Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter outright for $41 billion ~tech social media Article 411 words, published Nov 7 2017 21 votes
Norway has won a 15th gold medal at the 2022 Games – that's more than any other nation has ever won at a single Winter Olympics ~sports Article 595 words 8 votes
UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi ~enviro pollution Article 514 words, published Nov 7 2017 2 votes
Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner is suing Alphabet-owned Google for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results ~tech google Article 301 words, published Nov 7 2017 4 votes
Sweden approves plans for Forsmark nuclear waste storage site – will bury nuclear waste in the bedrock, and seal the facilities once they are full ~enviro Article 342 words, published Nov 7 2017 7 votes
Norwegian football club Tromsø IL has released a jersey with a QR code linking to information on human rights concerns ahead of Qatar's 2022 World Cup ~sports.football Article 492 words, published Nov 7 2017 6 votes
How one man was wrongly accused in Kongsberg attack – many international media outlets picked up on speculative tweets ~news norway.kongsberg journalism crime Article 788 words, published Nov 7 2017 11 votes
For the past year Vladislav and Vitalij Kusnetshik have been hiding out in Sweden's Minsk embassy to avoid persecution by Belarus authorities ~life Article 729 words, published Nov 7 2017 6 votes
Greenland stops oil and gas exploration – natural resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen said the environment and climatic impacts had been assessed as being too high ~enviro climate change Article 753 words, published Nov 7 2017 23 votes
A volcanic eruption came at just the right time for Iceland's stricken tourism industry ~travel Article 1214 words, published Feb 21 2017 4 votes
Finland has an ageing population and a labor shortage – despite government programs, immigrants and their families are not always greeted with open arms ~life work Article 499 words, published Nov 7 2017 7 votes
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities ~enviro pollution.water Article 1018 words 5 votes
Lego wins design patent case against German company at EU court – critics say the firm is using its heft to crush competition ~finance business Article 477 words, published Mar 1 2021 6 votes
Southwestern Iceland was rocked by a series of earthquakes Wednesday, which have caused increased volcanic activity ~science Article 203 words, published Feb 1 2021 5 votes
Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups ~enviro climate change Article 427 words 12 votes
Sex without consent is rape, but the principle is lacking in many legal frameworks in countries across Europe – Denmark is seeking to change this ~life Article 977 words, published Nov 7 2017 6 votes
Austrian village of 'Fucking' decides to change its name ~life Article 369 words, published Nov 2 2020 15 votes
Denmark's new consent law leaves sex workers out in the cold – they are becoming increasingly stigmatized within Danish society ~life.women Article 1036 words, published Nov 7 2017 10 votes
Why is Finland coping so well with the coronavirus crisis? No other European country has lower rates. ~health Article 770 words, published Nov 7 2017 10 votes
Environmentalists have held protests outside a court that is deciding on a tunnel link between Germany and Denmark – they say the project is flawed on many levels ~engineering Article 377 words 6 votes
Greenpeace occupies Swedish oil refinery over expansion plans – blockade culminated in six arrests after activists scaled harbour cranes at Brofjorden ~enviro climate change Article 475 words, published Sep 3 2020 5 votes
A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition ~music Article 381 words 6 votes
Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month ~science Article 438 words, published Jun 18 2020 10 votes
For two years the government gave 2,000 unemployed citizens €560 a month with no strings attached – does Finland show the way to universal basic income? ~finance Article 892 words 8 votes
Control your Faroe Islands tour guide – the country is attaching cameras to tour guides and letting the internet control where they go ~travel Article 865 words 8 votes
Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago ~enviro Article 198 words, published Jul 28 2018 6 votes
Switzerland votes to ban homophobic discrimination ~lgbt Article 415 words, published Jan 15 2020 10 votes
Police have launched an investigation after art thieves in the Swedish capital stole pieces by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali ~arts Article 365 words 4 votes
Unknown vandals scrawled 'Free Hong Kong' in red paint on the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen ~arts Article 283 words, published May 23 2018 10 votes
Ryanair will stop operating in Nuremberg and Stockholm due to the delayed delivery of the new Boeing 737 Max airplanes ~transport Article 293 words, published Jul 31 2019 6 votes
Denmark completes contentious fence along German border – the fence is meant to prevent wild boar from spreading swine fever to Denmark's lucrative pork industry ~enviro Article 696 words, published Nov 30 2019 7 votes
Volkswagen defends presence in China's Xinjiang amid uproar over Uighur abuses ~transport Article 597 words 5 votes
Women in Norway have the best quality of life according to the latest Women, Peace and Security Index ~life.women Article 462 words 6 votes
Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil ~science biology Article 745 words, published Feb 9 2019 8 votes
Rob Messel from the US strutted his way to success at the annual Air Guitar World Championships in Finland on Friday ~music Article 423 words, published Aug 24 2018 5 votes
Flygskam – Is Sweden's no-fly movement just media hype? ~transport Article 1319 words, published Jul 25 2019 7 votes
Norway's sovereign wealth fund backs away from fossil fuels ~finance business Article 994 words, published Jun 13 2019 7 votes
Typhoon Jebi hammers Japan, injuring dozens and leaving a trail of destruction ~enviro Article 659 words 4 votes
Lions, tigers that broke out of German zoo recaptured. The animals fled their cages after a powerful storm caused damage to enclosures. ~news germany Article 254 words 5 votes
Italy: Political turbulence spooks global financial markets. The euro has fallen to its lowest value against the dollar in almost a year. ~finance Article 606 words 9 votes
Cannes Palme d'Or goes to Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda's 'Shoplifters' ~movies Article 343 words 5 votes