Leading banks are drowning in money.  Jyske Bank, Denmark’s second-largest lender, reported a DKK1.2bn ($176m) profit in the year’s second quarter, Tuesday, an increase of 42% over the past 12 months. Since the…

Stong earnings for beer and jewellery but wind energy disappoints….. Carlsberg has raised its profit guidance for the full year despite ongoing problems in Russia, one of its biggest markets. The world’s third-biggest…

The Islamist terrorist network Al-Qaida has called for the assassinations of Danish and Swedish diplomats at embassies worldwide as retribution for the recent Quran burnings in both countries. Tabloid daily Ekstra Bladet reports that…

Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen heads for China today amidst a storm of criticism from opposition parties. During his 3-day official visit the former prime minister will discuss a new Denmark-China cooperation agreement…

Two Danish Air Force F-16s were scrambled, Monday, to identify two Russian fighter jets in international airspace over the North Sea heading for the Netherlands.  According to reports a warning from the Danish…

A temporary military area will be set up at the Port of Aarhus in Jutland this week to enable the deliveries of US military vehicles and equipment, accompanied by 150 American troops. The exercise…

Danish People’s Party (DPP) leader Morten Messerschmidt has dismissed the upcoming national road trip by the three coalition leaders as a desperate ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to the government’s downturn in the polls. After Prime…

The government has dropped plans for a new bill that would require Danes to save up for their own elderly care. Ahead of the summer recess the Social Democrats sparked off a political…

A majority of the Danish electorate would support a ban on Quran desecrations. A new Megafon poll shows 51% of voters back the government’s move to ban burnings of the holy book, with…

The passage of a controversial hijab law through the Iranian parliament has been dismissed as ‘totally absurd’ by a Danish Iran expert. A majority of Iranian MPs have voted to review the bill,…