The head of the Polish national tourist organisation has been fired after he said he wanted to remove the Auschwitz memorial and a Jewish history museum from tours for foreign journalists.

AIB, which is seeking to raise as much €3 billion in a share sale in the fourth quarter, has hired UBS to help advise on the process, it has been reported.

Russian authorities have detained two people on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September.

THE Kremlin’s candidate Akhmad Kadyrov won a landslide victory in Chechnya’s presidential election but few voters believed he would bring a rapid end to the fighting that has devastated their republic.

Poland’s embattled prime minister categorically denied any involvement in a murky scandal that has gripped the nation as he testified today before a parliamentary panel investigating allegations that a leading film producer attempted to solicit a bribe for lobbying the government.