Nurses from the European Union will for the first time have their language skills checked before working for the NHS, ministers will announce today.
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The post-mortem examination of poisoned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was probably "the most dangerous ever undertaken in the Western world", a pathologist has said.more
US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company. Apple reported a net profit of $18bn (£11.8bn) in its fiscal first quarter, which tops the $15.9bn made by ExxonMobil in the second quarter of 2012, according to Standard and Poor's.more
Some 300 Auschwitz survivors have returned to the site of the Nazi death camp in southern Poland to mark 70 years since its liberation. Some 1.1 million people, the vast majority Jews, were killed there between 1940 and 1945, when advancing Soviet troops liberated it.more
Poland have been appointed to stage the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the competition's first final tournament to contain an expanded 12 teams.more
More than 12m EUR of Child Benefit was handed to children who do not live in Ireland. Nearly 7.5m EUR of them went into the pockets of parents whose children live in Poland.
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In order to get the basketball through two Denver Nuggets defenders and to teammate Marcin Gortat, Washington Wizards point guard John Wall had to get creative.more
A journalist disgusted with the cleanliness of the first class area on his British Airways flight filmed the dirt and posted footage online in an effort to shame the company into cleaning up its act.
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Hurricane winds, violent rain, heat waves, prolonged droughts and floods are more frequent extreme events in Poland, related to global climate change - show environmentalists.more
A series of rocket attacks has left 30 people dead and many more injured in the city of Mariupol in east Ukraine. Ukraine blamed pro-Russia rebels, but the separatists said Ukrainian forces were behind the attacks.more
A campaign poster sent out by a Ukip prospective parliamentary candidate states that benefits claimants should be banned from driving and that cyclists should be banned from the road altogether.
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A new show called 'Immigrants Guide to Britain' is to be aired in a major UK broadcaster. The producers are looking for first generation immigrants to take part. The show is a celebration of Britishness told from a unique perspective. more
Arsene Wenger said Mesut Ozil is likely to start Sunday's FA Cup fourth-round clash at Brighton but revealed new signing Krystian Bielik is not fit.more
President Bronislaw Komorowski continues to lead the ranking of trust in politicians. Trust him 78 percent respondents - according to a poll by CBOS.more