The Living in Copenhagen Diary: entry number one
The first in a new series of light-hearted columns about life as a foreigner living in the Danish capital.
Culture
Information and news on culture, music and the arts in Iceland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Scream sale set for jaw-dropping price
Edvard Munch’s famous masterpiece The Scream is set to go under the hammer at New York auction house Sotheby’s, with an estimated selling price of EUR...
Stockholm hospital advertises for ‘hot’ nurses
A hospital in Stockholm has admitted it was only trying to catch people’s attention when posting an advert for “TV-series hot” nurses.
Boys, not bombs, destroy historic church
A 116 year-old Norwegian church, which survived a bombing in WWII, has been burnt beyond repair by two boys playing with a cigarette lighter.
Student to exhibit murderer’s ashes
A Danish law student is to exhibit the ashes of an executed American murderer in an attempt to create a debate about the death penalty.
Princess Victoria gives birth to a girl
Sweden is celebrating after Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to a daughter in the early hours of this morning. Proud father Prince Daniel announced ...
‘Drunkoreoxia’ on the rise in Sweden
Young Swedes are increasingly starving themselves by day so they can binge drink by night, in a phenomenon dubbed “drunkorexia”, experts say.
Police struggle to stop teenage dial-a-drink service
Stockholm police have admitted they are making little progress in quelling the phenomenon known as “vodka-mobile”, which sees teens ordering alcohol d...