Warsaw’s changes to the judicial system prompt a reaction from one of the EU’s leading legal bodies.

Images by the photographer, spanning across all of Poland and taken for a period of 20 years, reveal the interiors of Polish homes, the objects in fashion, and what was considered valuable by people in the late 20th century.

The forced dismissal of the judges, including the court’s president, has provoked cries of “Soviet-style justice” while posing a test for the European Union.

Demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities across the country as the right-wing governing party consolidated its power and escalated a clash with the European Union.

Malgorzata Gersdorf showed up for work despite being barred by new rules giving the government more control of the judiciary. Hundreds of demonstrators cheered her on.

Around 2,800 people died and 11,000 were severely injured in road accidents in Poland in 2017, putting Poland close to the bottom of a European Union ranking on road safety.

Poland's leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, attempts to stack the courts and consolidate power as he pushes the country to the right.

With its attempt to purge the country's courts of 40 percent of its judges, Poland's right-wing ruling party passed another milestone on the path towards establishment of a one-party state.

Polish democracy is being subject to the boiling frog strategy via the adoption of unconstitutional legislation without, however, any risk for the ruling party as effective constitutional review has now been neutralised.

Try this in cold winter evenings and every night will be magic ;)

In winter sunny day

This is how it looks polish forest in summer. I miss it very much in this cold snowy winter!

NOW we just need some WÓDKA :)

A giant statue of the late Pope John Paul II billed as the world's tallest has been unveiled in southern Poland.

An entry for a contest held by GRY-OnLine.pl. The contest was inspired by the new Bioshock game - Bioshock: Infinite.

It was the dawn of the ballistic missile era, and with the invention of the V2 rocket, the Germans had beaten everyone to the punch. Eager to get their hands on one of these horrific new devices, the Allies embarked on an audacious plan to steal one. Here’s the fascinating story of how they did it.

Germany deliver Spain another knock-out blow as Dortmund thrash Real Madrid in their first leg Champions League semi.

"Tu-154m of the Republic of Poland" (042010) - this is model referring to the Smolensk disaster at 10 April 2010. 1:144 scale model, in the display case measuring 50x40x6 [centimetres]. You can build your own version of the crashed plane.

"It's hard to work as a nurse in Poland," said Kaseja, 25. Since she began her career at the Specialized Hospital for Mother and Child in the western Poland city of Poznan, little funding and outdated machinery have only been part of the problem.

A 33-year-old Polish man whose face was brutally maimed during a workplace accident has become the first patient in the world to undergo a life-saving face transplant procedure.

Skeletons were found with their heads placed on their legs, indicating they had been subjected to execution designed to keep the dead dead

in this video apparently shot in my homeland :)

Back in July prolific Polish yarn bomber Olek returned to her homeland to cover an entire locomotive in crocheted yarn. The massive undertaking took Olek and four assistants two days to complete. The yarn-bombed locomotive is on display in Lodz, Poland through August 19, 2013.

Watch a 1068hp Toyota GT86 drift at a record-breaking 134.8mph

Tens of thousands of Polish trade unionists kicked off a march through the capital on Saturday in the finale of a four-day protest against the unpopular and increasingly fragile centre-right government.

Former Polish President Lech Walesa has caused a stir by calling on his country to unite with Germany to form one European nation, saying borders were no longer relevant.

The soldiers did acquire a bear cub during their journey. They named him Wojtek, pronounced “Voytek”, meaning “he who enjoys war” or “smiling warrior.” The bear quickly became something of a mascot for the soldiers, and then much more.

Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII will be declared saints on 27 April 2014, Pope Francis has announced.

A Polish journalist who was taken hostage by Islamist militants in northwest Syria in July is alive, Poland's foreign minister said on Saturday.

For Tadeusz Mazowiecki, his transformation from a pro-democracy writer and an intellectual to a moving force in Poland began in 1980, when he joined ranks with the striking workers at the Gdansk shipyard who gave birth to the Solidarity movement.

Poland has asked the European Court of Human Rights to bar media and public presence during an upcoming hearing on Poland’s complicity with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program that delivered terror suspects to secret prisons around the world.

A small ancient village in South-Eastern Poland, Zalipie, is definitely one of the country’s top tourist attractions. Not because it has five-stars hotels or massive glass buildings, but on the contrary, due to its small wooden cottages, which are painted in the most vibrant colors.

The draft report by the Migration Research Academy - which will be published in full next spring - finds that following Poland joining the European Union in 2004, mass emigration has affected many regions of the country negatively. "Depopulation from permanent emigration, combined with low birth rates and an aging population, has caused significant disturbances to socio-economic development and will have an effect on the future development of these regions," the report says.

On a cold day in early 2003, two senior CIA officers arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw to pick up a pair of large cardboard boxes. Inside were bundles of cash totaling $15 million that had been flown from Germany via diplomatic pouch.

Whether torture “works” and whether Congress was misled are critically important reasons the committee should release the report now. But both are secondary to the consensus of U.S. religious leaders that torture is immoral and should not be used under any circumstances, for any reason. Until we get a full accounting of what happened at the black sites, the moral integrity of the United States is compromised, as is the safety of our personnel in the field.