Singer Madonna is courting controversy again ahead of an August 1 gig in Warsaw, having already been threatened with legal action in France for projecting a swastika on an image of far-right party leader Marine Le Pen.

A group of young Catholics has launched an online petition to have the concert cancelled as it coincides with the Polish capital's annual World War II commemoration of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the city's Nazi's occupiers.

The foreign ministers of Poland, Bulgaria and Sweden will focus on the conflict in Syria during visits to Lebanon and Iraq from Thursday to Sunday, the Polish foreign ministry announced Wednesday.

Poland's Radoslaw Sikorski, Bulgaria's Nikolay Mladenov and Sweden's Carl Bildt will also discuss the countries' relations with the EU.

A Polish football fan was so devastated when Russia scored against Poland at Tuesday's Euro 2012 match that he threw his television set out his third-storey window, police said Wednesday.

They took the man into custody, prompting him to miss the second half of the game, when Poland scored an equalizer, making the final score a 1-1 draw.

Cyber-minded fans heading to Euro 2012 in Poland are set to find life easier at the championship after organizers launched smartphone applications to help them navigate their way around.

The free Polish Guide and Check-in Poland apps, rolled out on Friday, were billed as a landmark by Marcin Herra, boss of PL.2012, the body supervising Poland's preparations for the tournament, which kicks off next Friday.

Two commuter trains collided head-on in Warsaw Wednesday, injuring two people, on a stretch of railway near Poland's new national stadium where the Euro 2012 football championships kick off in June.

The crash caused major train delays, Polish State Railways spokesman Miroslaw Siemieniec said, according to PAP news agency. He said it was not yet known why both trains were travelling in opposite directions on the same track.

Poland has charged its former spy chief as part of a probe into claims it hosted a CIA "black site" where suspected al-Qaida members were allegedly tortured, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Gazeta Wyborcza said former intelligence Chief Zbigniew Siemiatkowski had confirmed to the paper that he had been charged.

Rescue workers toiled overnight to pull survivors from the wreckage of a head-on train crash in southern Poland as the death toll rose to 15 on Sunday, in one of the country's worst rail disasters.

"We know that 15 people are dead. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to remove the body of the last victim. We can see it but not get to it," Pawel Fratczak, a spokesman for the emergency services in Szczekociny told AFP

Poles have turned to cyberspace to circumvent a new animal rights law in Poland forbidding the sale of dogs and cats without a breeding license, which had been intended to stamp out cruelty to animals.

The law, which came into force on January 1, was intended to tackle the appalling conditions in which some unlicensed breeders kept their animals.

Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.

"I consider that the arguments for a halt to the ratification process are justified," Donald Tusk told reporters.

Nobel-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska known for her philosophical and often humorously biting turn of phrase, died Wednesday at the age of 88 following a long battle with illness.

A heavy smoker, Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, passed away "peacefully, in her sleep" at her home in Krakow in southern Poland, her assistant Michal Rusinek announced.