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The presidential ambitions of former Prime Minister Milos Zeman receive in-depth coverage in all the papers today, and many feature an identical photo of Mr Zeman sitting in an armchair with pipe and slippers at his cottage in the country. "Some people told me I'd soon get bored of country life," he tells MLADA FRONTA DNES. "But after four months here I can say with absolute sincerity that I'm 100 percent happy. I do not want to move back to Prague."

The story of terrorist attacks that killed 16 and injured 80 in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday dominates the pages of today's Czech dailies - with PRAVO showing a picture of the dead amidst the bombed-out rubble of a Kenyan hotel, a picture that doesn't make easy viewing. Other newspapers like LIDOVE NOVINY and MLADA FRONTA DNES feature photos of greatly relieved family members greeting their loved ones who were aboard an Israeli jet taking off from Mombasa's airport, narrowly missed by two missiles that could have brought the plane down. Reportedly

The demise of Czech TV head Jiri Balvin makes the front pages of all the dailies today - Balvin Falls, says LIDOVE NOVINY, adding he has until midnight on Thursday to clear out his desk. Mr Balvin has apparently paid the price for failing to reorganise the monolithic public TV network.

While there are a mixed bag of stories in Wednesday's press, almost all the front pages carry photos of a very happy Katerina Neumannova. The top Czech skier confirmed on Tuesday what had been widely known; that she is expecting a baby. The popular skier, who is 29, has been quick to make it clear she is planning a comeback, in three years time.

All the Czech newspapers feature on their front pages Carinthian governor Joerg Haider, who announced his retirement from politics on Monday, although he changed his mind on Tuesday, making the front pages rather redundant. Many Czech newspapers carry reactions to the Austrian election results, and say an Austria without Haider would be unlikely to put obstacles in the Czech Republic's path to the European Union.

The papers are dominated today by the weekend's groundbreaking elections in neighbouring Austria, which saw the conservative People's Party clinching victory for the first time in 35 years. Meanwhile Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party scored one of its worst ever results, losing almost two-thirds of its voters. "Haider Loses Election" says MLADA FRONTA DNES, summing things up nicely.

"History has been written in Prague" reads the headline in Friday's LIDOVE NOVINY summing up the situation after Day One of the NATO Summit being held in the Czech Republic: on Thursday NATO officials invited seven new countries to join the alliance and all of the dailies carry extensive coverage of the event. All show cover photographs of beaming world leaders including Jacques Chirac, Vaclav Havel, and George W. Bush. Only PRAVO features a photo of demonstrators on its cover instead.

There are few surprises in the Czech newspapers today - like yesterday, most of their pages are taken up with coverage of the NATO Summit. The newspapers focus on the statements made by US President George Bush in Prague yesterday, last night's gala ceremony at Prague Castle at which heads of state honoured Vaclav Havel, and the anti-NATO protests that are expected to take place today.

The Czech Republic is in the grip of NATO-mania and the papers report on the upcoming NATO summit from every conceivable angle: who will be invited to join the alliance in Prague, what transformation NATO needs to undergo to meet the new challenges ahead and most of all security matters. NATO related stories fill the Czech dailies from cover to cover.

NATO madness continues today - all the papers herald the imminent arrival of the leader of the free world in the Czech capital - "Bush on his way to Prague" trumpets MLADA FRONTA DNES, and that sentiment is echoed on all the other front pages as well. Even the left-wing PRAVO features a front-page interview with the U.S. president - the headline reads "I'm really looking forward to Prague." Profound stuff.