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The Australian government announced this year (27.9.11) that women in the armed forces will be allowed to serve in any frontline combat roles by 2016.
While women are prominent in many roles already, as senior officers, crew members on warships, air force pilots, and soldiers in Afghanistan, the move excited debate over security and safety issues for all troops, with two sexes in the ranks. … Read More »
Elections in Denmark have produced a change to a centre left government, 16.9.11, to be headed by the leader of the Social Democratic party, Helle Thorning-Schmidt (picture).
It was a narrow victory with the new government expected to hold 92 of the 179 parliamentary seats. … Read More »
The NATO patrol has captured a suspected pirate mother ship at sea (12.2.11), operating off the coast of Somalia. … Read More »
Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary has given birth to a healthy boy and girl in Copenhagen, some days before the time generally expected.
The Princess, 38, nee Mary Donaldson from Tasmania, met her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, 42, during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The couple, who shared an involvement in yachting, married in 2004, and have two older children, Christian, 5, and Isabella, 3.
Picture: Wikipedia
It may not be a good omen to find police and security forces again amongst the hardest workers of the New Year holiday season, in 2010-11. … Read More »
Police in Denmark and Sweden have arrested five men accusing them of planning an attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper which published satirical cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. … Read More »
Publishing milestones of the week were the autobiography of Natascha Kampusch in Austria, and more trouble surrounding the memoirs of Tony Blair; BP publishing its apologia in America over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the German Chancellor defending the rights of the Danish cartoonist under threat from Islamic groups. … Read More »