16 new licences were  doled out to 12 companies (photo: iStock)
New North Sea exploration licences handed out
The energy and climate minister, Lars Christian Lilleholt, has handed out 1...
Upper-secondary schools should prepare students for further studies at university (photo: iStock)
Danish government presents reform for upper-secondary schools
The Danish government yesterday submitted its proposal for a reform of uppe...
The first 1,000 customers can get a free juice shot at Palæo's stall (photo: iStock)
Free burgers and juice shots at Lyngby Storcenter
The shopping mall Lyngby Storcenter is celebrating the opening of its new i...
Esben Lunde Larsen (left) on a tour of Billund BioRefinery (photo: Billund BioRefinery)
South Korea investing millions into Danish water tech
As an increasing global population continues to exhaust the planet's resour...
The arrests took place in close co-operation between the Copenhagen Police and the national security authority (photo: iStock)
Danish police arrest four people enlisted to commit terror attacks for Islamic State
Copenhagen Police and the Danish security authority PET have today arrested...
Novo Nordisk is on the move in Japan (photo: Novo Nordisk)
Novo Nordisk shining in the land of the rising sun
The Danish biotech company Novo Nordisk has found a winning formula in Japa...

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Life in Denmark

Club night outside the Dub (photos: Alessandra Palmitesta)
St Patrick’s Day in Copenhagen: Nobody does it better!
March 18th, 2016 5:14 pm

“They drink a lot in Ireland and they drink a whole lot in Denmark, so it’s a perfect combination of cultures!”

A raised arm is encouraged in Danish society. Children can sometimes ask difficult questions to which adults are inclined to give honest answers
The fairly odd parents: Are Danes world leaders or poor breeders?
January 29th, 2016 7:00 pm

The tendency is to be honest and not mollycoddle children – and that’s healthy, argues an expert on public health.

Alternating between sea and land, one thing's for sure: it's always pretty wet (photo: NPV_John Frikke)
Into the Wetlands: Keeping Denmark’s Everglades on the map, handling 12 million flights a year
January 22nd, 2016 7:00 pm

For over five years, the Wadden Sea National Park has been working tirelessly to strengthen the area’s nature protection and cultural history and provide visitors with unique experiences

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Events

Comedian and travel documentary maker Michael Palin, a huge fan of the artist, was among the guests at the opening of the exhibition earlier this month (photo: Hasse Ferrod)
Capturing the essence of one of Denmark’s most important, and Michael Palin’s favourite, artists
March 18th, 2016 10:28 am

Attending this Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition is heartily recommended

History

Dagmar with her husband, Emporer Alexander III
Consorting with the kings and tsars for nearly a millennium
April 7th, 2016 8:34 am

Official diplomatic ties have existed between Denmark and Russia for over 520 years, but their shared history goes back much further than that

Anders Fogh Rasmussen has really let himself go since the Weichsel glaciation age (photo: Sven Rosborn)
From wild winter wilderness to Bronze Age bog bodies
March 28th, 2016 7:06 pm

How Denmark came to be inhabited, from the cold and distant past to early cultural development

His fallback as a children's party entertainer never really took off (photo: Fanart.tv)
The birth of black metal: through the Mercyful Fate of our king
March 27th, 2016 7:00 pm

Lars Ulrich might be his country’s most valuable metal export, but will his legacy endure as long as Diamond’s?

Georg Brandes is seen as the theorist behind the 'Modern Breakthrough' of Scandinavian culture (photo: Den Hirschsprungske Samling)
A visionary branded subversive by the right and elitist by the left
March 27th, 2016 7:00 am

Loved and hated equally by his peers, Georg Brandes led Scandinavian literature’s ‘Modern Breakthrough’

Søren (left) on set with Pele and somebody from Ipswich Town (all photos: Søren Lindsted)
Escapism with Pelé and Stallone on the set of a cult classic
March 26th, 2016 7:00 pm

Søren Lindsted may not be a household name in his native Denmark, but fans of ‘Escape to Victory’ remember him well for his contribution to the much loved football film