STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A far-right party has taken third place in Swedish opinion polls, helped by concerns over immigration and rising unemployment, and may now hold the balance of power after the next national election in 2014.

Nordic populist parties are showing resilience despite scandals among right-wing activists in Sweden and mass killings by anti-Islamist Anders Behring Breivik last year.

NUUK (Reuters) – By a remote fjord where icebergs float in silence and hunters stalk reindeer, plans are being drawn up for a huge iron ore mine that would lift Greenland’s population by four percent at a stroke – by hiring Chinese workers.

The $2.3-billion project by the small, British company London Mining Plc would also bring diesel power plants, a road and a port near Greenland’s capital Nuuk. It would supply China with much needed iron for the steel its economy.

NUUK, Nov 5 (Reuters) – By a remote fjord where icebergs
float in silence and hunters stalk reindeer, plans are being
drawn up for a huge iron ore mine that would lift Greenland’s
population by four percent at a stroke – by hiring Chinese
workers.

The $2.3-billion project by the small, British company
London Mining Plc would also bring diesel power plants,
a road and a port near Greenland’s capital Nuuk. It would supply
China with much needed iron for the steel its economy.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Two American scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for research into how cells respond to external stimuli that is helping to develop better drugs to fight diseases such as diabetes, cancer and depression.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the 8 million crown ($1.2 million) prize went to Robert Lefkowitz, 69, and Brian Kobilka, 57, for discovering the inner workings of G-protein-coupled receptors, which allow cells to respond to chemical messages such as adrenaline rushes.

VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s austerity policies, touted as an example for Europe of how economic shocks can revive growth, will stay put whatever the outcome of an election between a centre-right government and centre-left opposition, the prime minister said on Monday.

Lithuania holds a parliamentary election in October. It is the biggest electoral test for Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius since he introduced one of Europe’s harshest austerity programs, leading to a collapse in GDP of about 15 percent in 2009.