One person has died and seven others were hurt after a man attacked people with a knife at a shopping mall in south-eastern Poland.

Poland is considering enlisting as many as 20,000 prisoners to help build the stadiums, roads and hotels that it desperately needs to co-host the Euro 2012 soccer tournament.

Twenty-one people froze to death in Poland over the weekend as cold weather tightened its grip on the country, police said today.