Soaring 36m towards the heavens, a new statue in Poland has dethroned the landmark Jesus of Rio de Janeiro as the world's tallest statue of Christ.

In a world of spirits that aim to be the biggest tasting and most highly flavoured, vodka has always been something of an enigma.

A brilliant day for the Kiwis at the RS:X World boardsailing championships in Denmark.

To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.

Interim president Bronislaw Komorowski appeared to have held off a last-minute surge from the identical twin brother of the late president, who died in an April plane crash that shocked the country and forced Sunday's early election.

Protesters say President Lech Kaczynski and his wife should not be buried in Wawel Cathedral -normally reserved for poets and kings.

Russian authorities insist that pilot error was behind the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski.

Thousands of Poles lined the streets of Warsaw as the coffin of President Lech Kaczynski was taken to the presidential palace after his death alongside at least 95 others in a plane crash in Russia.

Poland is confronting the worst political disaster since WWII after its president, his wife and dozens of top officials were killed in a plane crash.

Acting Prime Minister Bill English has joined the list of international leaders offering condolences to Poland.

Man so enraged crew couldn't pay him on the spot that he ate his winning ticket.

A 76-year-old Polish beekeeper has been discovered alive as he was about to be buried.

"I am still in Sobibor 67 years on," the trembling man told Court 101. "I still have nightmares about the place.