https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Ford Denmark has released a new short film that it says challenges the notion of what a car commercial should be. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160224/ford-targets-danes-with-most-depressing-car-commercial-ever Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:23:46 +0100 ford-targets-danes-with-most-depressing-car-commercial-ever A well-known Danish YouTube star took to the streets of Aarhus to prove that “a little love can help” in the wake of the mistrust following the Paris attacks. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151123/viral-muslim-trust-experiment-comes-to-denmark Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:14:31 +0100 viral-muslim-trust-experiment-comes-to-denmark A group of penguins were caught on video trying to make a mad dash from the Odense Zoo. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151117/penguins-caught-on-film-trying-to-escape-danish-zoo Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:33:52 +0100 penguins-caught-on-film-trying-to-escape-danish-zoo In a segment for ‘Last Week Tonight’, comedian John Oliver joined the international criticism of the Odense Zoo’s lion dissection by painting Danes as blood-thirsty brutes with silly accents. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151020/john-oliver-skewers-denmark-for-zoo-dissections Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:00:55 +0200 john-oliver-skewers-denmark-for-zoo-dissections Classically-trained musicians perform after eating the world's hottest peppers because... well, why not? https://www.thelocal.dk/20141103/video-denmarks-red-hot-chili-orchestra-goes-viral Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:23:00 +0100 video-denmarks-red-hot-chili-orchestra-goes-viral If you're a Lego enthusiast, what better place to pop the question than Legoland in Billund? That's what one Brit thought anyway – see how it turned out for him. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141003/a-story-of-love-and-legoland Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:10:49 +0200 a-story-of-love-and-legoland The town of Elk Horn, Iowa has always been proud of its Danish heritage but for most of its existence, the folks back in the motherland hardly knew it existed – until a pair of Danish documentaries put the town on the map. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140928/video-how-denmark-saved-a-small-iowa-town Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:11:00 +0200 video-how-denmark-saved-a-small-iowa-town Video of a man telling his sons that he's won 15 million kroner has racked up over two million views in just two days. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140924/danish-father-tortures-his-sons-in-best-possible-way Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:34:00 +0200 danish-father-tortures-his-sons-in-best-possible-way It took him two hours and 45 minutes, but fisherman Thomas Eldor Petersen was able to reel in a monstrous catch off the coast of the Azores. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140910/video-dane-catches-gigantic-blue-marlin Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:36:00 +0200 video-dane-catches-gigantic-blue-marlin