Denmark’s flagship Royal Theatre has announced widespread redundancies over the next four years. At least 100 employees, 10% of the workforce, will be fired, including both performers and administrators, in an effort to…

A tiny Danish polar bear cub has become the latest internet sensation. The ‘cutesy’ video of the one month-old cub ‘Siku’ being hand-reared at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park has gone ‘viral’, creating millions…

7:59 will be published as usual throughout the Christmas week, from Tuesday the 27th until Friday the 30th, but with no afternoon updates (it’s a slow news week!). Obviously, www.seven59.dk can be accessed…

A Danish company has allegedly been redistributing internet monitoring and surveillance equipment to Iran on behalf of an Israeli partner, in violation of Israeli law. Bloomsberg News claims that the Israeli company, Allot…

Former defence minister Gitte Lillelund Bech said today she was ‘shocked’ by the news that Danish troops in Iraq detained over twice as many prisoners as previously stated. Defence chief Knud Bartels has…

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Danish soldiers captured twice as many prisoner sin Iraq than previously stated. In a reply to Minister of Defence Nick Hækkerup, Defence Chief Knud Bartels states that at least 500 Iraqis were taken…

After his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Socialist People’s Party (SPP) leader Villy Søvndal has been criticised for everything from his lack of…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has refused to comment on reports that Minister of Finance Bjarne Corydon, as her campaign manager at the last general election in September, put pressure on the Copenhagen tax…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt remained steadfastly silent about the denial of security clearance for former Soial Democrat policy spokesman Henrik Sass Larsen, after the Liberal Party called the PM and the Minister of…