People living in approximately 200,000 households in Denmark can’t afford enough food, according to the new study. The work uses measurement methods used in the United States, where public authorities regularly monitor the prevalence of food insecurity.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt hands victory to centre-right bloc, saying, ‘I stand by the decisions I have made’

This weekend at Roskilde Festival in Denmark, Damon Albarn performed a 5-hour set with the Africa Express Project that included a cover of the Clash's "Should I Stay Or Should I Go", which he performed with Songhoy Blues, Nick Zinner, Jeff Wootton, and Seye Adelekan.

About 2,000 Bronze Age gold coils are found in Danish field.

When it comes to renewable energy, Denmark is officially kicking ass. Yesterday, Denmark’s wind farms produced 116% of national electricity demands, allowing the country to export power to Norway, German, and Sweden. According to The Guardian, that figure had risen to 140% by early Friday morning.

Denmark gets EU approval for a 19km (12-mile) road-rail tunnel that will cut journey times to Germany.

Denmark’s government has brought in a ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of halal and kosher meat, after years of campaigning from welfare activists.

Breath-stealing landscapes of rolling green pastures and tiny villages make the Faroe Islands a tourist destination.

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter designed a home in Denmark, that is split up into five separate buildings, each one being a different part of the home.

George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British author, once wrote “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.” Whether it’s at the bank or the grocery store, waiting in line is a staple of British life. What, then, would Brits make of Danish researchers who suggest the age-old discipline of “first come, first served” is a waste of time?

An older photo of the bridge connecting two of the biggest islands in Denmark.

The Faroe Islands is an ancient volcanic archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic with a population of just 50 000. Though technically part of the Danish Kingdom, the Faroe Islands is its own self-governing country.

This is a new edit of a photo I took at a photo tour with about 50 other photographers in Viborg, Denmark, in May 2008. At the time I only processed the jpgs, but fortunately I also kept the raw files, so this is based on the raw file. The kind of lightbulbs in the lamp are no longer used, so in more than one sense the photo is from the past :-)

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm is a free man again after serving three years in prison for hacking and copyright offenses. His release marks the end of a turbulent and tough period characterized by successive trials, appeals and convictions in both Sweden and Denmark.

It is not so easy to capture a guy on a horse chopping away at random objects when he actually hits the object. It is a one off chance - he is not going to repeat his act, just because you didn't capture the moment. This time I was lucky to get it almost right, but I would have liked a slightly different angle with more space underneath the sword and less stuff in the background. In any case I'm quite happy with the result :-)

**Submitter's note: to avoid paywall restrictions, always browse this site in privacy/incognito mode.** How great are the Danes, really? The answer is that the Danes get a lot of things right, and in so doing refute just about everything U.S. conservatives say about economics. And we can also learn a lot from the things Denmark has gotten wrong.

In Greenland the shortest day of the year can have little more than three hours of sunlight - but the long, dark winter can be a thing of beauty.

Samsø [Denmark] runs on renewable energy—and makes money doing it. By Steve Brodner.

In a pilot program underway in Aarhus, Denmark, cyclists are given RFID tags that trigger traffic lights in their favor. By Heather Hansman.

A Danish nightclub has been accused of discrimination over its language requirements for entry by asylum seekers, prompting fears more establishments could follow suit amid a spate of reports of sexual harassment. The Buddy Holly nightclub in the southern town of Sonderborg has hit the news after requiring customers to speak either Danish, English or German after women in several Danish towns hosting refugees complained of being harassed by asylum seekers.

A Danish city has ordered pork to be mandatory on municipal menus, including for schools and daycare centers, with politicians insisting the move is necessary for preserving the country's food traditions and is not an attack on Muslims. Frank Noergaard, a member of the council in Randers that narrowly approved the decision earlier this week, says it was made to ensure that pork remains "a central part of Denmark's food culture."

Danish lawmakers approve controversial legislation giving authorities power to seize valuables from asylum seekers to cover their expenses.

The Danish telecommunications industry has expressed concerns over the Justice Ministry’s plan to reintroduce so-called internet session logging, the registration of residents’ online activity.

The Gulfstream, tail number N977GA, was given permission to land in and fly over Denmark, and spent some time parked in Copenhagen, waiting to snatch Edward Snowden and kidnap him to America.

Denmark, perhaps better known for its fictional, suicide-agonizing prince Hamlet and fierce marauding Vikings than being a nation of the happiest people, has just won that very accolade. Again. The United Nations has made it official: It found Danes to be the happiest people on Earth, in a study of 156 countries. Knud Christensen, a 39-year-old social worker, knows one reason why his compatriots are laid-back - they feel secure...

We tax cigarettes and alcohol, in part to discourage their consumption, so why not tax meat? After all, bacon gives you cancer, cows cause climate change, and eating less meat could save us trillions of dollars. That’s why the Danish Council of Ethics recommends taxing beef. "The Danes' way of life is far from climatically, sustainable, and if we are to live up to the Paris agreement's objective of keeping global temperature rise well below 2°C...

A group of Danish researchers scraped data from 70,000 OkCupid profiles, packaged it in a data set, and released it on the internet. While the profiles are technically public, collecting personal information on such a massive scale without getting consent from either OkCupid or the users themselves is at the very least a breach of social science ethics, experts say. The researchers, Emil Kirkegaard, Oliver Nordbjerg, and Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær, used software...

An older photo in a new edition. It is a house on the open air museum called Frilandsmuseet in Denmark. A number of old houses from all over the country have been moved to this place.

Rewilding is here to stay. The term broadly refers to restoring areas of wilderness to their former glory, but it is the reintroduction of large mammals, from wolves to beavers, that has captured the popular imagination, and come to define this ambitious conservation strategy. Such projects are not without controversy. Some ecologists worry that reintroducing extinct animals to our radically changed modern ecosystems might have unforeseen impacts.

Armchair explorers hitherto denied the chance to visit the Faroe Islands owing to the lack of coverage on Google's "Street View" service will finally be able to roam the archipelago - thanks to a flock of sheep. The cunning scheme was the brainchild of Durita Dahl Andreassen who created "Sheep View 360" by attaching cameras to sheep in five remote locations across the Faroes to give far-flung fans a chance to discover a less explored side of the islands.

The Copenhagen Opera House. A new edition of an old photo from 2008.

The complex transactions add up to a meaningful loss of revenue from dividend taxes Danish taxpayers would otherwise get. By Cezary Podkul, Anne Skjerning and Tor Johannesson. (July 12, 2016)

Pokémon Go is resulting in strange incidents all over the world. A human corpse has already been found by a Pokémon hunter in Wyoming and now another corpse was just found in Denmark, reports the Local. The body was found yesterday night, when a man went to look for Pokémon in a drainage canal in Odense. According to the Local, the police do not suspect any crime.

The weather has not been particular nice in Denmark during this summer. We have had a lot of rain and low temperatures. Sometimes the bad weather also brings good photo opportunities like this one :-)

A group of Danish parliamentarians won rare access to an Australian offshore detention center where abuse and exploitation are rampant.