POLISH composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, has died in his home city of Katowice following a serious illness. He was 76.

Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki has died in his home city of Katowice following a serious illness. He was 76.

THE body of President Lech Kaczynski was returned to Poland yesterday where it was greeted by grieving dignitaries and thousands of Poles lining the route from Warsaw’s airport to the presidential palace.

Dozens of ex-nuns who staged a two-year protest sit-in at a Polish convent were forcibly evicted today by riot police.

FOUR funerals — one after the other — for four young men killed in one road accident. But the similarities did little to diminish the emotional impact.