Milena Grenfell-Baines and 668 other mostly Jewish children were transported from Czechoslovakia to England in order to save their lives before the outbreak of WWII. The man who made this possible was Sir Nicholas Winton. In 1939, Winton, at the time a 29-year-old stockbroker, spent nights and weekends organizing logistics, raising money and cutting through red tape to get children out of Czechoslavakia.
A blind toddler from a small village near the Slovakia capital is being hailed a "true little Mozart" for his keyboard renditions of classical musical, despite never having a piano lesson.
A tribute to Nicholas Winton, who quietly organized the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia during World War II, who died at age 106.
Wild Rumpus, organizer of the Timber Festivel, has created Sounds of the Forest audio project that lets you hear global woodland sounds.
A flying car built for less than 2 million euro completed the first ever inter city flight, going from Nitra to Bratislava in Slovakia.
Watch a video introducing this solar-powered pod with wind turbine that lets two people live off the grid anywhere they can park it.
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