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The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear.
Thieves stole a valuable artwork by Edvard Munch from an Oslo art dealer in the latest of a string of art heists targeting work by the famous Norwegian expressionist, police said Friday.
The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo. Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound (651-kilogram) biscuit. Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.
A Norwegian freelance journalist kidnapped a week ago in eastern Afghanistan has been released along with his Afghan interpreter, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere says Afghans and the international community must focus sharply on improving the competence of the newly elected government of Afghanistan.
Norway has joined Canada in asking the World Trade Organization to settle its seal hunt dispute with the European Union.
Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA agreed last month to sell part of its interests in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, a company spokesman said Thursday.
A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by hiding them under his clothes. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday the 22-year-old Norwegian citizen was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. He said the man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.
A glance at the finances of some famous Norwegians, from an online database by national broadcaster NRK, based on government tax records (numbers reflect only income taxable in Norway, which for Norwegians working abroad may mean only a fraction of what they earn):
It's the moment nosy Norwegian neighbors have been waiting for — the release of official records showing the annual income and overall wealth of nearly every taxpayer in the Scandinavian country.
Norwegian pop band a-ha says it plans to call it quits at the end of 2010.
OSLO — An award that generates as much interest as the Nobel Peace Prize is bound to be surrounded by myths. Geir Lundestad, secretary of the secretive committee that awards the prize, outlines for The Associated Press some of the most common misunderstandings:
Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the 60th since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Norway on Friday awarded its highest military decoration for the first time in 60 years, posthumously honoring a soldier who was killed while helping the wartime government flee the country as German troops invaded in 1940.
Cisco Systems Inc. tapped its immense cash hoard and announced a deal Thursday to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA for $3 billion in a bid to dominate the global market for videoconferencing equipment.
American rap artist and actor Will Smith and his wife, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith, will co-host this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, organizers said Wednesday.
State-controlled Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro ASA was forced to shut down its Statfjord C offshore oil platform Friday after it leaked water contaminated by oil into the North Sea.
Norway's prime minister on Tuesday said fighting climate change would be a priority in his second term after his left-leaning government beat a splintered opposition to win re-election.
Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: she wants to go down in history as Norway's Margaret Thatcher.
A Congolese court sentenced two Norwegians to death Tuesday after convicting them of espionage and murder, drawing sharp criticism from Norway's government.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says, after a visit to Arctic Norway, that he is sending a message to all world citizens, particularly world leaders, to take action immediately to preserve Earth.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon defended his leadership style Monday after stinging criticism by a Norwegian diplomat, saying different cultures and traditions in the world body must be respected.
Norway's ambassador to the United Nations has accused Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a confidential letter of weak leadership, lack of charisma and angry outbursts, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten newspaper reported Wednesday.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit has opened Norway's first museum dedicated to Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun, whose literary talent was overshadowed by his later Nazi sympathies.
The Norwegian ambassador to Morocco denied on Tuesday that he breached his diplomatic duties by helping the children of a Moroccan Olympic cross-country champion return with their mother to Norway.
Why Canada can't stop bullies - Parentcentral.caDaniel Sebben was just 13 when the taunts began. Day after day, for the next three years, the Newmarket high school student faced homophobic slurs, insults and verbal abuse from a group of six boys.
Global warming a growing threat to Arctic reindeer JARFJORD — On Norway's border with Russia, the consequences of climate change are affecting the reindeer population as rising temperatures hit food stocks and industry growth eats into vital grazing land.
Norwegian scientists raise concerns about mutated form of swine flu - washingtonpost.comScientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday.
Norway, Rape and Muslims - A StudyThe 'top' immigrant rapists were Iraqis, Somalis and Pakistanis. These groups are also the top immigrant groups from Muslim countries in Norway.
Pajamas Media This Again? A Norwegian University Threatens a Boycott of IsraelThe best way to describe the proposed boycott of Israeli academic and research institutions by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim is to label it "outrageous." While Israel, whose science and academic research is far superior to that of Norway, can …
Norway dismisses Israel war crimes lawsuitChief prosecutor Siri Frigaard said Friday she is dismissing the complaint, which was lodged on April 22, because "there is no good reason" for Norwegian authorities to investigate further.
Norway dismisses Israel war crimes complaint Prosecutors have dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes over its incursion into Gaza last year.
Chinese giant to buy US oil assets: companyNorwegian energy group Statoil said on Wednesday it was selling some of its oil assets in the United States to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market.
Northern Lights 'ghoul' pictured - phenomenon photographed just below Arctic CircleA ghoulish image of the Northern Lights - the natural phenomenon also known as Aurora Borealis - has been taken in Norway. Photographer Niels Giroud took the snaps in Mo i Rana, just south of the Arctic Circle.
Snake-smuggler fails to slip past customsA man has been arrested in Norway for attempting to smuggle snakes about his person in a case that has brought a very literal meaning to the term "trouser snake".
A-ha to break up after 25 yearsPop group A-ha have announced they are to call it a day, just months after achieving a top 10 album in the UK.
John Tantillo's Brand Winner... And Loser: Letterman and the Nobel PrizeJohn Tantillo applauds Letterman for apologizing in way consistent with his personal brand and also criticizes the Nobel Prize committee for their actions--while maintaining that Obama has handled the (undeserved) reward in the best way possible for his own personal political bra …
Debacle in Moscow by Charles Krauthammer"About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, h …
Friday's announcement that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize seemed to take everyone by surprise. Cynics scolded the Nobel Committee, claiming the freshman President has not done enough to earn the prize.
Daniel Henninger: A Decadent Nobel"The committee said it chose Barack Obama for his "vision of . . . a world without nuclear weapons" and for "meeting the great climactic challenges the world is confronting." I'd say that completes the argument over old and new Europe. This is a Nobel of decadence."
A lawyer for Norwegian national Ehsan Arjemandi has expressed anguish over the fate of her client who went missing while travelling in his native Baluchistan on August 7. Arjemandi is said to have been abducted by a Military Intelligence team led by Major Mohammed Shahid from …
The Peace (Keepers) Prize by Thomas FriedmanThe Nobel committee did President Obama no favors by prematurely awarding him its peace prize.
President Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace PrizeFriday, October 9, 2009, was a momentous day. The world woke up to the news that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel prize for peace. The reaction was swift in some quarters, and took a little longer to penetrate the fog of sleep in others.
It's not easy not being BushIt's already a truism that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for being not-George W. Bush. This talking point gets repeated as if it's a witty put down. It's supposed to trivialize the win. The implication is that Obama won just for showing up.
The Nobel Prize To Obama: Europe's Bid To Re-colonize America The Nobel Prize is really Obama's payback for disciplining the unruly United States and taming it to be a member of the European family of nations.
Nobel prize win 'humbles' ObamaUS President Barack Obama has said he was "surprised and deeply humbled" to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, less than 10 months into his presidency.
What Price for Obama's Nobel Prize? And who exactly are these judges? You'll be surprisedThe Nobel Norwegians express not only their hope that he will play out their fantasies, but their confidence that he is "now the world's leading spokesman" for their preferred "international policy and attitudes."
UK New Statesman Mehdi Hasan on Obama Nobel Peace prize: "Is this a joke?"UK New Statesman Mehdi Hasan: "[Obama] emulating his predecessor's policies on human rights, civil liberties, Afghanistan and a whole host of other issues, the bloody Norwegians go and give him a Nobel Peace Prize.
Friday, 9 October, will be one of those landmark days. The ones where we continually ask ourselves: "Where was I when this or that happened?" "What was I doing?" Amazing days that leave many question marks in their wake but very few answers.
PostPartisan - The Nobel Committee Comes CleanThe Nobel Committee Comes Clean At least the Nobel committee came clean this time. In awarding the peace prize to President Obama its chairman acknowledged that it did so because it agrees with and wants to promote his politics.
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