The international research initiative Noah's Ark Scans has reported the results of new drilling work at the Durupınar formation near Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey: boreholes drilled this year found no continuous layer of solid rock inside
Slovak President Peter Pellegrini was angered by a question from journalists at the Markíza TV channel: whether he had really been photographed in New York with the real Donald Trump. The journalists had good reason to ask — photos of sever
At the gala opening of the 78th Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt am Main on Tuesday, novelist Radka Denemarková said that two former officers of the communist-era StB secret police are now sitting in the Czech government. Among the guests a
Czech Television (ČT) has announced that it will not represent the country at the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, citing the broadcaster's ongoing budget adjustments. ČT made the announcement in a brief statement.“In 2027 we won't see the Cze
Václav Havel switched to first-name terms with Miloš Zeman after former culture minister Pavel Dostál brought him to the Hrádeček cottage without warning — and later regretted that decision, recalls Ivo Mathé, the last head of the president
Today, 5 October, Václav Havel would have turned 90 — the leading Czech playwright, dissident, and first president of post-socialist Czechoslovakia and later Czechia. Almost fifteen years have passed since his death, and an entire generatio
Spanish retail chain Zara Home has withdrawn a children's Halloween costume from sale after social media users spotted a resemblance between its striped pattern and the uniforms worn by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, including Ausch
In the Portuguese city of Évora stands the three-nave Sé Cathedral, consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Construction began in 1186, the church itself was consecrated in 1204, and the work was fully completed by 1250.
Conrad Lant, better known as Cronos, has died — the vocalist, bass guitarist and one of the founders of the British band Venom, which stood at the origins of black metal. This was stated in an announcement posted on the band's Facebook page
In the forest between the villages of Bory and Vysočany in the Tachov district, local mushroom picker Cudrák found a fungus weighing around fifteen kilograms. He took it for a cauliflower mushroom, a species that occurs quite commonly in th
In the German city of Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg), on the night from Saturday to Sunday an 18-year-old driver staged a dangerous race around a roundabout just three hours after gaining the right to drive without a supervising adult, and e
A female elephant has died at the zoo in the Czech town of Zlín: an international team of six veterinary specialists spent several hours performing a complex operation to remove her damaged tusk, but the animal never came round from the gen