On Tuesday, 28 June, the Amber Museum in Gdansk broke the Guinness World Record for the heaviest lump of amber. It was proved and confirmed in the presence of experts that the collection of the Gdansk Amber Museum holds the biggest piece of it in the world. It weighs as much as 64.2 kilograms (141.5 lb) and can be admired free of charge in the Museum's seat in Wielki Mlyn (Great Mill). This is already the second Guinness World Record established in the city of Gdansk.
Grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof Duda won in white against runner-up American Fabiano Caruana in the tenth round of the candidate chess tournament in Madrid. This is the Pole's first victory in the championship that will determine the rival of Norwegian Magnus Carlsen in next year's world championship match.
At the request of the attorney's office, the Kluczbork court applied pre-trial detention to the organiser of the "contest" in drinking alcohol. As a result, a 37-year-old woman died. As the Police Headquarters in Opole informed on Wednesday, the "competition" was recorded by other participants with their phones.
The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PAZP) and protesting air traffic controller unions have reached an agreement on wages and working conditions, PAZP CEO Anita Oleksiak told a press conference on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian president has shown a new video depicting a Russian rocket attack on a shopping centre in the city of Kremenchuk in central Ukraine. Dozens of civilians were killed in the shelling. "The total number of Russian missiles that fell on our cities is already 2811," - Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in an evening post on Facebook.
Assemblies of people subject to compulsory military service are planned in the Gomel region in southern Belarus between 28 June and 16 July, the Ukrainian General Staff has announced.
Tomasz Biernacki has become, according to "Wprost", the richest Pole in 2022. He is a mysterious billionaire about whom little is known, but the business that brought him his fortune is known throughout Poland. It is the chain of Dino Polska shops that in some respects has already overtaken Lidl and many other competitors.
The crowds of car enthusiasts and representatives of leading global companies that attended last weekend's EV Experience powered by LG Energy Solution Wrocław event, organised at the Modlin Circuit by the Polish Alternative Fuels Association (PSPA), are proof that electromobility in Poland is shifting into another, higher gear.
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, who is loyal to the authorities in Kyiv, Petro Andriushchenko, published a video today showing the inside of a ruined apartment block, where people live despite the lack of electricity and massive destruction. This city in the southeast of Ukraine is under Russian forces' control.
The ceremony of raising the flags of Poland and the UN started the 11th World Urban Forum in Katowice (WUF11) on Sunday. Sunday is treated as "day zero" of this several-day event, the official opening ceremony of WUF11 will take place on Monday morning.
A deal for Robert Lewandowski's transfer to FC Barcelona is still possible. The Catalans are preparing a third buyout offer for the Pole from Bayern Munich.
Russian authorities have removed the white and red flag from the Polish war cemetery in Katyn. Advisor to President Andrzej Duda, Minister Paweł Mucha said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had protested about this. “A Polish consul was at the site," Mucha informed.
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko during the latest negotiations were to agree on the creation of a Union State. In addition, Reuters reports that Russia is rearming Belarus with Iskander-M cruise missiles flying at around 400km.
It left Poland in November 1995 and arrived in Cyprus in March 1996. It "stayed" there for 26 years, until it was found by a Pole on holiday in Cyprus. Polonez Truck RHD with the steering wheel on the right side is slowly becoming one of the most famous cars in Poland. The Pole who bought it is its first owner.
Coming back from holiday instead of going to work can land you in jail! All you have to do is take with you a piece of the coral reef or a shell of a protected species.
The EU should accept Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and western Balkans country as members, if Europe is to remain a strategically strong region, the Polish prime minister has said.
There was an accident on the A14 motorway in Germany at night from Thursday to Friday that resulted in the driver of a sports Porsche being decapitated. Polish drivers were involved in an attempt to stop the damaged vehicle.
