A man has attacked two people in one of the parishes in the Warsaw's district of Wola. According to the police, one of the persons is dead. First information and pictures were sent to us via Kontakt24 platform.

European Union leaders announced on Thursday they gave Theresa May a new Brexit deadline of October 31, four months longer than the prime minister asked for, in a move the EU summit chair said would let Britain resolve its domestic deadlock on the issue.

The Social Insurance Institution is checking up on people on sick leaves. Four out of five Poles say they derive satisfaction from their jobs. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

Former Pope Benedict has blamed the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal on the effects of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, homosexual cliques in seminaries and what he called a general collapse in morality.

Poland has failed to uphold the independence of its Supreme Court, the advisor to the EU's top court said on Thursday, arguing that the lowering of judges' retirement age breaks European Union law.

A dangerous-looking accident took place in the centre of Wrocław. A speeding deer collided with a motorcycle. Despite falling unconscious to the ground, the motorcyclist came out without serious injuries.

While the Polish Church is making some effort to show that it's against paedophilia, that it stands on the side of victims and wants to cooperate with the judicial system, Kraków Archbishop made statements quite to the contrary. He said that there was a contemporary persecution of Christians underway. Meanwhile, other bishops are saying "sorry".

An international scientific team on Wednesday (April 10) announced a milestone in astrophysics - the first-ever photo of a black hole - using a global network of telescopes to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no matter or light can escape.

For the past six years he couldn't eat on his own and had to breathe through a tube. Now, the boy who had swallowed a corrosive substance has a chance to live a normal life. Professor Maciejewski's team from the Cancer Centre in Gliwice miraculously transplanted his speech and breathing organs, as well as bone marrow.

Apparently farmers will receive 500 zlotys per cow from the government, but it's not coming from the national budget. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

After the talks with the government, the taxi drivers decided to suspend the protest for three weeks, informed the union leader Rafał Piotr Jurek. He added that he hopes that until that time both sided will be able to work out a satisfactory solution.

He was convicted of paedophilia but he wanted to lead special masses for children so bad and was so persistent that the parish priest gave in to his demands. Residents are appalled and the curia had no idea what was going at in the church of Sobotka. Now it knows and is responding.

The Vatican is working on a papal document that would establish procedures for Catholics to report bishops suspected of sexual abuse or negligence in sexual abuse cases, according to Vatican sources.

Adam Bielecki set out for Annapurna in Nepal. The Polish mountain climber wants to summit the 8000-metre peak from the north-west face, which has only been conquered once in history.

Most of the country is on high alert for fire danger. According to statistics from the fire service, the beggining of springtime sees a big increase in the number of grass and brush fires. Firefighters have been battling blazes across the country.

According the head of the Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP) Sławomir Broniarz, the prime minister doesn't care about ending the conflict and belittles the whole situation. He also said that PM Morawiecki is "escaping forward" by proposing the round table talks to be held after the Easter. Despite that, the ZNP chief declared readiness to partake in the talks.

"We need to build the strength of the state, to rebuild it in many aspects. Not only moral, but also material arguments constitute the strength that we need. Only when combined, these two arguments can give us this strength," said the chairman of the ruling Law and Justice party, Jarosław Kaczyński during the commemorations of the ninth anniversary of the Smolensk crash.

Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones have been shortlisted on Tuesday for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for the British version of the book "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead".

He stole an antique book from the Berlin cathedral archives and attempted to sell it Poland. The 25-year-old Pole failed because he was caught by the police from Szczecin. The thief was arrested and the book which is valued at 10,000 euros will be returned to Berlin.

On Tuesday afternoon another round of talks between the teachers and the government came to an end. "Unfortunately, the unions rejected the government's offer," said deputy PM Beata Szydło. "We were absolutely sure that the offer would at least correspond with our demands," said the chief of the Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP), Sławomir Broniarz. "The meeting was a waste of time," added Sławomir Wittkowicz, the head of the "Solidarność-Oświata" Free Trade Union.

Protesting taxi drivers gathered on Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology in Warsaw. As the unions announced earlier, next round of negotiations with the government has been scheduled for Wednesday.

France and Germany expressed concern over the independence of Polish courts at a meeting of European Union ministers on Tuesday, keeping up pressure on Warsaw to drop changes to the judiciary that the EU believes undermine the separation of powers.

The Poznań District Court has ended the trial of Adam Z. who is accused of murdering Ewa Tylman. Defence filed for a full pardon. Prosecution wants 15 years in prison for the accused, whereas the family demands a life sentence. The court will pass the verdict on the 17th of April.

Sick children can now "visit" the animals in Poznań Zoo from their hospital beds with the help of Leoś, a robot volunteer who rolls through the zoo showing a livestream of the inhabitants.

They had to save him before they could arrest him. The fire department first helped to get the would-be thief out of a ventilation shaft in an apartment building, then the police took him into custody. The man can't enjoy being freed from the tight situation for too long though, because the penalty for breaking and entering could be up to ten years in prison.

On Monday, after 6 p.m. the taxi drivers ended their protest in front of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology. The protest was suspended until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 9th of April, when the government is expected to announce its position regarding the demands of taxi drivers.

A llama is on the loose in Bieruń, Silesia. The animal ran away from a private breeder and was spotted many times over the last month on streets and fields near the city. Officials are assuring the public that the animal does not pose a threat. The owner has been fined 250 zlotys for allowing his llama to go on the lam.

Customs officials in the Philippines got quite a surprise when they opened gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal from Poland. The boxes contained 757 tarantulas instead. Their value is estimated to be worth almost 6,000 US dollars.

An illegal moonshine operation in a forest was liquidated by authorities near Białystok. They confiscated the equipment to produce the alcohol and the finished product as well.

Polish judges face disciplinary charges for asking the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for opinion, which is the fundamental right of every judge in the EU. It's unacceptable for any government to interfere with this right, said Frans Timmermans. The Vice President of the European Commission visited Warsaw on Sunday, where he met, among others, with the leader of Wiosna (Spring) party, Robert Biedroń.