Provides the latest RSS feeds for Denmark News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Denmark News.net http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/cat/361525af21fa2cde/ en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:17:05 -0400 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:17:05 -0400 30 The amount of applause an audience gives after a performance is a "contagious" chain reaction where people are influenced by one another, and do not depend on the quality of the performance, a Swedish study has found. Scientists from the University of Uppsala have found that it takes a few people to start clapping for the applause to spread through a group, BBC reported. It similarly takes just ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215293893/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:30:01 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215293893/scat/361525af21fa2cde Norway’s Government Pension Fund – Global, saw a 12.7 per cent return (NOK 270bn) in the second quarter of 2009, following dramatic improvements in international equity and fixed income markets, says Norges Bank. The excess return was reported at 2.1 percentage points, which Norges Bank said is the best quarterly result ever, and the fund reached its targeted equities ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215300043/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:05 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215300043/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:27am EDT (Adds dropped byline) By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, June 19 (Reuters) - Danish beauty product retailer Matas has received enough orders to sell all the shares on offer in its planned stock market flotation, three sources close to the process said. Matas said last week its majority owners, including private equity group CVC Capital Partners, would sell between 16.3 ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215299285/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:27:00 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215299285/scat/361525af21fa2cde STOCKHOLM, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:48am EDT STOCKHOLM, June 19 (Reuters) - Finnish insurance group Sampo held back from buying more shares in biggest Nordic bank Nordea during a sale of stock by the Swedish state, a Sampo spokesman said on Wednesday. The Swedish government earlier completed a sale of 260 million shares at 75 crowns each to raise $3.0 billion. Sampo is the biggest ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215300042/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:39 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215300042/scat/361525af21fa2cde Antitrust regulators in Europe said they had fined several drug companies $195 million for conspiring to delay bringing a generic drug to market. The New York Times reported Wednesday the companies fined included Danish drugmaker Lundbeck and German pharmaceutical firm Merck. The European Commission's antitrust division said the companies formed an agreement in 2002 to delay producing a ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215297503/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:39:50 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215297503/scat/361525af21fa2cde Brussels (dpa) - Danish pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck was hit Wednesday with a fine of 93.8 million euros (125.6 million dollars), after the European Union found that it conspired to keep cheaper anti-depressants off the market in a bid to maintain its profits.Lundbeck said it will fight the fine, arguing that the deal had been approved and cleared by EU and Danish regulators.The company is ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296497/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:45:57 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296497/scat/361525af21fa2cde Bankpension, a pension fund for employees in the Danish financial sector, has reported ';extremely unsatisfactory'; 2008 results, with yields after tax standing at -19.7 per cent. In its annual report of results, Bankpension says that its gross yield including interest cover before tax for 2008 was -23.1 per cent, and reveals that the return on investment before currency and ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296498/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:07 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296498/scat/361525af21fa2cde The Ethical Council of Sweden’s First to Fourth AP Funds has reported on 2008’s progress in its engagement with companies suspected of violating the ethical guidelines which preside over the four Funds’ investments, with success in several cases. When the Ethical Council identifies a breach of convention, it often indicates that a company has failed to acknowledge ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296499/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:04 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296499/scat/361525af21fa2cde Norway's Government Pension Fund lost NOK 29.6bn (€2.95bn) in 2008, a massive drop attributed to the equities, according to figures from Folketrygdfondet. The asset manager is a state-owned company, and is solely responsible for the domestic pension fund which invests only in Nordic countries. It has confirmed in its annual report for 2008 that the scheme had dropped by NOK ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296500/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:01 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296500/scat/361525af21fa2cde The Second Swedish National Pension Fund/AP2 has recorded a sharp fall in its market worth for 2008, amounting to a return of -24 per cent on net assets. The return value, SEK -55.1bn, meant the Fund’s capital assets totalled SEK 173.3bn at the end of December 2008, and had a net inflow of SEK 0.9bn. The capital asset value was SEK 54.2bn lower than in 2007. The drop has been ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296501/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:57 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296501/scat/361525af21fa2cde Following a recommendation from the Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund – Global, Norway’s Ministry of Finance has excluded American company Textron Inc. Corporation from the fund. Keeping in line with Norway’s pledge towards ethical investment, the country has excluded nine producers of cluster weapons from the investment branch of the Fund on the basis of ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296502/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:56 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296502/scat/361525af21fa2cde Norway’s Ministry of Finance is referring to its Ethical Guidelines for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global following the situation in Gaza. According to the current Guidelines, the Council on Ethics shall recommend exclusion of companies from the fund’s investment universe where they see a considerable risk of contributing to serious or systematic human ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296317/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:51 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296317/scat/361525af21fa2cde Norway’s Government Pension Fund – Global recorded all-time low returns of -7.7 per cent in quarter three of 2008 (Q3 2008), 1.8 per cent lower than that on the benchmark portfolio defined by the Ministry of Finance, according to the latest quarterly report by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM). NOK 128bn of transfers were made to the fund in the quarter, and at the end ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215295711/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:46 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215295711/scat/361525af21fa2cde Holdings in companies that market cluster weapons are to be sold by the Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) and Forsta AP-fonden (AP1). The decisions have been made on the recommendation by the Ethical Council of the Swedish National Pension Funds, a convention endorsed by Sweden in May 2008, and the First to Fourth Swedish National Pension Funds have been advised to exclude ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296503/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:32 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296503/scat/361525af21fa2cde Norway’s Government Pension Fund has neglected to apply best practice in sustainable investments and is not yet fully addressing the impacts of global warming, according to the World Wildlife Fund, Norway (WWF-Norway). The fund, which is based on petroleum revenues, is currently estimated at $381bn, and is the world’s second largest sovereign wealth fund. More than one per ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296504/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:31 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296504/scat/361525af21fa2cde The medium-term outlook for public finances in Norway are in relatively good shape, partly due to increasing pension fund revenues, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296505/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:23 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296505/scat/361525af21fa2cde ABP’s recent investment in the Nordics is down to research showing that ';GDP growth in the Scandinavian countries will be the highest in Europe in the coming years,'; according to ABP investment spokesman, Michel Meijs. ABP Pension fund (ABP), a Dutch organisation, and Klepierre SA (Klepierre), a France-based real estate company, joined forces and entered into an ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296506/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:20 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296506/scat/361525af21fa2cde It will be vital that the Finnish economy keeps a large government surplus in the coming years and to ensure that labour force participation, especially among older workers, continues to rise, if it is to continue to perform well. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has today published ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296508/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:02 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296508/scat/361525af21fa2cde Swedish pension fund AP7 will sell all its holdings in companies making cluster bombs and nuclear weapons. The move by AP7, one of seven state-owned pension funds in Sweden, means holdings in Airbus parent EADS and US-based Lockheed Martin Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. will be sold. AP7 manages pension savings worth around 90bn kroner (about $15bn). The move follows news in April ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296507/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:28:02 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296507/scat/361525af21fa2cde Swedish pension companies were given favourable evaluations by The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Finansinspektionen (FI), in the Q2 2007 traffic light report. No insurance companies received a red light during that period, while pension companies as a whole – including life insurance companies and occupational pension funds – showed a larger margin to the red light ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296509/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:47 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296509/scat/361525af21fa2cde Sweden’s AP1 – one of the buffer funds assigned by the Swedish Parliament to manage the Swedish people’s pension funds – has posted strong performance figures in both absolute and relative terms for the first half of 2007. The Forsta AP-fonden, which manages assets with a value of SEK 221bn, reported a total return on net assets of 6.3%, which is equal to SEK 1.3 bn ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296510/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:46 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215296510/scat/361525af21fa2cde Two Lewis County teenagers are facing felony charges after allegedly stealing money from a resident of Copenhagen last month, the Lewis County Sheriff's Office said. Dallas Church, 18, and a 16-year-old, both of Copenhagen, are charged with felony third-degree grand larceny and misdemeanor fifth-degree conspiracy. Church also was charged with misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215294683/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:35:43 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215294683/scat/361525af21fa2cde A gunman wearing police uniforms and police identification landed on a small island about 40 kilometers west of Oslo, shooting people at a youth camp two hours after the deadly bomb explosion rocked the government building quarters in the Norwegian capital city. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) The death toll of the twin attacks Friday in Norway may surpass 87 after more victims were discovered in the shooting ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215294684/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:11 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215294684/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:13am EDT * Sweden sells 260 mln ordinary shares for 75 crowns each * Size of sale equal to 6.4 percent of outstanding shares * Debt office says bond auction volumes unchanged after sale (Adds government comments) By Mia Shanley and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, June 19 (Reuters) - Sweden has sold nearly half its remaining stake in Nordea, the region's biggest bank, raising ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215294416/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:13:15 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215294416/scat/361525af21fa2cde STOCKHOLM, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:57am EDT STOCKHOLM, June 19 (Reuters) - The Swedish Debt Office said on Wednesday government bond auction volumes would remain unchanged following the government's sale of Nordea shares. Sweden sold nearly half its remaining stake in Nordea, the region's biggest bank, raising $3.0 billion which will be used to pay down debt. The lower ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215293246/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:57:33 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215293246/scat/361525af21fa2cde Guardian games correspondent Keith Stuart visits Lego developer Traveller's Tales and takes his Marvel mad sons along to discover the studio's latest blockbusting ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215291981/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:36:00 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215291981/scat/361525af21fa2cde COPENHAGEN, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:26am EDT COPENHAGEN, June 19 (Reuters) - Denmark's finance minister said a credit facility granted to Scandinavian airline SAS was not state aid, after EU regulators opened an investigation into whether the facility was in line with EU state aid rules. "We are still of the opinion that our participation in the credit facility can clearly ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215293245/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:26:01 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215293245/scat/361525af21fa2cde The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges against him are dropped, because he fears moves are already under way to extradite him to the United States, he has ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215290808/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:30 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215290808/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:01am EDT By Ritsuko Ando and Jussi Rosendahl HELSINKI, June 19 (Reuters) - Finland on Wednesday slashed the outlook for its economy, predicting it will shrink for the year, raising doubts about its reputation as one of the euro zone's healthiest economies. The forecast added to concerns that traditional industries such as paper were losing global competitiveness. The ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215290703/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:01:02 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215290703/scat/361525af21fa2cde COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TORM A/S ( ) (the "Company") announced today that it has commenced the process to (i) terminate its American Depository Receipt ("ADR") program, which is governed by the Deposit Agreement between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (the "Depositary") dated as of May 8, 2013, as amended (the ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215289160/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:10:11 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215289160/scat/361525af21fa2cde Keep Your Timber Limber at the ICA pulls together boundary-pushing drawings by eight artists that challenge gender, sexual and political stereotypes and highlight issues of war and censorship.From Tom of Finland's erotically charged bikers and sailors to Judith Bernstein's penis flagpoles, here's a selection of images that use the simplest tools to defy the most ingrained ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215288935/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:03:41 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215288935/scat/361525af21fa2cde SABMiller and Sweden’s Kopparberg Brewery had entered into a co-operative agreement for the long-term licence of Kopparberg cider products in selected markets where the Swedish firm does not have an interest, SABMiller said yesterday. All Kopparberg cider products, including Pear and Naked Apple, would be available for distribution. The Australian unit was the first SABMiller operation to ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215288296/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:19:13 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215288296/scat/361525af21fa2cde STOCKHOLM, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:51am EDT STOCKHOLM, June 19 (Reuters) - The Swedish government said on Wednesday it was increasing its sale of shares in Nordea , the region's biggest bank, to 260 million ordinary shares from 230 million due to strong investor demand. The finance ministry said in a statement that the revised size of the sale was equivalent to 6.4 percent of ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215289059/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:51:30 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215289059/scat/361525af21fa2cde BOSTON (AP) - The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what the wind farm’s president said Tuesday is a milestone for the long-delayed ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215287403/scat/361525af21fa2cde Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:03:06 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215287403/scat/361525af21fa2cde COPENHAGEN (AP) - Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk says the world's three biggest shipping container operators have entered an alliance to reduce fuel consumption and improve service and operations. Mr Vincent Clerc of the Copenhagen-based company's shipping unit says MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. and CMA CGM of France will form the P3 alliance with Maersk ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215285730/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:52:34 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215285730/scat/361525af21fa2cde has just been released, and it's giving fans a first look at the vast assemblage of pop-culture references that will be featured in the upcoming comedy -- including Batman, Wonder Woman and Michelangelo (both the painter and the Ninja ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215284643/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:38:08 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215284643/scat/361525af21fa2cde Denmark's Financial Services Authority noted that Ireland had a "significant effect" on Danske Bank's risk weighting, resulting in a total group-level risk weight of 36 per cent, of which Ireland accounted for 4 per ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215283795/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:39:18 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215283795/scat/361525af21fa2cde File picture of the fire on June 6, 2013 at Puotilan vicinity of the beach, which burnt about 400 square meters areas in Helsinki. Photo Str / Lehtikuva The possibility for forest fire in a large scale is very thin in near future in the country, according to the Forest Research Institute. As per the perception based on the weather condition and density of forest, it could be said that the ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215283796/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:36:45 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215283796/scat/361525af21fa2cde LMT.N ) incoming CEO after having an affair with a subordinate, said he has joined the board of directors of a Norwegian titanium producer that works closely with Spirit AeroSystems Inc ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215283440/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:35:17 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215283440/scat/361525af21fa2cde Manchester United will conclude the preparations for the defence of its Premier League crown with a pre-season match against Swedish side ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215282571/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:38:28 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215282571/scat/361525af21fa2cde Carla Suarez Navarro gained the quarterfinals Tuesday at the grass-court Topshelf Open. Vinci, who titled at s'Hertogenbosch in 2011, breezed into the second round with 6-3, 6-3 decision over Estonian Kaia Kanepi. She next faces last week's Nuremberg, Germany, titlist Simona Halep. Spain's Suarez Navarro, meanwhile, posted a second-round triumph over ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215281435/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:15:25 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215281435/scat/361525af21fa2cde Security The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg can be extradited to Denmark, a Swedish court has ruled. There, he will face several new hacking charges for downloading a large number of files from a Danish police database. Sweden's Nacka District Court ruled on Monday that Swartholm Warg "may be extradited to Denmark in accordance with the warrant from Denmark and he ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280279/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:11 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280279/scat/361525af21fa2cde (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court found the patent on Novo Nordisk's Prandin diabetes drug in combination with metformin to be invalid, paving the way for introduction of a generic version of the medicine, the Danish drugmaker said on Tuesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court ruling handed down in 2011, the company said. Novo said it still believes the ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280047/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:22:46 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280047/scat/361525af21fa2cde With the slogan ';They’re just breasts'; hundreds of Danish women have been protesting against their country’s Equal Rights Commission ruling restaurants and cafes can turn away women breast-feeding their babies. The ruling has sparked weeks of heated debate in ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280243/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:16:57 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280243/scat/361525af21fa2cde Danish toymaker Lego says it will produce a version of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover requested in an online vote by customers. The rover was selected from a number of candidate creations that passed 10,000 votes on Lego's Cuusoo website, CNET reported Tuesday. "The product aligns well with the Lego Group's mission to 'inspire and develop the builders of ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280408/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:09:48 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215280408/scat/361525af21fa2cde The 22-year-old, who stands 6 feet 5 inches tall, agreed a three-year contract at Villa Park after signing for an undisclosed fee. "Nicklas is a young lad but also a full international with a good goal-scoring record in Denmark and he'll prove himself in the Premier League," manager Paul Lambert told Villa's website (www.avfc.com). Helenius scored 16 goals in 33 league ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215279148/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:19:51 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215279148/scat/361525af21fa2cde 18 June 2013 &#150 A message of hope from a boy on the war-torn streets of Kabul, a profile of Danish efforts to help the elderly live the way they choose and an investigative story on the cruel reality of human trafficking are the winners of this year’s awards for outstanding radio programming presented by the United Nations as part of the 2013 New York Festivals Awards. ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215277429/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:35:10 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215277429/scat/361525af21fa2cde Campbell Soup Company ( ) recently announced its plans to acquire Denmark-based Kelsen Group A/S from Maj Invest - a private equity firm and several other investors. The strategic acquisition will boost Campbell Soup's growth prospects in the Chinese and Hong Kong market as well as increase its global footprint. The U.S.-based manufacturer of high-quality food and simple meals has not ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215277924/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:12:45 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215277924/scat/361525af21fa2cde A top Norwegian official says she will travel to Romania next week to find out why foreign aid to help improve conditions for the Roma people is not being used. The announcement came as Oslo police said seven out of 10 people arrested on theft-related charges in the past year were from Romania, The Norway Post reported Tuesday. The Norwegian government set aside $23.4 million last year to aid ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215277906/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:56:40 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215277906/scat/361525af21fa2cde STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Extreme-right websites in Sweden are far more popular than websites run by parties represented in parliament, said a report presented to the government on Tuesday.The seven top far-right websites attract a total of 145,000 unique visitors a day, according to the report, which was prepared by the government-run Swedish Media Council."I'm surprised to find out that (the ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215276419/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:26:56 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215276419/scat/361525af21fa2cde , said it would sell up to 230 million ordinary shares in Nordea, worth some 18.1 billion Swedish crowns $2.8 billion (1.7 billion pounds) at current market prices, though such bloc sales are usually done at a discount.It will use the proceeds to reduce the national debt.On completion of the sale, Sweden's current 13.4 percent stake in Nordea - a legacy of the country's banking crisis ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215276420/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:26:55 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215276420/scat/361525af21fa2cde OSLO (Reuters) - The Taliban held secret negotiations in Norway over the past few months, helping yield a deal that allowed the radical Afghan rebels to open an office in Qatar, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Tuesday."We have played a key role in this process," Barth Eide told state broadcaster NRK. "It has been a strictly confidential process but we can now reveal ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215276518/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:26:53 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215276518/scat/361525af21fa2cde Curiosity doesn't want to sound, like, ungrateful or whatever, because it's so super-nice that LEGO is making a Curiosity-shaped toy, but Jesus Christ, is that what Curiosity looks like to you? That fucking--that thing? It looks like the Pixar robot trying to mate with an Oreo. It looks like a cockroach wearing a fur cape. It looks like a vibrating back scratcher available for purchase ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215275153/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:19:24 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215275153/scat/361525af21fa2cde Research and Markets: Construction in Denmark: The Residential Construction Market to Record Positive Growth in 2014 after Recording a Decline Of 0.3% In ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215274647/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:56:52 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215274647/scat/361525af21fa2cde A physicist is gathering supporters for an ATLAS experiment Lego mini model that could put a piece of the Large Hadron Collider in the hands of Lego fans ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215274610/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:47:48 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215274610/scat/361525af21fa2cde Nicklas Helenius of Denmark shields the ball from Jordi Amat of Spain during the Uefa European Under-21 championship play-off in 2012. Photograph: ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215273648/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:49:57 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215273648/scat/361525af21fa2cde STOCKHOLM, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:46am EDT STOCKHOLM, June 18 (Reuters) - Sweden's government said on Tuesday said it was launching a sale of a 5.7 percent stake in Nordea, the Nordic region's biggest bank, as it revisited a long-standing ambition to privatise state assets. The Swedish government, which is Nordea's second biggest owner behind Finnish insurer Sampo, ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215275155/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:46:49 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215275155/scat/361525af21fa2cde COPENHAGEN -- A dating site targeting singles looking for a partner to have children was launched this week in Denmark, attracting slightly more men than women, its founder said on Tuesday. ';Babyklar.nu'; (baby-ready dot now) was the brain child of Emmanuel Limal, a French actor, playwright and engineer who came up with the idea after seeing a woman on another dating site apologize ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215271956/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:48:05 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215271956/scat/361525af21fa2cde The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) at Odense has received a VILLUM Foundation grant of Euro 8 M (US$ 10.6 M) to establish a research infrastructure for Bioanalytical Sciences. The new Center for Bioanalytical Sciences will incorporate instrumentation for genomics, proteomics and lipidomics studies, and equipment and computers for detailed analysis of biomolecular structures, interactions ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215272130/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:43:19 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215272130/scat/361525af21fa2cde Obama Monday asking about information regarding cash payments to Karzai. He said Karzai was told by the CIA the payments were ongoing. Corker said he would place $75 million in U.S. government funding for Afghan election programs on hold until he gets information about the payments from the White House. "I have determined that the further commitment of taxpayer funds at this time toward ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215272078/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:28:36 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215272078/scat/361525af21fa2cde Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) have agreed to establish a long-term operational alliance on East-West trades.The new P3 Network initially will operate 255 vessels on 29 loops on ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215270759/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:50:13 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215270759/scat/361525af21fa2cde NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which for almost a year has been driving across the Red Planet, will be the next model to roll off LEGO's CUUSOO production line, the toy company announced Friday, June 14. The Denmark-based LEGO Group chose ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215269440/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:26:37 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215269440/scat/361525af21fa2cde Danske Bank, which was badly affected by its exposure to Ireland, said it may not be able to pay its 2013 dividend in full after the Danish regulator said it must set aside more cash to cover risk. Danske shares fell nearly 6% on back of the news. Nordic regulators are among the toughest in Europe and their banks are, as a result, some of the best-capitalised. However Denmark has been a ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268292/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:47:15 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268292/scat/361525af21fa2cde DANISH toymaker Lego says it will expand a factory in the Czech Republic and create some 800 jobs to meet growing regional demand for its popular building ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268294/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:24:58 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268294/scat/361525af21fa2cde LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A baseball-themed exhibit built entirely from Legos is attracting adults and children to the Louisville Slugger Factory and Museum. The exhibit occupies a large space inside the museum and is filled with baseball-themed art, including a 58,000-piece model of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. There are also portraits of famous major league players built out of ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268295/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:22:50 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268295/scat/361525af21fa2cde Three civilians died in a blast in western Kabul Tuesday ahead of the NATO transfer of responsibility for security to Afghan forces, officials said. Gen. Mohammad Daud Amin, Kabul's deputy police chief, said intended target Mohammad Mohaqiq, a lawmaker and former cabinet member from the minority Hazara community, survived the attack, but at least four bodyguards were among the nearly two ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268256/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:14:40 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268256/scat/361525af21fa2cde Reuters © A crew member works as cargo is unloaded from Emma Maersk, one of the world's largest containers which is designed to carry 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (ETU), at Container Terminal 9 at Hong Kong's Kwai Chung district September 7, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215266981/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:47:34 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215266981/scat/361525af21fa2cde HELSINKI, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:35am EDT HELSINKI, June 18 (Reuters) - Finland's treasury said it raised 1 billion euros ($1.33 billion) in a tap auction of two government bonds, selling 10-year paper at an average yield of 1.774 percent. Finland is one of only four euro zone states to hold a full set of triple-A credit ratings, although the country's central bank ... http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268293/scat/361525af21fa2cde Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:35:31 -0400 http://www.denmarknews.net/index.php/sid/215268293/scat/361525af21fa2cde