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A jet trainer crashed south east of Prague on Tuesday afternoon, killing the pilot, who is believed to be a high ranking officer. This is the second army aircraft accident this year. has the details.

Every year thousands of Czech university graduates compete for the most lucrative posts in their field. Many are turned away again and again on the grounds that they lack work experience, in a frustrating catch-22 situation. Now, young computer specialists have pricked up their ears. Germany, which has a lack of its own computer experts, has made a bid for up to twenty thousand foreign experts, promising excellent pay conditions and five-year labour permits to start off with. has the story:

An incident at the Cerveny Ujezd refugee camp in the north of the country has led to some serious questions about conditions in camps in the Czech Republic. In recent years the Czech Republic has become home to a growing number of asylum seekers, but is the country really coping? reports.

The sleepy South Bohemian village of Lipnice, with its population of roughly sixty people, most of them pensioners, became a temporary home for up to six thousand devoted fans of Techno music over the weekend. Local residents complain that the organisers didn't receive permission to hold the rave in the area, and the district hygiene expert has now ordered the party to come to an end. has this report:

It was amid an atmosphere of tension here in Prague, sometimes bordering on hysteria, that the International Monetary Fund's recently appointed President, Horst Koehler, arrived in the city on Monday. He was in the Czech capital to see how preparations were progressing for September's IMF/World Bank annual meeting. Despite fears of violent anti-globalisation protests of the kind seen in Seattle last December, Mr Koehler was determined to give the impression that it was very much business as usual, and he focused on some of the priorities of the

It's exactly fifty-five years since the lynching of some 80 Germans in the northern city of Usti nad Labem. On Monday both Germans and Czechs joined together for a church service for the dead, a joint commemoration of the massacre. Details of the event are still scarce, and historians are still working to complete the picture of exactly what happened on that day. has more.

As the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting in Prague in September draws ever closer, the executive director of the IMF, Horst Koehler, is visiting Prague to discuss preparations. On Monday morning Mr. Koehler met the chairman of the lower house of parliament, Vaclav Klaus. Immediately after the meeting, I spoke to Radio Prague's and asked him first what the atmosphere was like.

One of the most controversial topics the Czech Republic still has to negotiate with the European Union is the free movement of labour. Many EU members are nervous about the prospect of being overwhelmed by cheap labour from the East, and some political parties - such as Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party - have campaigned successfully on the issue. But some analysts say the EU actually has nothing to worry about, and there'll be no flood of cheap Czech labour when the Czech Republic joins the Union. has the details.

There was a minute's silence on Friday at the military airbase in the eastern town of Namest nad Oslavou to remember Czech and Slovak airmen who died serving in the Royal Air Force's 311 Bomber Squadron during World War Two. The 311 squadron was the second of three Czechoslovak squadrons established in Britain during the war, and served mainly over France. The event was held to mark the squadron's 60th anniversary and was attended by a number of veterans. Among them was Petr Uruba, and earlier today my colleague spoke to him by phone. He began