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A man in snorkeling gear stops traffic on Prague’s Wenceslas Square. What do you do when you have one motorbike and a six-member family? And, sculptor David Černý gives Prague three more black babies. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

More and more Czechs are taking up slacklining. A woman is in big trouble after attempting to smuggle three banana plants to Australia in her undies! And, a spooky dinner – why are those chicken bones shining in the dark?! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

An LT 35 tank – pride of the Czech arms industry in 1938 – comes home. A Czech chemistry textbook wins a gold medal at the Frankfurt Book Fair. An 18-months-old baby boy gets a place in the Czech Book of Records! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Asian ladybirds are invading the Czech lands by the thousands. Czechs are gradually re-discovering recumbent bikes, and an old legend is scientifically confirmed - eggs did go into the making of Charles Bridge. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

The Irish singer Glen Hansard and Czech musician Markéta Irglová, who won an Oscar this year for best original song with their composition Falling Slowly will make an appearance in The Simpsons. Twelve women from a small Czech town find inspiration in the movie Calendar Girls. And, the Napoleonic Society plans to pay tribute to the horses that were killed in Battle of Austerlitz. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Not many people are prepared to travel in it, but the Czech made Velorex car has just proved its worth in an expedition across the legendary Route 66. A two- year-old takes an early morning joyride across town on his tricycle, and the town of Pelhrimov wants to build a unique monument. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Two Czech woodcarvers are making a nativity scene for the Pope. Hate waiting at airports? Prague’s Ruzyne Airport offers passengers an exhibition of modern art on the premises! And, a small village in north Bohemia gets its own astronomical clock. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova

A former minister walks the entire stretch of a highway after losing a bet it would be completed on time, Czechs poke fun of the government’s sugar cube campaign ahead of the country’s EU presidency and, a restaurant owner kills his business by going on a reality show. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

In this week’s edition of Magazine: a Czech student becomes a big hit on the internet with a video in which he throws himself against a wall; people are stealing plastic cut-outs of police officers intended to keep drivers in check; Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková gets a rock song in her honour; and the Czech Republic’s impressive network of marked hiking trails is under threat.

In this week’s edition of Magazine: weddings held under water, chapels by the motorway, renaming rivers, thieves stealing entire bridges, Czech technology helping the disabled use computers and the most absent Czech MP…