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/ 16 November 2009
Environment ministers gathered in Copenhagen on Monday for a meeting aimed at preventing failure at next month’s conference on global warming.
Battered by winds in the waters off eastern Denmark, the picturesque island of Samsoe has broken free of its dependence on oil and gas and, thanks to devoted residents, is now powered solely by renewable energies. A former Viking stronghold with rolling hills, small villages and vast golden fields of rapeseed, Samsoe touts itself as a model to follow in the fight against global warming.
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/ 14 December 2006
The ”real” Father Christmas is laughing ”ho-ho-ho” again in Greenland after two Danish dads saved him from financial ruin — and thousands of children around the world from getting no answer to Christmas letters. In November, ”Santa” found himself penniless, unable to answer the piles of small missives that pour in each year.
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/ 12 February 2006
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that first published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — sparking an international uproar that has resulted in 11 dead, burnt-out diplomatic missions and an abiding rage in the Muslim world — is under siege.
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/ 26 December 2005
A Danish historian who has been fascinated by Napoleon since he was a young boy is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz by recreating the scene with 6 100 tin soldiers, 1 000 horses and 34 cannons. He has devoted the past 30 years to his ”insatiable passion”: recreating the emperor’s wars.
The first phase of the establishment of South Africa’s R400-million Dreamworld film studio project has commenced, as bush is cleared on the site near Faure, about 20km from Cape Town. Dreamworld, which won a government tender to set up the studio earlier this year, has an ownership structure comprising acclaimed South African film maker Anant Singh and local television station etv.