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Czechia beat the USA 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship on Thursday evening. Czech goalie Lukáš Dostál stopped 36 shots by the US team in Prague, frustrating all their opportunities to score. An ecstatic home crowd celebrated a 1-0 verdict thanks to Pavel Zacha's goal at 26:29.

On Saturday afternoon the Czechs will be playing in the semi-finals against Sweden for their chance to compete for a gold medal against either Canada or Switzerland, depending on the outcome of the second semi-final four hours later.

The third season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation, which is loosely based on the science fiction book series of the same name by Isaac Asimov, has resumed filming again in Czechia after being suspended due to the US screenwriters and actors' strike last year, the Czech Association of Audiovisual Producers stated in a press release on Thursday. The third season is being shot in Prague and Poland, where Czech crew members have also gone to help out. Filming is expected to continue until at least the end of August.

The second season of the series, released in 2023, was also filmed in Prague.

The sex offenders register that politicians have been promising since 2022 may have to be postponed for the second time, iROZHLAS.cz reports.

The government began discussing the possibility of creating such a register in response to a case where a previously convicted sex offender from Liberec abused seven children at events that he was allowed to organise, despite the fact that he was twice convicted of raping minors in the past.

The Justice Ministry said last October that it had agreed on the details of the register and was already working on a concrete proposal. Originally, the register was supposed to launch at the beginning of this year, but this was later postponed to January 1, 2025.

Now, iROZHLAS.cz warns, even this new deadline may not be met, as the Justice Ministry has still not put forward a draft proposal, saying it won't be ready until at least September.

Two rooms and a corridor connecting the two on the fourth floor of Charles University's Faculty of Arts building in Prague are to serve as places of remembrance for the victims of December's mass shooting, starting from Friday and continuing until the end of the year. The faculty management has installed commemorative stones, flowers and a piano in the rooms so visitors can express their condolences and remember those they lost.

The December 21 mass shooting last year left 14 people dead and a further 25 injured. The faculty closed for about two months after the incident. The building reopened in February, with the exception of the fourth floor, where the shooting took place.