Czech Republic News

Two male juvenile Komodo dragons, direct from Prague, are now calling Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay home, joining the attraction's diverse family of reptiles.

The collapse of the ruling coalition of the Civic Democrats and TOP 09 at the Prague City Hall is not surprising in view of its poor performance, and the only question is who is to blame and why has TOP 09 sunk the coalition, Ivana Faryova writes in Mlada fronta Dnes today.

The Prague metro company, apparently hoping to boost service on its trains, has announced a plan that seems bound to exacerbate those drawbacks.

The City of Prague Gallery was given custodianship of the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace in Prague's Old Town a few years ago.

One of the Czech Republic's best known soccer clubs has just escaped bankruptcy and expulsion from the first division.

The long awaited trial of Czech Tatra lorry maker's director general Ronald Adams suspected of corruption will open at the Brno Municipal Court on June 6, the court's spokeswoman Gabriela Stockova told CTK Friday.

Power producer CEZ continues talks with US-Japanese company Westinghouse and Czech-Russian grouping Konsorcium MIR.1200 on the extension of nuclear power plant Temelin, and has set eight categories of topics for further talks, CEZ spokesman Ladislav Kriz told CTK Friday.

The Czech Republic's controversy-courting new president is under fire for refusing to grant a university professorship to one of his critics and hinting that it is because the man is a gay rights activist.

Czech schools should take an accommodating approach to kids of vegetarians and enable them to warm up their home-prepared vegetarian lunches, ombudsman Pavel Varvarovsky has told CTK.

Barbara Vybiralova opened a commercial kitchen in Beaverton with help from her partner, Mirek Fejfar.

A lecture on the situation on the Korean Peninsula was given in Mlada Boleslav County, the Czech Republic on May 9. Present there were officials of the Communist Party of Czech and Moravia and the Czech, Moravian, Silesian Trade Unions' Association and masses.

The bright sunny skies of the Czech Republic welcomed the cars to the grid for the first race of the Coppa Shell championship at Brno.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories.

At a press briefing held on site, the father-son team of Arnaud and Adrien Bricout, announced today that their new French wine and delicatessen, La Cave D'Adrien, is now open for business.

The Ferrari Challenge Europe rolls into Brno in the Czech republic this weekend for the second round of the championship.

It's no secret that American writer Robert Fulghum loves the Czech Republic and that his books, published by Argo, have proven immensely popular here.

A former secret Soviet nuclear warhead shelter in the Czech Republic is being turned into a museum inviting visitors to learn about the Cold War atomic race.

The United States says it has completed a transfer of 75 kilograms of salt coolant material to the Czech Republic as part of cooperation between the two countries in developing new nuclear reactors.

Valtr Komarek, honorary chairman of the opposition Czech Social Democrats , one of the major protagonists of the communist regime's fall in 1989, died after a long illness aged 82 today, the server iDnes.cz has said, referring to his son Martin Komarek.

Mother, 30, who spent 4,700 to skip UK waiting list by having a boob job in Czech Republic is left disfigured when botched breasts explode and a nipple falls off A mother who spent thousands on breast implants was left too ashamed to leave the house after her botched breasts exploded and she lost a nipple.