In the afternoon, the President will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark in the Oval Office.

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Perhaps it was apt that the pithiest election-night verdict was delivered by a Danish politician, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of that country's Social Democratic party.

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Says Marty Helle, a Potter fan and lawyer in Austin, Minn.

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Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt defended the plan to introduce longer hours in school, and said her government was not yet prepared to intervene in the dispute.

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Researcher Dr Samuli Helle told the BBC News website it might be possible that the physiology underlying both reproductive and general physical decline was in some way linked.

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"Follow the rules, " said Denmark's Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

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"Our key message to the other countries and what we are fighting for, is that we have to have a discount, and that we do not wish to pay other rich countries' discounts, " Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said.

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But there was more gold for Britain in the women's Yngling class as Shirley Robertson, Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton finished ahead of Ukraine's Ruslana Taran, Ganna Kalinina and Svetlana Matevusheva and Denmark's Dorte Jensen, Helle Jespersen and Christina Otzen.

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Speaking at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark, and Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen stressed the need for China and the European Union to cooperate on some form of bailout from the IMF.

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