Poland's only cosmonaut, who circled Earth in 1978, dies aged 81

Poland's only cosmonaut, Gen Mirosław Hermaszewski, who circled the Earth in 1978, has died at the age of 81. European Parliament member Ryszard Czarnecki, Hermaszewski's son-in-law, said he died of complications from a surgery he had undergone at a hospital in Warsaw. Hermaszewski travelled into space as part of the Soviet Union's Intercosmos programme.