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Composer Sends Budgies To Sleep
On a freezing Sunday in Jaslo, Poland, three pet budgies, named Cziko, Czako and Dako, fell asleep in broad daylight to the strains of John Levine’s alphamusic.... | Comment |
Pope's Wartime Dilemma
As a priest, Karol Wojtyla refused to baptize a Jewish child who had been entrusted to a Catholic family in Nazi-occupied Poland, out of respect for the youngst... | History |
African Couple In Polish Adoption Wrangle
A Mombasa peasant family is fighting to have a child they gave to a Polish couple in exchange for a mobile phone and Sh4,000 returned to them.
Mr Joseph Riob... | Current Affairs |
Cracow Liberated From Nazi Rule
On this day in 1945, the Soviet forces under Marshal Ivan Konev liberated Cracow from Nazi Occupation. Marshal Konev took the Germans by surprise by attacking f... | History |
Polish Fishermen Reach To Asia
Polish fishermen want to send their old boats to fishing villages on the Indian Ocean wiped out by last month's tsunami, rather than scrapping them under a Euro... | Current Affairs |
Major Pile-Up On Cracow Road
Heavy fog caused a 61-car pile-up on Monday on a busy highway near the southern Polish city of Krakow, injuring 18 people, the fire brigade said.
"Dense fo... | Current Affairs |
Polish 'Ghost' Sent To Jail
A Polish woman who pretended to be a ghost and "haunted" an Alpine castle was sentenced to four months in prison by an Italian court.
Police were called in ... | Comment |
Calls For Freedom of Information
A Polish legislature panel investigating allegations of high-level bribery broadened its mission this week, demanding the release of communist-era secret files ... | Current Affairs |
Poles Defend Role in Babylon
Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a ''negative influence'' on the sit... | Current Affairs |
Prince Rules Out Poland Visit
Britain's Prince Harry has ruled out visiting Auschwitz as atonement for wearing a Nazi uniform at a party just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the dea... | Current Affairs |
Thaw in Paris-Warsaw Relations
Visiting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Thursday he saw reasons for closer ties between his country and Poland as he inaugurated the renovated Fren... | Current Affairs |
Poland OKs Shootdown Of Hijacked Planes
A new Polish law gives authorities the power to order hijacked airliners shot down — a post-Sept. 11 measure that underscores growing terrorism concerns in Euro... | Current Affairs |
Cloth Hall Set For Revamp
If any building in Cracow looks like it's in good shape then it is the Sukiennice. This glorious edifice, which sweeps across Europe's largest medieval square l... | City Focus |
A Modern Art Museum For Cracow?
Given Cracow's hallowed status as Poland's cultural capital, the lack of a museum of contemporary art is something of an anomaly. However, plans are underway fo... | Art and Culture |
Elections Rule Out Pope's Trip
Pope John Paul will visit Germany this year but will not take up an invitation to visit his native Poland in June because of elections planned there, the Vatica... | Current Affairs |
Give Ukraine A Chance In EU Say Poles
Ukraine should be given a chance to join the European Union, and the people of the former Soviet republic should have the final say on membership, Polish Presid... | Current Affairs |
Prince Harry Make Nazi Gaffe
Britain's Prince Harry apologized on Thursday after he wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party two weeks before Queen Elizabeth is due to lead the country's Holo... | Current Affairs |
There's Nothing Like Family
A bungling criminal's plans to pay his cousin to serve out his jail sentence went wrong when he foolishly squandered his freedom. Now they could both end up bei... | 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 |
Saints And Sinners Part II
'It's outrageous that Cracovian delicatessens don't stock Wilkinson & Smilkinson's No.1 Gentleman's Relish. And come to think of it, the Mayor really ought to s... | Comment |
Schroeder To Speak At Auschwitz
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will speak at a ceremony this month marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a gr... | Current Affairs |
January Gems
We are already into the last week of one of the major exhibitions of the season, 'Napoleon and the Poles.' Culture vultures should head on down to this lively s... | Art and Culture |
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 |
Poland Keen To Leave Iraq
Poland still hopes to withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of this year, but the staunch US ally could prolong the mission if the international community as... | Current Affairs |
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 |
Poles Unenthusiastic About US Airbases
More than half of the Polish people oppose the transfer of large US military bases from Germany to Poland, an opinion poll issued Wednesday said.
According ... | Current Affairs |
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
This Sunday Cracow's Main Market Square will kick back into action after the fantastic frolics of the New Year. The WOSP Charity Day, now in its 13th year, will... | City Focus |
When The Clumsy Man Is King
The clumsy among us will know the experience of crouching down on the floor, trying to find shards of glass after you have accidentally smashed something on som... | Comment |
Polish Hostage Tells Of Terror
A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq for nearly a month was terrified of being rescued by U.S. troops because she believed any military-style raid would have end... | Current Affairs |
New Year Smash!
Some 170,000 revellers descended on Cracow's Rynek (Main Market Square) for the New Year celebrations, making the event Poland's largest open-air party.
A ha... | City Focus |
Polish Speaker Offers to Resign
The speaker of Poland's Parliament, Jozef Oleksy, offered to resign on Wednesday, a party spokesman said, after a court said he had worked for the country's Com... | Current Affairs |
Polish Premier Congratulates Yushchenko
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski congratulated Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on his presidential election victory this monday, hailing it a... | Current Affairs |
Polish Russian Wobble
President Putin said that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski's statement that "Russia without Ukraine is better than Russia with Ukraine" was wrong.
"T... | Current Affairs |
Wartime Spectres Rise Again
The American Justice Department has asked a federal court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a man who allegedly served in a Nazi-sponsored police force during W... | Current Affairs |
Polish Wigilia
Christmas Eve has always occupied a special place for those of Polish and eastern European heritage. The sacred symbols, beautiful customs and festive foods, so... | Comment |
Polish Premier Flies To Iraq
Poland's prime minister and defense minister arrived in Iraq Wednesday for a Christmas visit to Polish troops, a Polish military official said.
Prime Ministe... | Current Affairs |
Poland's LOT Start Low-Cost Airline
Centralwings, a new low-cost airline owned by Poland's national carrier LOT, will start flying to European destinations in February, its president said Tuesday.... | Business |
Poles Remember Martial Law
Young political activists demonstrated yesterday outside the home of Poland’s last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversa... | Current Affairs |
Poland Honours Jewish Holiday
Jewish leaders and Warsaw officials lit the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital on Monday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish... | Current Affairs |
23 Years Ago Today
During the night of Dec. 12-13, 1981, the Polish military authorities moved to take control of the country, and the Council of State established a "Military Cou... | History |
Polanski Finishes Twist
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski is wrapping up his adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," and the film-maker known for grim and challenging fare s... | Art and Culture |
Starman? David Bowie Perhaps....
In an effort to shoehorn the various personifications of Father Christmas into a gallery, American and Western pundits have often hit upon the the curious figur... | Comment |
The Rynek Reopens!
After three months of digging, drilling, hammering and general ordered chaos, Cracow's Main Market Square reopened for business this morning, decked out with a ... | Comment |
Renaissance Treasure Unveiled
'The finest Renaissance edifice north of the Alps' was unveiled this month after a year's careful restoration. The Sigismund Chapel (Zygmunt in Polish), called ... | Art and Culture |
Pole Rollerblades To America
A Polish man traveled more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on rollerblades to Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters to ask Chairman Bill Gates pay the medical costs of two... | Comment |
Christmas Crackers
What would make the perfect Polish Christmas prezzie? A jar of 'smalec' from Chlopskie Jadlo perhaps? Well certainly not for vegetarians, or anyone vaguely quea... | City Focus |
Szopki: Cracow's Christmas Cribs
For one fleeting morning each December, Cracow's Main Market Square hosts a much-loved competition for the prize for the most fabulous Christmas Crib - 'Szopki'... | Art and Culture |
Budget Airline Runs Aground
Poland's first budget airline Air Polonia has been grounded due to financial problems, stranding 53,000 passengers, its chairman said on Sunday.
But Jan Litw... | Business |
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 |
A Return to Roots?
The Polish embassy in Tel Aviv is striving to cope with a sweeping number of Israelis, young and old, applying for a Polish passport, opting for a better life b... | Current Affairs |
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