A move that has annoyed Russia but not threatened its security, Poland, after a heated controversy, has unveiled the first of a host of U. S. Patriot missiles to be stationed in the country.

Attended by U. S. officials also, the ceremonious deployment marked the first stage of the stationing of a Patriot battery in the town of Morag, just 40 miles from the border with Russia, Poland's communist-era master.

The plane crash of Poland President has taken a new turn. Russian investigation team has claimed that they have found some very serious clues in this crash. They were investigating the reason of plane crash at Smolensk. More than 90 passengers with the Polish President Lech Kaczynski were killed in this plane crash.

The air crash investigating team of Russia searching for the reason of plane crash but they still do not know the exact reason that led the Mr. Kaczynski's plane to crash into woods. The plane crashed on April of 10th at outside of the city of Smolensk.

Authorities have said that three people were killed and hundreds were evacuated in southern Poland after torrential rain led to flooding along the Vistula River.

Poland. pl has reported that Krakow Mayor Jacek Majchrowski declared a state of emergency Sunday night as the river rose almost 30 inches above emergency levels.

The Web site also said that further upstream from the city, levels reached almost 50 inches above flood stage.

Authorities have said that Poland's reputation as a stronghold of the Catholic Church is faltering as the number of men signing up for the priesthood is decreasing.

The Telegraph has reported that the Conference of the Polish Episcopate said in a report Friday only 687 men enrolled in seminaries in 2009, a 30 percent drop from 10 years ago.

The report also said that the number of women taking holy orders dropped to 354 in 2009, a 50 percent decline since 2002.

It has been reported that Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were laid to rest Sunday in a crypt reserved for Polish monarchs and national heroes at Wawel Cathedral in Krakow.

The burial followed a funeral mass at St. Mary's Basilica on a day when Poles thronged streets and public squares, wept, waved flags, prayed the rosary and tossed flowers.

A campaign to further increase the number of tourists seeking low-cost medical and dental treatments is being created by Health and tourism officials in Poland.

Poland. pl reported on Friday that the Polish Association of Medical Tourism said as many as 330,000 visitors come to the country each year and spend $1,500 on average for dental crowns and implants and surgeries such as
breast augmentation.

Warsaw, Jan 8 : Chinese pianist Lang Lang gave a concert Thursday in Warsaw that kicked off a year of nationwide Chopin celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the Polish composer's birth.

"Chopin's music is so fresh. You think that you have the feeling and the thought ... but later you learn there's so many other elements," Lang Lang, famous for his facial contortions and dramatic gestures whilst playing, said.

President Lech Kaczynski and Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski were in attendance at what the culture minister called "the most important artistic event" of the century.

Warsaw, Dec 28 : The remains of Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, excavated in 2005 by archaeologists in north-eastern Poland, are to be re-buried next year, a church spokesman said Monday.

Copernicus's skull and leg bones were discovered during excavations by Polish archaeologists four year ago at the Frombork Cathedral, in the town where Copernicus made key observations.

A DNA test confirmed the bones as belonging to the Renaissance polymath in 2008.

Warsaw (Poland), Dec. 21 : The infamous sign over the gates at Auschwitz, which reads ''''Arbeit Macht Frei'''' (Work Sets You Free) has been found in damaged condition.

Polish police found the sign that was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp after an intensive three-day hunt.

Five suspects have been arrested. The sign was found cut into three pieces Sunday night in northern Poland, the other end of the country from the southern Polish town where the Auschwitz memorial museum is located and where it disappeared before dawn Friday.

Warsaw, Dec 21- An iron sign stolen from the entrance to the Nazi-era Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland has been found, a police spokesperson said Monday.

The infamous - Arbeit macht frei - sign was found in a small town in northern Poland. It was sawn in three parts, each containing one word. Police detained five suspects, all of them men aged from 20 to 39.

The sign, which is German for "Work Sets You Free", disappeared between 4 a. m. and 5 a. m. last Friday.

"The detained men are now being taken by a special convoy to a police department in Krakow, where they would be interrogated," the spokesperson said.

Warsaw (Poland), Dec. 7 : The death certificate of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary First World War German flying ace better known as the ''Red Baron'', has been discovered in Poland.

According to The Telegraph, ninety-one years after Von Richthofen died after being shot down near the River Somme in France, Maciej Kowalczyk, a genealogist, found the document in archives belonging to the western Polish town of Ostrow Wielkopolski.

Kowalczyk explained that the town, which in 1918 was part of Germany, issued the death notice as per German law.

Warsaw - A 37 year-old man who died recently of pneumonia was carrying the H1N1 virus, doctors announced Saturday in what was the country's first swine flu fatality.

The man died after a week in the hospital, reported the Polish Press Agency PAP.

So far in Poland this year there have been 234 cases of swine flu.

The fatality in Gdansk came as a top Polish civil rights official threatened legal action Friday against Health Minister Ewa Kopacz, saying her delay in purchasing swine flu vaccines could endanger lives and health.

Warsaw  - Parts of downtown Wroclaw were evacuated Thursday after workers found a 500-kilogramme World War II-era explosive behind the city's opera house, local media reported.

The opera house, nearby homes and shopping centres of the southwestern Polish city were evacuated, as police advised drivers to avoid downtown until the explosive was removed, the Polish Press Agency PAP reported.

Construction of a new building behind the opera house was underway when when workers when workers found the explosive, security officials told PAP.

Warsaw - Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski branded joint Russia and Belarus army exercises near his country's border this September "disquieting", in a radio interview Thursday.

Taking part in the exercises, known as Zapad-2009 (West-2009), were 6,000 Russian service personnel, 6,500 Belorussians and 30 Kazakh military personnel. The maneuvers included 228 tanks and 103 combat and transport aircraft.

Warsaw  - Poland's government approved a draft law Tuesday that would ban slot machines outside casinos and raise taxes for the industry, the prime minister's chancellery said Tuesday.

According to the draft law, there will be no new permits issued to existing facilities with slot machines, while video lotteries will be banned.

The draft law needs approval from the parliament and the president, Lech Kaczynski. Both the parliament and Kaczynski are expected to approve it.

Warsaw  - Most East Europeans believe that life is better now than under Communism, but a large number of people, especially in Hungary, have a positive view of life under the old regime, according to a four-nation survey released Friday in Warsaw.

Czechs were the most optimistic of the survey's respondents, with 68 per cent saying the present is better, according to the poll by Warsaw's Institute of Public Affairs.

Warsaw  - Poland wants to reduce its deficit by reducing payments to private pension funds while keeping that money in the state's social insurance company ZUS, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.

Under the proposal, private pension funds would receive some 3 per cent of worker salaries instead of the current 7.3 per cent, a change amounting to a difference of some
13 billion zloty annually (4.4 billion dollars).

Warsaw - Polish president Lech Kaczynski was to auction off on Monday the faulty pen he used during a signing ceremony of the Lisbon Treaty.

The fountain pen stopped working as Kaczynski was putting down his signature last month to ratify the controversial reform treaty. Kaczynski - a conservative known for his euroscepticism - borrowed a ballpoint pen to finish signing the document.

The pen was up for bids on allegro. pl, a Polish internet auction website, with proceeds set to go to a charity for children with brain damage.

Warsaw - Polish gas monopoly PGNiG finished up talks late Thursday with Russia's Gazprom on a gas delivery deal and was expected to announce details on Friday, the Polish Press Agency PAP reported.

PGNiG and Gazprom have been in a fresh round of negotiations since Monday on the supply of additional gas to Poland beginning in 2010.

The negotiations come after expiration of Warsaw's contract with the Russian-Ukrainian RosUkrEnergo, which delivered an annual 2.3 billion cubic metres of gas to Poland.

Warsaw  - Some 28 per cent of Poles would back German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the European Union presidency, said a survey Friday in the daily Rzeczpospolita.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair got some 17 per cent of support among the Polish public, according to the telephone survey conducted by GfK Polonia. The newspaper didn't indicate the size of the survey's sample.