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Britain's Prince Charles to visit bison-filled virgin forest in eastern Poland

Mar 14, 2010 6:30am

Britain's Prince Charles visits Poland Monday, a journey that includes a visit to a bison-filled woodland - Europe's last remaining primeval forest thanks to preservation efforts of kings and czars of centuries past....

Holocaust monument in Poland vandalized

Mar 13, 2010 8:49am

Polish media say vandals have sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a Holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp....

Insult-to-Religion Prosecution in Poland

Mar 12, 2010 2:37pm

From Gazeta Prawna , with many thanks to my father Vladimir and brother Sasha for the translation from Polish: The Gdynia district prosecutor's office has accused Adam Darski, the leader of the death metal band Behemoth, of defamation of religious sensibilities.... The decision to accuse the musician was announced ......

Alex Carlin Sets New Guinness World Record With TELEFUNKEN

Mar 11, 2010 2:27pm

By the end of his show, Carlin had performed 500 songs, including the entire Beatles catalogue, which took only 12 hours....

Lead singer of Behemoth charged for ripping Bible in Poland

Mar 10, 2010 3:43pm

If Behemoth frontman Nergal gets convicted he could actually get up to 2 years in jail for "insulting Catholics" hmm, interesting law....

T den.cz: EZ interested in heating networks in Poland

Mar 10, 2010 7:37am

Prague/Ruda Slaska, Poland, March 7 - Czech power producer CEZ is eyeing the heat distribution network in Ruda Slaska in the south of Poland, the server Tyden.cz. wrote on Saturday....

NATO Secretary General to visit Poland on Friday

Mar 9, 2010 7:30am

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will pay a visit to Poland on Friday, March 12, the 11th anniversary of Poland's joining the alliance, the Polish Foreign Ministry announced on Monday....

Polanski's wife says husband's jailing changed her

Mar 8, 2010 7:16am

Director Roman Polanski attends Che Tempo Che Fa TV Show held at RAI Studios on November 23, 2008 in MIlan, Italy....

March 4 -- Saint Casimir of Poland

Mar 7, 2010 7:04pm

Saint Casimir of Poland , Dear Chuck, It sounds to me like you have begun your spring vacation too early....

Obstacles face Poland's move to nuclear energy - Feature

Mar 6, 2010 7:00pm

Nuclear energy is crucial for a quickly developing Poland to meet its growing needs, but obstacles remain to government plans to build the country's first power plant by 2020, experts say....

Poland's Gays Can Inherit Their Dead Partners' Homes, And It Only...

Mar 5, 2010 6:54pm

We suspected a minor sea change in Poland's feelings toward the gays when a woman was fined thousands of euros for calling her neighbor a fag ....

1,000 free rain boots go to Polish school children facing months of muddy building site

Mar 5, 2010 7:36am

Hundreds of Polish school kids are getting a leg up with free rubber boots as they face months next to a muddy construction site....

Polish anti-abortion group shocks with Hitler poster

Mar 4, 2010 3:28pm

Polish anti-abortion activists have caused shock with a giant billboard poster depicting aborted fetuses and Adolf Hitler in a campaign timed to remind Poles of Nazi rule during World War Two....

Prosecutors seek prison terms for Auschwitz theft

Mar 4, 2010 10:43am

The sign bearing the German words for "Work Sets You Free" is seen at Auschwitz on December 15, 2006....

In Poland, Chopin's music defines a nation

Mar 3, 2010 1:04pm

Tsarist Russia berated it as subversive, Nazi Germany banned it outright and to this day, for Poles, the cascading notes of Frederic Chopin still symbolise their country's long struggle for independence....

Cleveland area to step it up May 2 as communities plan rival Polish Constitution Day parades

Mar 3, 2010 8:18am

Anyone who loves a parade will be treated to a pair of dueling ones May 2 in the Cleveland area....

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Minneapolis Funkster, JP Delaire, Releases New Single "Romance, Rumors and Lies"

Mar 3, 2010 3:07am

Minneapolis Funkster, JP Delaire, Releases New Single "Romance, Rumors and Lies" Minneapolis funkster and noted sideman for Prince and Michael Bolton, JP DeLaire, has just released his new single, 'Romance, Rumors and Lies". The track contains a funky bass groove, innovative hip-hop beats, and blazing rock guitar....