Please note that Friday the 20th is a public holiday and 7.59 won’t be published. We’ll be back on Monday with all the news from the long weekend.

Danish director Lars Von Trier was forced to cancel a gala dinner for 400 invited guests in Cannes last night when the host restaurant objected to pro-Nazi comments he made earlier in the…

A British arms dealer has warned that his former Danish business partner, Niels Holck, will face ‘hell on earth’ if he’s forced to serve time in an Indian prison. During a High Court…

Is the government’s plan to strengthen control of Denmark’s borders in violation of the Schengen agreement? During a public debate in Malmø under the title ‘Is the dream of a border-less Europe dying…

The Social Democrats have dropped to 26.6% in a new opinion poll, their lowest level for months as the government appears to be gaining reward for its efforts to stabilise the floundering economy….

Retirement reform, which has dominated Danish politics since the PM’s New Year speech, doesn’t appear to be a major game-changer. Although the Social Democrats and Socialist People’s Party have proclaimed the upcoming election…

The government, Danish People’s Party (DPP), and Christian Democrats (CD) have reached agreement on a ‘Home Improvement’ initiative that will allow taxpayers to claim an allowance on work carried out in the home,…

A Nørrebro demonstration yesterday on the 18th anniversary of the1993 riots that marked the accept of the EU Edinburgh treaty resulted in 65 arrests, although all were later released.

16 EU officials are currently investigating a large amount of files, documents and computers at Mærsk’s headquarters.  The extensive checks took place without prior warning and have been ordered by the EU Commission…

After much anticipation, the unique Danish director’s latest offering, Melancholia, was shown this morning to the world’s film critics at the Cannes Film Festival.  The immediate reaction to the film in the cinema,…