Denmark Prosecutor Charges Cartoonist Attacker With Terrorism

One of the top Danish prosecutors charged a Somali man with terrorism on Friday for allegedly trying to kill a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. Joergen Steen Soerensen said that the man, who cannot be named under a court order, wanted to “seriously frighten the population” and destabilize Denmark in the attack on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The [...]

Japan making history, Denmark with lots of questions!

The equation was clear, Denmark had to win this match to pass while Japan just needed a draw, and it’s the Asians who wanted more the win, Takeshi Okada did not change his team and player with the same tactic as the previous matches, in the other side, Morten Olsen begins with a surprising 4-3-2-1, [...]

Asians proud Japan first time in last 16 on foreign soil

As an Asian team Japan became the proud for Asian, who reached first time in second round on foreign soil. Japan beat Denmark (3-1) and became in second position of Group E. They were simply fantastic today. Japan’s best quality was their tight defense; they were very speedy to pass balls. First half Denmark were [...]

A tragic goodbye for Etoo’s Cameroon

Cameroon, they were just unsubduable Lions, became the first team ,are not going to play in second round. Though this team had lots of talent, desire, passion. But  from the first match of this World cup 2010, they were unable to show their real games. Cameroon  team were in pressure  after their first match with [...]

Convincing Denmark, Cameroon first to quit!

A decisive match for both teams, Cameroon and Denmark, They have to win this game so they will preserve their chances to qualify. Eto’o said before the game” I will give my very best for my country, for the country that I love, we are playing an extremely important match. We mustn’t have any regrets, [...]

Netherlands, second round is waiting for you

From the beginning of this match Netherlands was playing an attacking football, first half they have tried a lot for passing the ball in the goalpost but they were unable to do that , they need to wait 53 minutes for one goal and done by Netherlands midfielder Wesley Sneijder . He is also the [...]

Holland takes first place

The first match of the day opposed Holland and Denmark, the Oranje are favorite in this confrontation with their “big 4” offensive players Sneider (Inter), Kuyt (Liverpool), Van der Vart (Real Madrid) and Van Persie (Arsenal), in the friendly games they showed how powerful their front line is. In the first half, the Danish created [...]

Travel chaos persists despite easing of air lockdown

Travel chaos has continued to grip Europe, despite the easing of its aerial lockdown as the Icelandic volcano eruption appeared to wane. The UK has reopened its airports, while some flights have left Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but airspace in Germany and Ireland remains restricted. More than 95,000 flights were cancelled across Europe in the [...]

Denmark’s famed Little Mermaid heads on her first trip abroad

The famous Little Mermaid statue of Denmark was sent to the Copenhagen harbor on Thursday, to begin its journey to the World Expo in Shanghai. This will be the statues first trip abroad in her 96-year history. The Little Mermaid’s statue is 5-foot (1.5-meter) high, and honors the memory of Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. [...]

Denmark, Canada unite for military exercise

Denmark and Canada will team up for the first time in a joint northern military operation next month, regardless of their differences over the ownership of a small Arctic island. The land forces from the two nations will team up in a training exercise dubbed Operation Nunalivut, said Brig-Gen. David Millar of Canada’s Joint Task [...]

Denmark to open world-class international research center in October

Under the name “The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research,” the University of Copenhagen in Denmark will open an international research center on October 1st, 2010, conducting research on Type 2 diabetes, among other diseases, and will acquire the capacities and resources to establish itself as one of the leading international research centers [...]

Denmark appreciates Singapore’s growth strategy and education

After a one-day stopover by Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen in Singapore, Denmark tried to learn more about Singapore’s growth strategies and education system. During his visit, the Prime Minister visited the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and tried to find out more about Danish-Singapore environmental collaborations. Later, he met officials from the finance and [...]

Gender equality gap should close in Denmark

It was on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day that Denmark was been given an overwhelming thumbs-down on the issue of gender equality by the Danish Institute for Human Rights (IMR). Such was done mainly because of the salary gap of almost 20 percent still existing between the women and men in Denmark. The [...]

Japan & Denmark agree to cooperate towards COP16

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Danish counterpart Lars Rasmussen on Monday agreed to cooperate towards making the next U.N. climate change conference a success. The two also proposed to work closely on other global issues, including the reconstruction of Afghanistan. ‘‘We agreed to cooperate in making COP16 a success,’’ Hatoyama said at a [...]

Denmark to be amongst the top 10 wealthiest nations in the world by 2020: Prime Minister

Denmark’s Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen holds a new vision for Denmark by 2020: to increase the GDP of the country and make it amongst the top 10 wealthiest nations in the world. The Prime Minister dispatched a raft of measures as part of a stimulus plan which will increase the GDP by increasing opportunities [...]

China sets out study on obtaining benefits from Arctic ice melting

A Stockholm research institute said on Monday that China has started exploring ways to gain economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic due to global warming. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) further said that the Chinese officials were being cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm [...]

Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Denmark: First woman to give birth twice after ovary transplant

The former cancer patient Stinne Holm Bergholdt from Denmark is the first woman in the world to give birth twice after and ovary transplant. Only eight children have been born worldwide to women with ovary transplants. “It’s hard to believe it’s really true,” said Bergholdt, aged 34. “It’s like a dream that I never would [...]

Denmark celebrates “Day of Vietnamese Culture”

The Embassy of Vietnam in Denmark, along with the Danish-Vietnamese Association (DVA), organized a Vietnamese Culture Day, terming it as the “Day of Vietnamese Culture”, in the capital city of Copenhagen. The event brought together a large number of representatives from the Danish Foreign Ministry, the DVA, local companies and the community of overseas Vietnamese [...]

Denmark’s Prime Minister Shuffles Government

10 months after taking office, the prime minister of Denmark announced a major government shuffle on Tuesday by changing more than a dozen Cabinet posts, including the ministers of defense, justice and foreign affairs to build his own team. The change had been widely expected since Lars Loekke Rasmussen took over as leader of the center-right [...]

First free heroin clinic opens in Denmark

Denmark opened its first clinic equipped to distribute free heroin under medical supervision to people heavily addicted to the drug on Monday. The country joins a number of countries such as Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands, to allow prescriptions for medicinal heroin, or diamorphine, to be written out to a small group of addicts strongly [...]

Earthquake hits North Sea off Denmark

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake jolted the eastern North Sea off north-western Denmark late Friday. No reports of injuries or damage was made, stated the police and geologists on Saturday. The earthquake struck 140km west of the city of Aalborg at a depth of 10km, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. Stig Asbjorn Schack Pedersen, researcher at [...]

London to open 1st exercise area for older people

London will take on a whole new connotation for the capital’s aging people, who will soon get their own specially designed outdoor playground. This will be the first exercise area for the older people in the area. The park will generate the elderly to exercise, as it will offer low-impact exercise equipment to help older people improve [...]

Nato troops free ship off Somalia after pirate attack

Danish special forces serving as part of Nato’s counter-piracy operation have freed the crew of a cargo ship boarded by pirates off Somalia. They moved in after being assured by the captain that the crew had locked themselves in a safe room. It seems the pirates escaped to their boat before the troops arrived but [...]

Men not allowed to attend school meeting in Copenhagen

A school meeting held at the Holberg School in Copenhagen, Denmark, raised questions when men were not invited to it. The primary school refused the fathers of the pupils to join the same meetings as the mothers were attending. The segregation was kept for the Muslim women attending the meeting. The meeting held in the [...]

Children being paid for losing weight in Denmark

Children between the ages of 11 to 15 are being offered financial incentives for losing weight by a private advice company, according to reports from Copenhagen. The Danish Weight Consultants offers an experiment on weight loss and healthy eating advice to families and children who are at least 11 years old for a sign-up fee [...]

Denmark welcomes talks between China and Dalai Lama

Denmark welcomed the resumption of talks between China and exiled Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama over the political status of Tibet, and said that the two nations should ensure that the Tibetans attain genuine self-rule within the framework of the Chinese constitution. Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, reached Beijing [...]

Immigration laws to become stricter in Denmark

Immigration laws in Denmark are to become stricter after a certain number of years, according to reports from Copenhagen delivered Tuesday. Danish Integration Minister Birthe Ronn Hornbech will propose the laws to immigration spokesmen of the Liberal and Conservative ruling government and she expects the laws will be passed in the Parliament with the support [...]

France prepares to become first big economy to tax harmful carbon emissions

France prepared fresh carbon emission tax plans and renewed efforts on Wednesday as the government drew out plans for the measure to curb climate change. If the law is passed, France will become the first big economy to tax harmful carbon emissions. Ministers were due to draw up amendments to a law that was rejected [...]

World leaders call again on global warming

The world leaders made a call for clean energy commitments and raised a renewed alarm on global warming on Monday. They urged international action to increase the use of clean energy at a four-day forum that opened in the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi. “If we don’t act now, our coral reefs and rainforests will [...]

Arsenal’s Member Returning

For those who are waiting for the striker of the Arsenal soccer team, well this is good news for all you guys out there, who’d been a fan of the Arsenal soccer team striker, Nicklas Bendtner. Striker of the team Arsenal, Nicklas Bendtner, is having his return on training after having injuries. This player had [...]

UN tries to defend climate change deal

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moo spoke to reporters on Monday after global bickering erupted as the world leaders fumed about the climate change deal made in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week. The UN chief tried to defend the world body’s central role in the ongoing debate. Ban said that the deal was an essential start [...]

Copenhagen talks go slow

Talks remain deadlocked at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, with just two days left to seal a global emissions pact. Developed and developing nations remained in disagreement over who should cut emissions, how deep the cuts should be, and how much aid should go to poor countries. But there has been some progress – wealthy nations [...]

More Than 200 Protestors Detained in Copenhagen by Danish Police

After a second day of demonstrations, more than 200 protestors were detained by the Danish police, who detained them after they started breaking windows of buildings in downtown Copenhagen. The police officers outnumbered the hundreds of protestors and surrounded them when the demonstrations were on the verge of becoming violent. At least 200 activists were [...]