The world’s largest sperm bank is offering holidays to egg donors in Denmark to evade the country’s law banning the sale of eggs. Copenhagen-based Cryos International Sperm Bank will pay for foreign trips,…

Maersk asked to bid for its Qatar contract / Government drops extra duty on adverts / Australian university says no to The Skeptical Environmentalist Maersk: Qatar Petroleum’s move to invite international oil and gas…

Politics/Economy Justice Minister Mette Frederiksen criticised Copenhagen Police for failing to provide adequate protection for the Krystalgade synagogue in Copenhagen. Opposition parties immediately demanded to know what the government knew in the days…

Iran has released the Maersk cargo ship that was seized by Iranian patrol boats on 28 April and taken to Bandar Abbas. Iran claimed the ship was detained because of a legal dispute…

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s husband, Stephen Kinnock has won his bid to become Labour MP for Aberavon in Wales, beating the Conservatives by more than 10,000 votes. The prime minister, at Mr Kinnock’s…

Opposition parties are demanding to know exactly what the government knew in the days after the February terror attack and why it took them 79 days to correct misleading information that Danish Intelligence…

The Social Democrats have ‘gone negative’ in a new ad campaign directly targetting Liberal leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his expense account problems. The campaign, launched today in national newspapers, and another sign…

Helle Thorning-Schmidt could still spring a surprise and win re-election this year,  according to the respected British news magazine, The Economist, which reports that she may have been the underdog in the opinion…

Further pressure on the Danish krone will be resisted by foreign exchange interventions rather than interest rate hikes, the National Bank said yesterday. Speculative trading forced the krone, which is pegged to the…

Copenhagen police have launched a DKK415m lawsuit against the publishers of tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet for illegally selling advertising to foreign betting companies for eight years between 2003-2011. According to the charges filed…