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The number of people expelled from their home over violence rose by about one third to 1430 year-on-year in 2011, according to statistics of the Bily kruh bezpeci civic association.

Workers try to fix a damaged water pipe after it was damaged by the extreme cold weather, in the center of Liberec, Czech Republic, Monday, Feb.

Activists placed office furniture in front of the Belarus embassy in Prague to symbolize the eviction of rights organizations from Belarus Activists from the Brno-based Independent Social Ecological Movement and the Prague-based Civic Belarus initiative placed office furniture and equipment in front of the Belarus embassy in the Troja district in ... (more)

Europe's vicious cold snap has claimed 62 lives in Poland, with nine new victims in the past 24 hours.

An exhibition of posters for films by Milos Forman, born in Czechoslovakia 80 years ago and based in the United States, opened at the Czech Centre in New York on Thursday and will be accompanied by screening of Forman's films.

Some 150 Czechs and foreigners took part in the 10th Branik Ice competition, also called the 1st Nicek Memorial, swimming in the Vltava River 1.9 degrees centigrade "warm" while the air temperature dropped down to 14 degrees centigrade below zero Saturday.

This is Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Czech Republic, as it looked in 1931 before it was ravaged by war and disrepair.

Prime Minster Petr NeA as and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg will meet on Tuesday to discuss the planned European fiscal agreement.

Of course, the 19-year-old looks forward to the independence it will give her, but she is especially happy to be leaving the Communist-era prefab building where she has lived all her life.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's refurbished Modernist masterpiece in Brno, Czech Republic, opens to the public in March.

Calling all folks who are interested in learning about history and their family heritage - this fall, Wade Olsen will be giving a "German-Bohemian Tour" of Germany and the Czech Republic.

Dmonstrations were against the Czech Republic joining the international treaty against the spread of illegal copies were staged in several towns in spite of the frosty weather today, the largest being in Brno where some 500 young people gathered.

The cabinet is preparing to replace Education Minister Josef DobeA , several Czech media outlets report.

Nuns take pictures in the snow covered St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Feb. 4. People used government shovels to clear piazzas and children enjoyed another day off school as Rome awoke to about 10 cm of fresh snow.

Telc is a town in southern Moravia, near Jihlava, in the Czech Republic. The town was founded in 13th century as a royal water fort on the crossroads of busy merchant routes between Bohemia, Moravia and Austria.

This month in Mailbox we read from your letters of condolence on the death in December of the former president VA clav Havel, we read from your feedback regarding Radio Prague's programmes and we quote from your answers to January's mystery Czech quiz question.

KIEV, Ukraine - Russia and Ukraine both took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during a brutal cold snap.

I felt like Daddy Warbucks the other evening as I led Anna Lee up the carpeted stairs and into the regal magnificence of Prague's NA rodnA divadlo.

Czech scientists help upgrade nuclear reactors for the U.S Navy, weekly Ekonom writes yesterday and says experts concede that the cooperation offer is linked to the U.S. Westinghouse company being one of the bidders for the Czech Temelin nuclear power plant's extension.

Warsaw's skyline seemed destined to be permanently blighted with the concrete hulk of a half-finished residential tower in the centre of the city - but Orco, the Luxembourg-registered developer, said on Thursday that it had capped out the 54 "This building is a symbol of Orco's resilience," says Jean FranA ois Ott, the company's founder who first ... (more)