InsideWorld        InsideDirect        InsideWeather        InsideTravel

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE SUBSCRIPTION

InsideWorld
InsideDirect
InsideTravel
InsideWeather

Top Stories


Click here
if you want more information about advertising on this site.
Sign up
for News
Manage your
Account
Forgot your
Password
News
Services




 
more» 
  • PPG Industries adjusts what its Polish factories make

  • PPG Industries has made adjustments at two of its Polish facilities and is now making protective and marine coatings at Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland. The plant, which was part of the company’s (NYSE: PPG) purchase of Dyrup A/S, used to make architectural coatings but that work has been moved to Wroclaw, Poland, the company said. Ostrow Wielkopolski now makes products for construction, petrochemical, shipbuilding and energy markets. “The Ostrow manufacturing plant is a key part of our strategy…
  • Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury

  • EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT -In this picture provided by the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, a 33-year-old Polish man whose face was torn off by stone-cutting machinery is shown after undergoing a total face transplant. Doctors performed the surgery on May 15 in a 27-hour operation. In a news conference on Wednesday they said it was the first time a life-saving face transplant was carried out soon after a recipient suffered damage. There have been several other transplants in recent years but in those cases doctors had months or years to prepare. The Polish patient suffered his accident on April 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation.



  • Life-saving face transplant performed in Poland

  • EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT -In this picture provided by the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, a 33-year-old Polish man whose face was torn off by stone-cutting machinery is shown after undergoing a total face transplant. Doctors performed the surgery on May 15 in a 27-hour operation. In a news conference on Wednesday they said it was the first time a life-saving face transplant was carried out soon after a recipient suffered damage. There have been several other transplants in recent years but in those cases doctors had months or years to prepare. The Polish patient suffered his accident on April 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a life-saving total face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest timeframe to date for such an operation.



  • Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

  • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.
  • Polish conservative opposition leads opinion poll

  • Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks to the media during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Chancellery in WarsawWARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party has overtaken the ruling Civic Platform in an opinion poll released on Saturday, showing the government may be increasingly vulnerable to the economic downturn. The center-right Civic Platform, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk won 40 percent of the vote at the 2011 election, but its support was down to 23 percent in the survey carried out by CBOS, one of Poland's biggest polling organizations. ...



  • Keeping Gitmo open costs $900K per prisoner annually

  • Running the prison camp costs the Pentagon more than $150 million a year -- just over $900,000 for each of the 166 detainees at the facility, located on a Navy base on the eastern end of Cuba. By comparison, costs for a typical federal prison inmate run about $25,000 a year; at the "supermax" prison in Colorado that holds domestic terrorists Eric Rudolph and Ted Kaczynski, it's about $60,000.
more» 
 

For more information about current affairs, business, economy, politics and more, use InsideWorld's free daily e-mail news service.

If you would like to receive news, but do not have an InsideWorld account yet, click below to setup your free account now and start receiving news right away.

 

 
Click here for your free subscription

Login to your account for
for advanced settings:

Email:
Password:


InsideWorld
is a collection of country and region web sites providing local news and information to a worldwide audience. Use InsideWorld’s headlines available on this site to access the latest stories. Or sign up today.

Advertising Privacy Statement FAQ Contact
RSS Feed