The heads of the foreign affairs parliamentary committees from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Tuesday lodged an appeal to the Belarusian authorities to stop using force, release jailed protesters and start social dialogue.

The Polish government wants to join the EU agreement on the purchase of a potential vaccine against COVID-19, according to a draft resolution put on the legislative agenda of the Council of Ministers.

From this year on annual commemorations of the outbreak of WWII will be held by the Polish Army and not, as until now, by the authorities of the northern city of Gdansk, Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Tuesday.

An initiative by Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz to organise a meeting of EU foreign ministers on the elections in Belarus was supported on Tuesday by his counterparts from Latvia, Estonia and Finland at a conference in the Latvian capital of Riga.

Fifty-one percent of Poles negatively assess the government's decision to reopen schools on September 1, whereas 80 percent support the introduction of penalties for not wearing a face mask in enclosed public places, shows the latest United Surveys study.

Polish company PIAP Space has signed a contract worth 2.5 million Euros with the European Space Agency to build a robotic arm for fixing satellites on orbit.

The world’s first uncuttable material has been created by a team of scientists inspired by ‘grapefruits and shells’.

Polish contestants have won five medals in the online-held 26th Baltic Olympiad in Informatics (BOI), the world's most prestigious computer science competition for secondary school students, the education ministry tweeted on Friday.

Archaeologists are searching for a lost Viking cemetery in northern Poland, which will shed further light on the death and burial rites of the area’s medieval inhabitants.

A hospital in Kraków has become the first in Poland to use holograms when planning and performing surgeries on liver and pancreatic tumours.

The National Museum in Gdańsk has created masks showcasing works of art in its collection.

An online fundraiser has gathered over 330,000 Euros for the family of a Polish man who died rescuing three children from the North Sea.

A stallion called Ferrum from the Michalow stud farm was named on Sunday the best horse of the 42nd National Show of Purebred Arabian Horses in Janow Podlaski, eastern Poland, at which almost 140 horses from state and private stud farms were shown.

The Olsztyn Planetarium has become the first modernist building in the city to be added to the national list of historic and protected buildings in Poland.

A new eco-friendly bus stop sporting a lawned roof and special anti-bird-crash glass has been unveiled in Warsaw.

Air traffic within Polish airspace and at Polish airports on August 3-9 fell by 47 percent year on year, according to data released by the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PAZP) on Tuesday.

The total number of tourists visiting Poland in June decreased year on year by 62.7 percent to 1.3 million, according to Central Statistical Office (GUS) data released on Tuesday.

Switzerland’s five-star Mövenpick hotel brand have made their ambitions for Poland known after signing a deal with Marvipol Development for the construction of a luxury project on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

Poland is the EU's leading cucumber supplier, the Polish Development Fund wrote on Twitter on Monday, quoting Eurostat figures.

The 12th European Economic Congress, planned for September 2-4, will be held in a 'hybrid' form, both stationary at Katowice's International Congress Centre and online with European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans among the guests.

A Polish extreme athlete has swum his way into the Guinness Book of Records by swimming non-stop for 48 hours in the longest endurance swim in a lake.

Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen, who suffered an accident at the end of the first stage of the 77th Tour de Pologne bicycle race, is in a chemically-induced coma and his condition is described as serious, the race's press office has informed PAP.

Polish handball players will take part in the 2021 World Cup in Egypt thanks to a "wild card" situation, the International Handball Federation announced on Thursday evening.

"I will never let WADA become part of the political game," Witold Bańka, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency, emphasized in an interview with PAP. At the end of June, the U.S. Congress received a report criticizing WADA, including for being slow in its actions against Russia.

Around the world the hopes and dreams of hundreds of athletes were put on hold when the Tokyo Olympic Games were delayed until next year owing to the Covid outbreak.

A Warsaw-based firm is heading to the UK after winning a prestigious start-up prize that could help it secure millions of euros in funding.

A new report shows that Poland is leading the way in Europe for the growth of investments in start-ups.

A Wrocław-based start-up performing online medical diagnoses and triage has teamed up with US tech giant Microsoft.

A disinfecting gate that can kill 90 percent of bacteria and viruses in just one minute has been designed by engineers from the Silesian University of Technology.

While it is tempting to stereotype startups as being all about eco hipsters and techno geeks, a survey carried out by Poland’s largest bank has revealed some surprising statistics.

‘Never gonna snow again’ directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert has been announced as the Polish candidate for Oscars 2021 in the Best International Feature Film category.

The National Museum in Gdańsk has created masks showcasing works of art in its collection.

A Katowice-based artist has captured the imagination of Poles far and wide with his stunning images of Silesia that present the nation’s industrial heartland in an enchantingly whimsical manner.

Two altars in Warsaw’s Carmelite Church are being renovated with at least 64 square metres of pure gold to restore their baroque character and look.

An experimental structure by a Polish artist is being shown at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

A rare, fully intact sword from the 10th century has been found at the bottom of a lake.

Over 150 Jewish gravestones have been found under a market square in a small town in southern Poland.

Widely regarded as the most spectacular castle in Poland, an online exhibition has cast new light on the glories of Książ by presenting a host of colourized, previously unpublished images that demonstrate the full extent of the bastion’s pre-war splendour.

A new collectors’ edition of 20 zloty banknotes to commemorate the 1920 Battle of Warsaw have ben released by the National Bank of Poland.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki remembered the 'Wola Slaughter' perpetrated by Nazi Germany during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, as "the worst civilian massacre of the Second World War" on the event's 76th anniversary.