• Samoobrona deputy Renata Beger, 46, took her high school exams this year.
A member of parliament, she was careful hiding this fact from journalists. She graduated from a business high school and took the exam at the Education Center in Szczecin. She disclosed that she wrote a five-and-a-half-page essay and made only one mistake. She also added she was proud of herself.


• The airport in Gdańsk, the hometown of Poland's former President Lech Wałęsa, has been officially named after him. Wałęsa joked that perhaps he should have died first and only then have an airport named after him.


• After you enter the word "kretyn" (cretin), an Internet search engine will display the name of a leading Polish politician who is going to run for president. This is made possible by websites launched by his "anti-fans."


• Michał Wiśniewski, the flamboyant frontman of Ich Troje, bought a car for his brother and fixed him up with a job in a taxi company in Łódź. The used car turned out to be unlucky. The new taxi driver, Kuba, had a fender-bender before he even got into the city. Soon afterwards, someone stole the rotating light from the roof of his car and smoke began pouring out from the hood.