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Czechia's first radio station aimed at the LGBT community, Radio Q, has gone on air. The station launched on Wednesday, September 9, fittingly at 9:00 a.m., and is now available, among other platforms, via Myonlineradio.The broadcast is ove

El Niño, which began forming this spring, is rapidly gaining strength and could become the most powerful on record, according to forecasts. This was revealed in an interview by meteorologist Michal Žák, who noted that the temperature anomal

An explosion has rocked the Ritom hydroelectric power station near the village of Piotta in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Large numbers of rescuers, firefighters and police have been deployed to the scene, the surrounding area has been cordon

Miloslav Kala, President of the Czech Republic's Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ), has said his institution will not lower its standards when auditing government spending — even if, following a decision by Andrej Babiš's government, officials end

On September 15, the Diplomatic Academy of Russia's Foreign Ministry will host its 13th roundtable for the diplomatic corps in Moscow. According to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, more than 110 ambassadors from the majority of

Fuel prices in Czechia are climbing fast: a litre of diesel now sells for an average of 47 crowns, with some petrol stations edging close to 50 crowns. That's 14 crowns more than before the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict. Road hauliers ha

Today's young people in Czechia generally earn and live better than their parents' generation did, but they face a far tougher challenge: access to housing. That's according to a new study by the IDEA think tank, which compared living stand

Lucia Sisicová, who was crowned Miss Austria in 2024, has died at the age of 22. The organisation Miss Austria announced her death on its Facebook page, offering condolences to her family and loved ones."It is with great sadness that we lea

In the early hours of Wednesday, OpenAI published a paper claiming to have solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems — the set of mathematical challenges for which the Clay Mathematics Institute offers a one-million-dollar reward fo

A court in the Czech town of Třebíč has sentenced three young men who last summer brutally beat a man outside a fast-food stand near the Jihlava River. The harshest punishment — 8.5 years in prison — went to 20-year-old Zdenko Šesták, whose

In the area of the former military zone of Dobrá Voda in Šumava, near the village of Prášily, police and firefighters have cordoned off a site roughly the size of two football pitches, where they discovered 200 barrels of hazardous chemical

The STAN (Mayors and Independents) movement has taken the top spot among the Czech Republic's opposition parties, polling 18% of the vote in September — its best result since last year's parliamentary elections. According to the NMS agency,