Poland today signed and ratified the Lisbon Treaty after the Irish said Yes to the treaty in the referendum last week. Now the last holdout is the Czech Republic.

There may be human rights groups criticizing the move, but on Friday Poland approved a law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some cases. The Polish government created the law for pedophiles convicted of raping children under the age of 15 years would have to undergo chemical therapy upon their release from prison.

Jiangling Motors Corp, one of the biggest commercial vehicle manufacturers in China, is planning to invest US$1.2 billion to build a car factory in Poland, reported Polish daily Rzeczpospolita recently. The new plant is to make 400,000 vehicles per year

Poland's Alliance of the Democratic Left (SLD) has called for a national referendum on the deployment of a U.S. missile defense base in the country, a party's spokesman told RIA Novosti on Sunday.

Just as months of negotiations seemed destined to end in deadlock, Poland and the United States have struck a deal to base part of a controversial US missile defence system on Polish soil. With a little help from recent events in the Caucasus?

Poland needs a big victory against Croatia and a lot of help in tomorrow's other Group B match in Euro 2008 to keep alive its hopes of advancing to the quarterfinals at the European Championship.

UEFA Euro 2008: Błaszczykowski injury damages Poland's Euro 2008 hopes

At 23:30 Saturday 10th May Krakow (Poland) local police received a call from the crew of a charter boat, the 'Krakow 69,' reporting that they had two missing members and that they suspected they may have fallen overboard.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is joining a pilot program connected with the comic book The Search, which is intended to familiarize young people with the story of the Holocaust. The comic book is published by the Ann Frank Foundation in Amsterdam.

Poland and Germany have held unprecedented talks about German plans for a museum to commemorate the expulsion of Germans from eastern Europe following World War II.

Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy, today attended a special session with Poland's Union of Voivodeships in Brussels. The union brings together representatives of regional authorities in Poland, and the discussion focussed on the future of cohesion policy in Poland, the role of regions, and how best to benefit from European investment worth €67.3 billion for 2007-2013.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has acquired two new exhibits: paper sacks for cement from one of the sub-camps, and a portable warming kettle for soup.