Warsaw

Councillors of a western Polish village were to decide on Monday whether to allow controversial German scientist Guenther von Hagen to set up a laboratory for preparing human corpses for public display. Von Hagen Bodyworld exhibition of plasticised corpses has been shown amid heavy public debate across Europe and the world.

Polish lawmakers will be paid half their salary if they are "jailed temporarily" but won’t receive their daily parliamentary allowance, the Upper House Senate voted on Thursday. Senators voted 63 in favour and six against an amendment that made a distinction between temporary detention and fully-fledged imprisonment

Polish police said on Friday they have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing a 200m-long, 360-ton bridge, which had then been sold to a scrap-metal yard. The bridge disappeared earlier this month and was found by police at the scrap-metal yard, cut into metre-long pieces.

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.