Stockholm bans ‘freakshow’ soup kitchen
Stockholm municipality has said a soup kitchen that has fed the city’s homeless for two years has to move on before it turns the city square “into a z...
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Iceland and Norway sign up to Horizon 2020
Iceland and Norway have signed up to join the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
Norwegian yachtsman goes missing off Amazon
Norwegian yachtsman Thomas Tangvald, who was en route from French Guiana to the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, is lost at sea somewhere off ...
Lapland zoo wants polar bear cubs
Hope is building at Rauna in Lapland about the prospect of polar bear cubs being born in the town’s zoo.
Norway most gay-friendly country in the Nordics
Norway has been named the most gay-friendly country in the Nordics, according to an index that notes whether legislation respects the lesbian, gay, bi...
Finland sends peacekeepers to Central African Republic
Six peacekeepers left Finland for the Central African Republic (CAR) capital Bangui on Monday, carrying 68 tonnes of cargo, and a further 24 will join...
Danish-Iranian artist strips in anti-Islam video
Danish-Iranian artist Firoozeh Bazrafkan has posed nude while Quran passages are read out, despite the threats her work is causing.
Swedish shopkeeper charged for drenching beggar
A Swedish store manager has been charged with two counts of harassment for soaking a beggar with water outside his Gothenburg shop in March.