• Businessman Jan Kulczyk, the richest Pole, bought his wife a sculpture worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for her birthday. The bronze masterpiece by famous sculptor Igor Mitoraj is named Moonlight.


• Adam Małysz (see photo), three-time World Cup champ in ski jumping, is off for his "first snow" training. He is getting ready for the first competition in Kuusamo. Over the past weeks he has been training in a wind tunnel. His form is reportedly very good.


• Actor Emilian Kamiński claims that repairmen are afraid of him. He took the renovation of his 103-year-old house in his own hands; he is personally cleaning the heating stove before the winter season and is going to wrap the pipes in insulation.


• Michał Wi¶niewski, the red-headed frontman of the group Ich Troje, is to sue music critic Robert Leszczyński, a member of the Idol jury, for calling him "trash."