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Social workers in a wealthy Copenhagen neighbourhood have begun making house calls to wake up students with high rates of absenteeism, sparking accusations that Denmark’s welfare state has become too …
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Volvo just unveiled plans for the world’s first large-scale trial of self-driving cars. The ‘Drive Me’ project will see 100 autonomous vehicles take to the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden in …
Volvo: self-driving cars to hit Sweden’s roads in 2017 Read MoreDenmark and New Zealand were the nations seen as most free of corruption and Somalia was ranked last, according to this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index. The report, released today by …
Denmark ranked cleanest in global corruption index Read MoreA “vertical cemetery”, in which the dead are buried in a modular high-rise tower, has been commended as “a highly original contribution” at an Oslo conference for Nordic cemeteries and …
Norway’s vertical cemetery wins praise for originality Read More
It’s the brainchild of two women in Sweden and their creation that has been nicknamed the “invisible bicycle helmet” is going viral. Their concept took the internet by storm after …
Swedish women design ‘invisible’ bike helmet Read MoreJanitor gifts fortune to ‘coloured kids in need’ Despite their meagre salaries, a janitor and his wife, who worked in a Swedish school kitchen, left 2.5 million kronor ($380,000) in …
Swedish janitor gifts fortune to ‘coloured kids in need’ Read More
NEW PORTRAIT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY Here is the new portrait of the Danish Royal Family that has attracted much attention in the last days. What do you think about …
‘Creepy’ Danish royal family portrait draws ire Read MoreJOHOR BARU: IMMIGRATION officers are dusting off a provision in the law books to deny unsavoury characters from setting foot in the country. They have alerted all personnel at air, …
Malaysia to clamp down on ‘visa runs’ Read MoreBeardy Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg will be extradited to Denmark next week to face hacking charges, after a long journey which has already seen him deported from Cambodia …
Sweden to deport Pirate Bay co-founder Warg to Denmark Read More
A famous hotel rebuilt every winter in northern Sweden using only ice said Thursday it would install fire alarms this year. The hotel, located in the small Arctic town of …
Sweden’s ice hotel to install fire alarms Read More