The acoustic guitar played by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's iconic MTV Unplugged performance in 1993 has been sold for $6 million (€5.4 million) at auction. The record sum was paid in California on Saturday by Australian microphone maker Peter Freedman, who is the new owner of the 1959 Martin D-18E. It is

Fire crews were called out over 1,600 times after a string of storms with heavy rainfall ravaged parts of Poland on Sunday night. Heavy rain and flooding hit a hospital in Szczyrzyc, Lesser Poland.Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Momot Among the hardest hit were the regions of Silesia and Upper Silesia, and the central Mazowieckie

A number of items hidden by prisoners at Auschwitz have been recovered from a chimney at the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. The objects were found in Block 17 of the former Main Camp at Auschwitz as part of the renovation work undertaken by Austria’s National Fund for

FFA Real Estate, acting on behalf of the special purpose vehicle MIDOLUX 2, announced the purchase of the historic Młodziejowski Palace, located in the heart of the Old Town in Warsaw. The building at Miodowa 10 provides approx. 6,970 sqm of Class A office space. The seller, who was advised

Polish President Andrzej Duda, in his official address marking the 229th anniversary of the passage of Poland's historic Constitution of May 3rd, 1791, said Poland needed constitutional safeguards during the pandemic. "In today's difficult times we need order and unity that the [current] Constitution protects and safeguards, so that the government

The Polish government is seeking to expand its multi-billion-zloty economic support package aimed at easing the burden of the coronavirus crisis on businesses and workers. Among the new measures is a 1.5% tax on the revenue of video-on-demand (VOD) platforms, with the funds being used to bolster the Polish Institute of

Poland is considering a bill that would throw teachers in jail for teaching sex education. The bill links pedophilia and homosexuality. The Parliament of Poland is set to vote on the “Stop Pedophilia bill” today. It does not address sex with minors, but instead focuses on sex education in schools. Poland doesn’t

The Polish Episcopal Conference, the central organ of the Catholic Church in Poland, has informed Catholics how to use the internet during the Easter holiday to stay united and how to spread the good message of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Father Pawel Rytel-Andrianik from the Press Office of the Episcopal

The Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, who has died aged 86, was an outstanding representative of musical modernism’s success in the 1960s. From the early 70s he became equally emblematic of the subsequent failure of so many of that modernism’s principal pioneers to sustain a lifelong career without abandoning

Apart from having plenty of wonderful historic sites like the Royal Castle or Łazienki Park, Warsaw also sports many exceptionally important works of nature. Marked with plaques saying ‘Pomnik Przyrody’ meaning ‘Natural Monument’, they are vital parts of the city’s landscape. Below you’ll find a selection of seven such trees,