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The 68th Ice Hockey World Championship wrapped up in Prague on Sunday with a dramatic comeback by Team Canada against Sweden to take the title for the second year in a row. Jan Velinger reports on the match and how it marked the end of an exciting of three weeks in Prague and Ostrava that hockey fans won't soon forget.

Since its first line began running three decades ago, Prague's metro system has expanded with the city. It now has three lines in an underground railway network covering around 50 km, and it has firmly established itself as the transport backbone of the Czech capital. Anyone living in Prague will have used the metro at some stage to get around, and it's virtually impossible to imagine how the city could function without it.

The Czechs are still coming to terms with the fact that their team was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the World Ice Hockey Championships in Prague on Wednesday night, and 'what went wrong' is an issue taken up on many of Friday's front pages.

In places like Britain and America, Sunday broadsheet newspapers are something of an institution. They usually come packed full of extra supplements, which keep whole families occupied as they while away the lazy hours of this traditional day of rest. Now the Czech Republic has seen a similar Sunday publication hit the shelves of newsagents around the country.

Eight Cuban dissidents are currently in Prague meeting various politicians and human rights activists to discuss ways of promoting human rights in Cuba, an issue that brings back plenty of painful memories here in the Czech Republic.

This was the ending all Czech ice hockey fans secretly feared: going out early at the 68th Ice Hockey World Championship. Now, it has happened: Wednesday night 17, 360 fans at the Sazka Arena watched as the Czechs were downed by Team USA in a nail-biter filled with plenty of chances and fast-skating, but also mistakes and missed opportunities.

In many parts of Western Europe, local authorities have privatized public sector housing over the past few years. Now the Czech Republic is following suit, and many local authorities are offering their tenants the chance to buy their flats. Given the legacy of communism, this is a complicated process, and not everyone is benefiting from the changes. One Prague district has chosen an unusual way of dealing with the problem - with its very own lottery.

The French far right politician Jean Marie Le Pen, whose recent visit to Britain caused enormous controversy, is now visiting the Czech Republic. His presence in the country is interpreted as an effort to forge closer ties with ultra-right parties and movements in the new EU member states. However, following the decline of Miroslav Sladek's Republican Party several years ago, there is no ultra right party or grouping on the Czech political scene with any influence on public affairs. So what kind of response can Mr. Le Pen expect in the Czech Republic?

May 5th is the 59th anniversary of the Prague Uprising that saw Czechs engage their German occupiers in deadly battle, in an attempt to take back their city during the final days of the Second World War. At 12:33 on May 5th Prague radio called on all Czechs to take up arms in the organised resistance: it was the beginning of five days of fierce fighting that would see thousands lose their lives.

What commentators are calling the biggest scandal ever in the history of Czech football has been unfolding across the front pages over the last week, with a club official and two referees arrested on charges of bribery.