French President Emmanuel Macron sought to break a deadlock over the EU's top jobs on Tuesday by proposing France's Christine Lagarde, now head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to lead the European Central Bank (ECB), diplomatic sources said.

Members of Britain's Brexit Party turned their backs on the EU anthem on Tuesday as it was played live at the opening of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in a move that other lawmakers branded disgraceful and pathetic.

Heavy storms battered southern Poland on Monday evening bringing with them strong winds, heavy rain and hail.

June was a tragic month on the water. The death toll - 113 people drowned in Poland. Last weekend was no exception.

The trial in the case of "Hitler's birthday party" has begun. Six people are accused of participation in the 2017 event. It was organised by the Pride and Modernity association and was infiltrated by journalists from TVN's "Superwizjer" programme.

The First President of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Gersdorf, on Monday in Sofia, expressed her opinion regarding the situation of the Polish justice system. Poland's Chief Justice was invited to Bulgarian capital by the President of the Supreme Court of Cassation, Lozan Panov.

A grain field was left scorched in Dusina, western Poland after a fire broke out on Monday (July 1).

Police officers in Wałbrzych detained a 26-year-old man who was wanted by the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for, among other things, robbing a jewellery store in Germany. He was stopped for jaywalking.

The 45-year-old father of the murdered 9-month-old Blanka from Olecko was released from custody on Monday. The prosecutor's office in Suwałki refused to provide any more details regarding the case.

Three miners died after a severe tremor in Murcki Staszic coal mine in Katowice. One of them was found unconscious but died shortly after. Six other miners were taken to hospitals - Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG) informed on Monday.

Just like back then, today we are also ready to face many challenges together and to safeguard the values of independence, unity and solidarity - Presidents of Poland and Lithuania, Andrzej Duda and Dalia Grybauskaite respectively, wrote in a joint statement marking the 450th anniversary of the signing of the Union of Lublin, which led to the creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans has emerged as the favourite to be named the EU's next chief executive, diplomats and officials said on Sunday ahead of a summit in Brussels, but faces resistance from eastern European countries. Nevertheless, the EU leaders failed on Monday to find a consenus on on who should get the bloc's top jobs.

A teenager started her summer holidays by campaigning in front of Poland's parliament on Friday in a bid to get politicians to act on climate change before an election later this year.

President Andrzej Duda referred the draft amendment of Criminal Code to the Constitutional Tribunal - the Chancellery of the President (KPRP) informed on Friday. According to the chancellery's statement, the procedure under which the amendment is proceeded raises serious concerns, regarding adhering to constitutional standards of legislative process.

Nearly one thousand people got poisoned by designer drugs since the beginning of the year. The data comes from a report by the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (GIS) that will be published on Tuesday next week.

Poland's government needs to do more to preserve judicial independence and avoid "undermining public confidence in it," the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said in a report published on Friday.

The body of the second teenager who went missing was found in the Gdańsk Bay nearby the Brzeźno pier. Two boys, aged 16 and 17, drowned while swimming in the sea. One of them died after being taken to a hospital, the body of the other was found in the water.

Bartłomiej M. has been released on bail - Anna Czajczyk from district Prison Service in Kraków. The former spokesman of the ministry of defense has left the remand centre in Tarnów.

A window in a large and heavy frame fell off the construction site of a skyscraper next to Warsaw's Rotunda. One person got injured and a car got damaged. The police are determining the circumstances of the accident.

Poland's governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) will extend its child benefit programme from Monday, in a move critics say is a clear attempt to buy national election votes that will also divert much-needed investment from public services.