1. Oprah Winfrey.

An investigation was under way last night after two trains running on the same track crashed head-on in southern Poland, leaving 16 people dead and 58 injured in the country's worst rail disaster in more than 20 years.

Wislawa Szymborska was Poland's first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Pawel Brozek said yesterday that Artur Boruc will be his role model as he seeks to become the next big Polish personality at Celtic.

Martin Jol attempted to put a positive spin on Fulham's prospects after their untimely midweek exit from the Europa League. The Dutch manager is hoping that his players' Premier League form at least will benefit from their disappointing 2-2 draw with Odense, and said: "It is awful to go out of the competition in the way we did but hopefully we will gain something from the fact that we don't have to play these Thursday matches."

England have criticised as a "scare story" reports that the team's training base in Poland for Euro 2012 is dilapidated and not fit for purpose.

Detectives were questioning a bus driver today on suspicion of killing a British art student in Poland.

A woman with joint British and Polish nationality has been killed while studying in Krakow. The body of the 21-year-old art-history student, who lived in the UK, was found lying next to a railway embankment in the city.

A vial containing blood drawn from Pope John Paul II shortly before he died will be installed as a relic in a Polish church after his beatification later this year. The vial will be encased in crystal and built into the altar of a church in the southern city of Krakow that is opening in May, said Piotr Sionko, the spokesman for the John Paul II Centre.

A Swedish man has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for instigating the theft last year of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") sign from the former Auschwitz death camp.