Plans to remove a statue of a mermaid in Denmark from a historical landmark have sparked debate, with the busty sculpture criticised as "ugly and pornographic". The granite 14-tonne Den Store Havfrue ...

Take a virtual tour of Nyhavn, Copenhagen’s most picturesque waterfront district. Stroll along the colorful 17th-century houses, historic wooden ships, and vibrant cafés that line the canal. This tour ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - For nearly 100 years, the heartbroken Little Mermaid has sat on a rock looking out over Copenhagen's port but now the sculpture based on the famous fairytale, is heading back out ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish officials on Tuesday hosed down Copenhagen’s famed Little Mermaid after the statue was found doused with red paint. On the ground in front of the statue was written ...

The Danes are justly renowned for their design prowess but news of a controversial statue suggests that they do not excel in all of the visual arts. In fact, they have struggled in the realm of public ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark woke up on Friday to the words "racist fish" scrawled across the base of the "Little Mermaid", the bronze statue honouring Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale ...

"Erecting a statue of a man's hot dream of what a woman should look like is unlikely to promote many women's acceptance of their own bodies." So wrote Sørine Gotfredsen, a priest and journalist, in ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Little Mermaid is back in town after six months in China. The 5-foot statue — Copenhagen's most famous landmark — left Denmark for the first time in its 97-year history in ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The famed statue of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid, one of Copenhagen's biggest tourist draws, has been vandalized, with the colors of the Russian flag painted on the ...