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Side Effects is a new book from Kacper Kowalski , an award-winning aerial photographer and pilot, documenting the effects of human activity on the landscape in his native Poland ...

Putin's seizure of Crimea prompts alliance to reinforce Poland and Baltic states, and suspend co-operation with Kremlin Two decades on from the end of the cold war, Nato governments returned last night to their core mission of protecting Europe from Russia. As a result of the Kremlin's seizure of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, Nato foreign ministers discussed plans to bolster defences in...

Tomasz Siemoniak says 'we expect a larger military presence' as Russia-Ukraine crisis makes talks over US base 'natural' ...

Joe Biden says US exploring sending ground troops to Baltic region to try to prevent further territorial aggression by Russia Dan Roberts ...

British producers of animation forced to go abroad due to 'lack' of homegrown talent with traditional figurative skills First it was Polish plumbers, now it is Polish artists. In a damning indictment of Britain's art schools, two Oscar-winning British film-makers have recruited 60 Polish painters to work on their latest animation because they claim they could not find artists here with the right skills....

David Cameron warns Russia if it escalates the situation in Ukraine any further, the threat of sanctions will be much more severe ...

s agriculture department, Mike Steel, expressed doubts about this explanation. Meat that had been poorly stored and moved for testing would be expected to rot uniformly and not in the patchwork way seen in the photographs in the Polish report, he said. The photographs and descriptions suggested meats of different origins and freshness had been mixed and frozen from the start in a way not seen in authentic...

You will all be dead' if they do not agree to a deal. Sikorski, apparently unaware of the cameras, warned of the imposition of martial law with deadly consequences as he emerged from a meeting. He and other EU ministers are mediating between the opposition and government after Ukraine...

s credibility, and that of his own system, not so very different in some respects from Mr Yanukovych's. Although there is much Russian popular support for him on the Ukraine issue, this might well erode if the situation there slipped into wider violence or even into something akin to civil war. Ukraine is not Georgia, done and dusted in a weekend. On the other hand, if Mr Yanukovych were to be pushed...

s Executions Wall, where inmates, mainly Polish resistance members, were shot dead. About 60 members of the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, joined the survivors for observances that included visits to the red-brick Auschwitz barracks, which house a collection of the victims' belongings and hair, and a list of the names of some 4.2 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. At the European parliament...

Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series ...

God let me live so that I could tell the story' Ovsanna Kaloustian Turkey The diminutive old woman does not go out in Marseille much any more. She hunches over a cane and is spoilt, mollycoddled by her daughter and grandchildren. Ask her about her childhood, and she becomes perfectly alert. Ovsanna Kaloustian is 106 years old, and one of the last survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 . As a memory...

despair of historians' Pope John Paul II's secretary "did not have the courage" to burn all of the pontiff's notes after his death, and is now having some of them published, he has said. The book, Very Much in God's Hands: Personal Notes 1962-2003, comes out on 5 February in Poland, where the pope is still a much-loved authority. It contains religious meditations that Karol Wojtyla recorded between...

three-year war on the eastern front against the Germans and Austrians is usually glossed over, as is the three-year war fought by the Italians on the Allied side. Most British teenagers would never understand why the 1914-1918 war is called the "first world war." They are not taught about the campaigns that made it a world war: the war at sea that stretched far beyond Europe at times, and the land...

s politicians should have done more to help people building lives abroad. Now they indulge in an absurd war of words with David Cameron The UK: where a third are older than 65, 30% are black or Asian and the same number are single parents. Of all girls under-16 15% are pregnant. One in four is a Muslim; one in three an immigrant. Unemployment rocketed to over 20%. Are these figures actually accurate...

s push to stop EU migrants claiming benefits for children abroad A senior Polish politician has called for a boycott of Tesco after David Cameron ignited a diplomatic row by saying he wanted to stop the country's migrants sending home their child benefit. The suggestion came from Jan Bury, leader of Poland's junior coalition party PSL, who was quoted by the state news agency as calling Cameron's policies...

s Dracula, Death and the Maiden, and The Pianist Very few 20th-century classical composers set out with the intention of writing music for films. Wojciech Kilar , who has died of cancer aged 81, was no exception. Would he ever have dreamed, when he was studying composition in Poland, that he would later go on to score more than 100 films and build his reputation on that body of work rather than in...

s The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula Wojciech Kilar, a Polish pianist and composer of classical music and scores for many films, including Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, died on Sunday. He was 81. Kilar wrote music for more than 130 movies in Poland and abroad, with Dracula earning him the award for best score composer from the...

The barracks building was one of the main items at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, which wanted the lease extended ...

s director of children's resources, responsible for ensuring that every child in the city has a school place, Lewis can point to colourful pie charts about Peterborough's changing population, and detailed breakdowns of the character of each of the city's dozens of schools. What he can't tell you is how many additional school places he will need next week, when the restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians...