The newly appointed Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill has great expectations for his striker Nicklas Bendtner. – It is vital that we get the best out of him, says the manager, according to Sky Sports before Sunday’s bottom match in the Premier League against Blackburn. – Nicklas has lots of innate talent. He played not always [...]

DBU’s communications director Lars Behrendt come out with an unreserved apology to the Swedish people after Friday’s technical accident in the park. speaker biscuits meant that the Swedish national anthem was not played in its full length before the test match. Behrendt has no explanation for why the technique failed because it has not yet [...]

Anders Fogh Rasmussen became prime minister in November 2001 – two and a half months after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. In February 2002 the Danish soldiers sent into battle in Afghanistan. Although the agenda for Prime Minister’s weekly briefing by the Queen on current political issues have never [...]

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s first New Year’s speech praised the parties behind the red brick, while the opposition criticized the speech as being too imprecise. – It was a speech outside edge which was not provided any solutions, was the conclusion from the Danish People’s Party leader Pia Kjaersgaard, the debate on DR1 after New [...]

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is far from the only one on earth who refuse to eat in protest. Several examples have recently filled the international media image, and there are some common features, explains Ole Hoff-Lund, who is press officer for the Danish branch of Amnesty International. – Over the past year we have seen a number [...]