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Premier: Polish image intact despite price fixing
Poland's prime minister says he believes the discovery of corruption in the country's road construction sector should not hurt its standing in the ...
Poland: No proof yet horsemeat came from country
Poland is conducting DNA tests on meat samples at seven facilities to see if any are the source of horsemeat discovered this month in Irish-produced ...
Activists try to save old Warsaw ghetto building
It was the place where Jewish women did their ritual bathing. It was a tuberculosis clinic. It survived the German onslaught and became a gathering ...
Poland's economic growth slowed to 2 pct. in 2012
Government statistics show that Poland's economic growth likely slowed to 2 percent in 2012, down from 4.3 percent the year before, underlying ...
Holocaust items put on display for remembrance day
When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next ...
Holocaust victims mourned at Auschwitz and beyond
Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the ...
Dortmund beats Nuremberg 3-0 in Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund maintained its winning start to the year with a 3-0 victory over Nuremberg in the Bundesliga on Friday. Jakub Blaszczykowski ...
Poland rejects draft laws for unmarried couples
Poland's lawmakers have rejected three separate draft laws that were intended to give legal rights to unmarried couples, including same-sex ones.
Ex-Polish church head, Cardinal Glemp, dies at 83
When he was appointed the new leader of Poland's influential Roman Catholic church in July 1981, many Poles were surprised, asking: Jozef who? Five ...
Polish unemployment rate rises to 13.4 percent
Poland's unemployment rate climbed to 13.4 percent in December, from 12.9 percent the previous month, due to an economic slowdown and a seasonal loss ...
Polish soldier dies of wounds in Afghanistan
Poland's Defense Ministry says that a Polish soldier has died of wounds he received in an operation in central Afghanistan Capt. Krzysztof Wozniak, ...
Lazio's Zauri rescues granddaughter of Boniek
Italian media say that Lazio defender Luciano Zauri rescued the granddaughter of Poland's Football Association president Zbigniew Boniek from a well ...
Poland's National Museum expands modern art wing
Poland's National Museum in Warsaw has opened an expanded gallery devoted to 20th- and 21st-century Polish art, with officials hailing it as the most ...
Mother of Poland's Kaczynski twins dies at 86
Jadwiga Kaczynska, the mother of the late President Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother Jaroslaw — an unusual political duo who shaped ...
A book documents Poland's communist-era prisons
Poland's historians have published an album documenting hundreds of long-forgotten prisons and torture rooms where communist secret security held ...
Lithium batteries central to Boeing's 787 woes
Lithium batteries that can leak corrosive fluid and start fires have emerged as the chief safety concern involving Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, a problem ...
Polish airline may seek compensation from Boeing
Poland's airline LOT says it may seek compensation from Boeing Co. for the grounding of its two 787 Dreamliner planes due to security concerns.
Warsaw bans pub named after Austrian incest rapist
Polish authorities have canceled the lease for a cellar pub that was to be named after Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man serving a life sentence for ...
Norway's Jacobsen wins ski jump World Cup
Anders Jacobsen of Norway won a World Cup ski jump while overall leader Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria was eighth on his return Saturday from an ...
Ski jumping World Cup results
Results Friday from a ski jumping World Cup team event: 1. Slovenia, 963.5 points 2. Poland, 954.4 3. Austria 931.1 4. Germany, 908.4 5.
Slovenia wins ski jump World Cup team event
Slovenia surprisingly won a ski jumping World Cup team event on Friday, capitalizing on a late mistake by host Poland and sub-par performances from ...