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A blaze raged overnight on the roof of the National Museum atop Prague’s Wenceslas Square. The contractors involved insist that adequate fire prevention precautions were in place, but the National Museum says this trio of companies is fully liable for the damages.

Cyber security shot up the agenda in recent weeks in the Czech Republic after the highly publicized hacking of the prime minister’s e-mail and twitter accounts by a group based in the United States. But if that’s raised questions about the state’s readiness to counter and combat cyber threats, the same questions hold true, perhaps even more so, for the private sector.

A controversial bill on electronic cash registers intended to fight tax evasion cleared the lower house on Wednesday. The opposition TOP 09 and Civic Democrat parties, who have fought the legislation tooth and nail, now say they will take the matter to the Constitutional Court.

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek held talks with top officials in Macedonia on Wednesday offering the country material and personnel assistance in dealing with the refugee crisis. The minister stressed the need to bring the flow of migrants on the so-called Balkans route under control and highlighted the crucial role of Macedonia in helping to bring this about.

A first group of Iraqi pilots has completed training on L-159 fighter jets at manufacturer Aero Vodochody. Iraq has bought 15 of the planes, which were surplus for the Czech Air Force, for training purposes and missions. So far, Iraq has received only two of the aircraft. Great Britain has so far blocked the remainder of the delivery over fears that certain technology could fall into the wrong hands.

An extremely rare and valuable silver coin dating back to the founding of the United States has gone on display in Prague’s National Museum. The so-called Flowing Hair silver dollar is on a four day stopover in Prague as part of a wider European tour.

Czech exports reached a record 3.9 trillion crowns in 2015, an increase of 7.2 percent year on year. Although exports to Russia dropped by over 30 percent higher exports to the county’s traditional EU partners made up for the difference. I asked the chief economist of Era Poštovní Spořitelna, Jan Bureš about the driving force behind the increase and its sustainability.

More and more Czech motorists are turning to alternative fuel vehicles, from plug-in electric cars to hybrids to compressed natural gas. Over the last two years alone, an additional 500 electric cars have joined regular traffic in the Czech Republic, bringing the total use of electric cars in the country to around 1,000.

On Saturday evening, hours after anti-Islamic demonstrations in Prague, around 20 masked men attacked a social centre in the city that organises collections for refugees. The assailants threw petrol bombs and stones in an incident that has been condemned by politicians.

Five Czechs who had been missing and presumed kidnapped in Lebanon for five months arrived home on Thursday after the Czech government freed two Lebanese nationals wanted by the United States. The swap, which Czech officials have not officially confirmed, elicited an angry reaction from Washington.