Poles Plan Friday's Send-Off
A flurry of plans are emerging for the funeral of Pope John Paul II this Friday morning. Although confirmation is still pending for many of Cracow's tributes, i...

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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 ...

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Harmony At Cracovia
Clashes between Cracow's leading football teams, Cracovia and Wisla, are amongst the most notorious events of the sporting calendar. The encounters usually prom...

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St. Peter's Deluged
A sea of faithful filed past Pope John Paul's body in St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday as the Roman Catholic Church prepared for his funeral and the choice of a ...

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Would-be Assassin Mourns
Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, said from his Turkish prison Monday that he was mourning the death of his ``spiritual...

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Cracovians Gather In Tribute
Such was the density of the crowds of mourners outside the Archbishops Palace since Friday that it has often been difficult to get to the foot of the residence....

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Crowds Pack The Vatican
Tens of thousands of people stood in line for as far as the eye could see on Monday for a last glimpse of Pope John Paul, whose body will lie in state in St. Pe...

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Prince Will Come To Rome
Britain's Prince Charles has postponed his marriage to long-time lover Camilla Parker Bowles from Friday to Saturday so that he can attend the funeral of Pope J...

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Doubt Cast Over Wawel Entombment
Several officials in Krakow, where Pope John Paul II served as archbishop, say they hope his heart can be buried in their cathedral alongside Poland's medieval ...

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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...

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Pope's Hometown Remembers
The world came to know Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II, but Danuta Puklo remembers him as Lolek, the nickname for the generous boy who helped her pass a big ...

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Cardinals Gather To Prepare Funeral
Roman Catholic cardinals gather on Monday for the first time since Pope John Paul's death to organize a funeral expected to draw the greatest tide of pilgrims a...

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A Return To Wawel?
The possibility of Pope John Paul II's heart being laid to rest alongside Polish kings in his beloved home city of Krakow was raised by Polish media on Sunday, ...

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Cracow Mourns
Cracow was plunged into mourning this weekend with the news of the passing of Pope John Paul II. The city had been braced for the news since Friday morning when...

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Around Wit Stwosz
This exhibition sheds light on one of the most celebrated of all Europe's sculptors, Wit Stwosz (Veit Stoss in German, c.1440-1533). Art historians often succe...

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Pope honoured by crowd of thousands
Tens of thousands of mourners in St Peter's Square in Rome are attending an open-air Mass in honour of Pope John Paul II, who has died at 84. Up to 100,000 peop...

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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 ...

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45th Cracow Film Festival
Over 1300 movies from across the world have been submitted for two competition sections of the 45th Cracow Film Festival. The event is Poland's oldest film fest...

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Tin Soldiers and Swirling Swans
Whilst many of the grown-ups were in reflective mood this morning at the news of the Pope's failing health, younger Cracovians struck a lighter note when hundre...

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Cracow Prays For The Pope
Fears for the Pope's health deepened this morning with the news that the Pontiff had suffered a heart failure yesterday afternoon. The news was felt acutely ...

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Exhibition Opens At The Wyspianski
A major exhibition opens today under the banner of the National Museum in Cracow. 'Around Wit Stwosz' is being hosted at the Wyspianski museum just off the Main...

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Rekawka Returns
The clank of swords was to be heard echoing over the spires of Podgorze this Tuesday as medieval warfare had returned to Cracow. Dozens of knights in chain-...

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Fall Of Media Mogul
A Warsaw court has ruled that Polish film producer Lew Rywin must start serving his two year prison term later this month. Rywin was convicted of fraud last yea...

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Royal Couple Visit Cracow
King Albert II of Belgium and Queen Donna Paola were in Cracow this Tuesday after spending Easter with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski. The Royal cou...

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Cracow Star Clinches Match
Maciej Zurawski's header five minutes from time gave Poland a 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in a World Cup Group Six qualifier on Wednesday that kept them firml...

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Time For A Break
Errol Muzawazi of Zimbabwe, a law student at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, has lectured on democracy and human rights for 88 hours and 4 seconds. He ho...

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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...

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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...

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Russians Respond To Roundabout Rap
In riposte to the Warsaw city authorities announcement that they will name a roundabout after fallen Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, Moscow has announced plans...

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Polish Journalists Released
Belarusian authorities have released three Polish journalists who were briefly detained for lacking proper media credentials. One of the reporters, Marcin Sm...

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Alleged Drug Ring Broken
Six Polish and Kurdish men were charged Monday with smuggling amphetamines to Norway in specially built car batteries. "I can confirm that we have arrested s...

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Rafal Bujnowski At Bunkier
Rafal Bujnowski’s exhibition at BUNKIER SZTUKI is a retrospective of an artist who is still considered as young, but already very artistically mature. This exhi...

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Portraits Of A City In Flux
If you'd like a brief recap on what's been happening in Cracow since the coming of democracy, leading newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has just opened a lively little ...

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Anniversary of Walenty Badylak
Flowers were laid yesterday on the Market Square in memory of a tragic incident that took place there 15 years ago. On 20th March 1980, a time of marked tens...

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The Return Of The Kings
A celebrated yet long-abandoned sculptural project is on the verge of being brought back to life, according to Polish Daily Gazeta Wyborcza. The revival of the ...

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Roundabout Rumpus
Russia on Monday accused the Warsaw city council of supporting international terrorism by naming a roundabout after a Chechen rebel leader. "It is difficul...

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Misteria Paschalia Festival
Friday 25th March (Good Friday) sees the opening of a short but sweet musical festival that will be welcoming a handful of top-notch ensembles from around the g...

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Signs Of The Times
Every year, London's venerable 'Literary Review' awards a not so coveted award for the worst description of a sex scene in contemporary fiction. There are alway...

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Wawel Restored
If you've got a soft-spot for nostalgia then don't miss the Royal Castle's Spring exhibition, which celebrates the centenary of the restoration of this national...

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60 Years Of Tygodnik Powszechny
This month sees the 60th anniversary of Tygodnik Powszechny (The Universal Weekly), one of the few beacons of intellectual freedom during the communist era. ...

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Putting The House In Order
Cracow may have once been a Royal capital, but she's had her fair share of downs with her ups. In 1989, on the eve of democracy, half of the city was falling ap...

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Poland Unveils Poster Of Pope
A large poster depicting Pope John Paul II is on display in downtown Warsaw, giving the city a taste of the contemporary art that will be on display in a planne...

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Looking To Spring
The snow has finally melted on the Planty, revealing that wonder of nature that we'd all forgotten - grass. That wasn't the only thing that was revealed though....

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Harry's Silver Lining
Awareness among Britons of the Auschwitz concentration camp has soared, a survey shows, thanks in part to a royal scandal involving Prince Harry wearing Nazi re...

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Galeria Kazimierz Opens
Although protests by conservationists had marked the run-up to the unveiling of the new Galeria Kazimierz shopping mall, yesterday's opening ultimately passed w...

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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...

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March Of Remembrance
About two hundred people gathered yesterday in Podgorze for the 62nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto. A small concert was held in front o...

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Russia Says Katyn Executions Not Genocide
Russia denied on Friday that the 1940 execution of 15,000 Polish prisoners of war by Soviet secret police was genocide, dismaying Poland's chief war crimes inve...

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Poles Turn Out For Tibetans
More than 300 people gathered Thursday in front of Chinese Embassy in Warsaw tto commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising against Chin...

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Poland Arrests 'Spy'
Polish authorities said on Wednesday they had arrested an aide to a prominent parliamentarian, accusing him of spying for a "big neighbour" – a clear reference ...

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