Comfortable Norwegian prisons leading to rise in foreign inmates
Norway has seen the number of foreign inmates in its jails quadruple over the past 14 years, with many police officers and lawyers claiming the condit...
Sweden: Migrant woman deported for having second job
A female migrant who has resided and worked in Uppsala for 13 years is to be deported because authorities discovered that she had two jobs after she s...
Copenhagen, the cocaine capital of the Nordics
Shortly after data showed that Danes smoke more cannabis per capita than any other European country, new figures have revealed that Copenhageners snor...
Faroe Islands: Concern over BreakNekNominate challenge
After the NekNominate craze that was popular in Australia and the UK among other countries, people in the Faroe Islands are worried that people...
Finns’ alcohol importation on the rise
Finnish travellers returned to their homeland with more than 80 million litres of alcohol last year, according to recent figures from the National Ins...
Stockholm bans ‘freakshow’ soup kitchen
Stockholm municipality has said a soup kitchen that has fed the city’s homeless for two years has to move on before it turns the city square “into a z...
Norway most gay-friendly country in the Nordics
Norway has been named the most gay-friendly country in the Nordics, according to an index that notes whether legislation respects the lesbian, gay, bi...
Swedish shopkeeper charged for drenching beggar
A Swedish store manager has been charged with two counts of harassment for soaking a beggar with water outside his Gothenburg shop in March.