Danes find a bridge to love
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Chicago Tribune - The train is sleek and fast that each night carries Christina Reves away from her country and toward her husband. It races through Denmark's scattered marshes and clicks over a bridge and across the water, stopping 35 minutes later in Sweden.
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Danes voted Tuesday in parliamentary elections dominated by competing strategies for strengthening the country's cradle-to-grave welfare state and tightening immigration.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Europe&#39;s highest bridge yesterday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs ElysÃ©es and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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Valentine's Day isn't just a Western phenomenon anymore. Here's how other countries pay homage to Cupid.
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Heart-shaped traffic lights for Valentine's Day, a wealth of chocolate treats and an influx of bright young things from all across Europe arguably make Brussels the continent's love as well as political capital.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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A poll of Europeans showed people of  different nationalities liked each other more after getting to  know each other, except in the case of the British -- who  became less popular.
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From symbol of mediaeval majesty to magnet for mass tourism, Prague's Charles Bridge has a special place in Czech hearts.
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A year after cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad sparked violent protests, Danish Muslims say some good has come of the row -- dialogue has improved with their fellow Danes, who now understand Islam much better.
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They are separated now, scattered in various locales across this vast country. That is how life evolves. But so, too, are they together forever. That is how football shapes the spirit.
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Arhus, Denmark, is home to the world's largest sperm bank. The deposit can make its way to 40 countries.
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ATHENS -- For four years, their psyches have been scalded by the memories. Dagny Mellgren dashing in for the winning goal 12 minutes into overtime in Sydney, waiting for their silver medals, the Norwegian flag going up.
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The nearly completed bridge over the Panj River is at the center of plans to connect trade and energy markets in South and Central Asia.
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A British fertility clinic has overcome   a shortage of home-grown sperm by importing it from Denmark.
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BUKIT BUNGA, Malaysia  - Thailand and Malaysia opened a bridge over their restive border on Friday, a new artery for commerce between relatively prosperous Malaysia and poor Muslim communities on the other side.
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It's a rare construction site that merits a tourist visit, but a romantic bridge rising above a beautiful stretch of the Danube River is a special exception.
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Often educated abroad and fluent in English, young Danes are primed to quit Denmark for greener pastures. One reason is the income tax rate, which can reach 63 percent.