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Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery.
Poland's prime minister defended his government's support for greater integration in the European Union during a lively parliamentary debate Thursday on the country's relationship with the crisis-ridden bloc.
A transsexual woman and an openly gay man took seats in Poland's newly elected parliament Tuesday, historic firsts that reflect profound social change in this traditionally Roman Catholic country.
Poland's former President Lech Walesa says he supports the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York that protests corporate greed.
Activists from Egypt, Libya and Tunisia observed Poland's parliamentary election on Sunday to gain firsthand experience about how to hold the first democratic votes in their countries in decades.
Poland's re-elected prime minister intends to maintain his ruling coalition with a small farm-based party and expects no government shake-up until the new year, according to an interview published Tuesday.
Poland's leaders lashed out Wednesday against their main challenger in looming elections, accusing him of harming Polish national interests by stirring up suspicions of Germany and its leader Angela Merkel.
They were once bitter foes: Lech Walesa, the pro-democracy activist, and Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the communist leader who imprisoned Walesa for 11 months during a harsh martial law crackdown in 1981.
Free after a decade in Soviet labor camps, Yiddish author Naftali Herts Kon believed he was entering the free world when in 1959 he took his wife and daughters to Poland to start a new life.
Poland's government disbanded an air force regiment and fired some high-ranking officers Thursday after an official report blamed poor pilot training and lax security procedures for a plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.
The elegant living quarters of a celebrated 18th-century prince were reopened in Warsaw Friday after years of detective work that involved tracking down every still-existing picture and decorator's bill that could help recreate their original look.
Thousands of fans at next year's European Championship in Poland will enjoy new stadiums, highways — and fancy new restrooms at Warsaw's main train station.
Poland has ambitious plans as it prepares to take over the European Union presidency on Friday — and that includes vigorously promoting a more united Europe.
Poland is planning a major investment in shale gas, a potentially huge source of energy — and environmentally dangerous chemicals — to break free of dependence on Russian imports and boost its economy.
Past guards, metal detectors and code-protected doors, terrorism experts in a secluded room in Warsaw are monitoring Hezbollah TV and radical Islamic websites as wall clocks keep track of the time in far-off hotspots like Kabul and Mogadishu.
Thousands of Poles will travel to Rome for the May 1 beatification of their beloved countryman, Pope John Paul II. But two of the faithful have already left — on foot.
It was one of the most poignant images of a Polish national tragedy: a kneeling Jaroslaw Kaczynski whispering to his identical twin's flag-draped coffin after the president's body returned from Russia following a plane crash.
Belarus is "Europe's Cuba" and its people are yearning for freedom just like the tens of thousands who have taken to the streets in Tunis and Cairo, Poland's foreign minister said Thursday.
A Polish official says the United States has offered to periodically station F-16 fighter jets and Hercules planes in Poland starting in 2013 for joint exercises.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has paid tribute to Soviet troops killed in World War II at a memorial in Warsaw.
Bodyguards have been assigned to protect several Polish politicians after officials found a hit list on the body of a man who killed a conservative party activist last week, several officials said Monday.
A van crammed with farm workers crashed head-on into a truck in central Poland on Tuesday after apparently trying to overtake another vehicle in dense fog, killing all 18 people on board, officials said. The truck driver suffered minor injuries.
A Chechen separatist leader wanted in Russia on terrorism charges said Saturday his release from temporary arrest in Poland means that another European country rejects the Russian allegations he calls "absurd."
Polish officials quietly moved on Thursday a makeshift memorial cross honoring the late President Lech Kaczynski to the presidential palace chapel, in an attempt to end a lengthy dispute that divided the nation.
Protesters shouting "Defend the cross!" scuffled with police Tuesday but managed to prevent Polish officials from moving a cross erected outside the presidential palace in memory of the late President Lech Kaczynski.
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