Television reporter Waldemar Milewicz, killed in Iraq on Friday along with his producer, was Poland’s best-known war correspondent and the winner of numerous journalism awards for his reporting from Chechnya, Afghanistan and other conflict zones. Poland’s president called Milewicz’s death a loss for the entire nation.
Anyone selling traditionally decorated eggs in the picturesque Polish city of Krakow this Easter will be breaking the law. A local World War II bylaw passed on March 28 1915 in Krakow forbids residents from decorating or selling the colourful eggs with their intricate traditional patterns known in Poland as pisanki.