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leisure travel: supermarket tourism. This unassuming hero of travel experiences offers a passport into the everyday life of a locality of a city or country you are otherwise unfamiliar with.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—In a dizzying three weeks on the world stage, President Trump deposed Venezuela’s leader, threatened its neighbors with military action, raised the specter of new strikes on Iran and ignited—then tamped down—a diplomatic crisis with Europe over his efforts to acquire Greenland. At each fresh turn, Congress has found itself scrambling to keep up, sparking new debates among lawmakers about how to claw back constitutional powers from the presidency over matters of foreign policy in the Trump era.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump’s appointment of a special envoy for Greenland drew an angry response from Denmark and reignited its concerns about U.S. efforts to control the strategic Arctic territory.

Novo Nordisk A/S agreed to pay United Laboratories International Holdings as much as $2 billion for a next-generation obesity drug, the Danish Ozempic maker's latest move to refill its pipeline of experimental treatments. Novo will pay Hong Kong-based United Laboratories $200 million upfront for the drug, which combines three different mechanisms in an effort to treat obesity as well as diabetes and other diseases, the companies said Monday. Novo agreed to pay as much as $1.8 billion if the drug reaches certain development and sales goals. The deal comes amid growing skepticism from investors that Novo's next-generation portfolio will be sufficient to keep it on top of the hypercompetitive market for weight loss treatments. German software developer SAP SE unseated Novo as Europe's most valuable public company on Monday. Novo's shares traded down as much as 3.1% in Copenhagen. United Laboratories will retain rights in China for its compound, which works in a similar way to Novo rival Eli Lilly & Co.'s retatrutide — considered the strongest among the next-generation drugs currently in late-stage human trials.

Greenland's glittering blue icebergs, says his bank has told him to expand ahead of an expected influx of tourists after US President Donald Trump put the island in the global spotlight. Trump's comments, coupled with the opening of a new international airport in the capital Nuuk, have already boosted arrivals and more are expected. «Already now, we are getting many more bookings than we have received earlier, especially because of a man with the last name of Trump. He has really put Greenland on the map once again,» Knudsen-Ostermann, operator of Greenland Cruises, said, standing on the dock of an ice-packed harbour. Greenland became the focus of international attention in January when Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., arrived at the newly opened Nuuk airport. Since then, the U.S. president has doubled down on his pledge to make the Arctic island part of the United States, as he eyes its vast wealth of rare earth minerals critical for high-tech industries.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway… there has to be a reason Nordic countries consistently rank at the top of the list of the world’s happiest countries. It’s well documented that the Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden—are among the world’s most stable, prosperous and least corrupt.

Ujammiugaq Engell, like many Greenlanders, flaunts her rediscovered cultural identity, which US President Donald Trump's expansionist ambitions have only spurred further. «I'm a whole lot of person. I carry my Greenlandic and Danish sides with pride,» said the smiling 30-some-year-old, the daughter of a mixed Danish and Greenlandic couple. After moving to Copenhagen for university, she returned to live in Nuuk, the capital of the vast Arctic island, where she now works as a museum curator.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Denmark has a cake for every season – and reason – but no baked delight is awaited with as much anticipation as the indulgent Danish pastry made for Fastelavn. The fastelavnsboller, a doughy bun with a sweet filing, is the taste of Fastelavn, a Danish holiday that, like Mardi Gras, has close ties to the Christian religious observance of Lent.

United States has no current plans to increase its military presence in Greenland, the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen said on Thursday, following renewed interest by incoming President Donald Trump in acquiring the Arctic island.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. From the dining room on the ground floor of “Carl’s Villa" in Copenhagen, guests are treated to views of a charming garden adorned with classical statues. The art nouveau house was built in 1892 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Raise your hand if you’ve been victimized by bad weather in the last year or so. Was your travel disrupted? Did your home get unbearably hot? Have you been impacted by flooding? When I asked these questions at a panel event recently, only a lucky few in the audience kept their hands down.

One of Denmark’s largest cellphone networks has suffered severe outages that prevented people from contacting emergency services and forced at least one hospital to reduce non-critical medical care

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s European allies, struggling to produce enough weapons for Kyiv’s war effort, are pioneering a new method: Giving Ukrainians money to do it themselves. In the new approach, Europeans are financing Ukrainian government contracts with cash-strapped Ukrainian arms makers to produce equipment for the country’s armed forces, including long-range missiles and drones that can strike Russian territory.

AMPIN Energy Transition on Tuesday said it has partnered with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for joint equity investment of USD 300 million to set up renewable energy projects across India. The new collaboration follows the existing partnership that AMPIN and CIP entered in 2021 to enable joint equity investments of initially USD 200 million in renewable energy projects in India, a company statement said. «This new partnership along with the existing one is creating a USD 2.7 to 3 billion renewable energy asset base in India,» it said. Pinaki Bhattacharyya, Founder, MD and CEO of AMPIN Energy Transition said, «This deepened partnership not only strengthens our ability to expand our impact and accelerating India's renewable energy transition but it also reinforces our shared commitment to driving innovation and sustainable value creation.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Has there ever been a grimmer backdrop to the world’s most concerted attempt to avert global warming? CoP-29, the annual conference for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is happening in Baku, Azerbaijan, one of the birthplaces of the modern oil industry and (according to civil liberties group Freedom House) among the most oppressive societies on the planet. Leaders from China and the US, which account for about 45% of the world’s carbon footprint, aren’t attending—and US President Joe Biden is a ‘lame duck’ after the Republican Party’s electoral sweep.

global trade, increased its full-year guidance for a fourth time in less than six months, citing stronger demand and higher freight rates caused by supply chain disruptions from attacks in the Red Sea. Maersk now sees underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $11 billion to $11.5 billion this year, topping both its prior forecast range and the average $10.1 billion estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Maersk had already raised its 2024 profit forecast in May, June and August, as the Red Sea conflict was having a larger than previously expected impact on the world’s supply lines. The Houthi attacks have since late last year forced container vessels to sail south of Africa, absorbing some of the overcapacity in the container industry, which in turn has helped boost container rates.

mpox cases are now being reported outside Africa too. Sweden has confirmed its first case of mpox on Thursday just as Pakistan reported three cases. China's customs administration said it will monitor people and goods entering the country for mpox for the next six months. Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said Thursday it was ready to produce up to 10 million doses of its vaccine targeting mpox by 2025, The WHO’s declaration of mpox as a global health emergency aims at galvanizing action and resources to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Bavarian Nordic said Thursday it was ready to produce up to 10 million doses of its vaccine targeting mpox by 2025 after the World Health Organization declared a surge in the virus in Africa a global public health emergency. Alarmed by a rise in cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the spread of mpox to nearby countries, WHO experts said Wednesday that the «situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern». «We have additional manufacturing capacity of two million doses for 2024 and (a total of) 10 million doses by 2025,» Rolf Sass Sorensen, vice-president of Bavarian Nordic, told AFP.

chic midlife appearance, the Danish way is more innovative than the classic French style. Danish fashion is sophisticated yet functional, so it's perfect for a variety of occasions, from cycling to attending formal events. With brands like By Malene Birger, Stine Goya, Birger Christensen, and Ganni, Danish fashion provides a combination of casual and sophisticated designs as Copenhagen Fashion Week gets underway, as per the reports of Yahoo life. Age-inclusive fashion Danish fashion caters to all ages, proving that style isn’t limited to younger generations. Denise Christensen, CEO of Birger Christensen Collective, highlights how Danish women, regardless of age, manage to look chic and refined. At 50, Christensen curates her wardrobe with pieces from REMAIN, ROTATE, Saks Potts, and Aiayu. She notes that Danish fashion reflects a sporty and casual simplicity, which is flattering and versatile. Capsule wardrobe essentials

professional esports teams will take part in the CS2 BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2024, which will be held at the Blast Studion in Copenhagen from July 29 to August 4. The tournament will consist of four groups, each will have four teams. The stage play will follow two concurrent single-elimination blocks. Two winners from the play-ins will qualify for the Blast Fall Final, 2024. All group-stage matches will be played in a BO3 format.