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Queen of the Polish Drift Karolina Pilarczyk to star in Charlize Theron’s new ‘badass’ car show on Netflix

Produced by Fast and Furious star Charlize Theron, Netflix’s new Hyperdrive reality show is set on an enormous industrial complex converted into ten hard-core racetracks over 100 acres exclusively for the production. Press materials/Karolina Pilarczyk/Facebook

With 28 of the world’s best drivers battling it out on a 100-acre race track littered with obstacles, the show promises to be a cross between American Ninja Warrior and Fast and Furious.

Polish driver and his German partner win Dubai International Baja 2019

Polish driver Jakub Przygoński with his co-driver Timo Gottschalk of Germany won the Dubai International Baja 2019 rally, which ended on Saturday.

She’s a trucking girl in a Barbie world: Female truck driver with over 250k YouTube fans becomes new face of Barbie Shero collection

Only the second Polish woman to receive the honour, the other being journalist Martyna Wojciechowska, Iwona Blecharczyk now joins a long list of iconic names which include Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart and Naomi Osaka.

He’s back! Kubica returns to Formula 1 seven years after horror crash

His return to competitive racing comes as a remarkable comeback for Kubica whose career as a racing driver almost came to an end in 2011 when his rally car smashed into a wall during Ronde di Andora in Italy.

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Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
HERO! Polish chef tackles London Bridge terrorist with 1.5-metre narwhal tusk
Old black and white photos of Warsaw Uprising brought to life in incredible colour
Miracle-worker surgeon becomes first Pole in history awarded prestigious fellowship

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Adventurer makes 700 km solo trek across Iceland in subzero temperatures

For Łukasz Supergan, crossing Iceland once on foot was not enough – he wanted to do it in winter, too.

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EU budget summit closes with no consensus
Germany-V4 trade up to EUR 300 bln in 2019 - PM
Posthumous distinction for film director Jerzy Gruza
PGG miners sign 6-pct wage hike deal with management
Strong Europe needs ambitious budget, Polish PM says at summit

'My mum was kidnapped by Hitler's SS!'

During WW II, the Germans kidnapped up to 200,000 ‘racially suitable’ Polish children for adoption by senior Nazis. In a harrowing, exclusive interview, TFN speaks to the son of one of the ‘Lebensborn’. What makes his story unusual though, is that with no real family of her own in Poland, Dariusz Dziekan’s mother quickly got back in contact with her German adopted mother after the war and Dziekan grew up knowing this woman simply as Grandma.

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Sad but beautiful! Why are Polish christmas carols so miserable?

Why So Serious?
A chance encounter on the remote Faroe Islands leads to a meeting with a remarkable Polish woman.

Events

19/12 - 08/03 Blockbuster! Lego Notre Dame smashes world record
09/01 - 29/03 Exhibition of impressionist prints opens in Poznan
21/01 - 27/02 Exhibition honouring Polish WWII courier opens in Rome
21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21
19/05 - 23/05 Canadian music event an opportunity to strengthen relations - ambassador

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