After two days of strolling across downtown Warsaw, a city-roaming peacock was finally captured by firemen at key tourist thoroughfare of Nowy Świat. Shortly after, the bird was escorted back to Royal Łazienki Park in a marked police car on blue lights. "The peacock barely fitted in the car due to his huge train. When the officers released him in the park, a longing peahen immediately greeted him" - said inner city police spokesman.

A baby mountain bongo, born two weeks ago at Warsaw Zoo in Poland, was enjoying one of its first walks outside with her mother on Thursday after a cold spell kept her indoors until now.

Lobbying by Poland and Hungary has led to the removal of the phrase "gender equality" from a Friday declaration on advancing social cohesion in the European Union as it strives to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Poland has violated the right to a lawful tribunal and a fair trial - the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Friday in Strasbourg. The ruling pertained to a case of a Polish turf roll producer who had sued the state for damages caused by game. The ECHR ruling was justified with the fact that judge Mariusz Muszyński had replaced a lawfully appointed Constitutional Tribunal judge in the panel which handed down the ruling, unfavourable to the businessman. Constitutional Court head Julia Przyłębska said the verdict would not have any impact on Poland's legal system.

Exactly at noon on Friday (May 7), sound of blaring police sirens could be heard across Poland. This way, the officers paid tribute to their fallen comrade Michał Kędzierski, who had been fatally shot in Racibórz.

The Commissioner for Human Rights Adam Bodnar has intervened in the case of a handbook published by the Police Training Centre in Legionowo, which describes transgenderism and the LGBTQ community in the context of social pathologies. "There's a serious risk that such perception of transgenderism will negatively affect the officers' attitude towards transgender people" - Bodnar stressed.

Poland has detected its first three cases of the Brazilian variant of the coronavirus, the health minister said on Thursday, as the European nation starts to emerge from a third wave of the pandemic.

The European Union's top court should rule that measures introduced by Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to discipline judges contradict EU laws, a court adviser said on Thursday ahead of a final ruling due in the coming months.

During renovation of service premises, which for nearly 70 years had been used by Warsaw's legendary milk bar "Złota Kurka", a set of historic ceramic panels has been discovered. The panels are covered with paintings showing animals and plants. "Most likely more such items will be found inside" - said Warsaw's historic preservation officer.

A 65-year-old man found an envelope containing money near a bike lane in Słupsk. He took it to a local police station. More than a week later, the owner of the envelope has been found. More precisely, the owner's mother came to the station and proved the envelope belonged to her 13-year-old son Mateusz.

"I'm happy to inform that we've freed nearly 18,000 vaccination appointment dates" - said the Health Ministry spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz. He was relating to reports that people who had got vaccinated during May weekend without registration were said to have been blocking appointments booked earlier on. The spokesman also commented on reports regarding many people travelling between cities due to vaccine shortages.

Poland has offered to buy Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines from Denmark, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, after Copenhagen excluded the shots from its vaccination programme over a potential link to blood clots.

Heavy rainfall caused the water level rise in a local pond in Żytowiecko (Greater Poland province). The water reached a nest with two little crane chicks inside and took it away. The two little birds were rescued by firefighters from Gostyń and Poniec.

Poland's president Andrzej Duda rejected recent comments by a government critic that the country was backsliding on rule of law as "anti-Polish" as he welcomed his Estonian counterpart in Warsaw on Tuesday (May 4).

Poles rushed to clothes shops and DIY stores on Tuesday as the government eased coronavirus restrictions after the number of new infections fell.

The Sejm on Tuesday passed a legislation green-lighting ratification of EU COVID-19 recovery fund. In favour of the legislation there were 290 votes, 33 against, with 133 abstentions.

The Europa League final in Gdańsk on May 26 will be allowed to host up to 9,500 spectators after Europe's soccer governing body UEFA said it had received approval from the Polish authorities.

The police in Racibórz received a report about a 40-year-old man in dark blue clothes who had been spotted entering his car intoxicated at a gas station. Later on the man was said to have been blocking traffic in a small neighbourhood street. When the police patrol arrived at the scene, the suspect fired his gun. The officer who approached the car was shot dead, while his partner shot the the suspect in the leg.

People travelling to Poland from Brazil, India and South Africa will have to quarantine, Poland's health minister said on Tuesday, as he announced outbreaks of the variant of COVID-19 in first detected in India in the Warsaw and Katowice areas.

The West Pomeranian Nature Society has released a female lynx into nature to mark the 60th anniversary of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The lynx arrived in Poland from Germany and for a few weeks she was being prepared to living free.

For Poles, the May long weekend is usually a time for grilling, socializing and drinking. But in the middle of a pandemic, thousands decided to stand in the rain to get a Johnson & Johnson jab instead.

Poland's government has officially submitted the National Recovery Plan at the European Commission which ends the process on Poland's part - the government spokesperson Piotr Müller informed on Monday.

The Constitution of Poland was a manifestation of the aspiration for justice, which unites our countries and the entire European community - the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter, congratulating Poland on the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the 3rd May Constitution of 1791.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken congratulated Poland on celebrating the 230th anniversary of the 3rd May Constitution of 1791. "The friendship shared by the United States and Poland traces its origins to the late 18th century when our countries adopted our respective constitutions" - he said in a statement.

During the official ceremony to mark the 230th anniversary of the Constitution of 3rd May 1791, the Presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine signed a joint declaration of support and cooperation with countries striving for democratic changes.

Editors-in-chief of three daily newspapers owned by Polska Press Group have been fired - group's board member Dorota Kania informed on Twitter. The three editors were Marek Twaróg from "Dziennik Zachodni", Jerzy Sułkowski from "Gazeta Krakowska", and Stanisław Sowa from "Nowiny". Their replacements have been already chosen, Kania added.

COVID-19 vaccinations in care centres for people with disabilities will begin on May 10 - the chief of the PM's office Michał Dworczyk said on Friday. He added that vaccine orders for these institutions would be treated with priority by the Government Strategic Reserves Agency.

Deputy Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Waldemar Buda said on Friday the government would adopt the National Recovery Plan later that day, and then send the document over to the EU Commission. He added everything seemed to suggest there was a necessary political consensus over the project.

If the United Right ruling coalition broke up and each party would run separately in the election, only Law and Justice would win seats in the parliament, according to a recent phone survey for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24. Jarosław Kaczyński's party, however, would not win enough votes to govern on their own.

More than half of respondents said the ruling coalition of Law and Justice, United Poland and Accord will be able to last until the next parliamentary election, according to a recent telephone survey by Kantar for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24.