Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says South Africa’s tolerance for “just one drink” has become a licence for mass death
Seeing upfront the consequences of violent conflict for people – for generations – is shocking
The trick to tackling Covid-19 at this stage is to be adaptive. The government’s one-size-fits-all approach is broken; we need to be more flexible. But we should not throw away…
Here are some of the more puzzling rules as Europeans settle for another winter holiday season overshadowed by the pandemic threat
Thousands marched in Prague at the climax of the first gay pride festival in the Czech capital, defying a fine drizzle and counter demonstrations.
Czech public television network CT is putting a sock into vuvuzelas at Soccer World Cup games in South Africa.
United States President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev signed a landmark nuclear-arms reduction treaty on Thursday.
Silenced by communism 40 years ago, Czechoslovakia’s ‘funky as hell’ music of the 1960s and 1970s has been given a new voice.
The Czech Constitutional Court threw out a complaint against the EU’s Lisbon Treaty on Tuesday, removing the last obstacle to its ratification.
Prague may suffer from tourist overload, but if you know where to look you can still find its Bohemian soul, writes Sophie Cook.
Czech opposition Social Democrats have their best chance yet on Tuesday of toppling Mirek Topolanek’s minority centre-right administration.
It takes a lot to make him break his silence — Kundera has given few interviews in the past 25 years.
When Vaclav Havel went from being a dissident to a president, "the arc of my story was completed in a way that was almost like a fairytale", he notes.
About 100 cars collided in a huge pile-up in a heavy snowstorm in the Czech Republic on Thursday, completely blocking its main highway, officials said. Six people were seriously…
Lili, Demi and Mek, three female antelopes born in a Czech zoo, will soon be set free in Swaziland under a programme to reintroduce endangered species to their African homeland.…
Arsenal can advance to the knockout stage of the Champions League by beating Slavia Prague on Wednesday. Arsenal, which beat Slavia 7-0 on October 23 to equal the biggest margin…
United States President George Bush sought to calm Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday over plans for a US missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, saying on the eve of a…
A Czech court ruled on Thursday that a British tourist who was seriously injured when a Christmas tree collapsed on top of him should receive 560 000 koruna (about R190 000)…
Czechs have launched an ”anti-Santa” campaign against the white-bearded usurper they fear is edging out the infant Jesus or ”Jezisek”, the traditional bearer of seasonal gifts…
Three young giraffes died at a Czech zoo, famed for its work on endangered species, as a result of a power cut, the head of the zoo said on Thursday. ”When the power came on…
