Greenlanders have celebrated National Day, the Arctic island’s biggest summer festival, to mark the solstice with songs, ...

A Danish postal worker, Einar Holboll, is credited with the idea of the first Christmas seal. In the United States, the seals were introduced by a Red Cross worker, Emily Bissell, in Wilmington, Del.

Indeed the Danish seal is also found on five foreign brands: French cognac and champagne, Scotch whiskey, Port wine and mineral water from Sweden.

Denmark’s new king had just brushed away a tear after announcing his accession to the throne when he turned to his wife for a kiss. But as Frederik X leaned in to seal the historic occasion on the ...