Conservative Poland president grabs slim election victory
Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski was just behind with 48.79% of the vote.
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High school students paid $70,000 for a dream trip that was canned. Now they're fighting for their money.
Epsom Girls' Grammar School students suffer double whammy on cancelled history trip.
75 years on, a survivor and a liberator of Bergen-Belsen reunite
Telegraph: Memories of the concentration camp have haunted the two for 75 years.
Polish restaurants send free food to medical 'heroes'
Polish restaurants are showing appreciation for medical staff by bringing them free meals.
Coronavirus clampdown: EU to seal borders for a month
The move is to slow the spread of Covid-19.
Sheree Trotter: Visiting Auschwitz profound and disturbing
Comment: Visiting Auschwitz all the more disturbing for the resurgence of antisemitism.
Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited 72 years later. He had one question
New York Times: Was she the reason he was alive today?
Outrage after world leader makes 'gun' gesture at Donald Trump
A former world leader is being slammed for making the gesture at Trump.
Kiwi businessman jailed over 65 deaths in Polish building disaster
He had earlier been acquitted of the charges after a legal fight over more than 10 years.
Poland PM hits Netflix over Nazi doco series
Netflix upsets Poland with location of Nazi death camps in documentary.
An improbable relic of Auschwitz: A shofar that defied the Nazis
New York Times: A ram's horn and a story of the power of belief amid death.
Trump congratulated Poland as it commemorated Nazi invasion
Mike Pence attended the commemoration in Trump's place. Maybe it was a good thing.
Poland marks 80th anniversary of WWII
The ceremony in Wielun was attended by other European diplomats.
Two children among five dead after lightning strikes mountains
Sudden thunderstorms caught tourists unaware leaving five dead and injuring more than 100.
Woman walks free on cocaine money laundering charge
The masters-educated woman laundered $54,000 in cocaine sales.
Polish village gains fame for what it doesn't have: Boys
New York Times: No boy has been born there in almost a decade.
Was Polish scandal a Russian test for US election tampering?
Polish politicians used a side door to get to the VIP section of a posh Warsaw restaurant.
'Mind-blowing': Literary detective uncovers forgotten Katherine Mansfield story
Dr Martin Griffiths came across the story in a 1910 edition of The Sydney Star.
Eva Kor, survivor of twin experiments at Auschwitz, dies at 85
New York Times: Eva Kor survived sadistic experiments carried out on twins at Auschwitz.
'Heil Hitler' signs for sale at the gates of Auschwitz
The New York Times: And then there were the "Heil Hitler" signs.
For artist at Auschwitz, a challenge: Stepping into the past, not on it
New York Times: Artist tasked with designing exhibit at the death camp site about faith.
Doco on paedophile priests shakes Catholic nation to its core
The church hierarchy has apologised and one cleric has left the priestly life
Wim Hof: Cult of the Iceman
It sounds like a form of torture, or perhaps a sort of cult. These travellers swear by it.
Room with a pool: Underwater hotel has world's deepest indoor dive
Poland has become an unlikely destination for diving fanatics.
'Stop posing on deathcamp tracks,' urges Auschwitz
Auschwitz has called on visitors to stop posing for pictures on its railway tracks.
How I beat the Nazis and survived
Lena Goldstein lived with eight people in a bathroom in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Germany grants NZ extradition request for Polish man
Police say he is a key player in an international organised crime conspiracy.
Ex-Nazi camp guard deported by US dies in Germany
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi prison guard who lived in New York for decades, had died.
Horrific details of escape room deaths revealed
Details have emerged about the deaths of five teens who were killed inside a escape room.
Gwynne Dyer: What went wrong in eastern Europe?
The dreams that drove the anti-Communist revolutions of 1989 are still alive but fading.
Three Poles, a Russian sailor, a mystery West African ... and $130k buried at Bastion Point
The organised crime plot stretched across New Zealand, Europe, Ecuador and Venezuela.
America alone: It's lonely at the top for Donald Trump
For the President in Paris, America First meant largely America alone.
Eating plastic: Microplastics found in humans for the first time
Fears for fertility and health problems after tiny particles found in the human gut.
Drones used in hunt for python in Poland
Huge shed skin discovered nine-days ago sparks search for python on the loose in Poland.