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Defeat in Belfast Monday eliminated the Czechs from World Cup qualifying. Journalist Michal Petrák says only wholesale change can revive Czech soccer.

Czech officials have joined international condemnation of North Korea’s biggest nuclear test to date, calling on the country to cease escalating tensions in the region and start observing its international commitments.

Czech scientists have revealed a substance that could help treat obesity and diabetes.

Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, and it was an insatiable thirst for a beer on a deserted beach in Cambodia that led a group of Czechs to construct a mini-brewery in a container. Today it’s on the market and shows promise of selling abroad as well.

Unions say they are ready to demonstrate if the government doesn’t boost teachers’ pay by 15 percent and that of other state employees by 10 percent.

The immunity and mandate committee of the lower house has recommended stripping ANO leader Andrej Babiš and his right-hand man, deputy chair Jaroslav Faltýnek of their immunity to release them for criminal prosecution. If the assembly acts on this recommendation, the man widely expected to win October’s general elections will face charges of subsidy fraud and harming the EU’s financial interests.

Police officers often disrespect detainees’ basic human rights, says a report by the Office of the Ombudswoman.

It is official: football prodigy Patrik Schick, who made his mark on Czech junior teams, briefly in the Czech league and especially with Sampdoria in Italy’s Seria A, has signed with Roma.

Former finance minister Andrej Babiš is threatened by a new scandal following the release of a new anonymous recording.

The Czech Republic may seek to gain observer status at Eurozone meetings to get on the inside track of the EU decision-making process.