Teen joy ride ends in European police chase
Like something out of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, three Norwegian teenagers stole two cars from outside a house in Figgjo, and headed through ...
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SAS retrieving stranded tourists in Thailand
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced that it sent an Airbus A340-400 on Saturday from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport to Thailand to help repatriate ...
Sterling Airways bailout falls through
The bankrupt budget carrier Sterling Airways, which is based in Copenhagen, has lost the confidence of the venture capital firm Axcel that was plannin...
High consumption of fizzy drinks
A Nordic report on the dangers of caffeine consumption on children and teenagers in the Nordic countries was published in October 2008. The report is ...
Nordic nations top gender equality index
Once again the nations of Scandinavia are considered to have the highest levels of gender equality in the world. The Swiss-based World Economic Forum,...
Norway’s lemmings threatened by global warming
In one of the first compelling examples of the impact global warming will have on nature and wildlife, Norway’s lemming population appears to be on th...
EasyJet offers new Scandinavian routes
In direct competition with Scandinavian Airlines SAS, budget carrier easyJet has started flying to and from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport to both Milan ...
Scandinavian airline Sterling goes belly up
The latest budget airline to call it quits is Copenhagen-based Sterling, which announced on 29 October that it was cancelling all flights immediately....