Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s most powerful politician who has built his position on a reputation of honesty and anti-communist convictions, suddenly finds himself embroiled in revelations over his involvement in complex business dealings and the presence in his inner circle of people with alleged communist ties. The stakes are high, given two crucial elections this year — for the European Parliament in May and for the national parliament in the fall.

Orbex has unveiled its Prime rocket, which is designed to deliver small satellites into the Earth’s orbit and will feature the world’s largest 3D-printed rocket engine. The completed engineering prototype of the Stage 2 rocket was showcased to members from the UK and European space communities at the opening of Orbex’s new headquarters and rocket design facility in Forres, Scotland.

A BBC investigation into dogfighting discovered an illegal trade stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.

The courtship went on for 10 whole days. They were kept apart, but tantalizingly close enough so that each could see, hear and smell the other. When the matchmakers believed that the time and the place were right — Friday at London Zoo — the rare Sumatran tiger called Asim and a female named Melati were put in the same enclosure together. He promptly killed her — moments after they were introduced for the first time.

Faced with a plummeting population, Hungary’s leader promised a tax exemption to mothers with four or more children. Experts say the plan won’t work.

British rapper Cadet has died in a car crash while on his way to a gig at Keele University. The 28-year-old music star, real name Blaine Cameron Johnson, was a passenger in a taxi early this morning when it collided with a van in Betley, Staffordshire. He died at the scene, while the two drivers were taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Facebook built a massive advertising business on what it knows about its users. But could the company's enormous database soon become its biggest problem? The clearest warning yet came Thursday, when Germany's antitrust office ruled that Facebook was abusing its market position by combining its data with information from Instagram, WhatsApp and third party websites.

Promising newcomers are threatening to tear apart the country’s two-party system in every direction.

Polarization is everywhere. But it’s being challenged in Poland by a handful of magazines across the political spectrum. They’ve begun sharing articles, to show readers a variety of viewpoints.

Britain's 20 most endangered species have been identified for the first time by a host of wildlife and woodland charities, as Natural England has launched a campaign to bring them back from the brink of extinction. The charities, including the RSPB and the Woodland Trust, have been given over £7.7 million in funding from the National Lottery and other donors to work together to save the endangered animals and plants.

Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves. He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an entire congregation of nuns who were being abused by priests. It is thought to be the first time that Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by the clergy. He said the Church was attempting to address the problem but said it was "still going on".

The latest revelations about Jaroslaw Kaczynski won’t be as damaging as those that helped to topple the previous government.

Almost all tariffs on trade between the European Union and the world's third-biggest economy have been removed. European companies could save around a billion euros in duties each year.

Members of Britain’s largest group of foreign nationals tell how love and admiration for their adopted country is turning sour

How fast are Germany's highways, famously without speed limits? Tom Hanks described driving a Volkswagen camper van on an autobahn: "No matter how fast you're driving in Germany, someone is driving faster than you," Hanks said on Late Show with David Letterman in 2012. "When another car passes you when you're driving as fast as physics allow ... a blur goes past you. Sometimes it's a red blur, sometimes it's white."

Undercover film raises fears of serious health risks from major EU exporting country

A tree made famous by the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones has fallen in strong winds. Gale force winds of up to 60 mph hit Northern Ireland overnight on Saturday. The Dark Hedges are a tunnel of beech trees on the Bregagh Road near Armoy that have become an an international tourist attraction since featuring in the hit series.

European Chemicals Agency draft law aims to cut 400,000 tonnes of plastic pollution

Robert Biedroń wants to revitalize Polish politics but risks splitting the opposition.

The City of Paris first warned Airbnb, and it is now taking action. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, told the JDD that the city is suing the company for 1,010 illegal listings. The fine could be worth as much as $14.2 million (€12.625 million). Based on current legislation, you can’t rent an apartment more than 120 days a year. If you want to rent an apartment on Airbnb in Paris, you first must register your apartment with the city. The city then gives you an ID number so they can track how many nights you’re listing your apartment on Airbnb.

Google has been fined nearly $57 million by French regulators for violating Europe’s tough new data-privacy rules, marking the first major penalty brought against a U.S. technology giant since the region-wide regulations took effect last year. France’s top data-privacy agency, known as the CNIL, said Monday that Google failed to fully disclose to users how their personal information is collected and what happens to it.

A wide-ranging ban on microplastics covering about 90% of pollutants has been proposed by the EU in an attempt to cut 400,000 tonnes of plastic pollution in 20 years. Every year, Europe releases a bulk amount of microplastics six times bigger than the “Great Pacific garbage patch” into the environment – the equivalent of 10bn plastic bottles. The phasing out proposed by the European Chemicals Agency (Echa) would remove 36,000 tonnes a year of “intentionally added” microplastic fibres and fragments, starting in 2020.

Five pictures said to have been painted by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler have failed to sell at auction in Germany. Weidler auction house hoped to raise €45,000 (£40,000; $51,000) from the most expensive work. The auction was held in Nuremburg, the German city once notorious for Hitler's mass rallies where leading Nazis were later tried for war crimes. Accusations of forgery marred the auction and city mayor Ulrich Maly described it as being in "bad taste".

It’s one of the world’s most successful economies — just don’t tell the right-wing government.

Three years ago, a group of German libraries, universities, and research institutes teamed up to force the three largest scientific publishers to offer an entirely new type of contract. In exchange for an annual lump sum, they wanted a nationwide agreement making papers by German authors free to read around the world, while giving researchers in Germany access to all of the publishers’ online content.

Electronics giant Sony is planning to merge its UK-headquartered European business into its Dutch arm as Japanese companies manoeuvre to soften the impact of a no-deal Brexit. The move will see Sony’s £3.3bn European business register its corporate seat, effectively its legal headquarters, in Amsterdam. The combined arm will be responsible for the Tokyo giant’s electronics business in Europe. The deal will be completed on March 29 2019, according to merger documents reviewed by The Daily Telegraph.

Warsaw is scrambling to preserve the country’s reputation as a reliable meat exporter.

The British prime minister said the remarks from the EU Council president had caused ‘widespread dismay’ in the UK.

A huge student protest movement led almost exclusively by teenage girls and young women is sweeping Europe, and it's on the brink of breaking through in the US. So far this year, tens of thousands of high school–age students in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden have boycotted class and protested against climate change. The loose movement’s inspiration, a 16-year-old girl who began a solitary picket last year outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, has compared the protests to the March for Our Lives movement organized by the Parkland teens in the wake of a shooting at their school that left 17 dead.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler handed the power of Jewish cultural life in Nazi Germany to his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels established a team of of regulators that would oversee the works of Jewish artists in film, theater, music, fine arts, literature, broadcasting, and the press. Goebbels new regulations essentially eliminated Jewish people from participating in mainstream German cultural activities by requiring them to have a license to do so.

The Prime Minister of Hungary, who thrives on conflict, has consolidated power in his own country. Now he is turning his attention to the E.U.

Her deal has been obliterated and the country is in chaos, yet May felt weirdly OK. By John Crace.

Silvio Berlusconi is back. Again.

Amsterdam’s district court has forced Google to remove search results relating to a Dutch surgeon’s past medical suspension, reports The Guardian. The original suspension was later reduced to a conditional suspension on appeal, but the outdated information was still present in Google’s search results. The ruling is thought to be the first time a search result relating to medical negligence has been removed in the almost five years since the EU first established its citizens’ “right to be forgotten.”

France's "yellow vest" movement demonstrated against alleged police violence in rallies across the country Saturday, as lawyers denounced the treatment of protesters in the courts. The latest marches -- the 12th in a row -- came a day after France's top court threw out a bid to ban weapons that fire 40-millimeter rubber projectiles blamed for a number of serious injuries. Thousands of protesters took part in a "march of the injured" in Paris calling for a ban on the weapons.