Preparations of a demographic strategy aimed at raising birthrates and promoting traditional family values will be a major task for the government in the coming year - Family, Labour and Social Policy Minister Marlena Malag reported.

Two Polish start-ups, Hyper Poland and Blinkee.city, have been placed on the prestigious list of Lufthansa Innovation Hub among global projects aimed at transforming transport, reports Rzeczpospolita daily.

PKP PLK, the Polish railway infrastructure manager, plans to increase the value of its investments by 30 percent in 2020 to some PLN 14-15 billion (EUR 3.28-3.52 billion).

The authors of the film "Soviet Story showed that both the Soviets and Germans cooperated in the extermination of Jews

Our fellow Pole, Łukasz Koczocik, who became famous for his heroic defense of the London Bridge, will receive one of the highest British civilian honours. The award he is to receive will celebrate his actions from November when he restrained an attacker in the English capital.

Official celebrations of the 101st anniversary of the Greater Poland uprising took place today in Poznań. The fighting broke out on December 27th 1918 following the visit of Ignacy Jan Paderewski who motivated his fellow countrymen to rise up to the German occupying forces. The main celebrations took place by the statue commemorating the insurgents.

At least 13 people died in the Philippines after a tropical typhoon struck the islands on Christmas eve. While rescue authorities launched a search and rescue operation, Pope Francis in Vatican prayed for the victims.

Russian secret services seized the computers and other equipment from the offices of Alexiey Navalny a leader of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and russian opposition. We have the footage from the moment when police broke into Navalny’s facility. According to Alexei Navalny, the raid was connected to the fact he refused to comply with a court order to delete a video from 2017, where he accused the Russian Prime Minister of corruption.

And there’s some good news for everybody interested in the history of Poland! From now on, you may browse a new portal produced by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance,in English named: Next Stop - History. At Przystanekhistoria.pl, a wide range of historical articles and materials gathered by the IPN experts is available, as well as multimedia files including pictures, movie clips, and so on.

We all know that Christmas is about sharing and giving, and no one knows this better than volunteers from Poland who chose a unique way of helping those in need – knitting. Many wool shop employees engaged in a campaign to knit scarves, hats, gloves etc. for the poor and homeless, so they can survive the winter cold.

While the western world is celebrating christmas, for orthodox christians the festivities are still several days ahead. Therefore, Russian media’s topics may be surprising to some of us. Last Tuesday, the Russian president Vladimir Putin gave a speech to the military brass and accused Poland of starting the Second World War. 

Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski was a special guest of Tv Republika, where he talked among others things about the difficult situation Christians face everyday in Syria. How do they cope with living in a war zone and have they lost hope? All of that and more on the matter had the metropolitan bishop of Cracow who recently visited the turmoiled Middle Eastern country.