Danish voters ousted Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt in an election on Thursday and handed power to an opposition centre-right alliance including huge gains for a eurosceptic, anti-immigrant party. Opposition leader Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he would try to form a government but is likely to have to make big concessions to ensure support from the […]

July 4 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. will remain the world’s biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation’s economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said. U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas, surpassed all other countries this […]

Twenty sentenced in one of Finland’s biggest drug busts An international ring of 20 drug smugglers from eight countries were sentenced on Monday to a combined total of 94 years in prison. Espoo District Court handed down the biggest sentences to four ringleaders, who received sentences of 10 or more years each. Espoo District Court […]