WARSAW - One of the oldest salt mines in Europe, Poland’s Wieliczka, called for photos of salt from across the globe for a contest and show at its underground museum.“We thought it would be good to learn about the rest of the world’s salt and compile a portrait of it,” ...

CONNECTICUT DS - A shoplifter has been caught stealing more than 100 bottles of nail polish. Marco Gonzales, was arrested by police in Middletown, Connecticut on suspicion of shoplifting, after he was found to be in the possession of 102 stolen bottles of products. According to NBC News, the ...

WARSAW (AFP)For a Shakespeare play with a twist, a Polish arts troupe cast inmates alongside professional actors in an effort to engage those on the sidelines of society. The six men, whose crimes range from theft to battery resulting in death, performed their adaptation of the bard’s ...

WARSAW - Two Polish climbers are missing after making the first ever winter ascent of the 12th highest mountain in the Himalayas called Broad Peak, the expedition leader told media Wednesday.Tomasz Kowalski, 27, and Maciej Berbeka, 51, were among four Poles who summited the 8,051-metre ...

WARSAW  - Poland’s top court ruled that the ritual slaughter of animals, a key tenet of the Jewish and Muslim faiths, was illegal, but the government insisted that new EU rules would still allow the practice. The Constitutional Court’s ruling appeared largely symbolic, as it enters ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has inked an agreement for the sale of tight gas in the country with Polish Oil & Gas Company Pakistan branch and price of the gas explored from Kirthar reserves would stand at $6/mmbtu.The agreement signing ceremony was held here on Tuesday where official of Sui Southern ...

The Polish Oil and Gas Company (POGC) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) have singed an agreement of Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) to add 30 mmcfd tight gas into system of SSGC from Kirthar block in Sindh.Officials of the Ministry of Petroleum ministry told Online here on Tuesday ...

WARSAW  - Four Polish troops face a fresh trial on allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan after Poland's top court overturned their acquittal on charges of having killed civilians in an Afghan village. But the court confirmed the acquittal of three other soldiers in the case, the first ever ...

GHAZNI CITY (Reuters/AFP) - A roadside bomb killed five Polish soldiers in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the country’s prime minister said, Poland’s largest loss of life in a single incident since it joined the NATO-led coalition of foreign troops almost a decade ago.“This is very sad ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Ambassador of Poland in Pakistan, Dr Andrzej Ananiez, has urged Pakistani businessmen to invest in new technologies to more efficiently exploit countrys resource potential and to enhance bilateral trade with Poland. The Ambassador was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of ...

A tour bus mainly carrying Polish tourists was going too fast during a downpour when it crashed and flipped over on an upstate New York highway, leaving 30 people with minor injuries, police said. State police Capt. Eric Janis said Thursday that 19 people were treated at three Binghamton-area ...

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Three miners died after a cave-in at a copper mine in south-western Poland on Thursday, officials said. A strong tremor caused the cave-in at the Rudna mine, owned by Europes second largest copper producer KGHM and located nearby the town of Polkowice. Twenty seven miners ...

Tens of thousands of Poles bade farewell to President Lech Kaczynski at a state funeral filled with pomp, pride and an outpouring of patriotism that his divisive and unpopular leadership had never generated. Mourners applauded and chanted We thank you as the caskets bearing Kaczynski and his wife, ...

A week of official mourning has been declared as thousands of Poles light candles to mourn the death of their president and 96 others in a plane crash. A somber vigil, stretching into the early hours of Sunday, was observed in central Warsaw's Pilsudski Square to mourn the president and the other ...

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife died Saturday along with 132 others when their plane crashed while coming in for a landing in western Russia, officials said. The governor of the Smolensk region, where the crash took place about 11 a.m. (0700 GMT), said no one survived. ''The Polish ...

WARSAW (AFP) Polands Sports Minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki quit Monday saying he did not want corruption claims against him to damage the countrys preparations to host the 2012 European football championships. I have made my own decision. I am handing my resignation to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, ...

RAWALPINDI - An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Monday sent former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz to Adiala Jail for 14 days on judicial remand for his alleged involvement in the abduction and murder of Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak. The former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz and another accused Attaullah were sent ...

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Monday denounced the execution of a Polish hostage by the Pakistani Taliban and vowed to hunt down his killers. "The cassette of the execution, this bestial execution, is authentic and unfortunately it confirms the worst," Sikorski told reporters. "Now ...

PESHAWAR - The Taliban miscreants from Dara Adam Khel on Saturday claimed killing of abducted Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak kidnapped last year to pressure Islamabad to release detained insurgents. A purported Taliban spokesman named Mohammad Saturday told the media on the telephone from an ...

Gunmen kidnapped a Polish engineer in Attock on Sunday, shooting dead his two drivers and a security guard during the abduction in the latest violence to hit the nation, officials said. Poland's foreign ministry confirmed the kidnapping, while the engineer's company said he was ambushed as he and ...