Poland may be sitting on a vast natural resource that could make it energy independent.
After six years living in the UK -- as a student and then working in banking -- Krzysztof Waliszczak has moved back to his native Poland.
Poland's former deputy prime minister Andrzej Lepper was found dead in his apartment in the capital, Warsaw, on Thursday, his party said in a statement.
Pilot error was mostly to blame for a plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and nearly 100 others last year, the nation's investigators said Friday.
President Barack Obama on Saturday held up Poland's transition to democracy in the 1980s as a model for nations today pushing back against their governments -- from countries in North Africa and the Middle East to some in Eastern Europe.
CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry reports on President Obama's meetings in Poland.
The crew was at fault in a Polish plane crash that killed the country's president and nearly 100 other people last April, a Russian-led investigation found Wednesday.
In Washington, most speeches by representatives of other countries are, well, diplomatic, carefully written to avoid controversy.
A Chechen separatist leader was released from custody Friday evening, several hours after he was detained, state media reported.
I stopped on a recent night in front of the palace of the Polish president. I had no choice: The crowd stood so thick that I could not move. We were hemmed between the buildings on one side of the sidewalk and a police barrier on the other. The wide pavement between was obstructed by gawkers watching a strange performance: a weird seemingly incomprehensible little passion play of stereotyped figures.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports on a conservationist who won a landmark victory in Poland.
Interim President Bronislaw Komorowski wins Poland's runoff election. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.
Poland's Interim President Bronislaw Komorowski has won a runoff election against Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of former President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in April.
Count Michal Sobanski often drives his 15-year-old Volvo from his home in Warsaw to the tiny town of Guzow about an hour outside Poland's capital.
Count Michal Sobanski is on a mission to reclaim his family's 19th century palace, which was confiscated after WWII.
Official results from Poland's presidential runoff weren't expected until Monday, but exit polls gave interim President Bronislaw Komorowski a slight lead over challenger Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the late president.
The United States will donate $15 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, pending congressional authorization and appropriations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen looks at where Poland is today, and how it has recovered from recent tragedies.
Poland is getting back on its feet after suffering an extraordinary few months of tragedy.
While the rest of Europe has battled with recession, Poland remained the only country to keep its head above water.
Poland was the only EU country to avoid slipping into recession. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
Poland's presidential election produced no clear winner Sunday, official results showed, so the top two candidates will face each other in a runoff.
Poland's presidential election produced no clear winner Sunday, preliminary exit polls showed.
Poles are set to vote Sunday for a new president, following the death of President Lech Kaczinski in a plane crash in April.
Russian and Polish aviation experts have ruled out any emergency or equipment malfunction as the cause of the crash of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane in Russia last month, killing him and 95 other top Polish officials and dignitaries.
The acting president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, speaks at the funeral of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski.
CNN iReporter Malgosia Minta shares Poland's sadness after the president, other top officials die in a plane crash.
Poland's first couple was laid to rest on Sunday, marking the end of a journey filled with grief for the central European nation.
Numerous world leaders were forced to cancel plans to travel to Poland for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski on Sunday, as volcanic ash from Iceland continued to ground flights to and from Europe.
World leaders' plans to reach Poland this weekend for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski were in limbo as volcanic ash from Iceland continued to ground flights to and from Europe.
Thousands of mourners gather in Warsaw, Poland, to remember their president and 95 others who died in a plane crash.
Presidents of the United States rarely attend the funerals of foreign leaders, but President Obama's decision to go to the state funeral of the Polish president and first lady is right on several levels, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.
Polish legislators were planning Wednesday to hold a June election to choose a successor to President Lech Kaczynski, whose death in an air crash is generating unprecedented scenes of public grief.
The body of Poland's first lady, Maria Kaczynska, killed with her husband in an airplane crash in Russia, returned to Warsaw on Tuesday.
Investigations were continuing Monday into the air disaster which killed the Polish president as questions were being asked over the circumstances surrounding the crash in Russia that also killed senior government officials.
Broken trees and twisted metal mark the site where a Polish plane crashed in Russia. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
When I found the first piece of fuselage, I was shocked. It was flimsy, the thin metal easily twisted back on itself.
CNN's Nic Robertson reports on the return of the body of Lech Kaczynski and the investigation of the fatal plane crash.
Experts say the deaths of senior military chiefs in Saturday's plane crash could have more serious implications for Poland than the loss of the country's president.
World leaders, agencies and officials mourned the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash early Saturday.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski was likely killed when his plane crashed at a western Russian airport.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane, which crashed Saturday in western Russia, killing Kaczynski and scores of other people, was overhauled last year, according to the general director of the company that performed the service.
The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia over the weekend, returned to tributes in his homeland Sunday afternoon.
The tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and Poland's political and military elite among the trees of the Katyn Forest is surreal, given that in those same woods, thousands of Polish prisoners of war were murdered by Joseph Stalin's secret police.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sends a commission to investigate the crash that killed Poland's president and others.
One was the archetypal military strongman, intent on maintaining the social order and saving his country from "catastrophe." The other was a charismatic shipyard electrician and trade union leader who was just as determined to lead his countrymen to freedom.
Poland has agreed to host elements of the new U.S. missile defense plan despite initial surprise over the Obama administration's recent decision to overhaul President Bush's strategy.
The decision by the United States to drop its plans to base an anti-ballistic missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic will have reverberations across Europe.
Leading classical musicians perform in Krakow, Poland, marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
At least 20 world leaders gathered Tuesday in Poland to commemorate the start of World War II 70 years ago -- a conflict in which 6 million Poles died.
On a sand swept stretch of Afghanistan, a high-ranking Polish general put his country's mission there into perspective.
An 11-year-old girl is fighting deportation after her family's attorney missed a 2001 green card deadline, forcing her back to Poland.
Eleven-year-old Ewelina Bledniak was looking at a year split from her parents, split from her friends, away from everything she loves about living in America.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen visits the town where Poland's uprising against communism began.
Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's former finance minister, recently said his country is enjoying "its best period in 300 years." CNN looks at how the country emerged from communism to become one of eastern Europe's most stable and thriving democracies.
CNN's Antonia Mortensen previews what's coming up in a special week of CNN programming on Poland.
Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's former finance minister, recently said his country is enjoying "its best period in 300 years." CNN looks at how the country emerged from communism to become one of eastern Europe's most stable and thriving democracies.
As part of its Eye on Poland coverage, CNN is asking its viewers -- including Poles living in Poland and abroad -- about what defines the nation today.
Some say Poland is the biggest of the "small countries" in the European Union. Others call it the smallest of the "big countries."
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CNN's Antonia Mortensen asks Polish nationals their views on their economy, lifestyle and the future of Poland.
At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way. As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.
CNN's Phil Black reports on Poland's ambitious plan to host the 2012 European Soccer Championship.
In April 2007, UEFA's executive committee voted to accept a joint proposal from Poland and Ukraine to host the European football Championships in 2012.
The United States and Poland on Wednesday signed an agreement to base U.S. ballistic missile interceptors in Poland, a move that angered Russia.
Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack, even a nuclear one, by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil
Poland and the United States have signed a preliminary deal to place part of a U.S. ballistic missile defense system in Poland, a plan that has drawn sharp objections from Russia.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried and failed just before leaving for Europe on Monday to seal a deal to place missiles in Poland, the State Department said.
The United States and Poland have reached a tentative deal to place part of a ballistic missile defense system on its territory, a plan that has drawn sharp objections from Russia, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
The Irish "No" toward the Lisbon Treaty leaves leaders struggling for a way out. CNN's Robin Oakley reports.
Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of October, according to a spokesman for the Polish military Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of mainly younger voters turned out to end the two years in power for Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party
Poland's opposition parties have won the parliamentary elections, ending two years of robust nationalism which have frequently led to confrontation with other countries.
According to polls, the opposition party is poised to oust Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government.
Poles voted on Sunday in national elections that could decide the future direction of the central European country.
Poles vote Sunday in national elections that could decide the future direction of the central European country.
Why is the EU arguing, yet again, over its constitution?
Pope Benedict XVI has begun a bittersweet trip to Poland, where he will pay homage to the late Pope John Paul II, and his beloved predecessor's homeland.
A 34-year-old man seriously injured in the roof collapse at a Polish exhibition hall died Monday, bringing the total number of deaths to 67.
The Polish government ordered the temporary closure of some large buildings Monday after the roof collapse of an exhibition hall in the southern city of Chorzow that killed 62 people.
Emergency workers shifted their efforts from rescue to recovery Sunday at the site of an exhibition center that's roof collapsed over the weekend in southern Poland, killing 66 people, after officials determined it unlikely that anyone else would be found alive.
Exit polls are projecting that Poland's Law and Justice party will control the most seats in the lower house of parliament, ousting the left-wing government of Prime Minister Marek Belka.
Poland's president is reported to have told U.S. President George W. Bush his country's troops will stay in Iraq "as long as needed ... plus one day longer."
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