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A year in travel: Webber picks out the best (and worst) from his journeys around Poland

As the curtain falls on 2022, TFN’s Alex Webber takes a personal look back at his travel highlights of the year… Alex Webber/TFN, Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP, Rafał Guz/PAP

As the curtain falls on 2022, TFN’s Alex Webber takes a personal look back at his travel highlights of the year…

Egg-cellent! Stunning display of decorative Easter eggs honour 1,000-year-old Silesian tradition

Hosted by the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the exhibition seeks to spotlight an ancient custom relating to so-called Kroszonki, elaborately painted eggs engraved with often floral motifs.

Space photographer ‘over the moon’ after NASA names her stunning meteor pic ‘photo of the day’

Marzena Rogozińska captured the incredible shot on 13th August in Busko-Zdroj as the spectacular meteor shower lit up the sky as the Earth passed through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a huge behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.

Enchanting little ‘origami house’ has two-fold purpose of ‘isolation and reflection’

Located in the city of Toruń, the design inspired by the ancient Japanse art of paper-folding has been billed by the architects behind it as a small and cosy space away from everyday life.

Energy firm Fortum launches EUR 202 mln power plant in Zabrze

After a construction phase of almost two and a half years, energy firm Fortum opened a co-generation heat and power plant in the Silesian town of Zabrze (southern Poland) on Thursday. The investment cost PLN 870 million (EUR 202.6 million).

Scrum on Poland! Poland has five pro rugby players - Mateusz Bartoszek is one of them

“In France it’s kind of exotic to meet a Polish player because they think nobody plays rugby in Poland.”

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  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
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  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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  • Tennis star Iga Swiatek withdraws from Miami tournament
  • Poland and Israel agree on rules for educational youth trips
  • Detained Warsaw City Hall official has resigned, says lawyer
  • Tusk says his party ready to defeat ruling camp alone

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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