Norway considers renting Dutch prison cells
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Norway says it is in talks with the Netherlands to rent prison space and export some prisoners while carrying out urgent maintenance work and to ease overcrowding. Justice Ministry spokesman Vidar Brein-Karlsen says several practical ...
South-South cooperation agreement on Energy Renewal sealed
Accra, Sept. 9, GNA - The formal signing to consolidate the partnership between the Government of Ghana, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Governments of China and Denmark on Renewable Energy Technology Transfer has been concluded.
Leading energy and defence figure backing Yes
“Scotland has an industrious base, a skilled workforce and well-educated population. Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands are all wealthier per capita than the UK, as is Germany, of course.” However concerns have been raised about independence by one of ...
Denmark game sets up Jores Okore for Villa
The stopper played for more than half an hour as a substitute in his country’s 2-1 Euro 2016 qualifying victory over Armenia in Copenhagen. The 22-year-old also came through 90 minutes of Denmark under-21s’ 4-2 victory over Russia last Wednesday.
Denmark Designs A Better French Press
Muuto's Push coffee pot eliminates the biggest design flaw of your Bodum: all that glass. Muuto's latest product has a decidedly Nordic take on the old-fashioned French coffee press. That might seem like cultural sacrilege, but considering the fact that it ...
Viking 'ring fortress' discovered in Denmark may have been used to launch invasion of England in 1013
A short entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes how in 789AD Viking ships landed on Britain's shores and immediately killed a local official who welcomed them. This was just the beginning of what would become a long history of vicious raids and fierce ...
Danish PM's visit to expand cooperation between China, Denmark: PM office
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The visit by Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to China will strengthen the political and commercial relations and expand cooperation between the two countries, the Prime Minister's Office said in an announcement ...
Kivuko kipya cha Mv Dar kuwasili nchini mwezi ujao
NA MUSSA YUSUPH SERIKALI imetangaza kukamilika kwa ujenzi wa Kivuko kipya cha Mv Dar es Salaam, kitakachokuwa na uwezo wa kuvusha watu zaidi ya 300 kati ya Dar es Salaam na Bagamoyo. Kukamilika kwa kivuko hicho, kinachotarajiwa kuwasili nchini katika kipindi cha wiki tatu zijazo,kunatokana na jitiha ...
When I grow up I want to…. part 2
It is widely accepted that the best way to ensure that you actually do the things that you might not otherwise find the motivation (read “guts”) to do, is to tell people that you intend to do them. Announce it to the world. Shout it from the rooftops: “I’m going to do a bungee jump!” (Let’s just be ...
World War I in Photos
Thanks SK for contribution. One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million people, dramatically redrew the maps of Europe, and set the stage for the 20th Century. Alan Taylor APRIL 27 ...
Viking Fortress discovered in Denmark
Archaeologists from The Danish Castle Centre and Aarhus University have made a sensational discovery south of Copenhagen, Denmark. On fields at Vallø Estate, near Køge, they have discovered traces of a massive Viking fortress built with heavy timbers and earthen embankments. The perfectly circular f ...
World T.e.a.m. Sports’ Canam Veterans’ Challenge Concludes July 4 In Washington
The inaugural CanAm Veterans’ Challenge team at Parliament in Ottawa, Canada, June 20, 2014. Photograph by Rebecca Brashears. I volunteered to do this ride, because of my love for my country and brothers and sisters in arms. The CanAm ride provides a blind soldier a unique experience and perspective ...
#NewRelease: Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley
ISBN-13: 9780062295194 Publisher: HarperTeen Publication date: 9/9/2014 In this fast-paced, high-stakes debut novel, sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend a revered military academy means living with a target on her back. Sam McKenna has never turned d ...
Being back feels so …
After 41 days of traveling I’m back in Berlin. And being back feels … well, kind of awkward. Over the last couple of weeks I got so used to being a stranger wherever I go that not being a stranger actually feels … strange. To be honest: I’m almost as much a stranger in Berlin as I was in Copenhagen ...
L’art du temporaire – Roskilde festival
Avec plus de 150 000 participants (toutes catégories confondues), Roskilde festival (Denmark) est l’un des plus importants festivals de musique en Europe. Une institution pour la plupart des jeunes danois (et des plus vieux aussi). Crée un 1971, il prend aujourd’hui des proportions hallucinantes: il ...
Novo Nordisk A/S: FDA posts briefing materials prior to Advisory Committee meeting for Saxenda® for the treatment of obesity
Bagsværd, Denmark, 9 September 2014 - Novo Nordisk today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published the briefing documents ahead of the 11 September 2014 Advisory Committee meeting to discuss the New Drug Application (NDA) for Saxenda ®..
