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A truck drove into the rear of a vehicle on a highway in northern Poland, causing 18 cars and three trucks to collide, killing four and injuring 12.

A thrill-seeking motorcyclist is facing possible jail after racing through the streets of Gdańsk at an eye-watering 299 km/h (186 mph) and then boasting about it on social media.

Victims of the 1937-1938 “Polish Operation” were commemorated in Gdańsk on Sunday, August 11, the 87th anniversary of the signing of the order that precipitated the genocide of ethnic Poles living in the Soviet Union.

English football legend Wayne Rooney is again in the spotlight after a wax figure purporting to be the former Manchester United forward went viral on social media.

As Poland’s reputation as a tourist hotspot continues to rise, a new report has revealed which nationalities are flocking to its mountains and seaside.

Exactly 50 years ago, the first residents of Gdańsk’s box-fresh Zaspa housing estate were making themselves at home, completely unaware that they had just moved into what would later become one of the largest open-air art galleries in Europe.

A storage hall in a port in Gdańsk, northern Poland, went up in flames in the largest fire in the city in recent years on Sunday, local firefighters said.

Police say a new tip-off could help them solve the 14-year-old mystery of a teenage woman who went missing after walking home from a nightclub.

Polish travel enthusiasts have reason to celebrate as Czech Railways prepares to introduce a new direct railway line connecting the Tricity to Prague.

Inscribed in Polish legend for the heroic role it played during the opening onslaught of World War II, Guardhouse No. 1 on the Westerplatte Peninsula is to be handed a fresh lease of life thanks to a new exhibition that will be unveiled tomorrow.

A new container tracking app chiefly designed by Poles has been hailed as a world first after being unveiled in the northern port city of Gdańsk.

The former deputy mayor of Gdańsk for education and social services Piotr K. was found guilty of molesting a minor and received a one-year prison sentence, suspended for three years.

Scientists from the Gdańsk University of Technology in cooperation with the AI lab at the Information National Information Processing Institute - National Research Institute (OPI) have developed Polish language models called Qra. This is the first equivalent of Meta or Mistral AI’s open tools on this scale. Qra understands content in Polish better and is better at creating coherent texts, the Gdańsk University of Technology reports.