Question Mark Over Camps In Poland
The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday there was evidence the United States outsourced torture to other cou...

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Pole Evicted From British Big Brother
Polish actress Rula Lenska was given the boot from Britain's Celebrity Big Brother show last night. Lenska, a Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Fre...

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Public Weary Of Political Mess
One in four Poles consider that the best solution to the present political crisis would be a coalition of the ruling Law and Justice and the ‘liberal’ Civic Pla...

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Krakow Star Set For Transfer
Alan Pardew of England's West Ham hopes to sign a replacement for the out-going Repka within the next few days, and has lined up Poland international Marcin Bas...

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Gold For Polish Ski-Surfer
Jagna Marczulaitis of Poland edged Daniela Meuli of Switzerland to win the parallel slalom event at a snowboarding World Cup on Sunday. Sara Fischer of Swed...

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Snowboard Showdown
Jan Michaelis of Germany and Paulina Ligocka of Poland won snowboard World Cup halfpipe events Friday. Michaelis won his first event of the season ahead of ...

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Poland On Steady European Course
Poland's integration with the EU is very advanced and it is very improbable that Poland could have an EU-hostile government, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Mell...

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Poland To Host Miss World
In these politically correct times, the British are somewhat awkward about their creation of the Miss World beauty contest. However, viewers have voted with the...

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Poles Show Light At The End Of Tunnel
A Dad of six is due to throw himself out of a plane to raise vital funds for his nephew's medical treatment. John Gibbens, from St. Mary Cray, England, is se...

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Poland Trailing Euro Target
Poland's Finance Ministry said the country would not be able to meet the fiscal requirements for adopting the euro before 2010. In an update of its euro conv...

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Poet Passes On
Polish priest and popular poet father Jan Twardowski has died in a hospital in Warsaw at the age of 90. His poetic debut came in 1936 with a small tome titl...

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Pupils Hopping Mad
The dragging renovation of the Main Market Square has begun to unnerve Cracow's university hopefuls. Before taking their 'Matura' examinations, examinees should...

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Poles Keen On Indian Cuppa
Poland expected India to emerge as a leading trade partner among developing nations, said Daniel S Zbytek, First Counsellor, Head of Economic and Commercial Off...

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World's Best Square
Projects For Public Spaces, a prestigious international organization, has declared Krakow's Rynek Glowny as the World's Best Square. Krakow triumphed over o...

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Bargain Flights To Poland
If you're on the look out for some great deals on flights to Poland, look no further. Centralwings, LOT Polish Airlines’ cut-price alter-ego, is offering fli...

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Man Who Shot Pope Freed
Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II, was released from his Turkish jail today after serving over 25 years behind bars. Agca was a right-wing ...

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Uproar In Parliament
The Polish Sejm (parliament) descended into farce yesterday when the Speaker of the House refused to set in motion a vote on the new budget. Opposition MPs c...

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Warning About Icy Roads
Weather forecasters have issued a warning that roads will be slippery in places as a cold atmospheric front is moving from western to southern Poland. The w...

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AirBaltic Returns To Scene
AirBaltic, the low-cost airline owned by the Latvian treasury (52.6 percent) and SAS (47.2 percent) is going to restart its routes to Poland. The company has...

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'The Sausage' Is Unsure Of Birmingham
Korona Kielce striker Grzegorz Piechna has decided to stay at the club for at least the next six months, despite Birmingham's interest in trialling him. The ...

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Pole Joins Potter Adventure
Oscar nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak has won the commission to film the next Harry Potter movie, 'The Order of the Phoenix.' Idziak, who won fame ...

Art and Culture

New Bus Station In Business
After months of chaos Cracow's bus station has reopened. It's goodbye to the temporary dive on ul. Cysterstow and hello to a brand spanking new number just behi...

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Zaniewski Show Opens
A new exhibition opened today in the Arsenal of the Czartoryski Museum. The show presents paintings by Iwo Zaniewski, who graduated from Warsaw's Academy of Art...

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Freedom Balloons Will Fly Over Belarus
One thousand coloured balloons will soar to Belarus from Bialystok, northeast Poland next Monday in support of democratic change in the country, the Polish bran...

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Vatican Turns On Hardliners
The Vatican has issued a document imposing discipline upon the clergy in Poland. Their public activity outside the church now requires written permission from b...

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Polish Countess Meets Big Brother
A Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Free Europe has taken her place in Britain's notorious Celebrity Big Brother House. Rula Lenska (b.1947, Cambr...

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Bumper Year For Polish Tourism
The Polish Tourism Institute has estimated that 2005 was the most successful year of the decade for the growing industry. It has been calculated that some 64...

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Pope Plans Polish Trip
The Vatican envoy for papal tours Alberto Gasparri arrived in Poland today with the aim of touring the route of the planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI to that c...

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Museum Sets Ball In Motion
The first step towards a thorough renovation of Poland's oldest and most distinguished museum has been taken. Cracow's Czartoryski Museum, famous as the home of...

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Charity Event Reaches All Time High
Poland‘s largest charity fundraising event the Grand Orchestra of Charity Help, which involved over 120 thousand volunteers in the streets of all Polish cities ...

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Sock It To Us
A poll has revealed that the Christmas present that Poles hate the most is a pair of socks. This was closely followed by abstract ornaments of the kind that mig...

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Polish Maestro Takes Tokyo
An injury to his hands in World War II cut short Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's career as a concert pianist. But the 82-year-old composer and conductor, who has left...

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Ten ambassadors recalled
Poland’s new conservative right wing government has recalled ten ambassadors believed to be linked with the former communist regime. Diplomats who have held pos...

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Easyjet links with Lennon
Budget airline Easyjet yesterday launched flight links to four new destinations from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Holidaymakers and business travellers wil...

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Krakow New Year
The snow has been cleared from the Market Square, the sound tests are coming to an end on the stage set up to entertain the visitors with local music acts, and ...

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Borderlands Rediscovered
Any newcomer to Cracow will be quick to spot the obwarzanki (pretzel) sellers that dot the Old Town. These hardy old grandpas and grandmas are to be found on ev...

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Carol Day
All traces of snow seem to have vanished but never fear - there's still plenty of yuletide cheer to savour. Tomorrow (Saturday 17th) sees a special Carol Day on...

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White Eagles
It wouldn't be too much to say that being dubbed a Knight of the White Eagle is something akin to being dubbed a Knight of the Round Table. The 300 year old ord...

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Priests Learn Defense Tactics
Polish police have conducted a training course for Roman Catholic parish priests on how to protect their churches against robberies and acts of terrorism. Accor...

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Fading From Memory
13th of December marks the 24th anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland, a date which is an important one in the pages of Polish history. Howev...

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'He Had Plenty Of Spirit'
A 111-year-old pensioner, thought to be the oldest man living in Britain, has died. Former Polish army colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, who was known to ...

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Brit Wins Polish Reality TV Romp
A British man has been chosen as the winner of Bar Europa, the Polish version of TV's Big Brother. Tom Amos, 28, from Malvern, Worcs, entered the contest as ...

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Her Majesty's Joker In A Twist
A top British ambassador has risked sparking a diplomatic row after a stinging attack on France and Poland over European Union farm subsidies made in a "joke" e...

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Petrescu signs up as Wisla Krakow's coach
Petrescu played for Chelsea between 1995 and 2000 Dan Petrescu has been confirmed as the new head coach of reigning Polish champions Wisla Krakow. The ex-C...

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Pope's House Up For Sale
The late Pope John Paul II's house in Wadowice has been put up for sale by its owner, an American Jew, for one million dollars. According to the daily Gazet...

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If You Can't Beat 'Em
Father Adam Boniecki, editor of the prestigious journal Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly) recently lamented that Poles now seemed more interested in shoppi...

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Poland Under The Spotlight
News portals are being deluged with articles reasserting that the CIA has secret holding camps in Eastern Europe for top terror suspects. The issue returned...

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Photo Flourish
Internet junkies can enjoy a pleasing perk in the New Year at Cracow's leading cybercafe on the main market square. 'Internet Cafe' (Rynek Glowny 23/3) will be...

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Winning Wonders Now On Show
The winners of this year's Szopki (Christmas Nativity Scene) Competition were announced yesterday in the splendid Fontana Hall of the Cracow History Museum. ...

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Tragic Fire In Kazimierz
Three people died and twenty were injured over the weekend as a fire raged through a townhouse in the Cracovian district of Kazimierz. Alarms were raised ju...

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