The carnage that followed the doomed Warsaw Uprising of 1944 raises the question what was it all for — and who was responsible for its failure, writes Geoffrey Roberts.

It is often said that a week is a long time in politics. The same goes for tournament football.

(WITH apologies to Dana Rosemary Scallon, MEP – now sing along to the air of the one that made her famous).

Thousands of workers scrambled to reinforce dykes with sandbags and evacuate villages ahead of a 65-mile-long flood wave coursing down Poland’s largest river today after a week of torrential rains.

Thousands of workers scrambled to reinforce dykes with sandbags and evacuate villages ahead of a 65-mile-long flood wave coursing down Poland’s largest river today after a week of torrential rains.