During the final battles of the Second World War, the slopes above the western town of Cerkno were the site of an extraordinary event, a skiing competition held in the heart of occupied Europe. Eighty years on, the race will be remembered with a series of cultural, sporting, and commemorative event
Architects Ana Kosi and Ognen Arsov have been selected to represent Slovenia at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice this year with a project focusing on the skills of artisans.
Slovenia's pavilion will spotlight craftsmanship techniques and skills as a crucial and irreplaceable
The Astronomical Observatory on the Golovec hill overlooking Ljubljana has acquired a new, 80-centimetre telescope, the largest yet in the country. It replaces an older one whose mirror measured 9cm less in diameter.
The observatory is operated by the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mathematics
A secretly recorded footage released by an animal rights group has exposed appalling conditions on a poultry farm that is supplying a number of public institutions, raising questions about the quality of food served at Slovenian schools, kindergartens and care homes.
The video, first aired by the p
Samo Zver, the head of the haematology department of the UKC Ljubljana medical centre, a doctor "who treats with optimism", has been voted the Person of the Year 2014 of Slovenia's leading newspaper Delo.
Zver is a "person who would never put himself first, instead he gives himself to others", Delo
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Kinoatelje, a cultural organisation based in Italy' Gorizia that is dedicated to promoting and producing films in the cross-border area, is joining the European Capital of Culture with two of its major projects to bring cinema to small local communities and take local film production to European au
Matjaž Škorjanc, the author of a malicious code used in the Mariposa botnet that infected millions of computers around the world between 2008 and 2011, has been let off the hook as his case became statute barred.
Škorjanc, at the time 23, was arrested in Maribor in July 2010 after a two-year invest
Slovenians have voted genocide (genocid) as the word that marked 2024 the most, while the sign language gesture of the year is that for peace, and preturizem (overtourism) became the new word of the year 2024.
The word, new word and the sign language gesture of the year were declared by the Researc
Slovenian researchers, together with international experts, have made a groundbreaking discovery about the evolution of the properties of cosmic dust in galaxies that formed soon after the Big Bang, based on data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Their study, published in the scientific journal
