Rob Cameron

Prague has emerged almost unscathed from the ravages of the 20th century – all except one, that is. Car ownership has rocketed since the fall of communism; huge amounts of…

More than 2,000 astronauts, engineers and scientists are currently rubbing shoulders at the Prague Congress Centre, for the annual International Astronautical Congress…

What do Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler and Ferdinand Porsche have in common? Most of us would assume that these well-known personalities were all born in Germany or Austria…

People in North Bohemia are still cleaning up after the recent flash floods, but Czech Television warned of a new peril on its evening news on Tuesday – flood-damaged cars…

A monument was unveiled in Prague on Friday morning to Ryszard Siwiec, the Polish man who set himself alight in September 1968 in protest at his country’s participation in…

Police have shelved an investigation into an unusual practice dubbed ‘baby flying’, in which infants – some as young as three weeks old – are swung around by their hands…

The presidents of Poland and the Czech Republic climbed to the summit of Mount Sněžka on Tuesday, the highest point in the Krkonoše mountains that divide the two central…

There’s a bitter legal dispute at the moment over the fate of 20 massive paintings by the artist Alphonse Mucha, who created the style known as ‘art nouveau’ in the early…

The former president Václav Havel has had many professions in his life – poet, playwright, dissident, revolutionary, president, and published author. Now, at the tender…

The new government is preparing a minor revolution in an area of life that deeply affects every one of the country’s 10 million citizens, and even its foreign residents…