ENGLAND: An ‘Orgone Accumulator’, a vibrator, saucy postcards, erotic pottery and illustrations from the Kama Sutra are on display in a new, year-long exhibition tackling the study of sex.

A sombre election season in Poland was prolonged by two weeks when a first round of voting produced no immediate successor to Lech Kaczynski, the president killed more than two months ago in a plane crash.

Independence backers declared victory at Montenegro’s vote on secession from Serbia, although the unionists refused to concede defeat.

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, a former school principal turned economic adviser, is set to become Poland’s new prime minister as he embarks on talks to form a new government that will try to reduce taxes and increase prosperity for the country’s 38 million residents.

Polish voters, fed up with the sleaze-ridden left-wing government, were expected to cast their ballots today for two centre-right parties that promise tax cuts and clean government.