The city's young musical ambassadors will make a historic debut at the world's classical music centre next week, when the Hong Kong Children's Symphony Orchestra performs in Vienna.
When the J. Paul Getty Museum announced in June the purchase of a 17th century bust by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, it was heralded as a major acquisition -- the first sculpture attributed solely to the Italian Baroque genius in the museum's collection.
A 21-year old champion Slovak kickboxer was killed by New Zealand police on Sunday, after being pursued for three robberies. The man, David Cerven, a prize-winning junior kickboxer from Orava region, was shot after he said he had a weapon and would use it, according to police reports.
A number of media outlets in this part of the world are spreading
pro-Kremlin propaganda with a view to undermining faith in Western
institutions. That is the message of a study recently published by the
Tomas Stern was born decades after World War II, decades after Nazi Slovak militia fired bullets into a pile of hay, narrowly missing his father - not yet 5 years old - who lay trembling beneath the straw.
Residents of the Slovakian village of Gabcikovo voted in a referendum Sunday to reject the establishment of a temporary asylum camp to house 500 migrants bound for Austria under an agreement between Bratislava and Vienna.
Figure skating legend Ája Vrzáňová-Steindler, who won back-to-back
world championships in 1949 and 1950 in Paris and London, has died at the
age of 84. After travelling to London, Vrzáňová defected, opting not to
A US military convoy, numbering around 100 vehicles and several hundred
military personnel, will likely travel through the Czech Republic and
neighbouring Slovakia in September to take part in a NATO ground forces
A US military convoy, numbering around 100 vehicles and several hundred
military personnel, will likely travel through the Czech Republic and
neighbouring Slovakia in September to take part in a NATO ground forces
