British tourists can't stop laughing at bizarre waxworks of royal family in Polish museum - including Queen Elizabeth figure that 'looks like David Walliams'

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 09:29 UTC

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Visitors from the UK were left in stitches upon seeing recreations of the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip - as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales - at the venue in Krakow.

Splat’s entertainment: I watched Rotten Tomatoes’ 40 lowest-rated films to find out which was worst

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 13:57 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Our brave victim writer sits through the film site’s 0%ers to see what makes a bad movie. Will she emerge with her sanity intact – and are all these flops really so bad?

I have seen horrors so limp an…

EU court upholds €320M fine against Poland for violating rule of law

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 17:03 UTC

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Fine related to controversial Polish judicial reforms by previously ruling PiS party.

King Charles looks delighted as he accepts flowers from young girl at Polish community centre in London

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 17:03 UTC

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King Charles appeared cheerful as he arrived at a Polish community centre in Hammersmith, west London, today to learn about the country's culture.

European football: Barcelona edge Alavés, Milan denied derby hat-trick

found 2025 › Feb › 02 (Sun) @ 21:49 UTC

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Lewandowski goal earns Barça 1-0 home victory
De Vrij pounces in stoppage time at San Siro

Barcelona closed the gap on La Liga leaders, Real Madrid, to four points, but were reliant on Robert Lewandows…

Sara Sharif's final resting place revealed: Tragic 10-year-old is buried in Polish village a thousand miles from Surrey home where she was murdered by her father and his partner

found 2025 › Feb › 01 (Sat) @ 19:06 UTC

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The schoolgirl was found dead in Woking in August last year with at least 71 external injuries including bruises, burns and bite marks on her body.

Auschwitz's Death Wall: How the Nazis shot thousands of inmates in front of structure - before Polish Pope John Paul II knelt in the same spot and prayed for peace

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 20:10 UTC

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It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. Above: The wall today and John Paul II in 1979.

The town that turned into Hell: 80 years after the death camp was liberated, then-and-now pictures reveal how life has changed in the Polish town the Nazis transformed... into Auschwitz

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 06:39 UTC

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With a history dating back to the 12th century, today the local council describes it as 'a city of peace'. But for the rest of the world, the town is known for one thing - the Nazi death camp Auschwi…

My 'hero' great-granddad CHOSE to go to Auschwitz: Polish man's pride for resistance fighter who endured death camp to try to warn the world about its horrors - but then suffered cruel fate

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 06:39 UTC

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When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Witold Pilecki did the only logical thing for a someone as patriotic as him: he signed up to fight.

The Guardian view on commemorating Auschwitz’s liberation: the urgency of Holocaust remembrance | Editorial

found 2025 › Jan › 26 (Sun) @ 20:52 UTC

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Eighty years after the Nazi death camp was freed, the testimony of survivors is as crucial as ever

Memory is fragile. A decade ago, 300 survivors gathered at Auschwitz to commemorate the Nazi death ca…