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Polish Referee Arrested
Polish police said Sunday they have arrested a first-division soccer referee who allegedly took a $31,000 US bribe to help fix two matches.
The referee was ... | Comment |
Election Date Set
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has announced September 25 as the date for Poland's general election. House speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said after conferri... | Current Affairs |
Poland Could Host Beatification
Pope Benedict XVI might be able to beatify John Paul II in a ceremony in Poland, the head of the Vatican's saint-making office says, a day after the pontiff gav... | Current Affairs |
Path To Sainthood Opened
Pope Benedict XVI said Friday he had opened the process for the sainthood of Pope John Paul II, overriding the usual five-year waiting period following the deat... | Current Affairs |
Poland Repays Cold War Debt
Poland repaid most of its communist-era debt to the United States on Thursday, handing Washington $868 million, a government official said.
Deputy Finance ... | Current Affairs |
Right-Wing Parties Lead Polls
The right-wing Law and Justice and the centrist Civic Platform are in the lead of a recent popularity poll conducted by the Rzeczpospolita daily.
The poll s... | Current Affairs |
President Rejects PM's resignation
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski refused the resignation of Prime Minister Marek Belka on Friday, a decision that should keep the unpopular governing par... | Current Affairs |
Priest Denies Spying
A Polish priest accused of spying on the late Pope John Paul said he had taken money provided by a suspected secret service agent, but denied he had been a spy.... | Current Affairs |
Alleged Collaborator Revealed
A Polish priest at the Vatican was accused Wednesday of collaborating with the communist-era secret police during the 1980s, a time when Pope John Paul II was i... | Current Affairs |
New Pope Learns Polish
Unofficial sources from the Vatican claim that pope Benedict XVI learns Polish pronounciation.
The pontiff intends to say a few words to Polish pilgrims on ... | Comment |
Polish Journalists Appeal To Russia
The Association of Polish Journalists has appealed to their Russian counterparts to respect historical truth. The association has sent a letter to the Russian ... | Current Affairs |
Poles Seek To Honour John Paul
Poland's capital wants to honour Pope John Paul II by opening an institute focusing on his life and teachings, to be built on the site of his triumphal 1979 ret... | Current Affairs |
Church Caught In Informer Row
An historian from the Cracow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance sparked a storm of controversy yesterday when he declared that he had studied docum... | Current Affairs |
Poland Hails New Pope
Still grieving for their native son John Paul II, people in Krakow on Tuesday expressed happiness and hope at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germa... | Current Affairs |
Seeing the Light
The owner of an escort agency in the small town of Poronin in southern Poland is closing down his business out of respect for Pope John Paul II , who died on Ap... | Comment |
Cross Of Light
The metal cross atop Giewont, the Tatra range's most fabled peak, beamed though the darkness this weekend after a bold group of mourners scaled the mountain in ... | City Focus |
Highlanders Mourn Their Pope
Whilst the future Pope John Paul II was still a Cardinal, it was suggested that it was inappropriate for a man in such a position to ski. He replied with typica... | Current Affairs |
All Roads Lead To Rome
The Polish national railway company PKP has announced it will lay on six special trains to take pilgrims to Rome for John Paul II's funeral. Fares for the trip ... | Art and Culture |
Pope's Funeral Set For Friday
Roman Catholic cardinals Monday set Pope John Paul's funeral for Friday as they began to plan the Church's future following the death of the Pontiff who led its... | Current Affairs |
Poland's Pope passes away
Pope John Paul II passed away on Saturday night. Poles came out onto the streets to mourn his death, turning the streets of towns and cities across the country ... | Comment |
Debt Solution Approved
Poland's government approved an early buyback of a large chunk of communist-era debt to a group of six countries in the Paris Club, a government official said T... | Comment |
Smigus Dingus
The sun may well shine on Easter Monday, but even if this is so, we warmly recommend that ladies of a faint-hearted disposition carry an umbrella about their pe... | Comment |
Pope Publishes New Memoir
The latest book by Polish-born Pope John Paul hit bookstores in his native land on Monday, amid great interest from fellow Poles.
The pope's fifth book, Mem... | Current Affairs |
Relieving Oneself
Hot on the heels of the tremendous news that beer can help fight cancer, we are delighted to report that a Slovak man trapped in his car by an avalanche urinate... | Comment |
Malysz Double Delights
There was little doubt that the high-pedigree Polish Eagle was going to win today after his bird-of-prey-like first round flight of 132-metres.
Fourth-last t... | Comment |
Return of the Flying Moustache
For so long has Janne Ahonen dominated this season's World Cup that we have forgotten what a real competition it like.
Last Sunday's seventh place at Titisee... | Comment |
World Ski-Jumping Championships!
It's party time in Poland: local hero Adam Malysz is in wing-flapping form as the World Cup circuit comes home to nest at Zakopane!
Adam Malysz, the Polis... | Comment |
Publisher Guilty Of Libelling Pope
A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him $6,500.
The ruling against Jerzy Ur... | Current Affairs |
'Courier From Warsaw' Dies
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's gover... | History |
Pole Wins Snowboard Gold
Paulina Ligocka of Poland snatched the gold medal in the women's snowboard halfpipe event at the 2005 Winter Universiade in Innsbruck this Wednesday.
Ligock... | Comment |
Malysz Wins Gold Again
Poland's Adam Malysz won a ski flying competition Sunday, becoming only the second jumper with more than one World Cup victory this season.
Malysz had jumps... | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Malysz Wins World Cup Ski Jump
Polish ski jump star Adam Malysz claimed victory in the World Cup large hill event ahead of Janne Ahonen of Finland and Germany's Georg Spaeth.
Ahonen, who h... | Comment |
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 |
Miraculous Reappearance Of Polish Hostage
A Polish woman abducted from her apartment in Baghdad reappeared on Saturday in Poland after being suddenly released. While she said she was treated well, she r... | Current Affairs |
Out With The Old
An opinion poll released in Poland Tuesday suggested the ruling Democratic Left Alliance enjoyed the support of just 8 percent of voters.
The CBOS poll put t... | Current Affairs |
Reparations Row Runs On
Warsaw's influential mayor Lech Kaczynski has said that Germany should pay $45 billion (24.4 billion pounds) for the destruction of Warsaw during World War Two,... | Current Affairs |
Polish Zloty Hits 7 Year High
The Polish zloty rose to its highest level against the dollar in seven years this Monday.
The Polish currency has risen strongly against the dollar, partly d... | Business |
Pope to Visit Poland in 2005
Polish-born Pope John Paul II plans to visit his homeland in 2005, the head of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been quoted as saying.
Asked by journa... | Current Affairs |
Polish Mushrooms
Mushrooms abounded-round the fair damsels the young men did throng;
Or vixens, as they're hailed in Lithuanian song.
They symbolize maidenhood, their flesh no... | Comment |
Polish Plan To Pull Out of Iraq
Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in an interview publ... | Current Affairs |
Poles Uneasy With Iraq Policy
Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mis... | Current Affairs |
Shooting Starts on Pope Film
Italian producers began shooting a film on Saturday about the early life of Pope John Paul II. The film is being made in in southern Poland, where the pontiff g... | City Focus |
The King of the Tarmac
Robert Korzeniowski's long road has come to a end when the Pole won an unprecedented third Olympic 50 kilometre race walk title in a row.
There was barely an... | Comment |
Warsaw Mayor Calls For German WWII Apology
Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski has called on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to apologise to Poles for Germany's WWII aggression.
Schroeder should offer hi... | Current Affairs |
Echoes of the Bad Old Days
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists warned this month that a battery of legal acti... | Current Affairs |
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