Polish News

Toronto - The Ekran Polish Film Association presents the 6th Annual Polish Film Festival in Toronto; celebrating the greatest achievements of Polish filmmakers.

London - Nurses have been warned about wearing nail polish and nail extensions after a poll suggested infection control was being put at risk by nurses who wear either item on their nails.

Madrid - Spanish police have broken up an organized group of car thieves, responsible for 74 thefts in the Community of Madrid. In total, 18 people have been arrested and 20 stolen vehicles recovered, some already broken down into parts.

Four people were hiking in the Pieniny mountains located in Southern Poland when they were struck and killed by lightning.

Warsaw - Russian football fans were marching through Warsaw when they were suddenly attacked by Polish fans. Around eleven people were injured and taken to hospital.

Warsaw - A 73-year-old-grandmother by the name of Wilka Smytz, a retired youth counselor, is the musical DJ at a Warsaw club that caters to senior citizens and the younger crowd. Her most popular music styles are samba, rumba, sensual disco and rhythmic beats.

A woman in England who is expecting a child has found herself to be addicted to eating polish and other cleaning products. These bizarre eating habits are due to a rare disorder called pica.

Fuerstenberg - On April 10, 100 women survivors of Nazi German atrocities attended a memorial service at the former Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany.

Stanley Haidasz passed away today at 86. He was known as one of the foremost trailblazers of multiculturalism in Canada, and became the first Senator of Polish-Canadian background in recent history.

Lech Walesa, former Polish president, left a Houston, Texas hospital on Tuesday. The former Polish president was in the hospital for four days because doctors fitted him with a pacemaker.

A brand new Polish women's political party risks shocking the majority Catholic country by plastering nude posters of their female candidates for the upcoming October 21 parliamentary election.

A Polish man wakes up after a 19 year coma is shocked with the changes in the country.

OK - So, police in Poland are getting fed up with all of the drunks hitting the roads after sucking down too much beer. Have they increased the DUI fines, extended the jail terms or have they come up with something that will stop the madness?!

Fat Tuesday is the translation for Mardi Gras. In Detroit Fat Tuesday is better known as Paczki Day

Google sues Polish Poets group GMAil.pl and wants their domain rights.

Federal officials fanned out across Southern California over the past week in one of the biggest sweeps of its kind, arresting 761 illegal immigrants ranging from murder suspects to visa violators.

"KRAKOW, Poland, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Polish Roman Catholic clergyman in Krakow plans to identify 39 priests, including three bishops, as former communist police agents, reports said."

Warsaw's new archbishop resigned amid a scandal about his cooperation with the communist-era secret police.

Self-admitted communist-era collaborator consecrated as Archbishop of Warsaw

When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to America on a student exchange, he found himself trapped in a host family of Christian fundamentalists.

WARSAW (dpa) - Krystyna Trojanek, in a gesture of helplessness, pulls her shabby coat, which is at least two sizes too large for her, more tightly around her shoulders."I don't understand all this bureaucracy," the 73-year-old woman says, sta...

WARSAW, Poland – Sixty years after as many as 1,600 Jews were killed in eight hours in a village in northeast Poland, the nation's president on Tuesday offered a strong apology. It was not Nazi soldiers, he said, but ordinary Poles who beat, stabbed an.