Copenhagen  - A Danish court on Monday heard evidence against two Tunisian nationals suspected of planning to murder a Danish newspaper cartoonist.

The court was due to rule earliest Tuesday on whether the two were to remain in custody.

They have been held since February when security police said they had averted a plot to kill Kurt Westergaard, who drew a controversial cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban.

The cartoon was one of 12 images published in September 2005 by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

Copenhagen - Denmark-based Kurdish television station Roj TV said Friday it had nothing to do with the abduction of German climbers in Turkey.

"That has nothing in the slightest to do with us. We are also not commenting on this issue," the head of the broadcaster in exile, Manouchehr Zonoozi, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The group that abducted the three Germans late Tuesday, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), said they were taken because the German government had banned Roj TV in Germany at the end of June.

Zonoozi said the ban in Germany was "politically motivated."

Copenhagen - A heavily inebriated 78-year-old Swede, who did not have enough money to travel home from Denmark on the ferry, stole a rowing boat and tried to row back home, police confirmed Tuesda

Copenhagen - An eight-week long strike by Danish nurses and other health workers ends this weekend after a wage agreement was announced late Friday.

The Health Confederation that organizes nurses, midwives and laboratory personnel accepted a 13.3-per-cent pay rise for the coming three-year period, despite earlier demanding a 15-per-cent hike.

The municipal and local government association (KL) that organizes employers welcomed the settlement that means work will resume as normal as of midnight Saturday.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand patients have suffered during this, so I am very happy we have agreed," KL head Bent Hansen told reporters.

Copenhagen - As initial tallies suggested Irish voters had rejected the EU reform treaty, the Danish government Friday said it "regretted" the result.

Both Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller added that they "respected" the Irish vote.

Rasmussen added that he wanted to wait for Dublin's assessment of the outcome before deciding on Denmark's planned referendum on its current opt-outs from the European Union.

Denmark also wanted to discuss the outcome with other EU members, Rasmussen told reporters.

Copenhagen  - The Danish parliament Tuesday approved an increase in the funds newly-wed Prince Joachim receives from the public purse.