Former Portugal and Benfica striker Eusebio is set to be released from a Polish hospital later this week after falling ill earlier this week.

Football hooligans clashed with opposing fans and police before and during Poland’s game against bitter rivals Russia, leaving 15 injured while more than 140 people were detained.

Sixteen people were injured, four of them seriously, when a bus collided with a car in central Poland today.

A MILITARY prosecutor said he tried to commit suicide during a news conference he had called because his own work has been used as a reason to support plans to close military prosecution offices in Poland.

Former Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan won a narrow victory to become the country’s seventh president, a sign that the popularity of the South east Asian city-state’s ruling party is eroding.

Singapore’s long-time ruling party has won an overwhelming parliamentary majority in elections, but the opposition made historic gains after mounting its biggest challenge since independence in 1965, according to returns.

Three people have been killed in an avalanche in Poland’s Tatra mountains, the country’s media have reported.

Hundreds of people packed into Cairo’s main airport today hoping for a flight out of Egypt but Western carriers were cancelling, delaying or suspending services after days of violent unrest.

NON-CREW members were in the cockpit of the plane of Polish president Lech Kaczynski before its fatal crash in Russia, officials said yesterday, raising fresh questions about the tragedy’s cause.

As Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s plane streaked toward disaster, at least two passengers visited the cockpit, others may have chatted on mobile phones that can obstruct navigation instruments and an under-trained crew faced heavy fog over challenging terrain.

Europe was struggling to restore roads and railways today after heavy snow caused hundreds of accidents, halted flights, downed power lines in Poland and trapped more than 160 people overnight on a frozen German road.

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski fired the interior minister today, citing suspicions that he leaked information that hindered a corruption investigation – the latest episode in a deepening political crisis.

TWENTY-SIX Polish pilgrims died yesterday when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident blackspot in the French Alps and burst into flames, officials said.

River levels in some regions of south-eastern Poland rose today after days of rain, flooding around 1,000 homes and making some roads impassable.

A Polish opposition party today urged the government to buy the house where the late Pope John Paul II was born and which hosts a museum in his honour.

Wedged between troubled Ukraine and the West, Poland has plunged into the disputed Ukrainian presidential election in an attempt to mediate – a sign of anxiety over the prospect of instability and rising Russian influence so close to home.

Three Italians and a Polish contractor kidnapped in Iraq have been freed, Polish TV reported today.

Poland is not considering a troop pullout from Iraq even though the country’s outgoing prime minister said Spain’s plans to withdraw troops could not be ignored, a government spokesman said in Warsaw.

Armed with car bombs, mortars and machine guns, insurgents launched three co-ordinated attacks in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala today, killing four coalition soldiers and injuring 25 others, a Polish commander said.

ONE US soldier died in a rebel ambush and two others were killed in bomb explosions yesterday, one of the bloodiest days for the US military since the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13.

Three American soldiers and at least eight Iraqis were killed in a midnight clash at a Shiite Muslim cleric’s headquarters in the southern Iraq city of Karbala.

Prime Minister Leszek Miller said Poland's referendum on whether to join the European Union will probably take place on June 8, and not in May as earlier proposed, according to reports from PAP.

Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party today won the general election with 75.29% of the vote.

Voters in Singapore went to the polls today, with the ruling party guaranteed a return to power but the tiny opposition still fighting hard to raise their presence in parliament.