Down come the cheesy Che Guevara posters in student bedsits across the land. Off come the T-shirts wittily emblazoned with a hammer and sickle. Twenty years after...

Travelers often have a tendency for odd complaints. They will book a visit to, say, the Australian outback and then complain that it is too - oddly somehow -...

All people are equal-that is what French Revolution proclaimed centuries ago and the UN legislated worldwide more recently. In the age of sci-fi-turning-into-reality...

The United States guarantees Poland’s security, he said. “This strategic assurance is absolute, absolute, Mr. Prime Minister,” Mr. Biden declared. It is “a...

Post-modern American has debased noble words: artist, classical, original, and hero. Everyone it seems is a hero today. Both the rescue workers and their saved victims...

When Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss authorities on a 32-year-old rape charge, the first reaction of many Poles was to immediately leap to his defense, but in...

Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their...

A methane leak in a Polish coal mine set off an explosion Friday that killed 12 miners and left dozens injured, 15 of them in critical condition, officials said. The...

Personally, I feel always a sort of affection in iconic places history associated with. And a living walking history impresses me surely as info of a hundred year old...

European leaders gather in the Polish city of Gdansk today to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, amid an acrimonious row between Moscow and...

Acontest between competing needs of conservation and economic growth is threatening the future of large parts of Europe’s last ancient forest. The 380,000-acre...

As I stand inside, helmet on head, shoulder to shoulder with a group of slightly nervous strangers, the refrain of a Merle Travis song keeps running through my head:...

It may be difficult to say who “won” the European elections, but it is clear who lost. From France to Poland – and spectacularly in Britain –...

Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life. “Keeping tropical rain forests...

What magic do the beautiful have that most of us lack? Neuroscientists, psychologists and anthropologists have all taken a stab at deconstructing facial beauty.

Researchers found much more plutonium in Swedish soil at a depth that corresponded with the Chernobyl nuclear explosion than that of Poland. When a reactor in the...

A top Russian general on Friday said Poland’s deal with the United States to set up parts of a missile defence shield on Polish territory lays it open to a...

A top Russian general on Friday said Poland’s deal with the United States to set up parts of a missile defence shield on Polish territory lays it open to a...

A top Russian general said Friday that Poland’s agreement to accept a U.S. missile defense battery exposes ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear...

Poland and the United States struck a deal Thursday that will strengthen military ties and put an American missile interceptor base in Poland, a plan that has...