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Lost medieval village discovered in Denmark
The village was described in written sources from the Middle Ages but archaeologists have only just found the site.
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Inventor admits dismembering Kim Wall
The Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted dismembering the body of Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his submarine, but denies killing her. Danish police said in a statement that he also admitted dumping her body parts in the sea. He told police she had died in August from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the submarine, while he was up on deck.
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Danish divers find missing body parts of Swedish journalist
Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor’s homemade submarine. Peter Madsen has been charged with killing the Swedish journalist who disappeared after she went on a trip with him in his submarine on August 10. He denies the charges.
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Lithium in tap water seems to both raise and lower dementia risk.
A study has found that high levels of lithium in drinking water is linked to a lower dementia risk, but medium levels are linked to a raised risk.
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Denmark Suspends Refugee Resettlement Under UN Program
Denmark won’t allow any refugees into the country this year under a United Nations program and will seek flexibility in determining how many may resettle in the future instead of a set quota, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration said.
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Lego to cut 1,400 staff as decade-long sales boom ends
Lego said it would lay off 8 percent of its staff and revamp its business after reporting its first fall in sales in more than a decade on Tuesday.
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Denmark's Prince Henrik wanted to be king. So he'll protest for eternity
Prince Henrik of Denmark has been married to the country's queen for 50 years, and he has been carrying a grudge the whole time.
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Happy
The little flower seems happy and there is also plenty to be happy about. It is a very seldom flower in Denmark, but the spread of bee orchid, as it is called, in the area where I found it is increasing :-)
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Denmark to abolish blasphemy law after government party changes stance
In an about turn on its previous position, Denmark’s governing Venstre (Liberal) party has announced that it now supports removing a blasphemy paragraph from the country’s law code. The change of stance by the party, the largest in the coalition government, means that the paragraph will probably be abolished in parliament Friday, reports DR.
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Denmark's 'Little Mermaid' doused in red paint by whaling protesters
Denmark's most famous landmark, "The Little Mermaid", has been doused in red paint by anti-whaling activists. "Danmark defend the whales of the Faroe Islands" was written in English on the ground in front of the sculpture, using the Danish spelling for the country.
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Sea Shepherd Wants Denmark Held Accountable for Whale Slaughter
Sea Shepherd Netherlands has officially submitted a request to the European Commission to launch infringement proceedings against Denmark for facilitating the slaughter of pilot whales and other cetaceans in the Faroe Islands. The organization says it has the formal support of 27 Members of the European Parliament.
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Denmark gets its first wolf pack in 200 years
Scientists in Denmark say that the country now has its first pack of wolves in over 200 years. Wolves hadn't been seen in the country in two centuries until one was spotted in Jutland five years ago. Since then, there have been concerns that male and female animals would meet and eventually mate, the Copenhagen Post reports. That now appears to have happened. DNA evidence from faeces has confirmed a female has settled in west Jutland, and CCTV images have shown a pair of wolves moving together in the region.
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Denmark Doctors Declare Circumcision Of Healthy Boys 'Ethically Unacceptable'
They believe the procedure has no meaningful health benefits.
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Norway unseats Denmark as world's happiest country: report
Norway displaced Denmark as the world's happiest country in a new report released on Monday that called on nations to build social trust and equality to improve the wellbeing of their citizens. The Nordic nations are the most content, according to the World Happiness Report 2017 produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative launched by the United Nations in 2012.
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Immigration to Denmark is nothing new … just ask the Vikings
A Viking grave in Randers shows evidence of early globalisation.
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Denmark Says Tech Giants Affect It More Than Entire Countries, Decides To Appoint Official 'Digital Ambassador' To Them
Companies like Apple, Google and Facebook are very rich and very powerful, and therefore tend to be driving many of the key developments in the tech field.
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TV 2 | All That We Share
This Powerful Danish Ad Is Going Viral
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New Zealand and Denmark deemed the 'least corrupt' countries in the world
New Zealand has regained its top spot in a global watchdog's rundown of the most corruption-free countries in the world. Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption organisation, uses World Bank data, the World Economic Forum and other institutions to rank 176 countries by perceived levels of corruption. New Zealand and Denmark were jointly ranked as the two least corrupt nations but the watchdog warned about the rise of populism risking greater corruption around the world.
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Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health Benefits
Except within the small Muslim and orthodox Jewish communities, people in Denmark wonder why on Earth any parents would want to have their precious newborn child held down to have a part of his healthy, yet immature, penis cut off.
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Nostalgic
I feel quite nostalgic about this place. I was married at the inn related to the castle and we often take a walk in the park. As a consequence I have many photos from the place and many memories.
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