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Delhi’s new leader battles India’s age-old VIP perks
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - For years, India's senior politicians have resided in the capital's most luxurious colonial-era bungalows, protected by gun-toting police and chauffeur-driven cars running red lights with sirens...
Japanese author, Pakistani teenage activist tipped for Nobels
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Pakistani teenage activist shot by the Taliban and a Japanese author who writes about alienation and a fractured modern world are tipped as Nobel Prize winners...
Estonia PM says voter bailout fatigue easing, open to new Greece bailout
TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia, hailed as a poster child of fiscal prudence, is open to aiding Greece with a third bailout and helping other troubled euro zone nations, its prime...
IKEA reshuffles the furniture with new generation
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Asked if he would ever quit IKEA, 87-year-old founder Ingvar Kamprad told an interviewer last year he "had no time to die". But his latest step back...
Insight: Nordic nations grapple with ‘austerity lite’
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - When Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt celebrated his 45th birthday, his finance minister gave him a framed graph showing the tax burden falling to 45 percent of...
Sweden’s ABBA museum to open, but reunion rumors quashed
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The catchy tunes, outlandish costumes and shimmering boots that made ABBA a global phenomenon all feature in a new museum dedicated to the band, but rumors the...
Iceland offers hard lessons for Cyprus on capital controls
STOCKHOLM/REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus's finance minister said capital controls would probably last "a matter of weeks". Five years after a...
Voters deliver backlash over Greenland’s minerals rush
NUUK (Reuters) - Aleqa Hammond looked set to be Greenland's first female prime minister on Wednesday after winning 42 percent of votes in elections on a platform of greater control...
Greenland warns EU may miss out on its mineral wealth
NUUK (Reuters) - Greenland's prime minister warned the European Union he could scrap a preliminary deal intended to safeguard the bloc's access to his country's huge mineral resources, saying Brussels...
Nobel’s austerity-hit banquet still a lavish affair
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden held its annual Nobel awards ceremony on Monday attended by laureates, royals and the Who's Who of Swedish society with little evidence of the cost-cutting forced...