The number of measles cases worldwide nearly quadrupled in the first quarter of 2019 to 112,163 against the same period last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, citing provisional data.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday that he hopes that the round table talks on Polish education system will mark a new opening. The talks are scheduled to take place shortly after Easter and are to include teachers, parents and all the other interested parties. Morawiecki also asked the striking teachers to do their best to allow students take their final exams.

The police are looking for a man who on Sunday morning, in Racibórz (Silesian Voivodeship), in one of local bars, stabbed a 23-year-old resident of the town several time with a knife during an altercation - officer Mirosław Szymański from Racibórz police informed.

Sixty-four African migrants rescued by the German ship Alan Kurdi and stranded at sea for almost two weeks were transferred to Malta on Saturday to be redistributed in four European Union countries.

Poles are still considered a cheap source of labour force, but the country has become less and less attractive for investors. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko campaigned in front of his supporters on Sunday but his opponent Volodymyr Zelenskiy was nowhere to be seen.

Slovenian Polona Hercog overcame determined rookie Iga Świątek 6-3 3-6 6-3 to win the Lugano Open on Sunday for her first title in seven years.

A Warsaw court has repealled the fine that Gerald Birgfellner received from the prosecutor's office for failing to appear for an interview. Prosecutors claim that the court does not have the authority to make such decisions. The Austrian businessman is embroiled in a real estate scandal with Jarosław Kaczyński, whom Birgfellner has accused of committing a fraud.

We can not always rely on the barriers at rail crossings. In Krzesiny, western Poland, the automatic mechanism did not work quickly enough and the barrier came down only when the train was already passing.

A man charged with the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak has confessed to shooting him, Slovak independent public television RTVS said on Thursday, quoting police sources.

As Finns head to the polls on Sunday welfare, immigration and the climate are the main issues on the agenda, with a poll released on Thursday putting the Social Democrats in the lead.

Tax season usually gives everybody a headache, but thanks to the new e-system for personal income declarations many could breathe a sigh of relief this year. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

Police in London opened fire outside the Ukrainian embassy on Saturday after a man rammed his vehicle into the ambassador's empty parked car at least twice before being arrested, officials said.

Those who have never seen with their own two eyes can only imagine what the entrance area of the Children's Health Centre in Warsaw must have looked like. It hasn't been renovated in 40 years since the hospital opened. An area reminiscent of communist times finally got a makeover, thanks to Antoś and TVN viewers like you.

It was supposed to be a legal business selling coal. Instead it was illegally disposing of hazardous waste. Two men are now in police custody who, according to investigators, were mixed up in the illegal conduct. Hazardous substances were dumped in the soil and covered up on a property leased from the city in Zabrze, southern Poland. So far, four people have been detained in the case.

According to Stanisław Karczewski, the Marshal of the Senate, teachers shouldn't work for money but for ideals, especially when children are involved. Teachers and many politicians alike are outraged by Karczewski's statement.

He tried to run over a policewoman, now he faces charges. In Lubań, a 33-year-old has hit a female police officer with his quad and sped away after being pulled over. Thankfully, the police officer did not sustain any serious injuries and the driver was quickly apprehended. Now, he will spend a month in temporary detention pending trial. It was determined that the quad driver was drunk at the time of the incident.

One and a half years in prison for a policeman who used deadly force and shot a young driver who was attempting to evade police. The officer also faces other restrictions but can still appeal against the verdict.

On Friday, middle-schoolers took the last section of their final exams, in foreign languages. With that problem out of the way for the government, a new one is looming. The final matriculation exams for the high-schoolers are coming up and there are signs that they might not go according to plan.

Older Poles are beginning to forget, while younger ones have never paid a deposit in stores before. Soon it will be back and on a mass scale. In accordance with the directive of the European Union, in six years, people will have to add the price of a plastic bottle to the price of the drink inside. The store will return the deposit when the consumer returns the bottle.

Thursday was the second day of exams for eighth graders. This time the students were tested for their knowledge in math and science. It was also the fourth day of the teachers' strike. School boards are reporting that despite the protest, all schools were able to gather enough educators to conduct the final exams.

The Polish president is praising Poland's presence in the European Union, but at the same says that Polish tradition and culture must not be taken away. At the meeting with the residents of Mogilno in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Andrzej Duda spoke about the benefits and challenges of being part of the community.

Poland's lower house of parliament, dominated by the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, approved on Friday a 15 percent cut in the copper tax to allow more investment by state-run copper producer KGHM.

Crosses hung from the ceiling wrapped in barbed wire and draped with clothes belonging to LGBT people make up the centrepiece of artist Daniel Rycharski's exhibition at Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art.

By the decision of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Russian tall ship STS Sedov has been denied entry on Polish territorial waters, the spokesperson for the Polish Foreign Ministry, Ewa Suwara informed on Friday.

The Regional Prosecutor from Dzierżoniów, southwestern Poland said that even though he had performed hunderds of post-mortems, never had had he seen such severely battered woman. According to the investigators, the 25-year-old has been beaten to death with fists by her partner. The man has been arrested and charged.

They were known for their brutality and for their unique tattooing of prostitutes. They're also suspected of murder and profiting from prostitution. Through cooperation with Europol and police from several countries the "Braciaks' Gang" was caught. Over the course of several years, the criminal gang was one of the main targets for Polish authorities, who considered them a highly specialised and violent group: usually armed with knives, machetes and baseball bats. The network forced their trafficking victims into prostitution in Denmark and Poland and tattooed them to identify their "owner".

Words of support for those Polish teachers are coming in from all over the world. This is how the teachers form the USA and Vietnam expressed their solidarity with Polish teachers.

British police dragged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of Ecuador's embassy on Thursday after his seven-year asylum was revoked, paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information.

One man is dead after being attacked by another man nearby Sobieskiego and Gierymskiego streets in Warsaw's Mokotów district. The police say that the attacker has been detained.