Poles trickle back to reviving city
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LODZ, Poland  - Once a byword for poverty and post-communist racketeering, Poland's second largest city of Lodz was a place people wanted to escape. Today some are moving back, drawn by foreign investment and falling unemployment.
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As officials prepare to start letting residents return to Falluja, they must figure out how to win back the confidence of the people whose city they have destroyed.
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A new span across the copper-colored St. Louis Bay is a hopeful link to the return of better days.
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By Rob StrybelWARSAW - Around 20,000 Poles took part in rival demonstrations in the capital on Saturday over whether the ruling conservatives, who are struggling to form a coalition, should call a snap ...Comment
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As the capital of Poland, Warsaw's historical legacy has proven to be both a blessing and curse.
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Afghans see a possible livelihood in the city, despite its crumbling infrastructure.
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WARSAW -- Jewish community leaders and Warsaw officials lighted the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital yesterday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland. Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, chanted Hebrew prayers as he and Warsaw Deputy Mayor Andrzej Urbanski were lifted by an industrial crane to the top of ...
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In Poland, the mood is mixed. Three of four Poles questioned by The Associated Press said they would not vote even if they could.
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Poland shows no signs of losing its appetite for retail centers. On Wednesday, October 20, 120,000 people made their way to the new Arkadia shopping mall in the Zoliborz district of Warsaw, which at 110,000 ...
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WASHINGTON It&#39;s been more than 30 years since baseball was in Washington DC -- and many residents don&#39;t seem in a hurry for a return.
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Beaming smiles at the millions who prayed for their freedom, Simona Torretta and Simona Pari returned to a relieved Rome last night.
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A Seventh Avenue cornerstone returned.
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Residents packed the District of Columbia Council chambers yesterday to praise or pan the mayor&#39;s $440 million US proposal to refurbish RFK Stadium and build a new ball park for the Montreal Expos.
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Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.
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Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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Once the scene of the Solidarity strikes which broke the back of communism, a new investment seeks to turn Poland's Gdansk shipyards into Eastern Europe's answer to the London docklands.
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A declining industrial city turned to Frank Gehry to deliver some titanium-clad salvation. It got what it wished for.