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Composer Sends Budgies To Sleep
On a freezing Sunday in Jaslo, Poland, three pet budgies, named Cziko, Czako and Dako, fell asleep in broad daylight to the strains of John Levine’s alphamusic.... | Comment |
African Couple In Polish Adoption Wrangle
A Mombasa peasant family is fighting to have a child they gave to a Polish couple in exchange for a mobile phone and Sh4,000 returned to them.
Mr Joseph Riob... | Current Affairs |
Polish Fishermen Reach To Asia
Polish fishermen want to send their old boats to fishing villages on the Indian Ocean wiped out by last month's tsunami, rather than scrapping them under a Euro... | Current Affairs |
Major Pile-Up On Cracow Road
Heavy fog caused a 61-car pile-up on Monday on a busy highway near the southern Polish city of Krakow, injuring 18 people, the fire brigade said.
"Dense fo... | Current Affairs |
Polish 'Ghost' Sent To Jail
A Polish woman who pretended to be a ghost and "haunted" an Alpine castle was sentenced to four months in prison by an Italian court.
Police were called in ... | Comment |
Calls For Freedom of Information
A Polish legislature panel investigating allegations of high-level bribery broadened its mission this week, demanding the release of communist-era secret files ... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Bomb Scare
A Polish man who threatened to blow up a building in central Warsaw gave himself up after hours of negotiations that began early on Friday, police said on Satur... | Current Affairs |
Poles Defend Role in Babylon
Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a ''negative influence'' on the sit... | Current Affairs |
More Vodka Pickings
Having announced yesterday that the privatisation process of Polmos Bialystok is underway, Poland’s Treasury Ministry has said that a further five distillers wi... | Business |
Prince Rules Out Poland Visit
Britain's Prince Harry has ruled out visiting Auschwitz as atonement for wearing a Nazi uniform at a party just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the dea... | Current Affairs |
Thaw in Paris-Warsaw Relations
Visiting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Thursday he saw reasons for closer ties between his country and Poland as he inaugurated the renovated Fren... | Current Affairs |
Poland OKs Shootdown Of Hijacked Planes
A new Polish law gives authorities the power to order hijacked airliners shot down — a post-Sept. 11 measure that underscores growing terrorism concerns in Euro... | Current Affairs |
Vodka Veteran Draws Major Interest
The Polish privatisation authorities have received 20 requests for memorandums for the upcoming privatisation of Polmos Bialystok, the local press reported toda... | Business |
Elections Rule Out Pope's Trip
Pope John Paul will visit Germany this year but will not take up an invitation to visit his native Poland in June because of elections planned there, the Vatica... | Current Affairs |
Give Ukraine A Chance In EU Say Poles
Ukraine should be given a chance to join the European Union, and the people of the former Soviet republic should have the final say on membership, Polish Presid... | Current Affairs |
Golden Goal Back On Track
A major investment project at the heart of Warsaw finally looks set to kick back into gear after a bungle by outgoing officials from the local government. The l... | Business |
Treats in Store
Old Man Winter may be in frosty spirits but this certainly doesn't mean that there's nothing to warm the souls over the coming months. There's a great mix of ev... | Art and Culture |
Alliance In The Skies
Low-fare airline, Germanwings, has added Polish Centralwings, owned by Polish State-owned airline LOT, to its pan-European partnership structure in what Central... | Business |
There's Nothing Like Family
A bungling criminal's plans to pay his cousin to serve out his jail sentence went wrong when he foolishly squandered his freedom. Now they could both end up bei... | Comment |
Poland Gears Up For Elections
Polish parliament Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said Tuesday he would seek a vote to dissolve parliament May 5 leading to general elections June 19.
Po... | Current Affairs |
Schroeder To Speak At Auschwitz
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will speak at a ceremony this month marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a gr... | Current Affairs |
Wild Boar Chases Man
A man escaped unscathed after a boar chased him around a hospital parking lot in southwestern Poland, the hospital spokesman said Thursday.
Cameras monitori... | Comment |
Poland Keen To Leave Iraq
Poland still hopes to withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of this year, but the staunch US ally could prolong the mission if the international community as... | Current Affairs |
What Now For Former Speaker?
If anyone in the Polish parliament could score a hit as a character in a James Bond film then it is Jozef Oleksy, who was relieved of his post as Speaker last w... | Comment |
Poles Unenthusiastic About US Airbases
More than half of the Polish people oppose the transfer of large US military bases from Germany to Poland, an opinion poll issued Wednesday said.
According ... | Current Affairs |
Hats In The Ring For Top Job
Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz officially agreed yesterday to become a candidate for the seat of the Sejm Speaker, following the prose cutor's verdict... | Comment |
Chocolate Heavyweights Cut Deal
Domestic confectionary producer Jutrzenka has purchased the rights to the Goplana brand and a Poznan production facility from Nestle Polska and Societe des Prod... | Comment |
Aeroflot Emergency Landing In Warsaw
An Aeroflot plane had to make an emergency landing in Warsaw due to inappropriate behavior of a female passenger, head of Aeroflot press service Irina Dannenber... | Current Affairs |
Polish Ambassador Lucky To Survive
In the wake of mounting concerns over the mushrooming death toll in South Asian countries hit by Sunday's catastrophe, a lucky survivor of the tragedy is thankf... | Current Affairs |
Poles Join Tsunami Effort
A group of Polish forensic experts flew to Thailand's capital on Monday, to help with the identification of tsunami victims by means of DNA tests.
The Polis... | Comment |
Polish Hostage Tells Of Terror
A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq for nearly a month was terrified of being rescued by U.S. troops because she believed any military-style raid would have end... | Current Affairs |
Polish Speaker Offers to Resign
The speaker of Poland's Parliament, Jozef Oleksy, offered to resign on Wednesday, a party spokesman said, after a court said he had worked for the country's Com... | Current Affairs |
Polish Premier Congratulates Yushchenko
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski congratulated Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on his presidential election victory this monday, hailing it a... | Current Affairs |
Polish Russian Wobble
President Putin said that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski's statement that "Russia without Ukraine is better than Russia with Ukraine" was wrong.
"T... | Current Affairs |
Wartime Spectres Rise Again
The American Justice Department has asked a federal court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a man who allegedly served in a Nazi-sponsored police force during W... | Current Affairs |
Polish Wigilia
Christmas Eve has always occupied a special place for those of Polish and eastern European heritage. The sacred symbols, beautiful customs and festive foods, so... | Comment |
Polish Premier Flies To Iraq
Poland's prime minister and defense minister arrived in Iraq Wednesday for a Christmas visit to Polish troops, a Polish military official said.
Prime Ministe... | Current Affairs |
Poland's LOT Start Low-Cost Airline
Centralwings, a new low-cost airline owned by Poland's national carrier LOT, will start flying to European destinations in February, its president said Tuesday.... | Business |
Poles Remember Martial Law
Young political activists demonstrated yesterday outside the home of Poland’s last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversa... | Current Affairs |
Poland Honours Jewish Holiday
Jewish leaders and Warsaw officials lit the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital on Monday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish... | Current Affairs |
23 Years Ago Today
During the night of Dec. 12-13, 1981, the Polish military authorities moved to take control of the country, and the Council of State established a "Military Cou... | History |
Warsaw's Second Airport Under Construction
According to Przedsiebiorstwo Porty Lotnicze (PPL) the new airport in Modlin near Warsaw could open as early as June 2005, although the current state of constru... | City Focus |
Polanski Finishes Twist
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski is wrapping up his adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," and the film-maker known for grim and challenging fare s... | Art and Culture |
Gay Bill Ruffles Feathers
Poland’s upper house of parliament approved a bill last week that would allow gay couples to gain legal partnership rights, immediately drawing sharp criticism ... | Current Affairs |
Pole Rollerblades To America
A Polish man traveled more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on rollerblades to Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters to ask Chairman Bill Gates pay the medical costs of two... | Comment |
Warsaw Ghetto Diary Discovered
As flames engulfed the Warsaw ghetto in its last days in 1943, a young Jewish woman hiding from Nazi soldiers kept a journal about her fight to survive in a cra... | History |
Budget Airline Runs Aground
Poland's first budget airline Air Polonia has been grounded due to financial problems, stranding 53,000 passengers, its chairman said on Sunday.
But Jan Litw... | Business |
Pope Steps Into TinTin's Shoes
A comic-strip version of the life of Pope John Paul II written by three Frenchmen has been published in the ailing pontiff's homeland Poland, the book's publish... | Comment |
A Return to Roots?
The Polish embassy in Tel Aviv is striving to cope with a sweeping number of Israelis, young and old, applying for a Polish passport, opting for a better life b... | Current Affairs |
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