Xavier Amedeo Pallas

Czechia has seen a surge of tourists from China. The interest is largely attributed to the TV reality show ‘Divas Hit the Road’  which was also filmed in Czechia.

A lion escaped its enclosure at the mini-zoo in the town of Zvole on Saturday. Following an altercation with the zookeeper, the animal was fatally shot on site by police. 

The legendary statue of Samson is leaving České Budějovice for the first time ever. It is heading to Prague Castle, for the exhibition ‘Vltava: famed and flowing’.

The Mafia franchise is one of the most successful Czech-made game series ever. ‘Mafia: The Old Country’ will be its fourth instalment, to be launched on August 8.

Czech-American Joseph Stiborik was a crew member of the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 80 years ago, on August 6, 1945.

Czech racing driver Roman Staněk is on a hot streak in the Formula 2 championship, one step below the elusive Formula 1. 

The 6th annual theatre festival ‘Summer Grébovka’ kicked off on Monday with the highly anticipated production of ‘To be Marlene Dietrich’. 

Czech citizens based abroad will have the possibility to vote by post in October's general elections. The deadline to sign up is less than three weeks away. 

Matěj Krajíček is a 21-year-old art student from Pardubice. For two months now, he has been on a mission to repair cracks in the city’s sidewalks with colourful mosaics. 

The ashes of Czech author Milan Kundera and his wife Věra will be buried in the “Circle of Honour” in Brno. The city revealed the tombstone, to be ready by July 2026.