Reykjavik joins global climate change action day – over 4600 events around the world
Today people from around Reykjavik will gather to clean rubbish around the Vatnsmyri area as part of the largest global day of climate action ever. Th...
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Denmark refuses to apologise for child experiments
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has defended his government’s stance in the controversial case of 22 children from Greenland. In a statemen...
Burning bunnies for biofuel
Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood has solved the problem of finding fuel for a central heating plant by using thousands of rabbits as firewood.
Microsoft uses Iceland to promote Windows 7
The magnificent waterfall Goðafoss travels around as a part of the promotion material for Microsoft Windows 7. “This came as a surprise when I saw it”...
Swedes prefer the single life
Swedish singles shelved the microwave meals as they geared up for the country’s Biggest Singles Party.
Gay marriage warning for Finland
Finland’s Catholic Bishop, Teemu Sippo, has warned of an impending rift between the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church and Finland’s Catholic Church ...
Thousands of mink in dash for freedom in Jutland
For the second time in under a week, a mink farm in Jutland has been attacked by animal rights activists, releasing some 3,000 of the animals into the...
Greenland rejects new national currency
Greenland will continue to use the Danish krone as its currency after the ruling government declined to adopt the National Bank’s new printed notes. S...