The Lighthouse, a portable indoor-outdoor fireplace, is the newest model from Planika, a Polish company. According to the manufacturer, it doesn’t produce smoke or odor — and doesn’t require ventilation. What makes it burn so cleanly, Planika says, is Fanola, a liquid bioethanol fuel made from potatoes that the company developed and sells with its fireplaces.
A former Swedish neo-Nazi suspected of involvement in the theft of the infamous Nazi German "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from Auschwitz said Thursday he was a middleman in the robbery. 
Poland's treasury is unlikely to ask two refiners PKN Orlen PKNA.WA and Lotos LTOS.WA to pay dividends out of their 2009 profits, Deputy Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said on Thursday.
The European Commission authorised American group Kraft Foods to buy British company Cadbury. On one condition: the new entity must give up Cadbury chocolate producing operations in Romania and Poland, Romanian news agency Mediafax informs. 
Poland's 2009 budget deficit was lower than expected, the finance minister said on Wednesday, but analysts warned this may not be enough to fend off the risk of breaching legally-binding debt safety levels. 
Polish prosecutors say they want to question three people in Sweden about last month's theft of the Nazi sign at the former Auschwitz death camp.
A Russian national suspected of spying for GRU, Russia's foreign military intelligence unit, has been arrested in Poland. 
The first animals to walk the Earth emerged from the sea almost 20 million years earlier than previously thought, say scientists who have discovered footprints from an 8-foot-long (2.4-meter-long) prehistoric creature.
Flashback to the early 1990s — some politicians, maybe listening to what Russia was saying or maybe just being useful idiots, were saying Poland was wrong in reorienting its own economy from Comecon to the West. Why go West if you have the vast markets of the East, they would say? Poland will see 1 percent growth in electricity demand in 2010 as industrial customers consume more power in an improving economy, Poland's grid operator PSE Operator said on Wednesday. 
TVN, eastern Europe's largest listed broadcaster, increased the number of its satellite television subscribers by 76 percent last year as it sought to carve out a position in Poland's competitive pay-TV market.
Credit Suisse has announced that it is planning to strengthen its local investment banking business in Poland by re-establishing Warsaw-based equity trading capabilities and by increasing research coverage for Polish companies in 2010. 
WARSAW, Poland — A Polish prosecutor says a Swedish citizen ordered the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz memorial and visited the site before the heist. Gas deliveries to Poland from Russia have increased since Monday despite the lack of a new gas deal that was meant to guarantee full supplies, a spokeswoman for Polish gas monopoly PGNiG PGNI.WA said on Tuesday. 
An government official says Poland has slashed the pensions of about 40,000 communist-era officials and secret police officers, on grounds they violated human rights.
Polish officials say a key witness in the 1998 murder of Poland's national police chief has died in prison.
Monday, the Polish zloty rallied against the US dollar after the report showing Poland's Manufacturing output grew for the fifth consecutive month in December and reached its highest since March 2008. The zloty surged to a 3-week high of 2.8245 against the greenback before slightly reversing its course around 6:30 am ET. The dollar-zloty pair is presently quoted at 2.8498.
The 7th Krakow Mountain Festival (KFG) has come to an end. This edition proved once again that Krakow hosts the biggest mountaineering festival in Poland. This year, over 5,000 people turned up at the Krakow University of Economics and the interest was so big that not everybody was able to get tickets for the evening shows. 
A wealthy British Nazi sympathizer was the impetus for last month's theft of the famous entrance sign to the historic Auschwitz death camp in Poland, the British tabloid Sunday Mirror reported Sunday. 
Poland launched a year of celebrations Friday to mark the 200th anniversary of the celebrated composer Frederic Chopin, which will include events both at home and abroad. 
Hundreds of important Jewish historical and religious sites across Poland are in danger of deterioration and possible collapse, a Polish Jewish organization warned on Thursday. 
Japan's Toshiba Corp. is paying about $46-million (U.S.) for nearly 20 per cent of the Polish television panel making subsidiary of LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., forging a partnership with a rival to strengthen its European TV manufacturing business.
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