Copenhagen- A 50-year-old man was Friday remanded in custody on suspicion of defrauding a Danish bank of some 17 million kroner (3.1 million dollars), news reports said.

The fraud against Carnegie Denmark A/S, a subsidiary of a Swedish investment bank, took place over a five-year period until earlier this year, the Jyllands-Posten newspaper reported.

The custody hearing against the man, a high-placed employee, was held behind closed doors in Copenhagen.

Copenhagen - Danish politicians Wednesday approved a new probe into the circumstances surrounding a US Air Force B-52 bomber, armed with nuclear bombs, that crashed in 1968 off northern Greenland.

One of the plane's four nuclear bombs reportedly went missing, and has never been found. Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller said the probe would be "comprehensive", Danish news agency Ritzau reported.

Copenhagen - A founder of the New Alliance party, which was formed in 2007, said Monday he was to leave the party and become an independent in parliament.

Syrian-born Naser Khader said he had used the holiday break to consider his political future and decided he would leave the centrist party that, last August, was renamed the Liberal Alliance.

Khader said his "gut feeling was not sufficient" to remain in the party, adding "you also need to have your heart in it," according to a statement published on his website.

Copenhagen - Danish poet Inger Christensen, often mentioned as a possible Nobel Literature Prize winner, has died at the age of 73, her Danish publisher said Monday.

Christensen died Friday, publisher Gyldendal said.

In 1964 she started to write full-time following the publication of the poetry collections Light (1962) and Grass, the following year.

Works that stand out in her production include the large collection of poems called It (Det) from 1969, where she explored both social and political issues as well as contrasting love and hate.

Ludhiana, Dec. 30 : Punjab takes pride in its rich cultural heritage, which it shares with other cultures to strengthen and promote cultural bonds. It was visible recently when a cultural troupe from Denmark arrived here.

A team of 28 gymnasts-cum-dancers from Denmark recently gave a scintillating performance during the Indo-Danish Fest held at Partap College of Education in Ludhiana.

The performers brought the Danish culture alive before the Ludhiana audience and won hearts through their precise movements in rhythmic gymnastic skills, dance, artistic vaulting and tumbling.

Copenhagen  - A Copenhagen appellate court on Monday gave the green light to the extradition of two jailed right wing extremists - a 34-year-old German and a
33-year-old Dane - to Germany.

The two are to stand trial for acts including incitement to racism and membership in an criminal organization.