Brno, Czech Republic News

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have discovered a link between the deja vu phenomenon and structures in the human brain, effectively confirming the neurological origin of this phenomenon.

Vienna - Austrian police have clocked an Italian man driving a Maserati sports car at 239 kilometres per hour on a motorway some 40 kilometres northeast of Vienna.

Simon Mawer 's last novel, The Glass Room , was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009 .

Wires hang out of the walls, windows are smashed and the grass grows tall in the gardens of the once-elegant archbishop's residence in Bent on building a society free of religion, the communists seized the chateau, of the diocese of Prague, and thousands of other church properties and threw clergymen into labor camps and prisons or forced them into ... (more)

Friends of the late former Czech president VA clav Havel have founded the VA clav Havel Library Foundation in the United States.

The "lost generation" of Romanies whom society does not understand and who do not understand society is coming of age in the Czech Republic and social tension is mounting, daily Mlada fronta Dnes reports yesterday.

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