Critics of Denmark's tightening rules on immigration and integration say the country is violating European norms, including human rights legislation. How much has Denmark's approach to these issues been transformed under pressure from a right-wing populist party?
A Swedish man went into a police station to lodge a complaint that his hash turned his girlfriend into a dolphin.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) may be prevented from supplying information about an alleged terrorist plot against the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper to American prosecutors in an ongoing U.S. case.
After a decade of intense laboratory tests, a Danish archaeochemist has found a way to enable scientists to precisely date the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ownership of which is currently a bone of contention between Israel and Jordan, according to videnskab.dk.
As grim accounts of the earthquake in Haiti came in, the accounts in U.S.-controlled state media all carried the same descriptive sentence: "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere..." Gee, I wonder how that happened?
Most of Earth's clouds get their start in deep space. That's the surprising conclusion from a team of researchers who argue that interstellar cosmic rays collide with water molecules in our atmosphere to form overcast skies.
The Pope and the cardinals of the Vatican help organize tours of Auschwitz for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews, according to a booklet being distributed to Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
Danish scientists are in festive mood after a Danish fossil hunter found the remains of a 65 million year-old sea urchin said to be the 'missing link' in the world of echinoideans.
The Unity List MP Per Clausen and two other former left-wing activists are to sue the state claiming the domestic intelligence service PET illegally registered them during the 1980s.
This weekend's coup in Honduras has been met with general international condemnation. Criticism of the putsch is coming from all sides of the political spectrum.
Iran's popular uprising, which began after the June 12 election, may be heading for a premature ending. In many ways, the Ahmadinejad government has succeeded in transforming what was a mass movement into dispersed pockets of unrest.
Children who are born by Caesarian section may have an increased risk of immune deficiency-related illnesses later in life compared to those who are born by natural birth, according to new research from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The UN has held an unprecedented public hearing in Gaza to broadcast live witness accounts from Palestinians who described seeing their relatives killed and injured during Israel's January war.
In March 2000, the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright admitted that the Eisenhower administration organized a regime change in 1953 in Iran and that this historical event explained the current hostility of Iranians towards the United States.
Danish research suggests that some nano-particles may cause cancer, arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
Tom Kristensen, who won his eighth Le Mans in 2008 – six of them in an Audi – is two Audis poorer this morning.
Two European companies — a major contractor to the U.S. government and a top cell-phone equipment maker — last year installed an electronic surveillance system for Iran that human rights advocates and intelligence experts say can help Iran target dissidents.
Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.
In recent weeks, Germany has been taking a hard look at its Cold War history after it was revealed that a Stasi spy shot and killed student demonstrator Benno Ohnesorg in 1967.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Across Europe, the far right is on the march, claiming increased numbers of seats in ten different member states. However, in Belgium, France and Poland, the far right saw some significant losses as well.
Is it only Europeans who want to save the environment and only Americans who discount Darwin? In the final part of his series on trans-Atlantic differences, American historian Peter Baldwin explains why these stereotypes don't work - and what the real differences between Old Euro …
Central Iraq is so dangerous that Danish and Norwegian officials studying the threat level in the region in March remained in the northern provinces of the country.
Amnesty International 's annual report on the state of human rights in 157 countries, criticises Denmark on several issues and calls for a global deal for human rights.
The United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri has reached surprising new conclusions -- and it is keeping them secret.
Some genes just won't stay dead. Between 40 million and 50 million years ago, a slice of DNA called IRGM stopped functioning in the ancestors of modern-day monkeys.
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