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PRAGUE &#8212 Czech citizens will be able to choose their future presidents after a constitutional change approved Wednesday by Parliament that took the decision on who occupies the largely ceremonial post out of lawmakers' hands.

A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask attends a demonstration against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Prague, February 2 2012.

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Here is a question for the Dickens bicentenary. What is the connection between the great 19th century English novelist and the best-loved Czech literary anti-hero? The answer is, surprisingly enough, that without Dickens we quite possibly wouldn't have A vejk at all.

Candice Jolly drives Montser Mutt during a Monster Jam event at Lluis Companys stadium in Barcelona, on October 24, 2009 in Barcelona.

Education Minister Josef DobeA appealed to fellow politicians and the media not to savage his ministry's EU-financed programs before he provides Brussels with a proper explanation Following a meeting with Czech Minister of Education Josef DobeA in Brussels on Friday, EU Commissioner for Employment Social Affairs and inclusion LA szlA3 Andor ... (more)

The Czech Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it had fought off an almost KA 5 billion international arbitration claim lodged by Swiss group Konsortium Oeconomicus.

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is hoping to benefit from its 20 years of experience garnered in some former Soviet-bloc countries.

A stray dog runs on frozen Danube waters, startled by an ice breaker in Giurgiu, southern Romania, Wednesday, Feb.

The opposition Social Democratic Party wants Prime Minister Petr Necas to apologise for saying that the Social Democrats would try to prevent the bill on direct presidential election to be passed in the Senate, CSSD leader Bohuslav Sobotka told journalists yesterday.

The Czech National Bank, the central bank of the Czech Republic, has launched an iOS app that will help people tell if their cash is legit or not.

AFP/Belgrade Thick ice closed vast swathes of the Danube yesterday, crippling shipping and commerce along Europes busiest waterway, as temperatures fell lower and more frigid weather was forecast.

Barbora Skrlova, who was sentenced to five years in prison in a closely watched child maltreatment case, was released on parole with a seven-year probationary period, the Pardubice Regional Court ruled yesterday, Ales Korejtko, from the court, told CTK yesterday.

Czechia, also known as the Czech Republic , is a country located in Central Europe that was formed in 1993.

Researchers from the Czech Science Academy's Institute of Molecular Genetics have discovered groups of genes that regulate the human organism's resistance to the fatal African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, the AV press section has reported.

Global interest in Korean culture is beginning to embrace more traditional aspects, with the National Museum of Korea getting a flurry of inquiries about lending items to museums abroad.

White nose syndrome has been diagnosed in a European bat for the first time. The disease, caused by a fungus, Geomyces destructans , has wiped out millions of bats in the US since it was discovered there in 2006 The single case, in a living bat, signifies that the disease may occur sporadically in European populations.

Czech citizens will be able to choose their future presidents after a constitutional change approved Wednesday by Parliament that took the decision on who occupies the largely ceremonial post out of lawmakers' hands.

My wife, who is professionally interested in the politics of the Czech Republic, doesn't usually find ways to connect her work and mine.

An exhibition "Letters: Courage and Anguish" of an art photographer Andrei Dubinin has been opened in Prague.