US-visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda opened the Polish Business and Innovation Week in the state of Nevada on Saturday. The event is intended as a cooperation platform between US and Polish enterprise, among others in aircraft and space technology.

Four percent of the gambling tax, or close to PLN 40 mln (EUR 9.4 mln), has been given to non-governmental organisations in Poland for the past year and a half, Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Piotr Gliński said on Saturday.

A German pilot was killed as his Jak-52 aircraft lost control and plunged into the Vistula River during a stunt performance at the 7th Płock Air Picnic in central Poland on Saturday, a spokesman for Poland's State Fire Brigade, Edward Mysera told PAP.

A cooperation agreement on new technologies in cancer treatment was signed in Houston, Texas on Friday by Polish Minister of Health Lukasz Szumowski and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The wreckage of the aircraft which plunged into the river during an air show was located at a depth of 3 to 6 metres, 20 metres from the river bank, spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the State Fire Brigade Paweł Frątczak told PAP.

A cooperation agreement on new technologies in cancer treatment was signed in Houston, Texas on Friday by Polish Minister of Health Lukasz Szumowski and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

In what would become one of the most important scientific studies of the 20th Century, 116 years ago this week Polish-born physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie defended her PhD thesis in Paris.

In six years' time an excavator designed by experts from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Institute of Sciences (CBK PAN) will be used on the moon. Testing of the equipment is due to start in Warsaw next month.

Poland’s Mars Rover Kielce Impuls team has won the 2019 University Rover Challenge (URC) in Utah, United States.

How have Poles changed since their medieval ancestors ruled the land? Did Slavs wander into modern Poland or were they native to those territories?

Doctor Helena Pyz has spent the last 30 years in the Jeevodaya centre in India, treating patients afflicted by leprosy and helping their children get an education.

Known for their stunningly delicious cakes, the team behind Lukullus has now gone a step further with the introduction of their Lukullus in St. Tropez ice cream parlour.

An animal lover wanting to save dogs from a grim and lonely fate has opened a “window of life” where people can deposit unwanted and unloved hounds.

Tekla Juniewicz, the longest living Polish woman, celebrated her 113th birthday on Monday. On the occasion, she received best wishes in a letter from Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Poland is fourth in the EU for having large families.

Copper company KGHM, oil firm PKN Orlen and chemicals concern Synthos took the top three positions in the ranking of national champions presented by the Polityka Insight analysis and advisory firm on Monday.

Global ratings agency Fitch has raised its GDP growth forecast for Poland to 4.2 percent in 2019 from the previously expected 4.0 percent.

There are nearly 5,900 electric cars registered in Poland, with their number growing by 100 percent year on year in the first five months of 2019, according to the newly-launched Electric Mobility Counter.

As the EU seeks to combat climate change and air pollution, energy efficiency in Poland has been improving, according to new analysis by the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS).

With an estimated wealth of PLN 12.1 bln (EUR 2.84 bln) Michał Sołowow topped this year's list of the 100 richest Poles for the second year in a row, according to Monday’s edition of the Wprost weekly newsmagazine.

Poland's men's handball team have advanced to the 2020 European Championships in Austria, Norway and Sweden.

Warka has become the first ever Polish beer brand to sponsor a major European football match, with a promotion starring Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho.

The Polish national football team will honour their first ever goal scorer Józef Klotz, before their match against Israel tonight.

President Andrzej Duda decorated three high-altitude climbers with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on Monday, for their part in a winter 2018 mountain rescue on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat.

Poland's national soccer team won a European Championship 2020 qualifier against North Macedonia in Skopje on Friday, beating the home side 1:0.

As controversial as it is iconic, the palm tree standing at the centre of Warsaw’s Rondo de Gaulle’a has again returned to the news, this time after its sprouting thatch of lustrous leaves died overnight leaving the public both baffled and bemused in equal measure.

Lipce Reymontowskie is the symbol of the Polish countryside. It was here that that Władysław Reymont set his novel ‘The Peasants’, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. And it is here where every year the village’s enthusiasm and pride in its links to the great writer are given expression in Reymont Day, which it is celebrating today.

Aquascaping, the Zen-like Japanese art of creating beautiful landscapes underwater using only natural materials, has a new champion from Poland.

When it was published in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin, “The Painted Bird”, Kosiński’s first novel, was an instant sensation.

Audiences worldwide will be treated to readings in various languages of Jan Kochanowski’s play ‘The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys’ on June 30. The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Theatre Institute in Warsaw and the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw have teamed up to run the event in six locations globally— in Warsaw, London, New York, Los Angeles, Madrid and Athens—and provide streaming of the readings by local actors.

In the disease-ridden, bug-infested barracks of Auschwitz death camp, few expected to survive.

In what would become one of the most important scientific studies of the 20th Century, 116 years ago this week Polish-born physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie defended her PhD thesis in Paris.

World War II treasure hunters say they have found the entrance to a secret tunnel which could contain the long-lost Amber Chamber.

The Polish national football team will honour their first ever goal scorer Józef Klotz, before their match against Israel tonight.

A WWII fort where thousands of Poles and Jews were executed by German soldiers is to be turned into a memorial site.