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Cheese first made at least 7,500 years ago
Little Miss Muffet could have been separating her curds and whey 7,500 years ago, according to a new study that finds the earliest solid evidence of ...
Polish energy advisor: keep using coal for energy
An advisor to the Polish government says the country should keep using its coal for decades to come, despite a European Union policy of replacing the ...
Fiat cutting about 1,500 jobs at Polish factory
The Italian carmaker Fiat says it plans to cut about 1,500 jobs at a factory in Poland due to falling demand for cars on the European market.
Dutch call off search for 6 missing crewmen
Rescuers called off search efforts for six missing crewmen Thursday from a cargo ship that sank in the North Sea after a collision with another vessel
Poland cuts interest rates to help slowing economy
The National Bank of Poland has cut its key interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25 percent to support the slowing economy.
Jewish groups struggle for Holocaust restitution
More than 67 years after the Holocaust, Jirina Novakova refuses to give up her battle to regain property confiscated from her family. Her hopes got ...
Debate over EU debate mixes philosophy and money
Which side of this week's debate on the European Union budget a country takes can depend largely on which side its bread is buttered. Those that ...
2 more Polish plane victims buried in wrong graves
Forensic testing has proven that two more victims of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were ...
Poland thwarts terror attack on top leaders
A Polish university researcher driven by nationalistic and anti-Semitic hatred was arrested for planning to detonate a four-ton bomb in front of the ...
Museum at heart of Russia's Jewish culture revival
In czarist times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles every Sunday to overlook ...
Poland is first in Europe to get Dreamliner plane
Poland's national airline LOT welcomed its first Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" into its fleet Thursday, becoming the first European carrier to get the U.S.
Right-wingers injure 2 police officers in Poland
Police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a right-wing march that took place in Warsaw as Poland marked its independence day. Police spokesman ...
Marilyn Monroe photos on auction in Poland
Who doesn't want a picture of Marilyn Monroe? Hundreds of photographs of the blonde bombshell and other celebrities, including famous ones of Monroe ...
Poland gets Russian gas price reduction
Poland has obtained a significant price reduction on the gas it imports from Russia, ending a legal dispute that had escalated to international ...
Misidentified 2010 plane crash victim reburied
A repeat burial was held on Saturday for Poland's last president-in-exile, whose body was misidentified and buried in the wrong grave following the ...
Experts give causes of emergency landing in Poland
Aviation experts said Wednesday that a LOT Polish Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, made an emergency landing in Warsaw last year because of ...
Poland's bishops say Halloween is harmful, pagan
Some Catholic bishops in Poland say that Halloween is harmful because it promotes "diabolical" behavior and are asking believers not to observe it.
Warsaw museum to celebrate Jewish life in Poland
The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw's former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade ...
A WWI-era tank returns to Poland from Afghanistan
A tank used by Poland in its 1920 war against the Red Army was returned from Afghanistan where it was serving as a decoration at the defense ministry.
Auschwitz prisoner and photographer dies at 95
The images are haunting: naked and emaciated children at Auschwitz standing shoulder-to-shoulder, adult prisoners in striped garb posing for ...
Branson: Virgin space project keeps being delayed
British billionaire Richard Branson says his space tourism project keeps being pushed back and isn't sure of an exact date for the first launch.
Oldest Auschwitz survivor dies
The oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp — a teacher who gave lessons in defiance of his native Poland's Nazi occupiers — has ...
Narrow house opening as art work in Warsaw
The new house is only four feet wide (1.2 meters), but it comes with a bathroom, a kitchen and a bedroom, and its first tenant, an Israeli writer, ...
Spain quip adds to Romney's foreign policy trouble
If Mitt Romney becomes president, he might need a crash course in Diplomacy 101. He irritated Britons and Palestinians during a summer tour abroad and ...
Polish philharmonic named for Jewish virtuoso
The Polish city of Czestochowa is renaming its orchestra to honor a native son: Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish-Jewish violin virtuoso who helped save ...