London: Former England defender Sol Campbell is warning fans against travelling to Poland and Ukraine to watch the European Championship, claiming authorities are failing to tackle entrenched racism and violence in the countries. "Stay at home, watch it on TV. Don't even risk it ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin," Campbell, who is black, told the BBC. The families of two of England's black players,...
02:54 PM, May 29, 2012
Warsaw: The Borussia Dortmund trio of Robert Lewandowski, Jakub Blaszczykowski and Lukasz Piszczek lead the European Championship squad for co-hosts Poland. Coach Franciszek Smuda on Sunday also named Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny to his final 23-man roster for the competition, which starts from June 8 in Warsaw with Poland taking on Greece. Lewandowski, who scored 22 goals for German champions Dortmund, will spearhead Poland's attack. Smuda had few obvious choices...
03:42 PM, May 28, 2012
Klagenfurt, Austria: Damien Perquis scored his first international goal on Saturday to give Poland a 1-0 win over Slovakia in the co-host's second warm-up match before the European Championship. The Sochaux defender's header from a cross by Lukasz Piszczek found the net after half an hour, earning Poland a second straight 1-0 victory after their win over Latvia on Tuesday. "We played well but we aren't yet where we want...
11:56 AM, May 27, 2012
Mandya: A Polish couple has gone missing after setting out on a boat ride in Cauvery river from Tamil Nadu towards Karnataka, police in Mandya said. According to a complaint lodged with police by S Jayaprabha, Manager of a private company at Hosur, his colleague Ian Turton and his wife had embarked on a boat ride from Denkanikote in Tamil Nadu to Muthathi in Karnataka on May 19. The couple...
09:10 AM, May 23, 2012
London: A woman dentist in Poland is facing jail after she allegedly pulled out all her former boyfriend's teeth because he dumped her for another woman. Anna Mackowiak, 34, took revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic with toothache just days after breaking up with her, the Daily Mail reported. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked all his teeth out. She...
07:34 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Moscow: A kite surfing champion from Poland became stranded for 40 hours on the Red Sea and fought off an attack by sharks with a knife. Janek Lisewski, 42, attempted to kite surf a 200 km distance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was on his two thirds of the trip, when the wind went dead and the deflated kite plunged into the sea. He waited for about two hours...
12:32 PM, Mar 10, 2012
HYDERABAD: Six students of Sanskriti, a rural art centre near here, bagged several awards at the 13th International Child and Youth Art Exhibition which recently concluded in Poland. Ten-year-old A Keerthana bagged the special award while G M Anusha, A Rishitej, J Praveen Kumar, S Sekhar and G Vinod Kumar bagged medallions and diplomas.Another group of eight children including M Munika Reddy, A Sai Kiran, A Shreetej, R Kavya, A...
11:46 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Warsaw: Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into how a train ended up on the wrong tracks after two engines collided head on late on Saturday, killing 15 people and leaving 54 in hospitals. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the accident the most tragic train catastrophe in Poland in recent years after visiting the site in the early hours of Sunday. He said it was too soon to say what...
02:17 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: India women's hockey team coach CR Kumar was satisfied with the 3-0 victory over Poland in the Olympic hockey qualifiers on Tuesday, but said the low rate of penalty corners conversions remain a concern for the hosts. India reached the top of the pool, ahead of South Africa after their 3-0 mauling of a lowly Poland, ranked 28th in the world. "We are getting better with each match...
09:04 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Canada dished out a clinical display to thrash minnows Singapore 15-1 in a one-sided game, while Poland walloped Italy 7-2 in the men's hockey Olympic qualification tournament here on Tuesday. Stunned 2-3 by 19th-ranked Poland in their last match, Canada came out with purpose and scored goals at will against the hapless Singapore team, who came in as a late replacement for the USA in the event and...
07:04 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: An extreme cold wave across Europe over the past few days has left 160 people dead in its wake. The mercury plunged to record lows throughout the continent, with Bulgaria recording its lowest temperature in over a century. Meanwhile, Poland, Romania and Latvia are dealing with temperatures as low as minus 32 degrees celcius. In Ukraine, health officials claim that 63 people died after literally freezing on the...
06:39 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Warsaw: A Boeing airliner from the US carrying 231 people was forced to land on its belly in Warsaw after its landing gear failed to open, triggering sparks and small fires. No one was hurt, but some passengers sobbed as they prayed for a safe landing. Capt Tadeusz Wrona, who handled the descent on Tuesday so smoothly that many on board thought the Boeing 767 had landed on its wheels,...
11:00 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Warsaw: No one was hurt when a Boeing 767 flying from Newark, New Jersey, with some 230 people on board, made an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport on Tuesday after trouble with landing gear. "All safety procedures worked perfectly fine and, thanks to this, nobody was injured," said Leszek Chorzewski, spokesman for the Polish national flag carrier LOT, operator of the plane. Live television footage showed the Boeing craft landing...
04:57 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Warsaw: Vampires, the devil's deceit and mental illness are among the hot topics for some 300 exorcists who flocked to Poland this week from as far away as Africa and India for a week-long congress. Held at Poland's Roman Catholic Jasna Gora monastery, home to the venerated Black Madonna icon, this year's congress "examines the current fashion for vampirism in Europe and the world-over, schizophrenia and other mental disorders as...
02:40 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: India and Poland, current President of the European Union (EU), on Tuesday held discussions on bilateral, regional and international issues, including counter terrorism and the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna held talks with his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikroski, who is on a two-day official visit to India, during which both sides also discussed ways to enhance bilateral trade. Pointing out that it...
08:50 PM, Jul 12, 2011
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