Posted on 24 December 2012. Tags: Ski Dome Denmark, skiing, Skiing Denmark
A Danish travel company has announced plans to build the world’s biggest ski dome in Randers, Denmark. The design, released this week by Denmark-based architecture firm CEBRA, will see the slopes encompassed in a giant set of arcs made to resemble a snowflake spanning the River Guden.
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Posted in General
Posted on 23 November 2012. Tags: close encounter, humpback, Humpback whale, humpback whales, kayak, sighting, tromso, vg, video, whales
Unique footage of a close encounter between a humpback whale and a group on kayaks was revealed on Norwegian news website Verdens Gang. The video was shot while 27-year-old Tromsø resident and Icelandic citizen Saga Svavarsdóttir went out with a group of friends on kayaks in Grøtfjord.
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Posted in Countries, General, Leisure, Lifestyle, Norway, Science
Posted on 13 June 2012. Tags: Esa Laiho, Fake Russian degree, Finland fake doctors, Finnish doctors, Helsinki court
Two men who practiced medicine in Finland without proper degrees are likely to only face charges of fraud after investigators failed to find any evidence of malpractice.
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Posted in Finland, MBL, Society
Posted on 05 June 2012. Tags: breivik, Norway, utoya
Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik says he will not appeal a conviction if the court in Oslo finds him both guilty and sane.
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Posted in General, International, Norway, Society
Posted on 02 June 2012. Tags: Finland
A Finnish modelling agency director, who was jailed for 12-and-a-half years on rape charges in December, is to face fresh accusations of sex crimes after 12 new alleged victims came forward.
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Posted in Finland, MBL
Posted on 31 May 2012. Tags: Alaska, Greenland, methane
Scientists have reported finding thousands of sites in Greenland and Alaska where ancient methane gas is bubbling into the atmosphere, possibly with great ramifications for global warming.
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Posted in Environment, General, Greenland, International, MBL, Society, United States
Posted on 19 May 2012. Tags: Copenhagen, Denmark
A Danish court has released two of five leftist activists who have been charged under anti-terrorism laws for arson and conspiracy to commit arson at several high profile Copenhagen buildings.
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Posted in Denmark, MBL, Society
Posted on 12 May 2012. Tags: Denmark, kurt westergaard, Muhudiin Muhammed Geele, terrorism
The sentence of the man who attacked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe has been confirmed at 10 years after the case finally ended in Denmark’s highest court.
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Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, Society