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Fifth night of rioting in suburbs of Swedish capital leaves schools cars burned
STOCKHOLM - Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station. Lindgren said Friday that the overnight violence ...
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Love Is All You Need Finding Pierce Brosnan in a parking lot
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Stockholm suburbs beset by 5th night of violence
Eleven cars and parts of two schools and a police station were charred early Friday after a fifth night of unrest in immigrant enclaves around Sweden's capital. Some 300 to 500 youths gathered around eight blazing cars in northwestern suburban Rinkeby, with some young men vandalizing other vehicles, police told Sweden's Tidningarnas Telegrambyra news agency. More than a dozen ...
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Photos Giant LEGO model lands in Times Square
The world’s largest LEGO model is on display at Times Square in New York on May 23, 2013. Made of 5,335,200 LEGO bricks and based on the X-wing Starfighter that Luke Skywalker flies in the Star Wars movies, the model was transported to the United States from the LEGO Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic, where it was constructed by a team of 32 builders. The 3.3-metre-tall, 13-metre-long ...
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BRIEF-Ratos to buy Norwegian construction firm Hent
STOCKHOLM | Fri May 24, 2013 2:32am EDT STOCKHOLM May 24 (Reuters) - Ratos : * Ratos acquires hent * Says Ratos has signed an agreement to acquire approximately 73% of the shares in the norwegian construction company hent * Says the enterprise value for 100% of the company amounts to approximately NOK ...
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Lego Star Wars X-Wing lands in NY
What organizers say is the world’s largest Lego model, a life-sized Star Wars X-wing Starfighter, touches down in New York's Times Square. Tara Cleary ...
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Police Shooting in Immigrant Neighborhood Sparks Sweden’s Worse Riots
By Madeline Schiesser Impunity Watch Reporter, Europe STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Stockholm is burning, sparked by an incident of alleged police brutality twelve days ago. According to the brother-in-law of the deceased 69 year-old male victim, the man returned home when he was accosted by a gang of youths, who he threatened with knife. Later when police knocked on his apartment door, he mistook them ...
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Riots in Sweden continue
After first starting on last Sunday night in Husby, northwest to the Stockholm city, the riots now had spread to more suburbs, mainly in the areas near Husby and over the places to the south of the city, said the Swedish daily ...
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Midnight sun never sets in Norway
OSLO, Norway - Make the most of your holiday this summer - go to Norway where the sun never sets. Norway enjoys a special light during the summer, as it never goes dark. Then there is the midnight sun, observed anywhere above the Arctic Circle, which features high on the list of travellers to Norway who wish to experience 24 hours of sunlight. At the Arctic Circle in the county of Nordland, ...
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Schmeichel talks Danish boxing
Ed Robinson and Spencer Fearon look at all the latest boxing news, and have an exclusive interviews with Bernard Hopkins and Darren Barker. For the full extended Toe 2 Toe podcast go to Sky Sports News radio, or download from ...
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Luxury Hotel in Copenhagen Opens Waterfront Terrace in Time for Summer
View Photo At the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel, located at the harbor, guests and locals alike can celebrate summer at the Waterfront Terrace, open now through 31st August at this Copenhagen, Denmark hotel. Click here for high-resolution ...
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Meet the 23-ton X-Wing the worlds largest Lego model
There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut today in New York's Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego "Star Wars" X-Wing (#9493) set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon ...
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Rioting raises questions about Swedens liberal immigration policy and its inequality
FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture centers. It isn't France or Britain, but Sweden _ a Scandinavian ...
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Swedens riots raise questions about inequality
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few dispute that the violence was probably touched off by the fatal police shooting of an elderly man who had locked himself in an ...
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Mobile Tech Finds Wine in No Time with New OCR Integration into Vivino App
Vivino , the highest ranked wine app in the U.S. App Store, has integrated new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to improve the service's overall match rate. One year ago, 48 percent of wine labels were successfully matched. Today, that match rate increased to 86 percent due to the improved OCR technology. ...
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This 23-Ton 5.3-Million-Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever
The newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. The model of the ...
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Riots in Sweden raise questions about nations egalitarian culture
May 21, 2013: A burnt out car, in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture ...
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Sweden riots continue for 4th day
The suburbs where the rioting is taking place are populated by immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Somalia and have high unemployment. Many suspect the real reason for the riots is frustration with a perceived lack of opportunities for immigrants in Sweden. "In segregated areas, many are disappointed about their future prospects," Eva Andersson, co-author of Segregation and Urban ...
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Flooding forces people from homes in Norway
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after heavy rain caused flooding in southeastern Norway. In Nesbyen, a mudslide reached properties, filling some basements with water. A river overflowed its banks in Kvam, sending water through the centre of the village. Around 250 people had to be evacuated. Roads and rail services have also been affected by the bad weather, including ...
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On Woolwich British media could learn from Swedish riots coverage | Andrew Brown
riots around Stockholm had made the front page of the Financial Times, I scurried over to the sites of Swedish papers to see in some detail what was happening. It turned out that the dismembered parts of a Thai woman had been found in Lapland, various television stars had been variously unhappy in their love lives, a farmer had caused the evacuation of a police station in the south of the ...
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Novo Nordisk says obesity drug trial confirms weight loss
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said Phase III study results had shown people treated with its liraglutide drug had an 8 percent weight ...
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Norway Recommends Bringing Magnitsky Sanctions to the UN Security Council
23 May2013 -Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Espen Barth Eide has recommended bringing the issue of Magnitsky sanctions to the UN Security Council. Responding to a group of Norwegian parliamentarians, Minister Eide pointed out that the decisions of the UN Council are binding on all UN member states and would be a proper forum to consider the issue of sanctions and asset freezes in relation to ...
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Maersk to Hike Rates in Asia-Caribbean Trade
From Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Taiwan to Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Colombia and Puerto Rico, the hike will be $980 per 20-foot container and $1,400 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube ...
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30 cars restaurant torched on 4th night of Sweden riots
Groups of youths have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish capital that started following a fatal police shooting. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says at least 30 cars were set ablaze across western and southern Stockholm early Thursday. Firefighters said they have "never before seen so many fires ...
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Sweden Riots Police Station Set On Fire
Groups of youths in Stockholm have burnt down a restaurant and torched more than 30 cars in a fourth night of rioting. The unrest is being blamed on police shooting and killing a 69-year-old knife-wielding man on May 13. Hundreds of young people are said to have been involved in the rioting in immigrant suburbs of the Swedish capital. Local media also said a police station office was ...
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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