Šmicer won league titles in the Czech Republic, France and England. Veteran soccer midfielder Vladimír Šmicer once again proved he can stun people. Šmicer, who is nicknamed "Little Luck," shocked everybody Nov. 9 by calling an end to his impressive career after an ordinary Gambrinus liga game. [read more]

Wellington's Beehive, home of the New Zealand Government's executive, ranks as the third ugliest building in the world according to a tourism website list [read more]

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - From the merely unpleasant to the borderline criminal, ugly buildings somehow manage to pop up even in the prettiest cities. [read more]

IN LL WEEKLY--- All Bets Are Off : The lottery contract saga goes on. Also: Fired DPR employees claim the stats were juked to force layoff. Greetings all. [read more]

The detritus of daily life takes on new dimensions in assemblages scattered throughout Ženatá's former flat. A family home over time becomes like an additional member of the family, an intimate reflection of its inhabitants and a repository of their history and dreams. [read more]

It’s the kind of story that makes film scenarios - a husband and wife on the run after a daring escape from prison, just a few months after their wedding. But this story ended badly – within 24 hours of the man’s escape, the police had caught up with them. The man was dead, the woman critically injured. Who are the Czech Bonnie and Clyde and what happened on their desperate flight to safety? [read more]

A band’s refusal to cut its hair, its willingness to brave prison cells and its talent for tapping into a generation’s collective despair helped change the direction of a nation. [read more]

PRAGUE -- It has been called the Velvet Revolution, a revolution so velvety that not a single bullet was fired. [read more]

In a modest home in Sparks, Harry Rice said he simply tries only to remember the good memories of his time fighting in World War II. “I tend to lose the bad stuff and remember the good parts,” Rice said looking at a box on the floor. [read more]

Originally published on the Migration Information Source www.migrationinformation.org , a project of the Migration Policy Institute. Only in the last decade has Germany acknowledged its status as an immigrant-receiving country. [read more]