'Big Bang' launches Poland's first science centre

A state-of-the-art science centre co-financed by the European Union opened its doors in Warsaw Friday with a spectacular multi-media "Big Bang" extravaganza by British film director Peter Greenaway."It's a great day for Polish science and may this Big Bang be the only kind of explosion we have on Earth, in Poland and Warsaw," Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at the start of the hour-long event detailing the origins of the universe and the great minds of science that inaugurated the Copernicus Science Centre.

A state-of-the-art science centre co-financed by the European Union opened its doors in Warsaw Friday with a spectacular multi-media "Big Bang" extravaganza by British film director Peter Greenaway.

Eastern Europe can finally boast its first ultra-modern, multi-million dollar science museum in the Polish capital Warsaw, a city already drawing tens of thousands to Europe's biggest annual outdoor science fair.The Copernicus Science Centre is wowing its first visitors with a robot theatre, hands-on laboratories and the promise of a state-of-the-art planetarium next year for star gazers -- all features science buffs know well in major museums in the West and Asia.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a big program of investment on Friday aimed at reviving the spluttering economy and shoring up support from voters worried that two decades of uninterrupted growth are coming to an end. Tusk said he would find billions of euros for investment in energy and other infrastructure projects, while at the same time keeping a tight rein on government borrowing in Poland, eastern Europe's largest economy. Poland has been a rare bright spot in Europe over the past few years, managing to sustain robust growth even while its neighbors ...

Poland ratcheted up the pressure over football hooliganism on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning it posed a threat to Euro 2012, after crisis talks with the nation's clubs."If we can't settle this within months, the European Championships will be endangered," said Tusk, himself an ardent fan and Sunday league player.After meeting with the 16 clubs in Poland's top-flight Ekstraklasa, Tusk said he had raised the spectre of widening empty-stadium penalties imposed on Lech Poznan and Legia Warsaw, whose fans marred last week's cup final.