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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Scientists at Warsaw's zoo have been taking blood, saliva and other samples from the zoo's three elephants in recent days to prepare to test whether giving them hemp oil can reduce their stress. Dr. Agnieszka Czujkowska, a zoo veterinarian, said hemp oil, also known as CBD, or cannabidiol oil, has been shown to reduce anxiety and stress in other animals, including horses and dogs. The zoo's experts thought it made sense to see if could also help their animals, including giraffes, rhinos and polar bears. They decided, however, to start their tests on their three African elephants, who have undergone a period of stress following the death in March of an older female, Erna. "Basically stress is everywhere and we don't know what's going to happen in the future," she said. "Maybe one of the elephants will be pregnant, maybe there will be some kind of injury sometimes. They can break a tusk - it happens. They can get sick for no reason," she said. "And we want to have something that will let them smoothly go tough this period of time." While the study had also drawn some sensationalist headlines, Czujkowska explained that hemp oil is not a drug, and despite many people's associations, it is completely different from marijuana because it does not contain THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis. If the study works as hoped, the oil will merely "calm them down a little bit," and have anti-inflammatory and other benefits, she told The Associated Press on Friday as the animals ate large branches behind her. "It will work in different ways but it will not give them any high," she said. "Hemp oil is not a drug." "We would never apply anything that is dangerous to animals," she said. Around noon on Friday, she and zookeepers...

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Vets say the cannabinoid CBD neither causes euphoria nor harmful side effects on the liver and kidneys of the elephants. Photograph: Agencja Gazeta/Reuters

When Mario Pereira's Polish colleague, sitting not far from him in a Warsaw office, sent him an email rather than walking over to speak, the Portuguese was shocked.

Lovers of Frederic Chopin's music who usually flock to a central Warsaw park on Sundays for open-air concerts will have to go online this season to hear the weekly performances because of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

A fisherman's "catch of the day" turned out to be a 350-pound Warsaw grouper and it's going viral on social media. The man reeled in the massive fish off the coast of Florida ...

From culture to food, there's so much to do in these three cities in Poland: Warsaw, Krakow, and Poznan.

Written by multi-award winning writer Peter Bowker, World On Fire is a heart-stopping, multi-stranded drama telling the story of World War Two through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict. Summer 1939. Translator Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) is working at the British Embassy in Warsaw, falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia (Zofia Wichłacz). When German tanks roll into Poland and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia are faced with terrible c...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A giant plastic palm tree that has become an artistic symbol of Warsaw has "died" as part of a stunt to draw attention to climate change.

The world needs to be wary of the rise of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, comparing their powers to those of countries such as China, European Council President Donald Tusk said in Warsaw on Friday.

C.H. Robinson announced its plans to recruit over one hundred IT professionals by the end of 2020, to continue to enhance its industry-leading technology and global solutions, and to provide better support to customers and carriers across Europe and other global markets. New talent will join the technology team in Warsaw, Poland. "We are investing in our technology as we look to accelerate the pace of innovation and technology deployment," said Jeroen Eijsink, president of C.H. Robinson E...

I'm heading back to Europe to hang out in Wroclaw and Warsaw so it's last call for pitch off applications. I'll be at a Wroclaw event, called In-Ference, which is happening on December 17 and you can submit to pitch here. The team will notify you if you have been chosen. The winner will recei...

I'm heading back to Europe to run a pitch-off in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland. Are you ready? The Wroclaw event, called In-Ference, is happening on December 17 and you can submit to pitch here. The team will notify you if you have been chosen. The winner will receive a table at TC Disrupt in San Fran...

I'll be heading back to Europe in December to run a pitch-off in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland. Are you ready? The Wrocwal event, called In-Ference, is happening on December 17 and you can submit to pitch here. The team will notify you if you have been chosen to pitch. The winner will receive a ...