The recent results from the Auger Observatory are described: the
steepening of the spectrum at highest energies, the evolution of the
composition indicators as a function of energy, photon and neutrino
limits and the arrival direction of the ultra-high-energy cosmic
rays. The first experimental evidence of their anisotropic
distribution above 60 EeV - that suggests an extragalactic and
bottom-up origem for them -   and the issues raised by a few papers in
the recent literature will be discussed.