14.03.2010 - Swiss Catholic Church investigates 60 claims of sex abuse
Vatican says bid to link pope to abuse has failed The Vatican has dismissed attempts to link Pope Benedict XVI to a raft of child sex abuse revelations in Germany, denying accusations that he had once tried to cover up the actions of pedophile priests. (13...

14.03.2010 - Latest news - 14-03-2010
President Klaus: EU living through worst crisis in history

The Czech president, Václav Klaus, has warned that the EU is going through the gravest crisis in its history, following the adoption of the Lisbon treaty. In a written address to a eurosceptic party convention in Prague on Saturday, Mr Klaus said he believed civic and economic freedom in the European Union is at risk, as the bloc was adopting ever stronger regulatory measures under the pretence of combating the economic crisis...

14.03.2010 - Alchemy and wife swapping in Renaissance Bohemia
The philosopher, scientist and mystic, John Dee, was one of the great figures of Elizabethan England. He was a close confidante of the Queen and one of the founders of modern science, at a time of transition from the medieval to the modern age – a time when science and alchemy, magic and mathematics intertwined...

14.03.2010 - Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: The first Bohemian chronicler Cosmas, listening to Radio Prague on smart phones, listening in the Czech Republic, a comment on the reduction of the number of winners each month, saving wild animals in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: Joe T...

14.03.2010 - Is a president allowed to slouch?
Last weekend Czechs marked the 160th anniversary of the birth of the co-founder of Czechoslovakia and the country’s first president T.G...