WARSAW (Reuters) -Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "gifted" the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering skyscraper at the heart of Poland's capital still stirs strong ...

It is Aug. 13, 1944, and the streets of Warsaw are clogged with barricades and mounds of rubble, burn-out vehicles and fallen streetlamps, bent iron pipes and tangled electrical cables, all ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some Poles liken the skyscraper to an elephant in lace underpants. A famous poet dubbed it “the nightmare of a drunken baker.” And one joke goes that it provides the best view of ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - A local joke runs that the luckiest man in Warsaw is the caretaker who lives on the top floor of its towering Palace of Culture -- because he is the only one who can look out of his ...

High Soviet authorities this week ordered the return to the Jewish community of a four-story building in Praga, a Warsaw suburb, which had been occupied as a Red Army hospital. The building belonged ...