Europe Slovakia Cardinal Jozef Tomko, the Holy See's most influential Slovakian, has died at 98 in Rome; under Pope John Paul II he became prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and was the third most influential person in the Catholic Church
Europe Slovakia Bratislava Transport Museum opened an exhibition on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the launch of the Vienna Tramway
Europe Slovakia The extra-parliamentary opposition party Democrats started collecting signatures for a referendum on shortening the current electoral term
Europe Slovakia For electric cars, Slovakia ranks last among all EU member states; of all cars sold last year, only 2,7% were electric
Europe Slovakia Fire and rescue corps and volunteer fire brigades from the towns and villages of the Zahorie area in western Slovakia built a mobile flood barrier on the bridge over the Morava river between the Slovak town of Holic and the Czech town of Hodonin