Napoleon was a hero for Poles as well
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Few people, apart from the French of course, have taken Napoleon Bonaparte as much to to their hearts as the Poles.
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Â· Mayor reaches out to Polish voters in capital  Â· Pork and pierogi at City Hall to woo community
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a Polish Second  World War hero who spent his life fighting for an independent  democratic Poland, died late on Thursday aged 91.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated out of victory in his country's presidential election.
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WARSAW Struggling with high unemployment and opposition here to the war in Iraq, Poland&#39;s minority leftist government, led by Marek Belka, on Thursday was trying to head off defeat in a vote of confidence by making last- minute deals to stay in power
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An insight into the great events in Ukraine over the last five weeks may be gleaned from an incident in the long life of Francois Marie Arouet, known to history as the philosopher Voltaire.
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A Polish woman freed after being taken hostage in October in Iraq said on Saturday her captors had treated her well.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry thanked Poland in a newspaper interview published Monday for its military involvement in Iraq and promised Polish businesses a chance for lucrative reconstruction contracts there should he win the Nov. 2 election.
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WARSAW -- A Polish woman kidnapped in Iraq last month has been freed and flown to Poland and said she was treated well, raising hopes for other foreign hostages.
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A MASTERPIECE by painter El Greco, discovered accidentally 40 years ago by two young art historians and concealed by the Catholic Church, has finally gone on display in Poland.
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A new book reveals the bravery of the men who joined the British forces to liberate Europe.
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The people of Belarus know oppression. They know hardship and misfortune on a scale far beyond most corners of the world. So it should be no surprise to learn that an entire countryâs great
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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Poland&#39;s parliament declared a  97-year-old woman a national heroine on Wednesday for saving  more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust during World  War Two.
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A pro-business opposition party that wants to bring Polandâs troops home from Iraq had a strong lead over the prime ministerâs strongly pro-U.S. party.
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Herbert Hoover, the former U.S. president associated at home with the despair of the Great Depression, is remembered as a hero to Poles in an exhibit that opened Friday.
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Comment is free: Anne Karpf:  Half of Poland's war dead were Jews - and the Polish record on Jews is a mite troublesome.