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Rescue workers prepaire to remove a wagon from the crash site in Szczekociny, Poland, on Sunday. Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland late Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people dead and more than 50 injured in the country's worst train disaster in more than 20 years. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Polish train collision kills 16

Monika Scislowska, Vanessa Gera The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 10:39pm

SZCZEKOCINY, Poland -- Poland's government insisted Sunday that rail travel is safe in the country despite a train collision that killed 16 people, assurances that come months before masses of sports fans will enter the country for a major soccer tournament -- many of whom will crisscross the nation by train.

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FILE In this undated photo released by the Italian Navy Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, scuba divers inspect the Costa Concordia cruise ship grounded off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. A veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the massive cruise liner ran aground last month. In the chaotic evacuation of more than 4,200 people from the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects and even 300-year-old woodcut prints by a Japanese master. (AP Photo/Italian Navy GOS handout)

Cruise shipwreck has plenty of sunken treasures

Vanessa Gera The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 1:29pm

ROME -- In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.

In other words, a veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the luxury liner ran aground last month.

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(CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI/The Associated Press) A cyclist passes a new monument to Jesus in Swiebodzin, Poland, on Saturday. A local priest built what his town members claim is now the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world.

Larger than life: 'Christ the King' is a giant statue built by a priest in a Polish town

The Associated Press, Vanessa Gera

Last updated Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 10:06pm

SWIEBODZIN, Poland -- A gigantic statue of Jesus that Poles claim is the world's largest rose majestically above a small town on Saturday, as the grandiose dream of a local priest finally came to pass.

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(The Associated Press) A mother and her child stand in front of a makeshift memorial as people gather to pay their respects to those killed aboard the Polish presidential plane that crashed Saturday in Smolensk, Russia, outside the Presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday.

Poles grieve over president killed in plane crash

Matt Moore, Vanessa Gera The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 6:52pm

WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's government moved swiftly Sunday to show that it was staying on course after the deaths of its president and dozens of political, military and religious leaders, even as tens of thousands of Poles expressed their grief over the plane crash in Russia that shocked the country.

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