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Cradle of A Legend Restored

Jan.25.2005

In the Spring of 997, an earnest Bishop from Bohemia said a mass at a small church on Cracow's Market Square. His name was Adalbert, and this was to be his las...

Walesa Ponders Comeback

Jan.25.2005

Former Polish president and Solidarity hero Lech Walesa said Monday he was considering another attempt at a political comeback by running for president later th...

Traces Of A Lost World

Jan.25.2005

With delegations from over sixty countries expected, and all of Cracow's hotels booked solid as a result, it is unlikely that travellers will have much luck in ...

Kiev: Out With The Old

Jan.25.2005

Cameramen can never resist a nice shot of the loser. Whether it's a clash at the lawcourts, a politician who has been given the sack, or an Olympic athelete who...

Radio Free Europe Remembers Hero

Jan.25.2005

Jan Nowak, the legendary fighter for the Polish resistance during World War II who went on to head the Polish service of Radio Free Europe for a quarter of a ce...

Jobless Rate Cause For Concern

Jan.25.2005

Poland's jobless rate climbed to 19.1 percent in December, rising for the first time in 10 months, according to government figures released Monday. The unem...

Curtain Call For Fin-de-Siecle Theatre

Jan.24.2005

Renovation is due to finish this week in one of Cracow's most glorious buildings, the turn of the century Slowacki Theatre. The theatre, which is a miniature...

Walesa Attends Kiev Inauguration

Jan.24.2005

Viktor Yushchenko became Ukraine's president Sunday and vowed to steer the nation toward the West, capping a popular revolt and a bitter months-long fight over ...

'Courier From Warsaw' Dies

Jan.21.2005

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...

Liberating Auschwitz

Jan.20.2005

Sixty years on, memories of the horror they stumbled upon are still painfully vivid for the former Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's most ...

Achilles' Thirst

Jan.20.2005

Poles heartily confess that they're fond of the odd beer or ten - it's very much part of the culture. And if we stray into politically incorrect territory, one ...

Composer Sends Budgies To Sleep

Jan.19.2005

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....

Pope's Wartime Dilemma

Jan.19.2005

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...

African Couple In Polish Adoption Wrangle

Jan.19.2005

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...

Cracow Liberated From Nazi Rule

Jan.18.2005

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...

Polish Fishermen Reach To Asia

Jan.17.2005

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...

Major Pile-Up On Cracow Road

Jan.17.2005

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...

Polish 'Ghost' Sent To Jail

Jan.17.2005

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 ...

Calls For Freedom of Information

Jan.17.2005

A Polish legislature panel investigating allegations of high-level bribery broadened its mission this week, demanding the release of communist-era secret files ...

Poles Defend Role in Babylon

Jan.17.2005

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...

Prince Rules Out Poland Visit

Jan.14.2005

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...

Thaw in Paris-Warsaw Relations

Jan.14.2005

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...

Poland OKs Shootdown Of Hijacked Planes

Jan..14.2005

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...

Cloth Hall Set For Revamp

Jan.13.2005

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...

A Modern Art Museum For Cracow?

Jan.13.2005

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...

Elections Rule Out Pope's Trip

Jan.13.2005

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...

Give Ukraine A Chance In EU Say Poles

Jan.13.2005

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...

Prince Harry Make Nazi Gaffe

Jan.13.2005

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...

There's Nothing Like Family

Jan.12.2005

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...

Poland Gears Up For Elections

Jan.12.2005

Polish parliament Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said Tuesday he would seek a vote to dissolve parliament May 5 leading to general elections June 19. Po...

Saints And Sinners Part II

Jan.12.2005

'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...

Schroeder To Speak At Auschwitz

Jan.11.2005

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...

January Gems

Jan.11.2005

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...

Wild Boar Chases Man

Jan.7.2005

A man escaped unscathed after a boar chased him around a hospital parking lot in southwestern Poland, the hospital spokesman said Thursday. Cameras monitori...

Poland Keen To Leave Iraq

Jan.7.2005

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...

What Now For Former Speaker?

Jan.6.2005

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...

Poles Unenthusiastic About US Airbases

Jan.6.2005

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 ...

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity

Jan.4.2005

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...

When The Clumsy Man Is King

Jan.4.2005

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...

Polish Hostage Tells Of Terror

Jan.4.2005

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...

New Year Smash!

Jan.3.2005

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...

Polish Speaker Offers to Resign

Jan.3.2005

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...

Polish Premier Congratulates Yushchenko

Jan.3.2005

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski congratulated Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on his presidential election victory this monday, hailing it a...

Polish Russian Wobble

Jan.3.2005

President Putin said that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski's statement that "Russia without Ukraine is better than Russia with Ukraine" was wrong. "T...

Wartime Spectres Rise Again

Jan.03.2005

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...

Polish Wigilia

Dec.22.2004

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...

Polish Premier Flies To Iraq

Dec.22.2004

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...

Poland's LOT Start Low-Cost Airline

Dec.15.2004

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....

Poles Remember Martial Law

Dec.14.2004

Young political activists demonstrated yesterday outside the home of Poland’s last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversa...

Poland Honours Jewish Holiday

Dec.14.2004

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...

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