News Archive

Over the past eight years, more than eight cyclists and pedestrians a year have been killed by right-turning trucks. This year it is only one.

Up to 80 percent of all children being forcibly removed from the home in Copenhagen have an immigrant background, according to daily newspaper Politiken.

A recent study could come up with next to no indications that Tamiflu has any effect against influenza. Nations across the world have stockpiled the medication.

A leaked Danish proposal for a global climate agreement could threaten the possibility of a successful result on the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. That is the message from the G77 group.

Naser Khader finds it highly annoying that Dansk Folkeparti will today propose that Parliament ban the Muslim garments burka and niqab from public spaces.

The Danish liberal conservative government has shelved its own promises of a plan for reducing the emissions of greenhouse gasses in the agricultural sector, the housing sector, and the transportation sector.

Socialdemokratiet proposes that the state should ensure that all poor people get Christmas aid packages.

A number of the heaviest tax cases are gathering dust with the police - for 28 months on average.

80 percent of immigrants feel well integrated and well prepared for entering the Danish labour market, according to a recent study.

The Capital Region of Denmark has been sending patients to be treated in private hospitals while the region's own hospitals have empty beds.

The UN climate summit in Copenhagen was officially supposed to be under way, but the opening of the grand summit in Bella Center has been delayed.

Refugees and immigrants will in the future be able to return to their countries of origin with an increased cash bonus, and still get to keep their social benefits.

The majority of Danes are positive toward world leaders using nuclear power in order to lower CO2 emissions when they meet in Copenhagen in order to combat global warming.

Cigarette butts comprise the largest percentage of the trash that Danes simply throw in the street, according to the first garbage census conducted in Denmark.

Vesterbro residents, hotels, and businesses are taking action against the increase in foreign - possibly trafficked - prostitutes on the street.

School and child care institutions in Copenhagen may have to keep children longer if streets are cordoned off during climate summit protests.

A 58-year old German businessman twice told security personnel this during the luggage check in Copenhagen Airport that his laptop bag would explode.

A Danish archaeologist has found a more than 300-year old copy of the longer of the golden horns - wrought in ivory.

A recent verdict from the European Court of Justice establishes that flight delays of more than three hours will give passengers the right to compensation.

Minister of Defence Søren Gade suggests that Danish soldiers in 2010 should leave the dangerous bases that they man today in Afghanistan's war-torn Helmand province.

A major Swedish study concludes that sports and exercise also affect the brain and the intellect, and makes learning and understanding new things easier.

A man has been wounded in the leg during a shoot-out in Frederiksberg. The police have cordoned off several streets, including Danasvej.

Police have recovered three of the 18 handguns, which were robbed from a gun club in Klampenborg in September.

Mentally ill people who assault or kill others, or set fires, have in many cases been abandoned or forgotten by the psychiatric system.

SF candidate Kirstine Bille will be the new mayor of Syddjurs Municipality - ahead of Socialdemokratiet's front runner Jesper Mathiesen.

Copenhagen Police are looking for a 29-year old prisoner who fled last night while on escorted leave from the state prison in Nyborg.

In Roskilde, Muslim members of cultural association Roskilde Kulturforening have little sympathy for the Swiss no to minarets, which was the outcome of a referendum this weekend.

The last 10 years have seen a marked increase in the number of 15-69-year olds with a higher education, according to brand new numbers from Statistics Denmark.

The principal at Seden Skole, Carsten Høyer, was reported to the police this morning after he had banned students in the higher grades from speaking foreign languages on school property.

If Dansk Folkeparti wishes to ban minarets on Danish mosques, it would be walking a razor's edge, according to expert on religion.

Each year, 141 in every 100.000 Danish women die from cancer, and that number earns us an unenviable first place in European statistics.

Anonymous witnesses can send criminal gang members and bikers behind bars, and therefore it should be much easier to testify anonymously, according to the Minister of Justice.

The Copenhagen climate summit will supposedly be CO2 neutral. Comfort does, however, prompt sustainability trade-offs.

A new centre for molecular epidemiology at the Technical University of Denmark will head the hitherto most ambitious plans for worldwide monitoring of bacteria.

Three in four insurance companies contacted by news agency Newspaq use Facebook in their attempts to expose suspected fraud.

The project, which hands out wheat seed grain and artificial fertilizers to farmers, who in return forswear the growing of opium, has been plagued by massive theft.

The union for public sector employees, FOA, is criticizing the multimedia tax which will be implemented starting January 1st.

Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Helge Sander wants to allow private universities to establish themselves in Denmark.

Normally, a supplier is paid for supplying goods and services, but as of next Monday, it could actually cost electricity-suppliers money if they supply electricity to the grid.

A new mega hospital on Zealand would mean that at least three towns will loose their hospitals.

Connie Hedegaard will be European Commissioner for the climate and for the environment, while the German Commissioner will have the field of energy, according to a French newspaper.

Beginning in spring, Venstre and Konservative, together with Dansk Folkeparti, want to make it possible to deport non-Danish citizens who prevent police carrying out their duties.

Come February, the Danish Consumer Council will offer competent financial counselling for indebted people.

A person belonging to any of the high-risk groups who develops flu-like symptoms,should immediately contact a doctor in order to get a prescription for Tamiflu.

We have not had a period of weather this calm since the mid-1970s, according to a recent study.

The government wants to tie markedly increased provisions for deporting persons not of Danish nationality - regardless of how long they have resided in Denmark - into the package later this year.

US president Barack Obama has decided to participate in the climate summit in Copenhagen next month, a US government official informs news agency Reuters.

The football World Cup and the Olympic games in Brazil, in 2014 and 1016 respectively, should not be rife with giant burgers, draught beer, and sweetened soft drinks.

Danish Defence has, for a period of at least 30 months, not complied with a so-called "immediate need" for installing anti-grenade grilles on their personnel vehicles.

93-year old Dane, Grethe Stief, has donated DKK 5 million to the ASF-Danish People's Aid school-building programme in Afghanistan.

Gyms, workshops, and one-man cells with two occupants in them. Those are the prospects for protesters who are arrested and remanded in pre-trial custody during the climate summit.

More and more people by airline tickets, hotel rooms, and car rentals over the internet, and this trend is hurting travel agencies.

Connie Hedegaard will resign as Minister for Climate and Energy with immediate effect. Lykke Friis will be the new Minister for Climate and Energy.

The number of new HIV infections has dropped 17 percent over the past 8 years, according to the United Nations' AIDS programme, UNAIDS.

More than 60.000 persons not residing in Denmark have - in the years between 2004 and 2007 - received more than DKK 500 million in tax returns, according to financial daily Børsen.

Today, 144 Danish soldiers ship out for Lebanon, where they will be part of the UN peacekeeping forces.

6.000 representatives will attend Klimaforum09 - an alternative climate summit held in Copenhagen alongside the COP15 summit next month.

Maersk in India condones sub-contractors' use of brutal mafia methods against employees in the company's Mumbai terminal. That is the conclusion reached by an Indian human rights group.

Ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit next month, the United States government will publish fixed targets for reductions in the American emission of greenhouse gasses.

Danish passports are not as secure as they should be according to EU law.

We should focus more on educating the Afghan people and less on outright Danish warfare, says Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen to daily newspaper Politiken.

A broad range of large foreign companies are considering moving their jobs, investments, and other activities out of Denmark.

Post Danmark is implementing a new scheme that allows the postman to leave your parcel in the garden shed or in the garage if you are not at home when he calls on you.

Poorly integrated immigrants lack knowledge on H1N1 type flu, and doctors find this problematic. Many of the immigrants belong to high-risk groups and should be vaccinated.

Denmark has, in one decade, fallen far behind the prosperity race in relation to nearly all of the countries we normally compare ourselves with.

Acccording to the sources of daily newspaper B.T., Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has no choice but to appoint Hedegaard, as he has been under pressure on two fronts.

A recent Danish study shows that one mother in three subsequently shows symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to daily newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad.

The new EU president, 62-year old Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, has a reputation for problem-solving and consensus-building.

The European Union has found 301 web sites selling ringtones, wallpapers, and other services, and which contain "grave violations of EU consumer laws", according to Computerworld.

Pilots have several times found themselves the target of laser beams over Copenhagen Airport, , and this now prompts the police to increase their alertness.

This year alone, Save the Children Denmark has knowledge of 16 children who have been remanded in custody for up to 60 days. The reason is that they have been in travelling on forged documents.

One of the more controversial guests at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen next month will be Zimbabwe's much criticized president, Robert Mugabe.

- I have no doubts that if we turn our backs on Afghanistan, al-Qaeda would be there in the blink of an eye, said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on a conference in Budapest.

Danes have become far more diligent in putting on their bicycle helmets before mounting their iron horses.

Last night's storm ravaged large swathes of the country and left much damage in its wake.

The financial pandemic has hit Danish banks far harder than banks in other countries. The reason is a structure specific to Danish banks, according to a recent study.

Insurance companies exaggerate when they claim that the number of damages due to climate change necessitates raising the premiums, writes daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Parts of Rosenholm Castle in Hornslet near Århus have collapsed in yesterday's strong winds.

Paperwork takes up 60 million public sector man-hours a year.

SF politicians are ousting Socialdemokratiet from power both in Randers and in the Capital Region of Denmark.

When Klaus Bondam outsmarted everyone at Copenhagen City Hall early Wednesday morning, he apparently outsmarted himself, too, according to Ritzau.

The left wing parties - comprising Socialdemokraterne, SF, Enhedslisten, and Det Radikale Venstre, secured five out of seven mayoral seats in Copenhagen.

Nicolai Wammen, Social democrat mayor of Århus, will retain his seat after last night's election.

Aalborg is still red. Socialdemokratiet loses a lot of ground, and three seats on the municipal council, but major gains for SF - who wins three extra seats - make up for that.

Anders Samuelsen is likely to remain leader of Liberal Alliance once the votes from yesterday's municipal elections have been tallied. LA stands to win 4.1 percent of the vote in Horsens.

The yearly report from anti-corruption organization Transparency International shows that Somalia is the most corrupt country on the planet. Denmark is second least corrupt nation.

Several schools around the country demand that students bring their own computers to class, writes daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende.

In a poll conducted by Capacent for Danmarks Radio, more than one in three reply that the Minister for Climate and Energy would be best suited for the job.

Dementia and Alzheimer's patients don't get enough fresh air and exercise. Staff at nursing homes often do not have the time to take dementia sufferers outside.

The risk of a twin committing suicide is smaller than is the case for the rest of the population, according to research from the University of Southern Denmark.

Nearly one house or apartment in three is plagued by traffic noise. So much so that the upper limits of a "normal noise environment" are breached.

These many voters will decide at the final moment, and therefore all political parties and candidates are hard at work in the last hours of the campaign.

Whereas housing prices dropped by nearly six percent in the first quarter of this year, prices only dropped by 0,7 percent during the second quarter.

Arla Foods plans to build the world's largest consumer milk dairy plant. The plant will be situated on the outskirts of London.

- It is grotesque that it is still possible in Denmark to buy brand new diesel cars without particle filters, states car owners' organization the Federation of Danish Motorists (FDM).

When the World Health Organization (WHO) in June of this year declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a pandemic, it meant a huge economic windfall for the pharmaceutical industry.

A Danish study is the first in the world to show that fetuses are likely harmed by traffic-emitted pollution, according to science web site videnskab.dk.

India is planning to ask the United States for the extradition of suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley.

One 12-year old Norwegian in three has a profile on the social network, despite the fact that the minimum age is thirteen.

DKK 40 million have been allocated for specific integration projects in six Danish municipalities.

The Greenland ice sheet is disappearing faster than has hitherto been assumed, a new study published in the Science journal shows.

The United States are considering a change of strategy ahead of the Copenhagen summit, going for an interim agreement instead.

The UN has adopted, in a decision taken without a vote, a comprehensive resolution against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as proposed by Denmark.

Back in September the European Commission proposed to reduce the number of days spent at sea by Danish fishermen by up to a third. The proposal, however, was based on incorrect data.

There will be significant investments, while welfare will be both maintained and expanded, according to the minister of finance.

Grants for Private Schools should be dependant on student composition, according to half the Danes who responded in a Gallup poll. The more children from immigrant or disadvantaged homes in the classroom, the more the support should be.

Politiken newspaper will recruit Iraqis, who have been rejected asylum, through a newly created Iraq Centre, funded through a collection from the newspapers own readers.

While the other Nordic countries recommend a ban on under-18s using solariums, Health Minister Jakob Axel Nielsen believes that responsibility should be with the individual.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told other world leaders that poor countries cannot accept failure at the Copenhagen climate summit in December.

The German chancellor confirms that she will show up in Copenhagen in person. The chancellor informed the Bundestag in Berlin of her decision on Tuesday.

While all Norwegian, Swedish, British, and German children are offered vaccination against H1N1 type flu, should their parents so wish, Danish children do not get that offer. Politicians want that to change.

By attracting labour from foreign countries, several municipalities have managed to fill their vacant positions in the elder-care sector.

All asylum seekers should have the opportunity to move into a home of their own after a maximum of one year in an asylum centre, according to recommendations from the Danish Red Cross.

The new German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Guido Westerwelle, will visit Copenhagen on Wednesday. He will meet with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

In the assessment of the National Board of Health, Denmark is on the brink of an H1N1 flu epidemic.

Focus on a Venstre politician for the European commissariat rather than Connie Hedegaard (Konservative). That is the advice from Venstre's three MEPs.

More than two months after 22 Iraqis were deported and put on a plane to Baghdad on September 2nd, there is no indication that the Iraqis have been assaulted or subjected to torture.

Negotiations on a climate agreement are at a deadlock. The EU is therefore applying maximum pressure to Denmark in order to have the country come up with a solution that may save the much-publicized agreement.

Around 2,000 young people who - due to either brain damage, mental illness, autism, or other handicaps - are unable to attend lower secondary education or vocational training, are getting an education today.

Ulrik Kjær, researcher specializing in municipal affairs and professor at the University of Southern Denmark, estimates that only one woman in four will cast their vote for an individual female candidate.

While some take a critical stance toward the new repatriation agreement, which means that foreigners who - of their own accord - choose to return to their country of origin, will get DKK 100,000 to take along, the Danish Refugee Council are sympathetic toward the agreement.

Iran is looking into the case of Danish student of journalism Niels Krogsgård, who has been arrested in connection with an anti-government protest in Tehran.

A long string of some of the largest Danish companies are showing handsome blue numbers at the bottom line in their results for the first three quarters of 2009.

Young people in Denmark smoke hookah more than young people anywhere else in Europe. But now, a parliamentary majority want to ban the addictive, sweet tobacco used in hookahs.

Traffic wardens are to contribute to prevention of terrorist attacks in the city of Copenhagen by keeping a close eye on suspecious behaviour.

New proposal from Danish Regions: Reward selected doctors with a loyalty bonus of up to 100,000 kroner for dropping well paid sideline jobs at private hospitals.

Minister for Development Cooperation Ulla Tørnæs (V) wants to spend additional 140 million kroner on Afghan returnees and internally displaced.

Despite intensive surveillance and arrests of gang members, police have only arrested one minor throughout its gang operations.

The municipal authority of Hjørring acknowledges making a mistake in the case of the 14-year-old-girl, who committed suicide.

Regulation and control of meat sold in shops is improving. Following revelations on DR's consumer watchdog television show 'Kontant', politicians have now agreed on a series of improvements to ensure that meat adheres to the required standards.

HADERSLEV: The suspect in the Kirsten Bay Andersen case is believed to have been arrested in Spain.

Homeowners are facing difficulty paying the mortgage and have to leave house and home. Further repossessions are on the way, according to Danske Bank.

The phones are red hot in the childrens' wards of the country's hospitals. Parents are afraid that their children are or will become sick with H1N1-influenza. Paediatric head warns against panic

SAS continues to lose money, as negotiations fail to yield results.

Germany looks like the best bet for an economic force that can pull Europe and Denmark out of the current financial crisis

More offers of free-time activities are meant to keep Gellerup youths away from crime. A majority in the Århus City Council promises more activities for troubled youths.

Anders Samuelsen, leader of Liberal Alliance, has stated that he no longer wants "the conference to take place as a part of the national budget agreement".

Minister of Education, Bertel Haarder (V), is ready to introduce a national system to disclose plagiarism at high schools around the country.

Despite the promises of the government to reduce the number of citizens who are put out on the street, the current trend is directly opposite.

Consumers must be able to know exactly which stores are not telling the whole truth about the meat in their cold counters.

The 13-year-old girl from Højby in Odsherred who went missing from her home on Saturday afternoon, is found safe and well.

Associations of rented housing should oust the die-hard criminals from their apartments, SF holds. A new 23 proposal package is drawn up by SF to help Tingbjerg.

One in seven who do not want to serve their conscription admit that he has tried to cheat in order to be declared unfit for military duty.

More than one Danish municipality in three have cut back on practical home help or upped the requirements for getting house-cleaning assistance over the past few years.

A large percentage of Danes are willing to pay higher taxes. Nearly 30 percent thus think that municipal tax rates should go up.

When a Danish purchase is charged to an international credit card, the law forces stores to pay 0.75 percent of the amount to banks. All consumers pay for the card use through higher prices in stores.

The EU must become a more smoothly operating player on foreign policy, one who can go toe to toe with the USA and China, says Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller.

Lack of environmental control with large corporations and the agricultural sector has now prompted a court summons against Denmark.

According to several news agencies, EU leaders have agreed on a solution to the Czech demands for an opt-out clause in the European Union charter on fundamental rights.

Although nearly one third of the population finds it likely that Denmark will be hit by a terrorist attack within the next year, this only prompts very few to change their daily routines.

A terrorist attack on daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten did not have top priority. India was to have been the first target, according to Economic Times - the leading financial daily in India.

Danish women are finding it hard to earn as much money as their male colleagues, and Denmark is only 43rd when it comes to securing equal pay for women.

Norwegian health authorities are examining whether the strain of H1N1 found there is of a different variety from that found in other countries.

The Copenhagen police have never seen a penny of the DKK 50 million set aside for anti-gang efforts.

It has been easy for the FBI to unravel the plans for a terrorist attack on daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard has been called to Brussels at short notice in order to meet with the president of the European Commission.

Due to high unemployment rates among recent university graduates, many end up in positions they are over-qualified for, such as telemarketing, service worker, or receptionist jobs.

A new report from Symantec-owned MessageLabs reveals that inhabitants of Denmark receive more spam mail than inhabitants of any other country on the face of the planet.

It would be a terrible idea to tighten the Terrorism Act, thinks former head of operations at the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen.

The Danish Nurses' Organization wants politicians to regulate the use of night time work in the health sector after a WHO study has shown a connection between night work and breast cancer.

PET is working flat out in order to locate persons thought to be involved with the two men arrested for plotting a terrorist attack on daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

48-year old Tahawwur Hussain Rana will appear in a bond hearing, according to DR's correspondent in the United States, Steffen Gram.

If the five Nordic countries were to form a union, they would gain more international clout, says Swedish historian.

In Copenhagen municipality, it happens that persons who have been denied early retirement pension have moved to another municipality, and have subsequently been accorded the life-time pension benefit there.

Both the association of arthritis patients and the diabetics' association like the thinking of several politicians who want to allow nurses to write certain prescriptions, thus reducing the strain on doctors.

53 percent of the municipal schools inspected by the Danish Working Environment Authority this year have had an unsatisfactory working environment.

In order to find new ways to cut back, municipalities have closed just shy of 200 Danish libraries in only four years.

No less than seven in ten think that the immigrant gangs and the biker gangs are equally to blame for the escalation, according to a poll conducted by Catinét for news agency Ritzau.

Local Government Denmark is recommending a total ban on smoking in, for instance, schools - both indoors and outdoors.

A number of leading politicians - and large parts of the population - have so-called adjustable rate mortgages on their houses. That means that a rent increase would hurt them financially.

More money for prevention of youth crime are on the way. This is the result of an agreement reached by a vast majority in Parliament regarding the so-called Satspulje funds.

One in five motorists regularly ignore the law and sends text messages or speaks on a hand-held mobile phone while driving.

Things are looking bad when it comes to the health of the Danes. More than one in three is moderately overweight or has high blood pressure. Half the population has a low fitness rating, and one in five has impaired lung function.

Denmark does not do enough to prevent abuse of children, according to television news show 21 Søndag.

Over the course of one year, the number of people who go unemployed for a period longer than three months has increased by 180 percent, according numbers from the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions.

Enhedslisten (EL) are behind a new bill which will ban hormone-disrupting chemicals in Denmark sooner rather than later, and without waiting for EU action in the matter.

Currently, 8,500 recent university graduates are unemployed - a twofold increase over this time last year.

Parents of infants need to wisen up to how they can shield their infants from chemicals, says Minister for the Environment Troels Lund Poulsen.

There is a steady flood of new members to both biker clubs and immigrant gangs.

Danes practically only use electricity during daytime hours, and that is both expensive, and bad for the environment, according to electricity companies.

It is contemptible that prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (Venstre) now blames Danish municipalities for not taking escalating gang-related crimes seriously enough.

Eye colour, gender, or other normal characteristics are not sufficient cause for parents to choose not to have a child, says the Danish Council of Ethics.

Three in four of the 35,000 hospital-employed nurses spend time on cleaning duties.

When a 47-year old teacher wanted to shake the hand of his pupil, her father apparently got so upset that he spat at the teacher and knocked him down.

Oprah Winfrey swooned over every little thing: the bicycles, parental leave, free doctors' consultations, free education, and unemployment benefits.

The 18-year old man who was shot Saturday night in Lindevangsparken on Frederiksberg died late Wednesday night, according to police information.

One in thirteen Danes has a hard time making ends meet. That is a small increase over last year, when one in fourteen had money woes.

Job centres are becoming more and more miserly when it comes to training and education for jobless people on unemployment benefit.

If it were up to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, Denmark would send Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard to Brussels to be the next Danish EU commissioner.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks mildly upon Denmark ahead of his participation in the climate summit in December.

Denmark is world champion when it comes to freedom of the press. At least if one believes a recent rankings table from Reporters Without Borders.

Minced meat in supermarket cold counters can contain untold quantities of fat. And there is meat in it from animals not to be found on the package label.

Delta Air Lines and Air France KLM are opening up a new direct flight route between Copenhagen and New York City's JFK airport, according to information from the companies.

After the consumer boycott triggered by the cartoon crisis, sales of Lurpak and other Danish dairy products are now climbing rapidly in Middle Eastern countries.

Doctors in the Capital Region of Denmark are misusing the ambulance emergency response - says ambulance personnel.

Enhedslisten (EL) are not comfortable with Denmark allowing Russia to lay down a controversial gas pipeline through Danish territorial waters.

Desperation over surplus pounds created an explosion in the sales of diet pill Alli, available over the counter in May, writes daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Only 31 percent of the 18-29 year olds know who is running for mayor in their own municipality, writes daily newspaper metroXpress.

Swift action produced results against a new gang of criminal immigrants in Gellerupparken near Århus.

Two Polish citizens, who have each been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for bag snatching in a shop, may be deported.

Harassment and flying rocks have now become a part of the work day for personal care workers in Copenhagen.

Western intelligence services are deeply concerned by an increasing flow of young Europeans to Pakistan and Afghanistan where they are trained by Taliban an al-Qaeda to become terrorists.

Minister of Justice Brian Mikkelsen will today introduce a bill giving police the means to keep protesters on a short leash during the upcoming climate summit.

Since Denmark opened up to the new EU license plates last Monday, two in three Danes who have changed their license plates or registered a new vehicle have chosen the new type.

Municipalities are raising taxes by a total of DKK 269 million more than provided for in their agreement with the government.

Security companies cannot get their guards to work in socially disadvantaged housing projects, according to news agency Newspaq.

A young couple from Aalborg are going into their second day as wanted by the police after social services yesterday showed up at their home address in order to forcibly remove their only ten days old son from home, only to find no one there.

Connie Hedegaard denies that accounting practices in the Ministry of Climate and Energy are a mess.

Search engine Google has posted a record result for the third quarter of 2009, and points to the financial crisis soon being over.

President Hamid Karzai only got 47 percent of votes in the August election in Afghanistan - and thus did not make the 50 percent cut-off for securing victory in the first round of elections.

New research from Århus University Hospital shows that patients have a 69 percent chance of recovery if they receive treatment against rectal cancer within the first 60 days.

That happened to Jesper Søgaard Nielsen. He was involved in an accident when a female driver collided with the firetruck during a turnout.

One of Amagerbanken's major customers, Finansgruppen, now reports that it is ready to support the bank's planned increase of share capital, according to daily newspaper Børsen.

Early Wednesday morning, the US dollar was traded below DKK 5. Thus, the value of a dollar reached a new low, down from nearly DKK 6 in mid-February.

More than 41 million women a year choose to have an abortion. Apparently, the legality or illegality of the procedure is not a crucial factor to the women.

Danes prefer nuclear power in the future over natural gas, oil, or coal, according to daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

In one year, Danish households have increased their collective bank balances from DKK 690 to 741 billion, writes daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard (K) will no longer handle the highly tense resignation of the ministerial chief negotiator, Thomas Becker, according to several newspapers.

The cash transport that was robbed yesterday held DKK 2,2 million. How much of that the robbers escaped with is still uncertain.

According to several members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, lowering the age of criminal liability flies in the face of UN recommendations.

The inhabitants of 700,000 homes live with traffic noise levels above 58 decibel - the official level of noise acceptable in residential areas.

A number of GPs are in violation of the terms of the agreement they have entered into with Danish Regions. Among other things, GPs post limits on how long a consultation may last.

The Copenhagen Municipality wants to prepare its employees for spotting and checking budding religious or political extremism in youths between the ages of 14 and 20.

Søren Espersen (DF) thinks China is employing Nazi methods to punish Denmark for Lars Løkke Rasmussen's meeting with the Dalai Lama.

A few minutes before opening time, a cash transport arrived at the Valby Langgade branch of Jyske Bank. And four men began a thoroughly planned and violent robbery.

There are no gangs in the Tåstrupgård housing project, says the housing association. This is a direct contradiction of records from Danish National Police and the SSP effort.

Firefighters in the largest Danish cities are harassed often enough that a number of them are succumbing to the mental pressures and are quitting their jobs.

A number of Danish potato farmers risk large fines for employing illegal methods to push potato prices up by 10-15 percent.

When prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen last May chose to meet with the Dalai Lama, he set off a full-blown diplomatic crisis, writes daily newspaper Politiken.

A mother and her daughter were arrested yesterday afternoon as they showed up in asylum centre Sandholmlejren to report to authorities. The daughter is four months pregnant.

A documentary film about racism in Denmark has not led to great protests, burning Danish flags, or other unpleasantness directed at Denmark.

After a long standstill, Danish authorities have now given up their wait for more material in an honour killing concerning a woman born and raised in Denmark, where her husband still resides.

Home owners fear falling victim to break-ins and home invasions, and therefore decide to secure their homes. Some do so by obtaining an offensive weapon.

Over the last few days, the rumours have been that the Al Jazeera film would portray Denmark as a racist country, but the greater part of the film is a well-balanced documentary that hears all parties.

The Minister for Taxation will look into whether a temporary amnesty for tax evaders should be implemented.

Young women with immigrant background are enrolled in higher education in numbers comparable to that of their Danish sisters.

Tonight, spokesman on integration affairs for Det Konservative Folkeparti, Naser Khader, will be watching Danish Palestinian director Awad Joumaa's documentary, which depicts Denmark as discriminating against Muslims.

The spokesman on defence affairs for Socialdemokratiet is outraged that politicians were not informed of the internal dispute within the Danish Defence when they were briefed about the special forces book.

The prosecuting authority has indicted a 35-year old member of Hells Angels in the case of a shooting in a Copenhagen restaurant in January of this year.

Electronic foot shackles for unruly 12-year olds are no miracle cure, but could be a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Anne Katrine Lund is a communications researcher with a Ph.D. in rhetorics. And she thinks that hard to understand language often finds its way into our mail.

Seven in ten smokers think that smoking is untrendy. That comes as no surprise to a trend researcher, who says that today, smoking signals a lack of self control.

The 24 year rule and other tightenings in the rules for family reunification has meant that young people with an ethnic background other than Danish put off tying the knot.

Schoolchildren should have a good upbringing, rather than punishment, sanctions, and surveillance, according to legal affairs spokesman for Socialdemokratiet, Karen Hækkerup.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the global economic downturn means that emissions of greenhouse gasses will likely drop by three percent in 2009.

The public finances in Denmark will show deficits of nearly 5 percent of the GNP, and that is far too much. Denmark is expected to receive and admonition from the EU.

Public Prosecutor Jørgen Steen Sørensen is now pulling all knife cases from court schedules with immediate effect, according to news agency Ritzau.

Over the past two years, all three-year old children have been subjected to a language test. But from now on, only weak children are to be tested.

Danes still have confidence in Minister of Defence Søren Gade (V), despite the scandal over the special forces book. 63 percent think he should stay in office.

The crown prince of Holland is a member of the IOC, and has experience that may be useful to Frederik, crown prince of Denmark, if he - as expected - is elected for the IOC on Friday.

The UN has accepted Denmark's offer of 140 soldiers for the UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL).

The conservatives are ready to lower the age of criminal liability from 15 to 14 years, says legal affairs spokesman for the party, Tom Behnke to berlingske.dk

Shortly before noon, US president Barack Obama met with Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen at Christiansborg - the seat of the Danish parliament.

So far this year, 1900 people have applied for admission to the police academy, and thus also for employment as police officers on probation. 400 have been hired.

Greenpeace thinks Obama should return to Copenhagen for the climate summit.

US president Barack Obama is going to meet the Queen of Denmark and the Danish prime minister in the Parliament building, Christiansborg. Police have therefore cordoned off the roads from Bella Center to Christiansborg.

When Minister of Defence Søren Gade last Thursday mentioned the existence of an Arabic translation of the controversial special forces book to the media, Permanent Secretary Lars Findsen had urged him to do so.

The official start to the IOC summit went Thursday night in the Copenhagen Opera, where the celebrities arrived in drop formation in order to hear the speeches and watch the entertainment on Holmen.

Søren Gade's post as Minister of Defence could be in danger after it has become clear that the Arabic translation of controversial special forces book did originate with the Danish Defence.

Although unemployment numbers from Statistics Denmark are practically unchanged for the second month running, there are still hard times ahead, and more Danes will lose their jobs.

An employee of the Danish Defence fabricated the controversial Arabic translation of the book "Special forces - at war with the elite", high-ranking sources inform TV2 News.

Tomorrow's visit by US president Barack Obama will likely delay deliveries of letters and parcels in the Greater Copenhagen Area.

If Irish voters vote yes to the EU Treaty of Lisbon on Friday, prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will have to come clean: will we, or will we not, have a referendum on the Danish EU-opt-outs, asks the opposition.

Today is Olympic lobbying day in Copenhagen. Royalty, heads of state, and celebrities are queuing up to sip coffee with the IOC-members, who will decide where the Olympic Games are to be held in 2016 tomorrow.

In 1995, Denmark was the second richest nation in the EU. But since then, we have slipped down to fifth place among the 15 EU nations.

Minister for Food Eva Kjer Hansen is annoyed that there - as documented on TV - is a lot of old meat on supermarket shelves. Therefore, she now says that food authorities will up their control efforts.

Today, markedly fewer women get diagnosed with cervical cancer, while more and more get diagnosed with breast cancer.

Control of the food consumers buy in stores is too lax: neither the food control system, nor the supermakets' self-policing system work, according to Socialdemokraterne and SF.

Defence Command Denmark is now being asked to document where and under what circumstances they last week came into possession of the Arabic translation of Thomas Rathsack's book.

A parliamentary majority wants to put a halt to doctors providing declarations of virginity.

The National Board of Health has decided to offer vaccinations against H1N1 to pregnant women and persons over the age of three suffering from certain chronic diseases, in addition to doctors and other health sector employees.

Danish doctors will hold true to the Hippocratic oath and give medical assistance to rejected asylum seekers even if that means breaking the law.

The worst is behind us in the Danish housing market, but uncertainty still looms large, according to Jyske Banks September prognosis for the Danish economy.

At the end of the day, married pensioners have far more left over for consumer spending than singles, according to a recent study by pensions company ATP.

The Police Union foresees that overtime from the IOC-assignments will mean a shortage of police officers next year.

US talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey will produce a half-hour television show about Denmark while she is in the country on the occasion of the IOC-meeting.

Danske Bank are humbling themselves to a hitherto unknown degree, and are acknowledging that the bank has treated customers with arrogance.

A ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in a Swedish case is adding fuel to the fire in the Danish debate on deportation of rejected Iraqi refugees.

The North Jutland Police suspects that a body found in the Aalborg harbour may be that of the missing 16-year old Casper Sørensen.

Women working in the plastics industry apparently have more difficulties becoming pregnant than other women.

Around 1,000 journalists from the world press will be gathered in Copenhagen this weak when the International Olympic Committee holds its meeting. The price to buy that kind of publicity would be in the hundreds of millions.

The maximum time allowed to pass before an ambulance must reach patients has been raised from eight to 13 minutes. That may cost lives.

The relatives of Denmark's oldest citizens carry a heavy load. So heavy that it can sometimes have a negative effect on their professional and private lives.

The African woman, who a few weeks ago escaped from a property in Kettinge, has been transferred to the asylum centre at Sandholmlejren.

A Danish infant absorbs far more hormone-disrupting chemicals through the breast-milk than its Finnish counterpart.

Novo Nordisk plans to expand their staff in India five-fold over the coming years.

An Arabic translation of the controversial book "Special forces - at war with the elite" is surrounded by mysticism. It seems to have been published by Defence Command Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is now exorcising all doubts. Dansk Folkeparti will not have any influence over a single important topic in the politics of a possible new government.

Before the year ends, tax workers will be visiting 1600 companies unannounced in the hunt for tax dodgers, writes daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

In the coming month, a small group of protesters will try to get women going in for abortions at Holbæk hospital to change their minds.

New Danish research shows that bad breath may be caused by intestinal problems in the form of constipation.

Fewer home owners choose to rent out their home while waiting for a sale, according to a recent poll.

Relations with Russia have returned to normal. This was announced by Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen after a conciliatory meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, held last night in New York.

A political majority wants cases, that have been rejected because the Medico-Legal Council and the courts have not been speaking the same language, reopened.

A group of North Koreans have applied for asylum in the Danish embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The Danish state is gearing up for prolonging the monopoly-like status of DSB until 2020.

Four bikers - four candidates and one full member of the Hells Angels - have received long prison sentences for attempted manslaughter and endangering the lives of others.

The recession in Danish economy over the last year has been so fierce that it will take at least four years for the economy to get back on track.

In a referendum held today, a slim majority would vote yes to Danish participation in the common EU currency, the Euro.

Dansk Folkeparti (DF) wants to lower the age of criminal liability to 12 - and now, the party wants to bring that demand into the national budget negotiations.

Private deposits in bank have gone up throughout 2009, according to new numbers from Nationalbanken.

The Danish state coffers are a free lunch for foreigners working here, and tax authorities are powerless, as monitoring the 50,000 people in question is nearly impossible.

Children who have been victims of violence, incest, or other forms of neglect, will have to make do with whatever help the municipalities can afford to give them.

Safety rules are still being ignored at most Danish places of work. That was the impression when the Danish Working Environment Authority visitied 232 building sites across the country.

Last night, police divers searched three places in Limfjorden in an attempt to find 16-year old Casper Sørensen. They did not find anything.

25 municipalities have been refused permission to raise taxes next year. Some will do it anyway.

The book was meant as an homage to the special forces, but instead Thomas Rathsack now risks time in jail and losing his job with the Danish Defence.

Young criminals should have mentors who can help them create a new life of education, recreation interests, and new friends. That is one of the proposals that the Youth Commission will present Minister of Justice Brian Mikkelsen with later today.

The Aktion Auktion initiative has collected DKK 618,500 for the rejected Iraqi refugees.

Far more Danish soldiers are now so severely damaged psychologically that they get compensation from the National Board of Industrial Injuries.

The financial crisis has made it difficult for new university graduates to find jobs. Of the electrical engineers graduating within the last 12 months, more than half were jobless in August.

Denmark has twice the number of blood donors compared to many other Western countries. But this should not be a cause of complacency, as the consumption of blood is also much higher in Denmark.

The number of work permits granted dropped by 17 percent during the second quarter of 2009.

DSB wants customers who only occasionally take the train pay more for their ticket. In this way, commuters may avoid price hikes.

Special forces often operate in civilian garb, according to researcher at the Danish Institute for Military Studies.

Why wait years for an expensive and complex GPS-system to handle road pricing when a simple, inexpensive, and balanced system could be implemented tomorrow? asks environmental think tank Concito.

The number of companies resorting to work sharing in times of crisis has risen explosively, but, contrary to what many believe, the arrangement does save jobs, according to daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende.

Last year, the turnover in the discount sector was up DKK 4,6 billion to a total of DKK 41.5 billion.