The Regional Court in Plzeň has dismissed a lawsuit by a 90-year-old Czech woman whose driving licence was suspended by officials after a report of dangerous driving. The court thus deemed lawful a step that local media described as unprece
A visitor died on Tuesday at the Six Flags amusement park in the US state of Georgia after falling from a car on the Goliath roller coaster. Hasan Jihad Ibn Karim, an IT teacher, had come to the park with his son. The boy was sitting next t
Lake Constance is shrinking at a record pace: at Konstanz in Germany the water level in recent days was only about 250 centimetres — roughly 90 centimetres below the long-term norm for this time of year. It is markedly lower than any previo
An excavator overturned in Prague’s Chodov district on Wednesday afternoon. It happened shortly before 5 p.m. during earthworks on Chodovská street. The 60-year-old driver escaped without injury, firefighters said on social network X.A cran
During the municipal elections, referendums on possible wind farms were held in 21 Czech municipalities, and residents of just one of them voted “yes”. However, according to energy geography expert Bohumil Frantál of the Institute of Geonic
A tiger at a British zoo has killed a young man who climbed over a barrier on Saturday and got into its enclosure. According to police, Chapman arrived at the zoo alone in the morning.One visitor said the young man had been “jumping around
The 40-day closure of the Pisárky and Hlinky tunnels has paralysed traffic in Brno, especially in the south and west. On Tuesday morning even Brno’s likely next mayor, Jakub Hruška (KDU-ČSL), ran into transport trouble: he arrived half an h
The platforms at the Biskupcova tram stop in Prague 3 are being dug up again: they were widened in 2023, and now, during the line's reconstruction, they are being partly narrowed to free up space for buses. The main reason for the current w
Children don’t ignore mess out of spite: they simply don’t see it. That is the conclusion reached by American Kate Mangin, and her home-tidying method Noticing Time is built on this observation: a timer set for 15–30 minutes and not a singl
Denmark has passed a law under which teachers will be able to physically restrain pupils or take them to another room if they disrupt a lesson. Danish media call it one of the most controversial measures in the school system in recent years
After referendums in which residents of Czech municipalities mostly voted against wind farms, the environmental movement Hnutí DUHA said that disinformation and a lack of political support are harming such projects. Investors often offer mu
In a guest column for the Ekolist portal, Dušan and Eliáš Utínek discuss the black locust: in Czechia it is considered highly invasive, yet in South Moravia a rare hermit beetle turned up in an old locust tree. The authors call for a sober