14 victims and the 24-year-old perpetrator were killed in the mass shooting at Charles University in Prague, the most serious episode in modern times; pictures and videos of students running for safety have travelled the globe

The 79th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the country's largest and oldest classical music festival, will kick off next Sunday with a performance of Bedřich Smetana's My Country by the Berliner Philharmoniker

A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti will be unveiled today at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, South Bohemia; between 1942 and 1943, some 1.300 Roma passed through the camp and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children

Prague is witnessing a surge in Airbnb prices, which have increased by about 25% due to high demand, prompting the government to plan new regulations

The annual March for Life, organized by the largest pro-life activist group, took place in Prague with an estimated turnout of several hundred people; counter-protesters also gathered and blocked the procession from crossing the Legion Bridge