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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of legendary underground band- Prazsky Vyber. During the mid 1980s the band was blacklisted by the communist regime and became a symbol of resistance. Following the Velvet Revolution front man Michael Kocab acted as one of Vaclav Havel's main advisors and oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet troops. To celebrate the anniversary, Czech television has just released a documentary film which tracks the bands history and makes use a of a wide range archive material.

It is now close to three months since news of the tsunami disaster shocked the world. With the help of charities and NGOs, the people of south east Asia are slowly rebuilding their lives and coming to terms with their grief. UNICEF, which was providing around the clock assistance within hours of the tragedy, has now decided to show the world what the past three months have been like in the Maldives.

Wednesday saw the conclusion of a European Union summit in Brussels focused on the Lisbon Agenda, which is aimed at making Europe's economy more competitive. The main issues on the table were the liberalisation of services and changes to the stability pact.

When you enter the Jiri Svestka Gallery, a warehouse art space at the end of a quiet Prague street, you have the feeling you've escaped into a peaceful, light-filled oasis. And usually it is just that. But, ever since the opening of a young Czech artist's exhibit - which the staff has to "turn on" - the art work has taken on a deafening life of its own.

Two landmark anti-discrimination cases involving members of the Romani minority were settled this week. In both cases, the women had posed as jobseekers, inquiring about advertised positions, but were denied interviews —which were later granted to "white" applicants.

Traditional Indian sitar music is not the sort of sound you would expect at a festival traditionally associated with European classical music, but this year's "Prague Spring" international music festival will be different. The festival, which starts on May 12th, is celebrating its 60th birthday and among the artists from all over the world will be the famous Indian musician, Anoushka Shankar. She is the daughter of the legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar - who in the 60s even played with the Beatles. As Prague Spring director Roman Belor says,

European Union leaders met in Brussels on Tuesday and approved a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact, governing the euro. The agreement that limits the size of a nation's budget deficit had been criticised for not allowing governments to boost economic growth by spending more. The leaders rubber-stamped a deal negotiated by their finance ministers on Sunday which loosens strict deficits rules and allows countries to claim exemption for all sorts of public spending. Radio Prague's Martin Mikule is now in Brussels.

Images of Helena Vondrackova, a famous Czech pop star whose music dates back to the 1960s - splashed across Czech newspapers on Tuesday. The singer had taken a well known music critic to court and won, for public statements he made about her which she says are slanderous. But Monday the Czech Constitutional Court annulled the ruling. Kate Barrette has been following the story and has more on the case.

Two years ago, Cuba saw what has been described as the harshest clamp down on human rights on the island nation since the revolution in 1959. In an expression of solidarity with those jailed by the Castro regime, scores of Czech politicians, writers, artists, and other notable personalities donned prison uniforms at the weekend and took turns sitting behind bars in a mock jail cell erected on Prague's Wenceslas Square. On Monday, demonstration organisers brought a petition signed by these "inmates" to the Cuban embassy in Prague.

Today Germany is the Czech Republic's biggest trade partner. German tourists are traditionally among the keenest visitors to this country. But relations between the two countries whose history is so interconnected have always been complex. The atrocities of the German occupation during the Second World War and the consequent expulsion of the ethnic German minority from Czechoslovakia still leave a degree of bitterness in the two nations' relations. In order to help create better understanding a Czech-German conference takes place every year in the