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Danish writer Inger Christensen dies at age 73

Source: Associated Press

Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 24 hours ago | Entertainment News

Inger Christensen's publisher says the Danish writer who built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures has died at age 73. Publisher Gyldendal says the reclusive writer died Saturday but has given no further details.

The real magic of mushrooms

Source: The Age

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago | Business News

The company increased its research department by 13% last year, and now almost one in 10 of its 900 scientists and assistants are seeking the right enzyme product that can work in an industrial setting. Chinese search Last May, Novozymes...

ISS acquire Chubb NZ guarding, mobile patrols

Source: Scoop

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago | Technology News

Chubb has over 50 years of security service experience in New Zealand and presently manages a nationwide base of over 2,000 customers within manned guarding (including event management, prisoner escort and court custodial services) and mobile patrol services (including alarm...

Tokyo stages anti-terror exercise in Olympic bid

Source: Yedioth Ahronoth

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago | Political News

Tokyo staged its biggest ever anti-terrorism exercise on Friday, in an attempt to prove its credentials for staging the 2016 Olympic Games, days after Barack Obama's US election victory boosted rival Chicago's hopes. Sirens wailed as a thousand personnel...

Denmark cuts interest rate by half-point to 5 pct

Source: Palm Beach Post

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago | Business News

Denmark — Denmark's central bank has lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 5.0 percent, mirroring a rate cut by the European Central Bank. Thursday's decision reverses a move on Oct. 24 to raise the rate...

Market Watch 6 November: Down, down, deeper and down

Source: Russia Today

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago | Business News

At the 18.00 close of trade the RTS was down 6.3% at 777.52, with the Micex down 9.62% at 700.59 when it closed at 18.45, after a heavy sell off in the extra 45 minutes. Both exchanges were halted during...

Almanac

Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 3 days ago | Entertainment News

On Jan. 3, 1959, Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D...On this date In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X...George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton,...

Tom Burke: War passes: the climate is for ever

Source: The independent

Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 days ago | Sports News

This is arguably the first week of the most important year in human history. The grandiose invites suspicion so that sentence was written reluctantly. Ideas do not seek permission before they enter your mind, nor are they always the most...

Rice: 'It's well past time' for Mugabe to leave

Posted by: kalex

Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago | Political News

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that it is "well past time" for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to leave office as evidenced by the nation's calamitous cholera epidemic and health care crisis. Rice said the country...

A true mourn:Architectural master [ who designed the iconic Sydney ...

Posted by: aarana

Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Joern Utzon, who has often been compared to architecture greats such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto of Finland, drew up the design for the opera house in Sydney, Australia, in 1957. Joern Utzon died from a heart attack...