Officials across central Europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to reinforce flood defences as rivers swelled by days of heavy rain threatened to burst their banks.

A BRAVE little girl who was given little chance of survival shortly after birth has stunned the medical world with her miraculous progress.

An express train driven by a drunk driver has derailed in south-western Poland, injuring two passengers, police said today.

Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller escaped unhurt when a helicopter flying him to Warsaw crash-landed today.