Valtteri Bottas wins Russian GP as time penalty denies Lewis Hamilton's record bid – ninth career F1 win is his second at Sochi and his second this season ~sports.motorsports Article 903 words 6 votes
He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to ICE for deportation ~life Article 2012 words 9 votes
Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian ~humanities.history Article 710 words 14 votes
Ami, the tiny cube on wheels that French fourteen-year-olds can drive ~transport Article 1105 words 21 votes
Norway arrests suspect linked to 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant in Paris – man held on European arrest warrant issued by French authorities over attack in which six people died ~news norway crime palestine france.paris Article 480 words 7 votes
Unstaffed, digital supermarkets transform rural Sweden – Lifvs start-up has opened nineteen stores across the country, choosing remote places that have lost their local shops ~tech Article 577 words 15 votes
Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
Arizona university prevents potential Covid outbreak by testing feces ~health Article 364 words 8 votes
Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales ~enviro conservation Article 576 words 6 votes
Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African ~tech Article 1779 words, published Jul 17 2020 10 votes
The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones ~tech Article 1746 words, published Jan 15 2020 8 votes
Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia ~enviro Article 775 words 6 votes
Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three ~games.tabletop Article 670 words 9 votes
Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time ~books libraries Article 817 words 10 votes
Norway's wealth fund loses £16bn in first half of 2020 after Covid panic – state support has restored investor confidence but fund expects more market turmoil ~finance economics Article 551 words 7 votes
US families consume cancer-linked glyphosate in their food; eating organic reduces levels ~health Article 1148 words 7 votes
Mörk Borg, the metal role-playing game rocking lockdown – with its dungeons, entrails and metal-inspired hellscapes, this Swedish game has hoovered up awards ~games.tabletop Article 898 words 5 votes
John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel ~games Article 418 words 12 votes
Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland ~science biology.marine Article published Jul 17 2020 5 votes
Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso ~design architecture Article 435 words 5 votes
Brandon Sanderson: 'After a dozen rejected novels, you think maybe this isn’t for you' ~books Article 1492 words, published Jul 23 2020 9 votes
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
Dover clifftops 'buzzing with wildlife' after National Trust takeover ~enviro Article 577 words, published Jul 4 2020 7 votes
Helsinki Photo Festival – Fifty-eight international and Nordic photographers displayed in venues across the city; the overall theme for the festival is trust ~arts photography Article 49 words 5 votes
CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of fifteen million years ago ~enviro climate change Article 575 words 5 votes
What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course ~science biology Article 1331 words 6 votes
David Atherton's recipe for Swedish crown cake – this ‘kronans kaka’ is made with potato for a gluten-free sweet treat ~food recipes baking Article 293 words 2 votes
Valtteri Bottas took the win for Mercedes at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix – teammate Lewis Hamilton suffered a dramatic late-racing demotion ~sports.motorsports Article 770 words 10 votes
The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish” ~arts Article 333 words 8 votes
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off ~enviro conservation Article 750 words 11 votes
Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery ~tech Article 724 words, published Jun 18 2020 10 votes
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge ~humanities.history Article 920 words 7 votes
Would you give up flying to lower your environmental impact? ~transport Article 2190 words, published May 22 2019 21 votes
Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88 ~movies Article 838 words 12 votes
Cyber-attack Australia: Sophisticated attacks from ‘state-based actor’, PM says ~tech security.cyber Article 769 words 7 votes
Finns aghast that Donald Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media ~society politics Article 358 words 10 votes
At least twenty Indian Army soldiers killed in a face-off with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley ~news india china Article 977 words 16 votes
Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows ~enviro climate change Article 819 words, published Jun 13 2020 7 votes
British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing ~science biology Article 606 words 12 votes
Australian Senators unite to block Pauline Hanson's 'all lives matter' motion ~news australia politics Article 658 words 8 votes
In Alabama, if the cops kill someone committing a crime, their accomplice goes to jail for murder (2018) ~life Article 619 words, published Apr 15 2018 13 votes
'More masks than jellyfish': Coronavirus waste ends up in ocean ~enviro plastics pollution Article 650 words, published Jun 8 2020 11 votes
Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right -- Tim Berners-Lee ~tech internet Article 1208 words, published Jun 4 2020 14 votes
Banksy mural stolen from Bataclan concert hall in Paris found by police in a farmhouse in Italy ~arts art.street Article 409 words 5 votes
My favourite football game – when Denmark beat Uruguay 6-1 at the 1986 World Cup (Michael Gibbons, co-author of "Danish Dynamite" with Rob Smyth and Lars Eriksen) ~sports.football Article 753 words 7 votes