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/ 7 December 2009
Ensuring you get what you want out of an international negotiation is tricky. As Copenhagen begins, delegates will be preparing for battle.
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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.
There’s something incongruous about the fact that Denmark is hosting this year’s United Nations Climate Summit in December.
It’s easy, wandering around Billund, to start believing in the existence of a Lego god. You can’t help but feel a master intelligence is at work.
Journalists can share scientific knowledge with a larger audience.
Wind energy need not be a pipe dream for South Africa, writes Yolandi Groenewald.
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/ 2 December 2008
Europe’s last refuge for hippies, artists and activists may not last much longer, with the Danish government determined to clean up the giant squat.
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/ 5 September 2008
Al-Qaeda issued new threats against Denmark on Friday, saying an attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan is just the start of its retaliation.
"A Santa in white!" screams a wide-eyed Danish boy as he catches a glimpse of a Santa Claus who has ditched his traditional red garb.
Taking advantage of the seasonal lull, about 150 Santas from a dozen countries gathered on Monday for their annual Santa Claus convention.
A Danish appeals court on Monday heard evidence against two Tunisian nationals held on suspicion of planning to murder a Danish newspaper cartoonist.
Denmark has evacuated staff from its embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan because of terror threats following the reprint in Danish newspapers of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad, officials said on Wednesday. The threat ”is so concrete that we had to take this decision”, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.
Nine-year-old Ida Fraende, who likes to play with Lego bricks, is not so unusual in Scandinavia — but globally speaking she is not typical. Jorgen V Knudstorp hopes to change that. The chief executive of Europe’s largest toymaker has already brought the once-troubled group back to profit.
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/ 13 February 2008
Danish newspapers on Wednesday reprinted one of the 12 drawings of the Prophet Muhammad that caused global Muslim outrage two years ago, to protest against a plot to murder one of the cartoonists. The republication of the cartoon showing Muhammad holding a bomb drew criticism from Muslims, who said it would only stoke anger.
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/ 12 February 2008
Danish police on Tuesday arrested several people suspected of planning to attack one of the cartoonists who drew controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad for Denmark’s biggest daily in 2005, police said. Intelligence agency PET ”conducted a police operation in the Aarhus region … to prevent a murder linked to terrorism”, PET chief Jakob Scharf said.
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/ 30 October 2007
Denmark scrambled two F-16 fighter jets on Tuesday to identify a Russian bomber detected on radar near the Nato member’s airspace, the Danish air force said in a statement. ”A visual contact was made at 6.02am [local time” with the Tupolev-160 bomber, the statement said.
Fourteen Africans and one Afghan citizen who participated in the Homeless Soccer World Cup in Denmark have gone missing, police and organisers said Monday. The 15 men had entry visas that expired on Monday and would be arrested and deported if found, Danish police said.
Dane Bjarne Riis on Friday became the first rider to admit having used performance-enhancing drugs while winning the Tour de France. Riis, who won the race in 1996, said he used drugs between 1993 and 1998. ”I have taken doping, I have taken EPO,” Riis told a news conference. ”I purchased it myself and I took it myself. It was a part of everyday life as a rider.”
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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/ 1 November 2006
Sir Alex Ferguson believes Manchester United’s exhilarating current form can carry them all the way to Champions League glory next May. The Scot, who will celebrate 20 years in charge at Old Trafford next week, has made no secret of his frustration that he has only once, on a memorable night in Barcelona seven years ago, managed to get his hands on European football’s biggest prize.
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/ 18 October 2006
Yang Wei rallied China to the men’s team title at the Gymnastics World Championships on Tuesday, its fourth major crown in seven years and avenging a fifth-place finish at the Athens Olympics. In seventh place out of eight teams after an atrocious opening two rotations, China was nearly perfect down the stretch, save for a meaningless fall on the last high bar routine.
A young Danish footballer died after being struck by lightning during a weekend youth league match, local media reported on Monday. The player — from the small town of Ulfborg in central Jutland — was hit on Saturday during a lower league match between Ulfborg and Mabjerg, and died late on Sunday.
Danish ceramicist Bjoern Wiinblad, best known for his pottery decorated with native fairy characters and trademark cherubic maidens, has died, his secretary said on Friday. He was 87. Wiinblad died shortly before midnight on Thursday, said Goy Badse, his secretary of 45 years.
Denmark’s national symbol, the Little Mermaid sculpture perched on a rock overlooking the Copenhagen port, was splattered with green paint by vandals and adorned with a dildo, police said on Thursday. Investigators have ”no leads on the perpetrators of the act … which took place early Wednesday”, police said.
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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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/ 3 February 2006
Europe and the Middle East were on high alert on Friday as millions of Muslims attended weekly prayers at what appeared to be a critical moment in the international furore over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. A spasm of violence was widely feared after Muslims around the world expressed fury at the 12 drawings.
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/ 10 January 2006
Bets are on for what name the newborn son of Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik will be given at his christening on January 21, reports said on Tuesday. Neither the royal couple nor the palace have disclosed the name of their son, but in line with tradition it is believed the newborn prince will be named Christian.
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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.
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/ 22 November 2005
Link Wray, the legendary United States guitarist who was a pioneering, if often under-appreciated, figure in rock’n’roll, has died aged 76 at his home in Copenhagen, according to his official website. Wray was once named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
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/ 18 November 2005
Two Danish artists said advertisements they created that ran in a Zimbabwean newspaper on Friday were meant to poke fun at Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Jan Egesborg and Klaus Rohland said they presented the ads as art work to business weekly the Zimbabwe Independent.
Nineteen people were sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison each for tipping off hashish dealers at Copenhagen’s hippie enclave that police were heading their way. Group members either used cellphones or walkie-talkies to tip off the vendors, who rushed to hide the drug.