Topic - Denmark

• List of World Press Photo winners

  A list of winners of the 2010 World Press Photo contest:

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  SEALs rescue two from Somali pirates

  The same U.S. Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage.

• London vows military strength in Hormuz

  Britain could send extra military assets to the Strait of Hormuz to deter any attempt by Iran to block Persian Gulf oil tanker traffic, the country's defense secretary said Tuesday, as Tehran insisted that a European Union ban on the purchase of its oil would have little sting.

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  U.K. could send military assets to Strait of Hormuz

  Britain could send extra military assets to the Strait of Hormuz to deter any attempt by Iran to block Persian Gulf oil tanker traffic, the country's defense secretary said Tuesday, as Tehran accused the European Union of trying to create tension with a ban on the purchase of its oil.

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  Mariners deplore cruise captain's abandoning ship

  Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship.

• Play on Norway mass killer causes a stir

  A Danish theater is drawing criticism for plans to stage a play based on the manifesto of the man whose bomb-and-shooting spree killed 77 in Norway.

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  MURDOCK: Economic freedom declines yet again

  Good news! On economic freedom, America is in the global Top 10. Bad news: America is No. 10 - one blond hair ahead of Denmark.

• Embassy Row

  Aside from a horde of politicians and journalists, New Hampshire is preparing to welcome foreign diplomats who expect to get an insider's view of the Republican presidential primary next week.

• New powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried

  Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse.

• American Scene

  Wal-Mart and health officials awaited tests Thursday on a batch of powdered infant formula that was removed from more than 3,000 stores nationwide after a Missouri newborn who consumed it apparently died from a rare infection.

• Danish drug maker sells drug used in US executions

  The only U.S.-licensed maker of a drug used by several states to execute inmates is selling the product to another drug manufacturer, saying pentobarbital _ a sedative never intended for capital punishment _ wasn't an important product for the firm.

• Europol says major child pornography ring busted

  Police arrested 112 people in 22 countries after a yearlong investigation into child pornography, Europol said Friday, warning that technology is making combating the spread of child abuse images ever more difficult.

• Popcorn and snowflakes: 'Nutcracker' at the movies

  For so many American kids, it's their first _ and sometimes only _ exposure to ballet: A holiday performance of "The Nutcracker," that classic tale of a little girl's dreamlike encounters with battling mice and toy soldiers, a dashing prince, a growing Christmas tree and a land of sweets.

• Wozniacki hires Spanish coach Ricardo Sanchez

  A Danish newspaper reports that top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has hired Spanish coach Ricardo Sanchez.

• Sports Briefs

  D.C. United bolstered their beleaguered defensive corps Tuesday, acquiring veteran right back Robbie Russell from Real Salt Lake for a third-round pick in the 2013 SuperDraft.

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