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A Norwegian who survived Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage on Utoya island capped two weeks of chilling witness statements from survivors on Friday, describing how the self-confessed killer first mistook him for a fellow right-wing extremist and spared him, then shot him when he found him again. Complete Story...
Four foreigners who were arrested by Sudanese authorities and held for three weeks were on a U.N. mine clearing mission along the disputed border with South Sudan, a relief agency said Friday.
Thousands of teachers, carers and policemen have gone on strike in Norway in a protest over wages, shutting down hundreds of kindergartens and schools in the middle of exam time.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will finally get a chance to deliver her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, nearly 21 years after winning the prestigious award.
Norway's government says it will spend less of its oil wealth in an effort to avoid excessive economic growth, which has been boosting the national currency, hurting exporters.
An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people on July 22.
Gunnar Soensteby, a World War II resistance fighter who earned Norway's highest military decoration for daring raids against the Nazis, has died. He was 94.
Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA on Tuesday said net profit dropped 4 percent in the first quarter, though the decline had much to do with the sale of a stake in a Canadian oil sands project that boosted the same quarter a year ago.
Survivors of a youth camp shooting massacre that left 69 people dead in Norway testified Wednesday about their panicked attempts to hide during the rampage, as the court turned down confessed gunman Anders Behring Breivik's request to question them on the stand.
A gas explosion ripped through a building of a Norwegian dairy plant in the country's southeast on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, police said. Local media reported that rescuers also sought five people believed to be missing.
Muslim leaders in Norway say they are concerned that the anti-Islamic ideology of Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic now on trial for killing 77 people, is being overshadowed by questions about his mental state.
You would have forgiven Norwegians for showing more outrage against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
A senior at a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts who has written letters of support to a Norwegian mass murder suspect will not be on campus "for the foreseeable future," according to school officials.
Norwegians who lost loved ones on Utoya island relived the horror Friday as far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik described in harrowing detail how he gunned down teenagers as they fled in panic or froze before him, paralyzed with fear.
History is littered with murderers inspired by art: Charles Manson believed the lyrics to the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" were a prophecy that ignited a killing spree. John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman was obsessed with the book "Catcher in the Rye."
Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik testified in Norway on Thursday that he played "World of Warcraft" for 16 hours a day in 2006. Breivik is in court in connection with last summer's attacks, in which Breivik killed eight people by setting off a bomb in central Oslo and then shot 69 others to death on the island of Utoya.
Anders Behring Breivik knew it would take practice to be able to slaughter dozens of people before being shot by police.
Norway's prison terms are "pathetic," mass killer Anders Behring Breivik declared Wednesday in court, claiming the death penalty or a full acquittal were the "only logical outcomes" for his massacre of 77 people.
In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer got the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shook his hand.
Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is being tried by a panel of two professional judges and three lay judges. Here's a look at the role of lay judges in Norway's courts.
Before his gruesome slaughter, Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik described in a manifesto how he would use the trial against him to gain worldwide attention and spread extreme right-wing ideas.
The following is a timeline of events during the July 22, 2011, attacks on a Norwegian government building and a retreat for young political activists, according to police and eyewitnesses. All times are local.
Oslo-experiment may explain massive star explosionsNow, experiments carried out at the University of Oslo show that astrophysicists are using the wrong data in their models. No one has ever carried out these experiments before. The new results may have a great impact
Secular countries with access to legal abortion top the world's best places to be a mother – USA does not fare well compared with other developed nationsA study conducted by the international organization, Save the Children, reveals that eight of the ten best countries to be a mother are in Europe, and eight of the ten worst are in Africa. The top five countries included Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark.
Should the U.S. Lose The Penny Menace?Written by; James Werrell | The Rock Hill Herald A penny for my thoughts? Keep the penny, you can have them for free: Even a country with a coin called a “loonie” is smarter about its legal tender than the U.S.
Man's remotest relative and one of the world's oldest organisms found - in the sludge of a lake in Norway | Mail OnlineScientists say they have found one of the world's oldest living organisms and man's remotest relative - after spending two decades examining a microscopic algae-eater that lives in a lake in Norway.
Geert Wilders of the Netherlands reveals a resurgent far right in Europe - The Washington PostAMSTERDAM — Europe’s most controversial politician lives in a government safe house fitted with a panic room and guarded round the clock. A self-avowed foe of Islam who compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and called for a ban on Muslim immigrants, …
Strange organism has unique roots in tree of lifeTalk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new base group, called a kingdom, on the tree of life." We have found an unknown …
Billy Bragg: Anders Breivik's hatred has been drowned out by Norwegians singing It's not much of a protest song, to be truthful. The lyrics of Children of the Rainbow sound ideal material for a Sunday school choir.
Selling 'The Scream'The androgynous wraith grasping its cheeks in dread along an Oslo fiord, created by the Norwegian artist in 1895, is an unpredictable trophy with little precedent, famous as much for the pop-culture spinoffs and parodies it has generated as it is for its artistry. One of fou …
Norwegians sing to annoy mass killer40,000 people join to sing the song that Breivik hates the most. The best thing in the world today.
Norway killer picked victims who had leftist look The man who killed 77 people last summer to protest at Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he believed he could tell the ideology of his prospective massacre victims by looking at them, and tried to spare one who appeared "right-wing".
Mass killer Breivik from believing in absurdities to committing atrocitiesNS Leader writes that the most shocking thing about anti-Muslim mass murderer Anders Breivik is that so many people agree with his Islamophobic, xenophobic and racist opinions.
Breivik studied al-Qaeda attacks before Norway rampage Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik acquired the knowledge to carry out a bombing and shooting rampage on the Internet, studying case studies of al-Qaeda and other attacks and reading more than 600 bomb-making guides, he told a court Friday. On day f …
The Royal Book of Records: No Happily Ever After - less than a year of royal wedded bliss Alexander III of Scotland and Yolande of Dreux (1285-86), married 4 months, 19 days The widowed Alexander, who had buried the two sons, Alexander and David, from his first marriage to …
PROFESSOR LINKS ISRAEL TO NORWAY TERROR ATTACKSSwedish-born Ola Tunander is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), a research institute where he has spent most of his career since receiving his PhD from Linköping University in 1989.Tunander writes that such terrorist acts are usually carried o …
Lucky escape for driver as lorry falls down cliff in Norway - YouTube VIDEOAmazing pictures of a lorry crashing down a snowy mountainside in Norway taking the tow truck that had come to its rescue with it. . Report by Katie Lamborn
Where are you on the global pay scale? BBC NewsDo you earn more or less than the world's average wage? Type in your monthly salary and we'll give you the answer. The average wage, calculated by the International Labour Organization, is published here for the first time. It's a rough figure based on data from 72 countries, …
In this edition of Fascinating Political Facts we decided to use four images of current world leaders to see how well we could associate the leader with the country they were from. We used countries that are in the news regularly and all the leaders have appeared on the Vine num …
Norway: The Most Anti-Semitic Country in the West Interview series: Historian of religions and bestselling Norwegian author Hanne Nabintu Herland: “The new Western secular values imply a rejection of respect for our culture’s historical link to the Jewish people».
Mind the Crown Jewels, Charles! Future King wields an axe as he hones his wood-chopping skills on Scandinavian tourThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall brushed up on their outdoor skills today as they toured some of Norway's highlights on the second day of their Scandinavian tour. Accompanied by Queen Sonja of Norway, the pair braved rain and cold weather for the trip, during wh …
EU's Ashton: I did not parallel Toulouse attack to Gaza deathsThe European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton denied Tuesday that she intended to parallel Monday's attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, saying that he comments were "grossly distorted." Ashton's remarks came amid backlash to comments she …
Historic ship in Nunavut going home to NorwayIt's official: Norway can bring home the Maud, although some people in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, may miss the familiar sight of the half-sunken wreck once sailed by polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
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