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A new bout of illness for President Klaus makes the front pages today - "President Taken To Hospital" thunders MLADA FRONTA DNES, accompanied by a large colour photo of Mr Klaus kissing his wife. There's also a front-page photo of the presidential couple in PRAVO - there too the story is big news. Only LIDOVE NOVINY and HOSPODARSKE NOVINY take a more sober line - the former giving the story second place after the Greek earthquake, and the latter barely mentioning it.

The record temperatures which hit the Czech Republic on Wednesday make the front pages of all Thursday's dailies. carries a photo of a meteorologist measuring the temperature at Prague's Klementinum, where they saw the highest August temperature since records began in 1775.

One year after Prague was shaken by disastrous floods one man is back and his picture is featured on almost all the front covers this day: Sean Connery - returning for the premiere of his new film 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', which was partly shot in the Czech capital.

One topic shared by most Czech dailies on Tuesday is the continuing heat wave. LIDOVE NOVINY carries a story about a north Bohemian village whose water sources have dried out for the first time in history. According to the paper, a total of twenty-four villages in the region have problems with water distribution. Drinking water has to be carried to the villages in cisterns and fire-fighters fetch service water for watering gardens and house work.

The Pope praying for rain, a Greenpeace protest at a Czech chemical factory, and Czech soldiers on guard against angry mobs in Iraq - all feature prominently on today's front pages. MLADA FRONTA DNES has pictures of Czech troops standing near burning tires, the result of local Iraqi unrest on Sunday. In several incidents Czech soldiers received minor injuries from stones thrown by local inhabitants. Worse was an incident in which one Iraqi man - attempting to jump a vehicle leaving the Czech base - slipped under the wheels and later died from his

The photo of the Austrian-born American actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has announced he is going to run for governor of the state of California, dominates the front pages of all major Czech dailies on Friday. "The Terminator wants to be governor, the Terminator runs for governor", read the inspired captions.

The ongoing saga surrounding the troubled Fischer travel empire dominates the front pages today - news that brokerage firm Atlantik Financial Markets will buy debts from one of Fischer's creditors means that Fischer lives on to fight another day. And also making headlines this morning - the Senate's blocking of three candidates for the Constitutional Court proposed by President Vaclav Klaus.

One subject may not be making front page headlines, but is perhaps the dominant issue in Wednesday's dailies. That's the tropical heat the Czech Republic is currently enjoying, or should that be suffering? While Czech trains are going slower due to warping tracks, PRAVO reports that temperatures on trams in the capital city Prague are approaching 60 degrees Celsius.

The sweltering weather across Europe continues to make headlines in all papers this Tuesday. Last-minute talks to save the failing Fischer travel agency, discussion on salaries in the public sector, and the ever-growing popularity of mobile phones are also the top stories today.

The apparent salvation of the best known travel agent in the country - Vaclav Fischer - is the big story in all of today dailies, primarily because there's nothing else happening in the Czech Republic at the moment. Yes, the silly season or "cucumber season" as the Czechs say is in full swing - and the papers are awash with the sort of stories that can only dream of making it big during the rest of the year.