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President Barack Obama is all set to visit Europe for a week-long trip that would start on Sunday. This trip is intended to make strong bonds with Europe. The President shall visit Ireland, Poland, The Buckingham Palace as well as France as a part of his trip.

After almost 11 months of near no sale, automakers Volkswagen and General Motors have finally seen first time rise in their car sales. This demand has come up from the markets of France, Poland and Germany.

Warsaw  – Some 28 per cent of Poles would back German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the European Union presidency, said a survey Friday in the daily Rzeczpospolita.

Warsaw  – Marek Edelman, the last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, died Friday in Warsaw at age 87, local media reported.

Warsaw  – Industrial orders in Poland fell by 32.3 per cent in August compared to the same period last year, while unemployment held steady, the Central Statistical Office said Wednesday.

Warsaw  – Two seriously injured Polish miners died in hospital Wednesday, bringing the death toll from last week’s methane explosion in a coal mine in the south of the country to 17.

Washington/Prague  – US President Barack Obama is to scrap plans by his predecessor, George W Bush, to install a missile defence system in Eastern Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing officials familiar with the matter.

Warsaw  – The head of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) was charged with taking bribes, including building materials, vacations, prosecutors said Monday in Szczecin, northwest Poland.

Belgrade  – Serbia took another step towards direct qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with a draw against France Wednesday night, but it should have closed the issue with a win, Belgrade newspapers said on Thursday.

Westerplatte, Poland  – Polish leaders, veterans and the archbishop of Gdansk gathered before sunrise Tuesday on the Baltic coast to commemorate the moment a Nazi battleship fired its first shots at a military garrison on September 1, 1939, to spark World War II.