Pope John Paul II smiles as he sits with Polish Archbishop of Opole Alfons Nossol (L) and a delegation from Opole University during a private audience at the Vatican February 17, 2004. REUTERS/Pool REUTERS DJM 

Divers hold a fresh water pike and ply him with sparkling wine in a lake near Opole, January 1, 2004. Three Polish divers face a police probe on Thursday for possible illegal fishing and abuse of animals after a newspaper photo showed them feeding a freshly caught pike with champagne at an outdoor New Year's party. One of the frogmen seeing on the New Year by diving in a lake near the city of Opole told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne" REUTERS/Nowa Trybuna Opolska/Pawel Stanzcer PA/GM 

Divers hold a fresh water pike and ply him with sparkling wine in a lake near Opole January 1, 2004. Three Polish divers face a police probe on Thursday for possible illegal fishing and abuse of animals after a newspaper photo showed them feeding a freshly caught pike with champagne at an outdoor New Year's party. One of the frogmen seeing on the New Year by diving in a lake near the city of Opole told news agency PAP that they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to "restore it to consciousness by treating it with champagne." REUTERS/Nowa Trybuna Opolska/Pawel Stanzcer Pictures of the month January 2004 PA/GM 

Anthonis Tsakiropoulos (L) from Olimpiakos Pireus stretches to block a
ball hit by Andrija Geric (R) of Lube Banca Macerata, during their
Volleyball Final Four final match in Opole, March 24, 2002. Lube Banca
Macerata won the match 3-1. REUTERS/Str

KS/CRB 

Three people carry a doe on July 11 in the southwestern city of Opole to save the animal from the flooding which inundated the city. Torrential rain over the last week caused floods in southern Poland putting 3,500 square km or one percent of Poland under water, killing at least 23 and forcing tens of thousands out of their homes. 

A helicopter evacuates people off a roof in the south western Polish city of Opole after the area had been flooded with a six meter wave which put all flats up to the second floor under water. Torrential rain over the last week caused floods in southern Poland inundating 3,500 square km or one percent of Poland, killing at least 23 and forcing tens of thousands out of their homes.

POLAND FLOOD 

A helicopter evacuates people off a roof in the south western Polish city of Opole after the area had been flooded with a six meter wave which put all flats up to the second floor under water. Torrential rain over the last week caused floods in southern Poland inundating 3,500 square km or one percent of Poland, killing at least 23 and forcing tens of thousands out of their homes.

POLAND FLOOD 

Three people carry a doe on July 11 in the south-western city of Opole to save the animal from the flooding which inundated the city. Torrential rain over the last week caused floods in southern Poland putting 3,500 square km or one percent of Poland under water, killing at least 23 and forcing tens of thousands out of their homes.

POLAND FLOOD