Born into slavery, Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin became part of the Swedish royal court and left a legacy of books and letters
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Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen found guilty by supreme court of inciting hatred after claiming that homosexuality was a “developmental disorder” – prompts criticism from far-right ministers
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Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions
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Greenlandic women claim victory in legal fight with Denmark over forced IUD scandal – compensation due to thousands of women and girls fitted with coils without their knowledge or consent
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Former PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir has said the Icelandic language could be wiped out in as little as a generation due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English language dominance
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Hamlet rages in Stockholm against political closure of a cultural institution – government funding freezes have resulted in a real terms decrease of £4M per year since 2017 for theatre Dramaten
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Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s – PM Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration
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After years in the shadows, Norway has finally found its place in the international spotlight with a number of distinctive, relationship-centred and critically acclaimed films and television shows
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Sweden is to implement a nationwide mobile phone ban in all schools in an attempt to improve security and study conditions for students
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Debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic”
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How a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
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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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Folk music is having a resurgence in Norway spurred by a reclamation of the genre among generation Z
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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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Norway has launched a new scheme to lure top international researchers amid growing pressure on academic freedom in the US
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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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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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Swedish far-right extremists pull in boys online and use bodybuilding and fight clubs to further their white supremacist agenda
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Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hoped
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Has Iceland found the antidote to toxic ‘girlboss’ feminism – concept of ‘konur eru konum bestar’ is everywhere, including the female-led coalition government
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Global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast
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Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”
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Man convicted for drunk-driving a drone in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in Sweden
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Television drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion – ‘Families Like Ours’ has become national talking point, but some scientists say events depicted couldn't happen
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Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour – meet the women training for war with Russia
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Finland exports snow-saving mats to ski resorts hit by climate crisis – preserving previous year's snow for start of season can combat increasingly unpredictable winters
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Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target
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Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains”
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Iceland's famous music venues swallowed by tourism – thriving music scene that gave world Björk, Sigur Rós and Ólafur Arnald under threat from Reykjavík's popularity
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Satu Rämö has caused a publishing sensation across Europe – all thanks to her novels about Hildur, a mindful cop who solves murders with her needle-clacking sidekick
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Eleven on trial in Sweden's largest environmental crime case – Bella Nilsson's company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste
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Initiative to extol benefits of allemannsretten, Norway's “right to roam”, to international tourists has met with strong criticism – tourism campaign shelved over environmental fears
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
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Fehmarn Belt tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Johan Röhr's 2,700 songs have been streamed 15bn times – Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
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European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
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Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
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Finland used to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world – how the country halved it and saved countless lives
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Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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In most of the Western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it's going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Reindeer noir, the Finnish crime sub-genre influenced by Santa's home town of Rovaniemi
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Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden
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