Zuzana Caputova, an anti-corruption campaigner with no experience in public office, won the first round of Slovakia's presidential election on Saturday, setting up a tough clash with the ruling Smer party's candidate.

Dutch police arrested a Turkish man suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday.

Workers are busy digging out the shaft and preparing the interior of what will be the world's deepest diving pool upon the completion of the project being carried out in a small Polish town of Mszczonów close to Warsaw.

"If this was a test of how the Church deals with paedophilia, the grade probably would not have been very good." that was just one of the comments after Thursday's conference in the Polish episcopate. There are still serious questions left open after the conference that was supposed to provide answers.

A Polish charity helping victims of child abuse committed by Catholic priests condemned the church's unapologetic response to its allegations as "offensive" on Monday.

Alcohol spiked with drugs, loss of consciousness and large sums of money withdrawn from accounts. Many men claim that strip clubs are "thieving factories" and that mainly foreign tourists fall victim of its illegal practice. They often notify the police, but the investigations are usually discontinued. Watch the full report by "Superwizjer" TVN journalists Robert Socha and Maciej Dopierała entitled: "Strip Club Scam".

Polish Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology Jadwiga Emilewicz and German Minister of Economy Peter Altmaier signed, on Monday in Berlin, a joint declaration on adapting a long-term industrial strategy adjusted to the challenges of global competition.

For now, the prosecutor's office will not begin an investigation into Gerald Birgfellner's claim that Jarosław Kaczyński defrauded him. On Thursday, the Austrian businessman was questioned for the 6th time and will be questioned once again in April.

The head of Polish diplomacy Jacek Czaputowicz made his annual speech before the Sejm. He promised to be active in the discussion on the future of the European Union. He added, however, that he resents the EU's attempt to tie the disbursement of funds to the rule of law.

A man wielding a knife attacked two women, including one teenager, in front of a police station in Białystok. The 40-year-old suspect was arrested. It is believed that a badly parked car was the cause of the incident.

He sowed rhubarb and reaped millions. A cunning investor from Kraków received a valuable land due to a law known as "squatter's rights" or "adverse possession". The owner of the land, the Cracow University of Technology lost its years-long battle in court and the successful investor has already flipped the property for 10 millon zlotys to the city of Kraków.

A battalion of S-400 missile defence systems on Friday stepped into combat duty in Russia's Kaliningrad region, the westernmost part of country sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.

A government programme called "Local connections" has been declared by the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk. Eight hundred million zlotys has been earmarked for the project annually and the trips are to cost 1 zloty per kilometre. The bill is expected to come into force at the end of May.

Tragedy in a hospital in Kutno, central Poland. Due to his aggressive behaviour, a 37-year-old patient was strapped to his bed. At night, his mattress caught fire leading to burns on 70 percent of his body and ultimately, in spite of all the doctors could do, to his death. The prosecutor's office is investigating the incident.

The government is playing a high-stakes game with teachers. There are no talks and no new offers on the table, but the Polish Teachers' Union is preparing for a countrywide strike. Although the Solidarity Teachers' Union is occupying the Lesser Poland Board of Education, it aims to avoid a larger strike. The question is: At what price?

European Union leaders will consider pressing Britain to delay Brexit by at least a year to find a way through its domestic deadlock, the chair of next week's EU summit said on Thursday.

Poland's ruling nationalist party aims to stem a decline in its popularity ahead of two key elections this year with warnings that opposition support for LGBT education is a threat to Polish culture and should be blocked wherever possible.

A news kiosk inside Poland's parliament was found to be selling a newspaper with an article instructing readers on "How to recognise a Jew", drawing accusations that lawmakers were happy to tolerate anti-Semitism.

More European allies in NATO increased defence spending in 2018, with sharp rises in the Baltics, Poland and the Netherlands, but only six governments met a target sought by the United States - while Germany lagged and Canadian outlays fell.

Between the 1st of January 1990 and 30th June 2018, 382 cases of sex abuse of minors were reported, of which 198 victims were younger than 15 years old and 184 over 15 - according to the data revealed by the Polish Episcopal Conference on Thursday.