Mourners light candles outside the headquarters of Charles University for the victims of a mass shooting in Prague, Czech Republic, on Friday. A lone gunman opened fire at a university on Thursday ...

South Carolina carries out first firing squad execution in US in 15 years South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States ...

Gun crime is "relatively rare" in the Czech Republic, said The Guardian, with yesterday's shooting believed to be the country's deadliest in modern history. Arion McNicoll is a freelance writer at ...

The detained 14-year-old student of a secondary school in the Olomouc Region (northeast of the republic) claimed he wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his school. As the pupil was a minor ...

Flags will fly at half-mast on December 23 as people observe a minute’s silence for the victims of the Prague attack.