Denmark

A Danish commercial radio station is under fire for organising a prank encouraging listeners to squelch cream cakes on staff at a bakery, reports said on Wednesday. The Voice offered listeners 10 000 kroner (about R10 000) if they went to a bakery, bought a cream cake and dumped it on the head of the salesperson.

People in Denmark, Malta and Switzerland are the happiest in the world according to a new survey, the Berlingske Tidende newspaper reported on Wednesday. The trio topped a list of 90 countries where people have been polled about how they ”enjoy their life as a whole”.

A Copenhagen appeals court on Friday upheld a three-year prison sentence for a Danish woman found guilty of receiving and selling rare books stolen from Denmark’s Royal Library, but released one of her accomplices who claimed he did not know the books were stolen.

Sales in Denmark of the anti-impotence drug Viagra and similar products are predicted to soar during the festive season, according to sex advisers and drug company spokespersons. In 2003, sales of such drugs increased 17% in December on the November figures, the group Danish Drug Information was quoted as saying in a newspaper.

Danish users of third-generation cellphones have been advised to consider precautions to avoid being harassed by flashers using the new technology, the Danish National Consumer Agency said on Tuesday. The new high-speed technology that allows users to send and receive video clips also attracts abuse.

A record number of cows were killed on Tuesday when lightning hit a farm near Herning on Jutland, reports said Thursday. The 31 cows were likely the highest number to date killed by a single lightning bolt in Denmark, TV-Midt-Vest reported, citing a joint information office operated by Danish insurance companies.

Danish health officials on Wednesday banned several vitamin-enriched products of American breakfast cereal maker Kellogg, saying they could be harmful if eaten regularly. The 18 products include enriched versions of popular brands such as Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Special K.

Tens of thousands of Danes were pouring into Copenhagen’s downtown area from midday on Friday to watch the horse-drawn wedding procession of Crown Prince Frederik and Tasmanian-born commoner Mary Donaldson. Police reckoned with well more than 100 000 spectators through a sea of Danish and Australian flags.

A museum director in Denmark was acquitted on Monday of charges of cruelty to animals for a controversial exhibit in which goldfish were liquidised in a blender to test visitors’ sense of right and wrong.