• Jane Goodall names Prague Zoo’s newest baby gorilla
    05/11/2024

    The Prague Zoo has announced that the baby gorilla born in its care roughly a month ago is a female. She was given the name Gaia, which means Mother Earth.

    The name of the baby cub was chosen by the British primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, who spent decades studying chimpanzees. Dr. Goodall baptised the gorilla at a ceremony in Prague Zoo on Saturday in front of hundreds of visitors.

    A day earlier, the world-famous ethologist delivered a lecture at the Czech University of Life Sciences.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Maker Fair innovation showcase kicks off in Prague
    05/11/2024

    The annual innovation showcase Maker Fair got underway at Prague’s Exhibition Grounds on Saturday with more 200 engineers, scientists, artists, and DIY enthusiasts presenting their works. The event, which is now in its seventh year, features lectures, workshops, and presentations of cutting-edge technologies. Last year it attracted some 10,000 visitors.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Rammstein to perform in Prague this weekend
    05/11/2024

    German band Rammstein will perform two concerts at Prague’s Letňany Airport on Saturday and Sunday launching their European tour. The organizers expect 60,000 people to attend each of the shows. The legendary band last performed in Prague two years ago.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czechia beats Finland 1-0 in first game of Ice Hockey World Championship
    05/11/2024

    The opening day of the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague and Ostrava saw victories for Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Czechia. The Czech hosts defeated Finland 1-0 in a shootout at Prague O2 Arena, with Ondřej Kaše scoring the game-winning goal. Lukáš Dostál had 21 saves and four more in the shootout. The Czech ice hockey team will next face Norway on Saturday evening.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Lipavský: Czechia fully supports Montenegro’s EU accession talks
    05/10/2024

    Czechia fully supports the Montenegrin government in its efforts to make progress in EU accession talks, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said after meeting his counterpart Filip Ivanovic at the Czernin Palace on Friday. According to Mr. Lipavský, Montenegro is a Czech ally in NATO and an important partner in the Western Balkans region.Apart from discussing Montenegro’s EU accession process, the two ministers also spoke about strengthening mutual economic cooperation, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the political situation in the Western Balkans.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Police searching for Russian intelligence general responsible for Vrbětice explosion
    05/10/2024

    Czech police on Friday announced a manhunt for Russian intelligence general Andrei Averyanov, whose unit is suspected of blowing up arms stores in Vrbětice eight years ago, killing two people and causing major material damage, the Czech News Agency has reported.

    Two agents believed to have carried out the attack, Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin from Russia’s military intelligence service GRU, are still at large. The pair are also believed to have carried out the Novichok attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Ice Hockey World Championships kick off in Prague and Ostrava
    05/10/2024

    The 2024 Ice Hockey World Championships get underway on Friday in Prague and Ostrava. The tournament, which includes 16 teams, will run over the course of two weeks and is expected to attract over a hundred thousand hockey fans to Czechia.

    Teams will play games in two venues, Prague’s O2 Arena and the Ostravar Arena in the Moravian-Silesian capital. Fans can also watch the best of the games on a big screen outside the stadiums. Access to the fan zones is free of charge.

    The championships kick off at Prague’s O2 Arena at 4.20pm with a match between Switzerland and Norway. At the same time, Slovakia will face Germany in Ostrava.  Czechs will play their first match against Finland at 8.20pm in Prague.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather forecast
    05/10/2024

    Saturday should be sunny to partly cloudy with day temperatures ranging between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Aurora borealis may be visible in Czechia
    05/10/2024

    People in Czechia may be able to observe the aurora borealis, or northern lights, this weekend, due to a severe geomagnetic storm, astronomer Petr Horálek from the Institute of Physics in Opava told the Czech News Agency. The lights should be visible on both Friday and Saturday night, he said. The northern lights were also seen in Czechia on Monday night.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech singer Aiko fails to reach Eurovision final
    05/10/2024

    Czech singer Aiko has failed to reach the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. The 24-year-old’s song Pedestal was not among the 10 chosen to go through from the semi-final in the Swedish city of Malmö on Thursday night.

    No Czech artist has ever won Eurovision. The most successful contestant so far was singer Mikolas Josef, who took sixth place in 2018.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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