For the fourth time in a row he became world champion. Paweł Fajdek won the gold medal at the World Athletic Championships in Doha. He was the only one to throw farther than 80 metres in the final in the hammer throw.

The national treasury will pay out compensation for smog. A fine of 35.000 zlotys is to go to charitable causes. The verdict is not binding and the defense has said it will appeal. The lawsuit against the state came from actor Jerzy Stuhr, journalist Mariusz Szczygieł and translator Tomasz Sadlik.

The larger particles irritate are airwaves, the smaller ones cause strokes and heart attacks. Plastic is not only in what we eat, but also in the air we breathe. Scientific research is clear, but the scale of air pollution by microplastics is still to be determined.

Divers from a fire service water rescue team were dispatching their equipment at the reservoir near Sieradz when they noticed strangely forming waves on the water. It turned out that there was a sunken car with a body behind the steering wheel.

According to German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", Donald Tusk is the favourite in the race for the chairmanship of the European People's Party (EPP). Furthermore, the daily wrote, the leader of the EPP in the European Parliament, Manfred weber, is said to have withdrawn his bid for the position.

Instead of brick by brick, a Polish company is preparing the components for the construction of a new edition to New York's skyline block by block.

On October 15, we begin an industrial action, for an indefinite period, in the form of carrying out only the duties outlined in the education law - the chairman of the Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP), Sławomir Broniarz, announced on Wednesday.

A married couple have been charged with possession of "explosive devices" at the II Equality March in Lublin. The husband is said to have prepared the devices at home, whereas the wife of bringing it to the march in a backpack. An expert witness confirmed that if used, the devices could have endangered life and health of many people. The couple from Lublin have been detained for three months.

While there won't be any penal points or tickets from this machine, the measurements give pause for concern. Over only four days, 80 percent of drivers exceeded the speed limit next to a preschool in the town of Chotomów near Warsaw. The speed camera that measured this is a private one, so the data is hard to verify.

It's only 1 percent, but for tax payers it matters the most that it's a decrease and not an increase in personal income tax (PIT). The new laws are in place as of Tuesday and mean dozens of zlotys more per person after tax.

There are eleven days until elections. One of the most important topics of the campaign - health care. The system itself is ailing and needs to be fixed. Patients experience this first hand, and politicians have noticed their dissatisfaction. The race is on to present concepts to heal health care in Poland.

Gale-force winds have swept through Poland and left one person dead and 18 injured. The extreme weather came on suddenly. The driver of a car carrying four people died after a tree fell on a vehicle. On the A1 highway a truck was flipped over by a gust of wind and the fire department had their hands full. Many places were left without power.

Poland's candidate for European Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development, Janusz Wojciechowski, did not get the green light from the European Parliament's agriculture committee coordinators on Tuesday. This means that the procedure of his appointment is not yet complete. Wojciechowski will have to answer additional questions.

The police have detained a 33-year-old inebriated woman who after calling an ambulance for her partner, had threatened to kill the crew with a gun - the spokesman for Mokotów district police, Staff Aspirant Robert Koniuszy, said on Tuesday.

Poland needs 700-900 billion euros ($760-$980 billion) to reach a net zero emissions economy, Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski said, adding that it was a "fantasy" that it could reach that goal by 2050.

Studying across the ocean for a year and for free - for Polish students. There are three weeks left to apply for the Flex programme to go to the United States, go to an American school and experience an extraordinary adventure.

Rita Bladyko, a 50-year-old Himalayan mountaineer is dead. She was taking part in an expedition on the 8000-metre mountain - Manaslu. The Polish climber died in front of her tent, while two other members of the expedition were inside.

An unusual rescue mission in Zielona Góra. It took six hours for firefighters to pull a moose out of a sewage canal. A bike rider informed the police after he had seen the moose falling to a ditch while running out of the woods.

Thirty eight people were detained after Saturday's Equality March in Lublin. They are to be charged with active assault and violation of the integrity of officers. Over 1.500 people took part in the demonstration.

Poland is blocking the fight against climate change - the French President is urging environmentalists to go to protest in Poland. Thousands of young people took to the streets of Polish cities to strike for the climate and force authorities to abandon coal. In response to these allegations, the Polish Prime Minister has removed plastic cups from his office and presented a governmrnt environmental programme. Meanwhile, we have the latest survey results on how Poles assess Law and Justice's actions in the field of climate protection.