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Danish supermarket got drugs instead of bananas
Police say employees at the supermarket chain Coop got a big surprise when they opened banana boxes from the South American country and found about 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of what police believe is cocaine.The powder was discovered last week in Aarhus, western Denmark, when employees noticed that some of the boxes were heavier than others.Coop spokesman Jens Juul says more bags with white ...
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Worlds largest Lego Star Wars X-wing Starfighter on display
CARLSBAD, Ca. -- The world's largest Lego Star War's X-wing Starfighter is now on display at Legoland California. The X-wing is a 1:1 replica made of five million Lego bricks that took a team of 32 Master Model Builders more than 17,000 hours to construct. The model weighs more than 45,000 pounds, stands 11 feet tall, stretches 43 feet long and has a wingspan of 44 feet. The Lego ...
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Danish swimmer to lose gold bronze from 2012 world championships
Mads Glaesner of Denmark, seen at the 2012 short course championships in Istanbul in question, received a three-month suspension. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated ...
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Danish swimmer Glaesner stripped of 2 medals
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Danish swimmer Mads Glaesner will be stripped of gold and bronze medals from last year's world short-course championships because of a positive drug test. The Danish swimming federation says Glaesner received a three-month suspension after testing positive for Levmetamfetamine, a product used in nasal decongestants, after winning bronze in the 400-meter ...
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Mind-Numbing TV Shows Are A Hit In Norway
Boring TV is such a hit in the Scandinavian nation of Norway that broadcasters are scrambling to produce even more shows to satisfy the appetites of viewers. One idea being considered is a live show with knitting experts, according ...
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Novo Drops as New Lilly Drug Threatens Victoza Copenhagen Mover
Novo Nordisk A/S (NOVOB) fell the most among benchmark stocks in Copenhagen trading after Bank of America Merrill Lynch said the diabetes drug company's Victoza medicine faces "a real threat" from ...
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Prince Daniel backs Sweden bid
HRH Prince Daniel of Sweden visited the UEFA Women's EURO 2013 hosts' training camp at the weekend and gave the players a royal incentive for succeeding next ...
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New World Gets Extension to Danish Licenses
New World Oil and Gas reported Monday that it has secured a six-month extension to deadlines for its work program in licenses 1/09 and 2/09 at its Danica Jutland project in western Denmark. The extension was agreed with New World’s partners in the project, Danica Jutland ApS and the Danish North Sea Fund, and approved by the Danish Energy Agency. It will allow the results of the recent ...
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Louisville Slugger exhibit features Lego stadiums
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- 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 Legos, and ...
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New World Oil and Gas secures a six month extension for the Danica Jutland Licences Denmark
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With a string of successes Norwegian Cruise Line is riding the wave
On a night in late April, Norwegian Cruise Line President and CEO Kevin Sheehan celebrated the delivery of his company’s new 4,028-passenger ship in Germany with a low-key, stress-free cocktail party.What a difference three years had made. During an inaugural cruise last month aboard the Manhattan-based Norwegian Breakaway, Sheehan recalled the much different scene in 2010 as the cruise ...
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Norway votes overwhelmingly to adopt gender-neutral armed forces draft
Norway's Parliament voted overwhelmingly to install a policy of gender-neutral armed forces conscription, Norway's defense minister announced. The new measure was adopted in Oslo Friday, making Norway the only European country with a policy of gender-neutral conscription, said Anne-Grete Stroem Erichsen, the defense minister. She said male-only conscription is outdated, all citizens ...
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Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
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