Slovakia has been a star performer in Central Europe with a boom in car manufacturing driving brisk economic growth, but ghost villages haunt the countryside as people leave in search of jobs Slovakia ...

Slovakia has seen a number of people attacked by brown bears this spring. Some politicians now want to make it easier to shoot the protected animals. But scientists say the problem is not that there ...

The village was moved out along with surrounding villages because of the establishment of the Javorina Military District. The former village of Blažov on the upper stream of Torysa River in the ...

AS OF April 3, floods in Slovakia had affected 200 towns and villages. Rising water in rivers and streams had flooded 1,291 houses and 2,200 hectares of land. After a flood alert was called, 474 ...

Slovakia is just days away from becoming part of the European Union, a move the government has hailed as a success. But the change could devastate hopes of re-uniting families separated 60 years ago ...

Many say that Bratislava isn’t worth visiting, that it is a miniature Prague, and that it can be toured in one to two days. Bratislava is a relatively new capital, with very little history and culture ...

2001-09-09 04:00:00 PDT Krajne, Slovakia-- When Milan Mramuch's 2-year-old granddaughter, Nikolka, began suffering from epileptic seizures, he did what any loving relative who believed in witchcraft ...