Author Hans Christian Andersen is one of Denmark’s most famous figures from the 19th century, but can you name another Hans Christian, who left his mark on the world of science?
Saying that tech giants like Google and Apple now have more influence than many countries, Denmark will become the first nation in the world to appoint a so-called digital ambassador.
It was a year that for many was dominated by seismic events like Brexit, the surprise election of Donald Trump, the ongoing Syrian war and a seemingly never-ending list of celebrity deaths.
In a gobsmacking sign of national geekery, the term Danes most searched for on Google in 2015, was ‘agar.io’ — a massively multiplayer game where you play a single-cell life form in a giant petridish.
Police in southern Jutland have been helped out by an unlikely source: a Google Street View photo that shows two men carrying out an unsolved theft from 2012.
Nearly 1,500 Danes have taken advantage of the May ruling by the EU Court of Justice that gave Europeans the right to request search engines like Google to remove results about them.
