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On Wednesday, September 30, Prague Castle welcomed Romanian President Nicușor Dan, who arrived in Czechia together with his partner, Mirabela Grădinaru. President Petr Pavel and his wife, Eva Pavlová, greeted the couple at the Castle, where
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar rode through the streets of Rome on a legendary Vespa scooter with his twelve-year-old son Miklos, right after an audience with the pope, to whom he had introduced two of his three sons.Magyar posted a
Booking platform Hotels.com surveyed Americans about their behavior in hotels and the unwritten rules of etiquette during short trips. The results, published by Travel + Leisure, revealed some surprisingly odd guest habits.More than half of
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has sent a letter to broadcasters in participating countries proposing a radical overhaul of Eurovision's voting system. The news comes from Swedish outlet Aftonbladet, which obtained a copy of the orga
The second week of August treated sky-watchers in Czechia to three rare astronomical events all at once: a sudden outburst of comet 220P/McNaught, one of the most striking partial solar eclipses seen in the country in the past 26 years, and
Air conditioning stopped being a pricey extra long ago and is now standard equipment on almost every car — even though it's a complex system that requires maintenance, adds weight, and puts extra strain on the engine. In return, though, dri
Tomáš Lorinc, a 36-year-old Slovak who once played football professionally before moving into football administration and later freight dispatching, weighed 265 kilograms when he signed up for the reality show "Extreme Makeover." Over nine
The annual Perseid meteor shower is one of summer's most beautiful celestial spectacles. On clear nights, you can spot dozens of "shooting stars" per hour, especially if you watch from somewhere away from city light pollution — hills, meado
Residents of Spain witnessed a rare natural spectacle this week — a total solar eclipse, during which the Moon completely blocked out the Sun's disk. The path of totality also swept across Iceland and Greenland, while other regions, includi
Last week at Victoria International Airport in British Columbia, Canada, a flight to Toronto was cancelled after a toddler flatly refused to fasten their seatbelt. The airline reported the incident, though the child's exact age wasn't speci
A Porter Airlines flight from Victoria, Canada, to Toronto had to be aborted and the aircraft returned to the terminal — all because of a small child who stood up on their seat and refused to fasten their seatbelt. The airline confirmed the
Czechia is holding a vote for the title of "Tree of the Quarter Century" — a special anniversary edition of the foundation's survey dedicated to the country's most remarkable trees. Voters can choose among 13 finalists until October 5, with