Danish Government unveils new Cancer Plan

       Denmark still struggling compared to its Nordic brethren The health minister, Sophie Løhde,revealed a new cancer plan that aims to further improve cancer treatment in Denmark.

The plan, Kræftplan IV (Cancer Plan IV) is tailored to ensure the heath system has the necessary capacity to trace, examine and treat the increasing number of Danes who are expected to be diagnosed with cancer in the years to come.

Swede message to the refugees: Don't come to Sweden,we only provide tents, no Money.
Sweden accepted nearly 2 million refugees from 190 countries. over time this volume has drained all resources from the Swedish society. Now there are no housing left, all public housing is full, a 2 bedroom apartment, may have 10-20 persons living in them.

 

Spain seeks military helicopter crew that crashed in Atlantic

                  Spain's defence ministry is  currently searching for three crew members of a military helicopter that crashed in the Atlantic off the Canary Islands, after initial reports that they had been rescued by a Moroccan patrol boat.

 

Stag smashes through bus windscreen

                   A bus driver in Carinthia was lucky to walk away with just a few scratches after hitting a stag which hurtled through his windscreen and landed on the dashboard before running to the back of the vehicle in panic and eventually leaving by the rear door.

                         

At least 43 killed as bus collides with truck in southwest France

                 At least 43 people, most of them elderly, were killed after a bus and a truck collided on a road near Bordeaux in southwestern France and caught fire, local officials said Friday.

The two vehicles collided head-on near the village of Puisseguin north of Bordeaux, in what is the deadliest road accident in France for more than 30 years.

Greece hails ‘special relationship’ with France

        French President François Hollande begins a two-day visit to Athens on Thursday, bringing badly-needed support to Greece’s left-wing government amid tough talks with the country’s creditors.

It marks the first visit by a French president since 2008, when Hollande's predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy last travelled to the debt-saddled country.

Hollande will be accompanied by at least four members of his cabinet including Finance Minister Michel Sapin, and a number of business chiefs.

New asylum law 'to be in force by the weekend'

               Germany's government plans to begin enforcing a brand-new, tougher law on asylum and deportation from Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel's closest aide said on Friday morning.

"We'll manage to do it a few days earlier," in a good signal to those concerned about migration, Peter Altmaier, head of the Chancellery, told public broadcaster ARD.

             The law had originally been slated to come into force on November 1st.

But the sped-up timetable could see the first deportations of people whose asylum applications were rejected take place early next week.

                                

More fires at buildings planned for refugees

            Two more buildings reserved as  refugee housing were hit by suspicious fires on Friday night. One of the structures was burned for the second time in less than a week.

In Eskilstuna, about 112 kilometres West of Stockholm,emergency services got a call at around 11pm that a building, part of a children’s summer camp and under consideration for refugee housing, was on fire.

One fifth of Spanish potato crisps have too high levels of carcinogens

          More than 17 percent of commercial potato crisps in Spain had higher levels of a certain carcinogen than recommended EU levels, according to a study presented by Spanish researchers.

Nearly one in five bags of potato crisps in Spain contain levels of the carcinogenic substance acrylamide that are higher than what is recommended as healthy by the European Commission, according to the study under the Spanish Institute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN).

                                   

Norwegian orders 19 more Dreamliners

             Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has ordered 19 more Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, more than doubling its risky but so far successful bet on long haul budget air travel.

Based on the catalogue price, the planes would be worth around $4.7 billion, but aircraft manufacturers usually offer special deals on large orders like this.

The new orders will bring the carrier's number of Dreamliners to 38 by 2020. Norwegian also signed an option for another 10 planes, it said.