ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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On the increased popularity and serious risks of choking during sex
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China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football (soccer) match
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Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard renew Tour de France rivalry in tricky and tortuous opening
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Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the dance duo Bicep are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world
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How a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
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Three bosses at UK hospital where Lucy Ledby worked arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
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Sweden and Denmark's Öresund bridge turns 25 – while Copenhagen's fortunes grow alongside rise in commuters, benefits for Malmö are proving less obvious
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Arsenal offer initial £9.3m for Brentford's Christian Nørgaard – Dane would compete with Martín Zubimendi as Thomas Partey nears exit
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Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of driver's fare with its algorithm change
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When the Swedish town of Kallinge discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of PFAS, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children's future
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US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on youth gender-affirming care
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Trans people can obtain US passport that aligns with their gender identity, judge rules
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10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark
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One man's vision brought water back to a drought-ridden Ecuadorian town. He used a map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon.
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Offside law changed after Swedish third-tier club Torns IF used ‘gentle persistence’ to force International Football Association Board officials to act
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New study shows regions with best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the air
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A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere
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How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
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Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives
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Sporting CP have told interested clubs that Viktor Gyökeres will cost a fee of €80m – Swede has scored 97 goals in 102 games for Sporting
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Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, spews plumes of ash
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Alaska man survives after being trapped face-down in creek by 700lb boulder
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Folk music is having a resurgence in Norway spurred by a reclamation of the genre among generation Z
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Seeing infrared: scientists create contact lenses that grant ‘super-vision’
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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
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Two-time French Open finalist Casper Ruud on how seeking support after burnout has helped him move forward with his career
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Coinbase says cost of recent cyber-attack could reach $400m
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Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women
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In the last decade, extensive fungal growth has developed in Danish museums parallel to climate change, challenging occupational health and heritage preservation
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Iceland's Grindavík play again after eighteen-month seismic gap – volcano caused devastation in 2023, but miraculously their football pitch survived unscathed
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Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star? We go on a tour to see Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory.
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Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch
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'Digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
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How did Swedish side Djurgårdens IF end up in a European semi-final against Chelsea?
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Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time
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The icy glamour of Greta Garbo's doomed heroines is genuinely iconic – over a century after her first appearance, here's why Hollywood missed her so badly
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Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate
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Norway has launched a new scheme to lure top international researchers amid growing pressure on academic freedom in the US
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Is it possible to make a country healthier one slice of rye bread at a time? If the rocketing wholegrain consumption of the Danes is anything to go by, absolutely.
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The rise of bakery tourism: People travel from all over the world
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It's got colliding planets, women in peril and an angry phone-in host – inside the epic Lars von Trier exhibition that refuses to shy away from his problematic side
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China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon for first time
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Mattias Skjelmose claimed a shock victory at the men's Amstel Gold Race road cycling event – won a sprint finish against the favourites of Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel
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A true good boy: rancher’s dog leads two-year-old Arizona child to safety
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Matias Faldbakken unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 2011 attacks – twelve-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island
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Greenland documentary forces Danes to confront their colonial heritage – broadcast of Grønlands Hvide Guld made waves in February in both countries
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My stay at a Swedish eco-retreat was blissful. What's emerged about it since points to a much darker truth.
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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
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Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, dies aged 70
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