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A statue by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan shows Adolf Hitler praying on his knees in Warsaw on Dec. 28, 2012. The work, “HIM,” has been drawing visitors since it was installed the previous month. (Associated Press)

Praying Hitler statue in former Warsaw ghetto sparks emotion

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

The exterior of Poland's Parliament in Warsaw is seen here on Nov. 20, 2012. Authorities arrested a 45-year-old chemist who was planning to detonate some four tons of explosives in front of the building while President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Cabinet members and lawmakers were inside. (Associated Press)

Poland thwarts terror attack on top leaders

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

World Briefs: Iranian army drill to test air defense system

The Washington Times

Marilyn Monroe photos on auction in Poland

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Marilyn Monroe photos on auction in Poland

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Branson: Virgin space project keeps being delayed

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

The entrance with the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) gate of the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz is seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

World’s oldest survivor of Auschwitz dies at 108

Associated Press

Narrow house opening as art work in Warsaw

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Abortion rights yacht sails around Moroccan port

By PAUL SCHEMM - Associated Press

Polish philharmonic named for Jewish virtuoso

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

A Belarusian woman prepares to cast her ballot at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Minsk on Sunday. Belarus held parliamentary elections Sunday without the main opposition parties, which boycotted the vote to protest the detention of political prisoners and opportunities for election fraud. (Associated Press)

Belarus receives help from Poles

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poles angered by Ukraine’s graveside fashion shoot

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

Belsat TV journalist Volha Starastsina is working on a uncensored news program for Belarus at the TV station's studio in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, as the station is focusing on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Belarus, expected to be a rubber stamp procedure. Last month Starastsina had to flush her TV memory card down a police toilet in Vitebsk, Belarus, to get rid of evidence of her work, when police detained her briefly as she was interviewing people in the street about the elections that will be held on Sunday. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poles help Belarus, recalling own repressive past

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

**FILE** A group of American and British POWs being held by the Germans, including Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. and Capt. Donald B. Stewart, look over a mass grave where murdered Polish officers are buried, near Smolensk, Russia, in May 1943. The Soviet secret police killed the Poles in 1940, hoping to eliminate an elite that would have resisted Soviet control of Poland. Van Vliet and Stewart were among a group of British and American prisoners forced to see the horrifying site by the Germans, who wanted word to get out to the world of the Soviet atrocity. (Associated Press)

Memos show U.S. hushed up Soviet crime

By Randy Herschaft and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Illustration by Nancy Ohanian

RAHN: Former satellites take on Europe

By Richard W. Rahn - The Washington Times

The Little League players from Lugazi, Uganda, are used to overcoming tough challenges, but face an uphill battle against 15 other teams. Their first-round game is against Panama. (Associated Press)

Ugandan youths make it to Little League World Series

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Ugandan baseball team takes the field at Little League World Series

By Ioannis Gatsiounis - Special to The Washington Times

Virginia's Akil Mitchell, left, passes the ball while under pressure from Mike Scott during practice at the Century Link Arena in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, March 15, 2012. Virginia plays against Florida on Friday in an NCAA second-round tournament college basketball game. (AP Photo/The Omaha World-Herald/Rebecca S. Gratz) MAGS OUT; ALL NEBRASKA LOCAL BROADCAST TV OUT

UVa. looks for Akil Mitchell to play much larger role

By Patrick Stevens - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and wife, Ann, greet Polish WWII veterans and a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp July 31, 2012, in Warsaw prior to laying a wreath at the Warsaw 1944 Uprising monument. (Associated Press)

Romney gaffes contrast with Obama in ‘08

By Robert H. Reid - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets Polish veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as he visits the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney’s trip a bumpy ride

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times