Sweden embraces the Cuddle Party
Swedes have always been keen to adopt trends emanating from the United States, and the latest craze to hit Scandinavia is the cuddle party.
Iceland Struggles To Keep Up
Iceland currently has 53 football players playing abroad. Not bad for a little country marooned in the North Atlantic Ocean, or is it?
Strong performance from Norwegian Pension Fund
The Government Pension Fund Global, or National Oil Fund, recorded a record annual return for 2009 according to a new report by the Norwegian Central ...
Politiken newspaper editor was Israeli spy
The former chief editor of Danish newspaper Politiken, Herbert Pundik, has spoken out for the first time of his time as an Israeli Mossad spy.
Finnish PM wades into Milk War
Matti Vanhanen, the Finnish Prime Minister, has declared that he will personally boycott the chain of grocery stores operated by the S chain as an obj...
Hollywood murder sees Swedish rapper jailed for life
David Moses Jassy, the Swedish hip-hop and rap artist known as Monopoly, has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in jail by a Los Angeles court fo...
The View from Here, No. 1
The first in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Gudny Halldorsdottir’s Honour of the House
Finnish parents fined for circumcision
A Helsinki couple has been fined by the District Court for allowing their baby son to be circumcised.