Martin is a bulky, scruffy Copenhagen cop whose "nether regions hurt" due to a vasectomy (Morse never had this trouble); Saga is a slim, un-feeling detective in Malmö.

Alcohol, relegation, defensive chaos and boardroom confusion: Stale Solbakken will not be too worried by the situation at Wolverhampton Wanderers, because he has experienced it all and worse this season at Cologne.

Women who use a vaginal ring or skin patch as contraceptive methods are at around double the risk of a blood clot compared to those who take the second generation of contraceptive pills, according to a large-scale study.

Mark Cavendish proved he is bang on track for his twin main targets of 2012, the Tour de France and the London Olympic road-race, with a stunning win in the first road stage of the Giro d'Italia yesterday.

Luxembourg's Frank Schleck cancelled his holiday plans to take part in the Giro d'Italia but the Radioshack rider said he had no regrets at becoming a last-minute addition to the team because the course suits him.

The first live test of Hawk-Eye's goal-line technology will take place at Southampton's St Mary's Stadium next month, FIFA have announced.

At a loss as what to do with that money you put aside for Olympics tickets? If you're at all interested in food, you might want to use a couple of hundred quid (that would have been what, row 17 at the diving quarter finals?) on a five-course tasting menu when Noma comes to Claridges on 28 July for 10 days.

The bridge that links Sweden and Denmark has its own TV series, says Gerard Gilbert

The Israeli military has suspended a senior officer who was filmed assaulting an unarmed protester in the West Bank.

Whenever she was asked, ‘What makes my baby so bad?’ she was likely to reply, ‘Go look in the mirror’

The incoming chairman of Thrane & Thrane pledged to keep "a very open mind" after Britain's Cobham renewed its £270m bid for the Danish satellite maker less than a month after the lack of a board recommendation prompted its withdrawal.

Bahrain has rejected the Danish government's request to transfer a jailed activist who has spent two months on hunger strike to Denmark for emergency treatment, the kingdom's official news agency said.

Jim Moray's filtering of traditional folk music through a mesh of modern sensibilities continues on Skulk, where eight adaptations of old ballads are punctuated by impassioned versions of Anais Mitchell's fretful "If It's True" and Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love".

The chairman and founder of oil explorer Cairn Energy vowed today to continue operations off the coast of Greenland despite unsuccessful drilling in the region causing a $1.1 billion (£693 million) last year.