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04/04/2010
A two-year-old girl remains in serious condition after nearly drowning in a garden pool on Saturday. Doctors say she is over the worst but remains in intensive care. The child had wondered away from her parents, who were with her in the garden when the accident happened. The pool had been left unprotected and police are investigating the case on suspicion of negligence.
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04/04/2010
Animal rights activists are using Easter to draw attention to what they describe as atrocious conditions in intensive poultry farms. They have appealed to the public to either boycott eggs this Easter or buy them from organic farmers. The vast majority of eggs sold on the Czech market come from intensive poultry farms where laying hens are held in small cages in which they are unable to spread their wings or walk. Of the estimated five million birds currently in breeding only 0,1 percent are bred in natural conditions.
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04/04/2010
Many Czechs are saving on holidays in view of the economic crisis. Travel agencies say that exotic far-away destinations are giving way to cheaper holiday locations that can be reached by car, such as sea-side resorts in Croatia, Bulgaria and Italy. People are also booking into cheaper hotels and shortening their holiday time to a week instead of the usual fortnight. While in 2008 travel agencies sold 2.3 million package holidays for 15 billion crowns, last year it was only 1.9 million holidays for 12 billion.
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04/04/2010
A 17-year-old intoxicated driver without a license caused an accident in which five people were injured over the weekend, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday. The youth was speeding and lost control of the car, which swerved into the opposite lane crashing into an oncoming Škoda. The traffic police are out in force for the three day Easter weekend. In addition to more people drinking and driving during the Easter holidays, police say there is also a danger of slippery roads since nighttime lows are expected to drop to freezing point.
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04/04/2010
Czech Tomáš Berdych will face sixth-seed Andy Roddick in the final of the Miami Masters on Sunday. Berdych booked a place in the final when he beat fifth-seeded Swede Robin Soderling 6-2, 6-2 on Friday. Berdych, the 16th seed who upset world number one Roger Federer in the fourth round, needed just 68 minutes to dispatch Soderling and book a showdown with American Andy Roddick in Sunday's final.
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04/03/2010
US President Barack Obama will meet eleven Central and East European leaders when he comes to Prague next Thursday to sign a disarmament treaty with Russia. The US and Russian presidents are expected to sign a landmark deal to slash nuclear warheads that will replace the START I treaty which expired in December.
President Obama is expected to arrive on Thursday morning and head straight for Prague Castle for the signing ceremony and one-on-one talks with his Russian counterpart. A meeting with the Czech president and prime minister is also on the agenda.
In the evening he is to host a dinner for 11 Central and East European leaders. Political analysts say that the main aim of the talks is to reassure the former Soviet-block states that Washington is not selling out their interests in forging closer ties with Moscow.
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04/03/2010
The two-day high profile event in Prague will be accompanied by a massive security operation involving the Czech police, army and foreign security teams. A number of locations will be closed to traffic and there may be restrictions on movement in the vicinity of Prague Castle. The National Gallery which has expositions in the Šternberg and Schwarzenberg palaces on Hradčany Square and the St. George Basilica has said it plans to close them down for three days in view of the heightened security requirements.
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04/03/2010
Close to half a million people have signed a petition calling for juvenile murderers to remain under medical supervision for life. The petition is organized by the mayor of Kmetiněves, where a 13-year-old schoolboy raped and murdered a girl from his class in 2004. Because of his age he was sent to a correctional institute for juveniles where he underwent medical treatment. He was released in January of this year after reaching the age of 18. Since he committed the murder as a juvenile he will have no criminal record and it is up to him whether he will continue in his medical treatment. Doctors concluded that he suffers from a sexual deviation which requires permanent medical supervision.
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04/03/2010
A thirty-nine-year old mother who abandoned her newly-born twins in hospital has returned to claim them. The woman left the hospital at night without telling anyone and failed to return for two days. She said later she had gone home to look after her eleven other children. Since she left the twins in good care the mother will not face charges of negligence. The twin boys are said to be in good health and their mother is once again nursing them.
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04/03/2010
Traffic police are out in force for the Easter weekend, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday, noting that particular attention was being paid to bikers. The first and last day of the Easter holidays usually bring heavy traffic and a heightened number of accidents and fatalities on the road. Last year the police registered 753 accidents over the Easter holidays and 15 road deaths. In addition to more people drinking and driving during the Easter holidays, police say there is also a danger of slippery roads since nighttime lows are expected to drop to freezing point on Monday.
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