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Denmark elects new centre-left coalition and prime minister

Saturday, September 17, 2011   New Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt . The leader of Denmark 's Social Democrats Helle Thorning-Schmidt is positioned to become the country's first female prime minister following the election of the "red bloc", a centre-left coalition, on Thursday. The coalition would include members of the Social Democrats , the Socialist People's Party and potentially Social Liberal Party and members of the Red-Green Alliance , and replaces the centre-right coalition government that has been in power for the last ten years. Incumbent prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that he "will hand in the government's resignation to the Queen" as "[t]here is no longer a basis for remaining in government". Thorning-Schmidt plans to increase taxes, invest in education and welfare, and also introduce a plan to increase working hours by twelve minutes a day to create an extra hour of producti...

Tarted-up little girls gyrate onstage in bizarro fashion show

A gaggle of 6-year-old cowgirls dolled up like JonBenet Ramsey pranced and gyrated onstage yesterday at a Midtown show loosely tied to Fashion Week. Headlining the bizarre event was pageant queen Eden Wood, 6, a veteran of TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras,” who performed three routines -- in which she slapped her rear, wriggled suggestively and whipped off her denim jacket to reveal a rhinestone-studded two-piece outfit. Kelly Bensimon, of “The Real Housewives of New York” fame, played ringmaster at the Bryant Park Hotel to the event dubbed “The Cowgirl Riders Debutante Fashion Show.” Lorenzo Ciniglio WHOA, GIRL! Six-year-old Eden Wood performs at the Cowgirl Riders Debutante pageant for kids yesterday in a glittery two-piece -- singing about “Shak-in’ my boo-ty!” Bensimon egged on each of the pint-sized performers and even got up on-stage and danced along when one shy girl froze up as she appeared...