Denmark

Even the grimmest of times deserve a grin, and the Odense Zoo in Denmark has given us one today with this video of penguins attempting to escape their keeper.    It's a better moment for the zoo than its recent publicity, which was largely...

Sometime around 12,000 years ago, this huge rock was left behind near Ljosland village in Norway's Vest-Agder region when a glacier melted. Just another item for the lost-and-found...except that it took nearly forever for it to be found.   Over a...

Denmark's top summer music festivals have announced their headliners for next summer's editions...time to start thinking about flights and tickets!   The biggest festival, Roskilde, has Red Hot Chili Peppers at the top of the bill—a 20-year...

  and you can see the difference from the "just ordinary" above, and in all of the city's new tourism advertising, and potentially on signs as well. It was developed for the city by a team of three experienced type designers, and will be used in...

While Paris, Copenhagen and other cities have tried out car-free days or are planning some as a test, Oslo is going full on with a plan to get private cars out of the central downtown district by 2019 to help slash greenhouse gas emissions by 50%....

Scene in Gamla Stan, Stockholm.                 Photo: Jurgen Howaldt / Wikipedia Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo, in that order, have been tabbed as Europe's fastest-growing cities in a report compiled for...

Copenhagen's pedestrianized Stroget: Day without cars could look this way elsewhere, too   Copenhagen, long considered one of the best cities in the world for cyclists, nonetheless has an air-quality problem that often puts it over EU standards...

Swedish divers have hauled up a monster (or a grinning dog if you see it that way) once intended to impress or frighten enemy sailors facing a warship built in the late 1400s for King Hans of Denmark. The ship sank after a fire near the Swedish...

Satirical view of Ryanair's scrappy and sometimes vengeful reaction to criticism, from employees or passengers.   Illustration: everydaypublic.com   Ryanair's increasingly bitter fight with Danish unions over working conditions for employees...

  Danish archaeologists have found 2,000 gold spirals buried in a field in Zealand, near a site where several ancient gold bracelets and bowls had previously been discovered.  While not certain of their exact function, it is thought they...

Ryanair, the leading low-cost air carrier in Europe has its hands full on labor issues these days. A continuing strike of ground workers in Spain has left Ryanair without baggage service in Madrid, Danish unions have received court permission to...

Copenhagen, which beat out Amsterdam earlier this year for the title of best city in the world for cyclists, is upping its game with several new commuter bridges just for bikes.   The city already has hundreds of miles of bike lanes that are...