The pair are being sent to Germany and Poland on official visits just weeks after the start of official Brexit talks.

A Hungarian Jew who survived Auschwitz and the Scottish soldier who helped save her will mark their 71st Valentine's Day together tomorrow.

Oscar-winning actorwill soon be squeezing into a new car after some of his Polish fans banded together to buy the actor a Soviet-era hatchback.

"We perceive it as a threat. These actions threaten our interests, our security," says Russia as the first of thousands more US troops and tanks rolled in to Poland.

'Every time I'm in London I go out to the clubs - you don't learn anything by sitting in your office," says the president of vodka brand Belvedere.

Truck driver did not give up the keys easily to terror suspect who then rammed vehicle into crowded Christmas market.

Poland's Interior Minister yesterday accused the opposition of attempting to stage a coup as MPs occupied Parliament's plenary hall for a second day.

The bizarre events leading up to the "natural causes" death of well-known conspiracy theorist Max Spiers, 39, have left a British inquest flabbergasted.

Polish Ambassador Zbigniew Gniatkowski tells us what Kiwis need to know about his homeland

The tale of a legendary Nazi ghost train carrying gold which allegedly disappeared without trace in the dying days of the Second World War has taken a new twist.

Survivors who escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz have remembered the horror of the infamous Nazi death camp 70 years after liberation by Red Army soldiers.

Officials in a Polish town have opposed a proposition to name a playground after Winnie the Pooh due to the bear's unclear gender and immodest clothing.

Winnie the Pooh has been banned from a Polish playground because of his "dubious sexuality" and "inappropriate" dress.

Pope Francis has ordered showers to be built for the homeless in the heart of St Peter's Square.

Film director Roman Polanski was questioned by prosecutors in Poland and later released after the United States requested his arrest over his conviction of a child sex offence.

Police have detained two men they believe bashed, robbed and dumped an unconscious Kiwi hiker in Poland.

Jared Savage confronts a tourist who's seemingly unaffected by the former concentration camp's sombre atmosphere.

Europe's most affordable ski slopes are in Poland, as Jared Savage discovers

There's no place like Poland when it comes to celebrating Easter, discovers Danielle Wright

She's won more than US$11 million in prize money, made the final at Wimbledon this year and is clearly the class act of the ASB Classic field, but the world's fourth-best female tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska is hardly a household name in New Zealand.

Gdansk offers a chance for visitors to take in scenes of sea, ships and spires set in a magnificently reconstructed Old Town while contemplating the ups and downs of European history, including the famous shipyard strike led by Lech Walesa.

A missing letter 'G' that threatened to set the Scrabble World Championship on fire this weekend.