The infection rate in Denmark is now so high that if it were a foreign country, its residents would now be banned from entering Denmark for leisure purposes.
As Denmark and Norway start lifting restrictions after a month of lockdown, are their coronavirus strategies shifting to the less restrictive approach their neighbour Sweden has had from the start?
It’s thought that the Vikings first arrived in Canada about 1000 years ago <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20160921/watch-this-nordic-viking-ship-sail-into-new-york-sweden-norway" target="_blank">when Leif Eriksson went ashore in Newfoundland</a>, and the North American country has sparked another Nordic epic of the modern kind this week, when Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway squared off in a Twitter war.
Norwegian state-owned renewables producer Statkraft and Danish turbine maker Vestas announced on Tuesday that they will collaborate on Europe’s largest onshore wind farm.
Norwegian police say that the effort to check all people arriving by ferry from Hirtshals in northern Denmark is being hindered by “extremely drunk” passengers.
When a Danish national stumbled upon a precariously balanced 'floating' boulder on a recent hike, he was surprised to find no one seemed to have noticed it before.
Asylum seekers flowing to Scandinavia are finding chillier welcomes as their numbers surge and far-right parties increasingly assert their influence on immigration policy, analysts say.
Tradition-rich Danish spirits Gammel Dansk and Aalborg Akvavit will now be produced in Oslo, leading Aalborg to raise their glasses in a bittersweet toast as the last batch left town.
As Norwegian Muslims formed a ‘ring of peace’ around an Oslo synagogue on Saturday in a show of solidarity with Jews a week after the twin fatal shootings in Copenhagen, a similar initiative by a Danish Muslim was denied by police for security reasons.
A week after the twin shootings that rocked Denmark and amid concerns of growing anti-Semitism in the Nordic countries, Muslims in Norway formed a 'ring of peace' around a synagogue to show the "true face" of Islam.
A now 44-year-old man left his home in Norway nine years ago without a trace. He was found rummaging through a rubbish container in Jutland over the weekend.
The Tuesday ferry journey between Hirsthals and Langesund, Norway was anything but ordinary due to an apparent scorpion sting that forced the vessel to turn around.
A Swedish terrorism researcher who blasted Norway's handling of a recent threat said that the Danes are more proactive and better with their messaging.
Ferry operators have increased security checks for Norway-bound passengers, but the Norwegians said they would rather handle the current terror threat from their end.
Sorry Danes, but they're just not that into you. In a survey of singles, Denmark came in third place behind the Norwegians and everyone's consensus favourite, those beautiful Swedes.
