The 32nd edition of the European architecture students Assembly  is held this year in the current World Design Capital 2012, Helsinki under the title Wastelands. The event, promoted by the network organization of architecture students, EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly), began on Monday July 16 and will last a total of two weeks ...

The Swedish singer Loreen was proclaimed winner of the Eurovision song contest on Saturday 26 May in Baku, Azerbaijan with her song "Euphoria". Lorine Zineb Noka, which is how the singer is called actually, took the win with a total of 372 points leaving behind the graceful Russian Buranovskiye Babushk- grandmothers, who got second place, and the representative of Serbia Zeljo Joksimovic who took the third place. Of Moroccan origin, the Swedish singer's career began in 2004 in the television competition Idols in Sweden, after which she continued ...

The young Danish singer Soluna Samay is the representative of Denmark for the Eurovision song contest 2012. The singer will participate with the song "Should've Known Better" in the contest to be held on May 26 in Baku, Azerbayián. Soluna Samay is a very young and promising singer with only 22 years born in Guatemala. Daughter of a German father and a Swiss mother, her family moved to the Danish island of Bornholm in 2000, where the singer has lived ...

The Finnish representative for the Eurovision song contest 2012, to be held in Baku on 26 May, is the young singer Pernilla Karlsson. The Finno-Swedish singer from Siuntio has only 21, and was winner of the New Music Competition (Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu) organized by the Finnish National Radio in the month of February, becoming the official candidate of Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The composer of the song is the singer's brother, Jonas Karlsson, who originally composed this theme for the 50th birthday of his mother. Pernilla Karlsson is also a professional hand ball player in the Finnish Hand ball league. Here the ...

SPOT Festival, one of the biggest music festivals in Scandinavia and the Nordic countries took place last weekend 4. and 5. May in Aarhus, Denmark. The SPOT Festival has the support of major part of the Scandinavian music scene related with pop and rock. The festival has four main ideological pillars which it tries to accomplish every year;  the focus in the new Danish and Nordic music, the aim to narrow the gap ...

The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra has given a curious and beautiful concert playing music of the composer Edward Grieg in the underground of Copenhagen city. The surprising initiative of the orchestra has been strongly welcomed by the Danish public who were in their daily underground trip. The enthusiasm of the passengers can be seen in everybody's faces while listening to the classical piece "Peer Gynt" by the famous Norwegian composer.

The famous painting "The Scream" by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch has become the most expensive painting ever sold in an auction. The work was auctioned yesterday May 2, 2012 in New York at the auction house Sotheby's for a total of $ 107 million, $ 119.9 million with commissions, beating the record of the work of Picasso's ...

The shares of the Norwegian fuel retailer Statoil Fuel & Retail have soared 50% after accepting the takeover bid the by the Canadian food group Couche-Tard. Couche-Tard has offered the amount of $ 2.8 million (1,139 million Euros) to buy the Norwegian company, which has an extensive infrastructure of gas stations ...

The Swedish writer and journalist Jonas Jonasson is having remarkable international success with his first novel "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared". Last week the novel went to number one on the in the Catalan language fiction list while  holding the third place on the Spanish language fiction list. The book ...

Swedish Alpine skier Anja Pärson has announced she will retire from skiing after finishing the Schladming World Cup championship this week. Olympic gold winner, seven times world champion and two time champion of the World Cup in alpine skiing, the 30- year-old skier has decided to end her career due to injuries ...