Danish gender equality laws extended to haircuts
Denmark’s laws on gender equality have been extended into the country’s barbershops and beauty salons. Last month saw the country’s Board of Equal Tre...
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Deep freeze breaks records in southern Finland
Several records for freezing temperatures have been broken in Finland this week. The record lows came late on Thursday last week and in the early morn...
Iceland envoy: EU talks are not dead
Iceland’s ambassador to the European Union has said that accession talks have simply been delayed, rather than suspended. The comments came via a stat...
Iceland’s president vilifies former British PM Gordon Brown over Icesave crisis
In a recent interview with British news broadcaster Sky News, Iceland’s President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson declared that Iceland as a country will never...
Gothenburg traffic declines with congestion toll
Traffic in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has decreased since the city introduced new congestion charges. Official figures showed that traffic in the ...
14 years for Danish newspaper bomb plotter
The man convicted of plotting to bomb a Danish newspaper has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars in the United States. Tahawwur Rana, 52, a Canadia...
Cleaner injured after driving ‘stolen’ train into Stockholm building
A woman suffered serious injuries on 15 January after she crashed a commuter train into a residential building in Stockholm. Reports said that the uni...
Mackerel removed from sustainable fish list amid fishing row
Conservationists have taken mackerel off the list of sustainable fish species amid overfishing and international political turmoil regarding fishing q...