Controversial zoo attacked for killing healthy giraffe and feeding it to the lions now culls two big cats and two cubs A Danish zoo has defended its decision to kill two ageing lions and two cubs , citing the risk of inbreeding and the arrival of a new male. This week's cull has again put the Copenhagen zoo on the defensive, a month after it infuriated animal rights activists by killing a healthy giraffe,...
Copenhagen zoo says it has euthanised two old lions and two cubs to make way for a new male A Danish zoo that prompted international outrage by putting down a healthy giraffe and dissecting it in public has killed two lions and their two cubs to make way for a new male. "Because of the pride of lions' natural structure and behaviour, the zoo has had to euthanise the two old lions and two young lions...
The zoo that killed Marius the giraffe has put down four lions to make way for a new male ...
Stephen Kinnock, who is married to Danish prime minister Helle Thoring-Schmidt, will stand at the 2015 general election The son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has been selected as a Labour candidate at the 2015 general election. Stephen Kinnock, 44, who is married to Danish Prime Minister Helle Thoring-Schmidt , was chosen yesterday as the official Labour candidate for Aberavon, in Wales If...
The bank says bitcoins are not money ‘in a proper sense as there is no issuer behind them’. By Alex Hern Alex Hern ...
When the Guardian journalist rang, the zoo itself appeared to confirm a reputable agency story When Marius the giraffe was put down and fed to the lions in front of visitors at Copenhagen zoo, its death caused controversy . A few days later on 12 February the Guardian ran an online story about another giraffe in a Danish zoo called Marius. Two paragraphs ran: "Days after the euthanasia of a healthy...
Scandinavian countries are some of the world's happiest places to live. How is this impacting their social sector? "We have a word for social entrepreneurs in Sweden. They're called 'Stipsters' – it means a startup hipster," says Johan Wendt, the entrepreneur behind world-leading Scandinavian social enterprise Mattecentrum . Recently highlighted in Channel 4's series Scandimania as being the happiest...
Academic who drafted plan for support from former slaving nations says ‘Our aim is to open a dialogue with European states’ Ed Pilkington ...
t mean she's selling out. She talks about rightwing politics, the fear of missing out and youth malaise Mø sounds oddly like Jeremy Kyle. "In Denmark we're so privileged," she says. "You get money to study, you get money if you're sick and you get money if your hand hurts. It's hard to be critical of people who are sick getting money, but in Denmark everyone gets money thrown at them and it makes them...
One in three women across the EU report having experienced some form of physical or sexual abuse since the age of 15, according to a major survey Ami Sedghi ...
One in three women report physical or sexual abuse since age of 15, with largest number of victims in Denmark Violence against women is "an extensive human rights abuse" across Europe with one in three women reporting some form of physical or sexual abuse since the age of 15 and 8% suffering abuse in the last 12 months, according to the largest survey of its kind on the issue, published on Wednesday....
London head office ISS, the Danish outsourcing group, said it was unperturbed by events in Ukraine as it launched a flotation into markets rocked by the crisis in the Crimea. The private equity-owned group, which pulled an attempted float in 2011, announced plans to raise about £883m to pay off debt. The sale on Copenhagen's Nasdaq OMX exchange will value the company, which employs more than half...
an incredible quadrupling of revenues in less than 10 years' It is a brand name familiar to children around the world, but a decade ago Lego was in crisis. Sales were collapsing at a rate of 26% a year, it lost 1.4bn Danish kroner (£150m) in 2003 and private equity firms were circling the 82-year-old family-owned Danish company. Now, after a series of job cuts and the ending of the family's management...
Early findings could help pinpoint reason behind worldwide rise in cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ...
s ministry of agriculture when a ban on ritual slaughter came into effect this week . There were immediate accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia from Jews and Muslims, even though both communities are still free to import meat killed by their preferred methods, and even though no animals have in fact been slaughtered without pre-stunning in Denmark for the past 10 years. These disputes may indeed...
t be affected, or because, the way they see things, pre-stunning is permitted. This is far from the first flare-up over ritual slaughter. Last year, the constitutional court in Poland undid the undoing of a 1997 ban on it, causing most of its sizeable halal and kosher export trade to move elsewhere. (Then the Polish parliament rejected a government bid to overturn the undoing). The same toing-and-froing...
s most plastic movie yet opened in the UK. Starring animated characters and familiar bump-topped scenery, The Lego Movie is not only perhaps the biggest product placement film ever seen, but it marks a key moment in the rise and rise of the Scandinavian toy company that at the end of last year became the world's second biggest after seeing a 13% increase in sales during what are tough times for other...
m not sure I've heard her right. Saga Norén is based on what? "A goat." She nods. "Charlotte, who was the first director, said, 'I want her to be like a small goat.' "I also had a picture of a cowboy – no, a cowgirl," Helin continues. "A cowboy-girl. I thought about Clint Eastwood. I imagined that Saga had seen Dirty Harry. Then I realised, no, she doesn't like fiction at all....
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welfare modernisation strategy' which uses technology to cut budget Anja Vestergaard brings out the robot and I come foot-to-wheel with the contraption that is supposedly revolutionising Denmark's care for the elderly. It's a little disappointing. It's just one of those automated disc vacuum cleaners that scoots around the floor, with sensors to avoid walls and a system to prevent it going over the...