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Body of missing millionaire film producer found after four-day search

Film producer Piotr Woźniak-Starak with his wife Agnieszka. The stepson of a pharmaceutical tycoon, Woźniak-Starak was one of Poland’s richest men. Leszek Szymański/PAP

Married Piotr Woźniak-Starak had been on his luxury speedboat with a mystery blonde when he went missing. Police later found the empty boat floating on the lake and the woman identified as a local restaurant worker on the shore. She told them they had fallen off and that she had managed to swim to safety.

Money, money, money: More Poles are joining the ‘rich list’ and more are becoming millionaires

Most of Poland’s millionaires live in the Mazowieckie, but it is traditionally poorer areas that have seen the fastest growth in the number of rich.

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History | Life

Identity of mystery woman photographed nearly 40 years ago uncovered following museum appeal

Taken in Wrocław by world-renowned photographer Chris Niedenthal, the photo shows a young, rosy-cheeked woman in a floral dress, leaning one arm against a concrete balcony as the other appears to brush back a lock of her raven hair. Originally published in a German magazine in 1982, the photo quickly became as iconic as the building itself.

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Forgotten composer who played for Polish king and co-founded Edinburgh Festival rediscovered after distant relative finds online ad for his rare piano

Josie Dixon had little idea that her great-great-great-great grandfather Felix Yaniewicz was one of the 19th century’s most notable composers until a chance conversation about a Stradivarius violin led her on a path of discovery.

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