Oil rig spidermen deported from Greenland
Four Greenpeace protesters, who scaled an oil rig off the coast of Greenland and stopped it drilling for 40 hours, have been deported back to their ho...
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Finnish gym bans locker room prayers
Finland’s Minority Ombudsman is to investigate whether a gym is guilty of discrimination after it banned Muslims from praying in its locker room. Eva ...
TV4 bans Sweden Democrats’ burka chase ad
The Sweden Democrats have submitted their controversial election film for review by a top legal official after broadcaster TV4 refused to air the adve...
Mohammed cartoons book may refuel Muslim anger
Tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world could be reignited as the man who approved the controversial Mohammed newspaper cartoons prepares to pub...
Climax comes too soon for Sweden’s orgasm church
The Madonna of the Orgasm church was turned away by Sweden’s highest court this week as it made a last-ditch attempt to be registered as a faith commu...
Details of alleged Norwegian bomb plot revealed
Norwegian police discovered the makings of a bomb lab in an Oslo apartment when arresting a suspected al-Qaida cell last month, according to reports. ...
Cairn hits Greenland gas jackpot
Cairn Energy has confirmed that it has found gas off the western coast of Greenland. The Edinburgh-based oil and gas exploration company made the disc...
Norwegian oil fund excludes ‘unethical’ Israeli companies
Two Israeli firms have been excluded from Norway’s USD 450 billion sovereign wealth fund for building Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land...