants, 22 fewer than in September 2025.
A man was shot and wounded during an arrest operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New York on Thursday. The shooting occurred in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx at about 4.00 p.m. local time, the police said. Besides the wounded man, there was a five-year-old child inside the vehicle who was reportedly unharmed.
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition in exile, María Corina Machado, has decided to intervene in the United States midterm elections. She did so by publicly endorsing Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, who is seeking a fourth term in the House of Representatives for Florida’s 27th District. The statement, released Wednesday via video, comes at a particularly sensitive moment for the Cuban-American lawmaker, who has clashed with Donald Trump over her criticism of the White House’s immigration policy and who faces an increasingly tight race in Miami.
La manera en la que nos movemos está cambiando. También nuestros coches. La apuesta de Kia con su sistema ECO es un compromiso con la eficiencia y, por tanto, con el futuro
The inauguration in Brazil includes a moment of enormous symbolism that comes courtesy of the architect Óscar Niemeyer. The elected head of state arrives at the Praça dos Três Poderes and ascends to power on foot, walking up the ramp that leads into Planalto Palace. “In 2027, I will climb the ramp with my father,” Flávio Bolsonaro repeatedly promised during the presidential campaign; he is now the favorite to win the October 25 runoff after attracting 47% of the vote last Sunday over incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 45%. Flávio knows that his supporters prefer the original Bolsonaro to the copy. He has also declared that, if he defeats President Lula on October 25, his first move will be to pardon Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup.
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
When Republican Greg Abbott was re-elected governor of Texas in 2022, his margin over opponent Beto O’Rourke was nearly 11 percentage points. Less than a month before the midterm elections, however, polls no longer show him with a comfortable lead. Survey averages put Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa just over two points behind and rapidly closing the gap, raising alarm among Democrats over the need to boost campaign funding in the final stretch.
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