Czech Republic News

Sunday's Games: Cleveland Browns (1-8) at Detroit Lions (1-8), 1 p.m. The Lions are bad, but at least they've been competitive at home. The Browns are ranked last on both sides of the ball and have lost seven of eight...

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, accompanied by the Frames: Joe Doyle, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Rob Bochnik, Johnny Boyle...Their affair has since ended (a whirlwind roller coaster, as Hansard described it), but they've decided not to end their creative partnership, releasing...

Václav Havel had been released from jail only days before, yet he was full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Thousands of his countrymen had written letters petitioning for his release, at a time when declaring solidarity with...

In the incident, the lions managed to lift a trap door leading to an open-air enclosure where the tiger was at the time. The lions reacted, enforcing their right to the territory, fatally trapping the tigress and killing her.

The collection of photographs by Lubomír Kotek documents the atmosphere of Prague streets in the years preceding the Velvet Revolution.

Czechs mark 20th anniversary of start of Velvet Revolution Czechs on Tuesday began to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution with a series of commemorative events, exhibitions and concerts across the country. In Prague alone...

Vaclav Havel , the dissident leader who spearheaded the Velvet Revolution that overthrew communism in Czechoslovakia and kicked off twenty years ago on November 17, 1989, once declared that “truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred.” Yet the...

It's a lazy Saturday morning. And I don't feel like staying at home, at all. I pack my camera and walk through half the city to reach the beautiful Villa Tugendhat on the hill where Černá Pole is now located....

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed the Lisbon Treaty, becoming the last EU leader to sign the document into law. The Czech Constitutional Court had earlier removed one of the last hurdles to its ratification by ruling that the treaty...

The patron saint of the Czechs stares from his plinth in the centre of Prague with a genial, perplexed expression. It is 20 years since Good King Wenceslas last looked out on the frozen and cheerless political landscape of Communism....