The Euros approach apace, the infrastructure is not ready, the roads, railways and hotels will not cope. The city centres set to receive hun...
The curse of Warsaw’s Plac Defilad has struck again, this time with City Hall tearing up its agreement with the Swiss architect Christian Kerez for the construction of the city’s new Museum of Modern Art. The development leaves the entire project up in the air, with it being unclear whether another architect will be brought in to construct the Kerez design, or whether the city will turn to the architects who took second place in the original design competition.
Residents of a luxury residential estate in Torun are up in arms at the discovery that their homes have apparently been built on an old munitions dump. Sappers have been in action at the site removing more than forty mortar shells, totalling around 200kg of explosive material. “A single shell, if it exploded could do damage within a radius of 700m. It’s a considerable risk,” commented Maciej Grabowski, one of the bomb disposal experts working on the site.
Poznan’s Lawica airport ceremonially opened its new taxiway this Tuesday, at a stroke trebling the airport’s capacity. The new taxiway runs 2.5km along the entire length of the runway and is connected to it by two rapid-exit taxiways, enabling planes to clear the runway faster. There is also a new apron.
A 32-year-old man appeared before Lublin Regional Court this week charged with beating his partner to death in a drunken argument last February. Asked how he thought the woman died, he answered simply, “I don’t know.”
A ski mountaineer and a tourist died in a freak accident last Monday week. The skier, who was a GROM special forces officer, fell while descending Rysy and hit the tourist as she walked a trail on the mountainside. The accident happened while a TOPR mountain rescue group was training nearby, and they saw the accident and raised the alarm. However, both those involved died at the scene. Their bodies were transported to hospital by helicopter.
Residents of Zachodnio-Pomorskie were left rubbing their eyes is amazement this week when when they were confronted with the peculiar sight of a car perched on top of a large tree.
Authorities in Silesia and Pomorskie this week arrested 35 hooligans in connection with a series of underground organised fights.
The director of a psychiatric hospital where a nine-year old boy was raped by another patient has refused to resign despite the scandal that has engulfed his institution.
This week saw the country pause to remember the passengers and crew of Lot Polish Airlines flight 5055, which crashed in a fireball on May 9, 1987.
Is it just us, or is it always sunnier in Wrocław? Seriously, it’s grey and damp in Kraków, we hop on a train, tremble through the first...
There have been a wave of online complaints regarding the artwork depicting the face of Anders Behring Breivik - the man accused of mass murder and the confessed perpetrator of the terrorist attacks in Norway last year - hanging up in Warsaw.
A priest from Podlaskie has been sentenced to four year behind bars after being found guilty of having sex with a 19-year-old girl with developmental disabilities.
The United Sates has awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a former officer of the Polish Home Army often described as the man who tried to stop the Holocaust.
Prosecutors have charged two former car thieves with the murder of the head of the national police force 14 years ago, in a case that has long been associated with organised crime and corruption.
A Polish feminist organisation is campaigning to help promote the use of the word ‘cipka’ - a native slang term for the female vagina.
A 65-year-old Polish fisherman has become something of a national legend after catching a Nile crocodile whilst fishing in the River Warta.
By the time you’re reading this, thousands of Poles will have already taken off on a ten day holiday. The shifting calendar, and the fact ...
A Warsaw flat owner decided to persuade her lodger to move out by having two thugs break down the door to the flat with a crowbar, beat the man up and then menace the man while he was packing by placing a gun to his head. The woman had demanded that the man move out by April 20th, despite his having paid rent to the end of the month.
Bielsko-Biala Regional Prosecutors this week dropped their investigations into the death of the unidentified young boy found dead in a pond outside Cieszyn back in March 2010 [see NPE 12/63]. Despite over two years of intensive efforts, prosecutors have failed to identify either the dead boy, or those responsible for his death.