The dog sits behind the wheel of the car and with great importance pretends to be driving. The cat gets stuck high in the hedge and can’t get out. Pets quite often cause a smile and sometimes even bursts of laughter. Pictures from the global Comedy Pet Photo Awards photo competition try to capture such … Read more
The beauties of the aurora borealis, mysterious nebulae in deep space and unusual views of the surface of the Sun and the Moon. All this brings the best astronomical images of the year, which advanced to the finals of the international Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 competition, organized by the British Royal Observatory in … Read more
A modern ceremonial hall evoking the ship Enterprise from the Star Trek series will be built in Týnec nad Sázavou in Central Bohemia. The jury that chose the winning proposal was won over by the concrete structure with its shape, affordable price and glass walls, which can also be opened in the summer. The building … Read more
Jan Novák decided to take a stab at international business and exchanged the multinational company for a failing factory where traditional Czech enamelware is produced. The company literally rose from the ashes within three years, Novák took over just before the former owner sold it off. Today, they try to preserve the Czech tradition of … Read more
Czech volleyball players are in the finals of the European League after four years. The semifinals with Ukraine in Varaždin turned from 0: 2 into sets. Ukraine won the opening sets 25:23 and 25:22, but the other two ended in the same proportion in the Czech Republic. The Czechs clearly won the decisive fifth set … Read more
The World Charity Competition for the funniest photo of pets has published the first sample of this year’s films. There is still a month left until the deadline. Last year, the Czech photographer Jakub Gojda was also among the winners with a picture of a horse that “laughs” similarly to its rider. The absolute victory … Read more
The Star Wars series, whose first part premiered 45 years ago, has become a worldwide pop culture phenomenon and has long since crossed film boundaries. It offered unprecedented action battles of spaceships, lightsabers and various space races. For decades, viewers have been devouring the story of Anakin Skywalker, who has to be reborn as the … Read more
There were offices in it, the National Assembly was in it, and later the bank moved to it. The Sugar’s Palace in the center of Prague has been around for over a hundred years and, thanks to its neo-baroque architecture, is a cultural monument. There has been no use for it in recent years, it … Read more
Skier Martina Dubovská finished 18th in the World Cup slalom in Killington. Even the fifth slalom in the history of the American center was dominated by the home Mikaela Shiffrin and in the most spinning discipline she equaled the 46th triumph of the Swede Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin was second after the first round, but she … Read more
Businesswoman Ifedolapo Runsewe of West African Nigeria, a country heavily dependent on oil export earnings, recently discovered another type of black gold: used tires. She founded a tire recycling company last year and at that time only four people worked for it. Today, it employs 128 workers, who have so far recycled over 100,000 used … Read more