Norway will today break the five million inhabitants barrier, the country’s statistics bureau predicts. Read the full story
Posted on 19 March 2012.
Norway will today break the five million inhabitants barrier, the country’s statistics bureau predicts. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 March 2012.
Rescue workers have found bodily remains on the slopes of Sweden’s tallest mountain, near where a Norwegian military plane went missing on Friday with five people on board. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 March 2012.
Oslo University Hospital (OUS) has been reported to the police for allegedly exploiting Filipino nurses. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 March 2012.
Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of killing 77 people and injured hundreds more in dual attacks last year, has been officially charged with terrorism. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 March 2012.
A Norwegian man has been arrested in Thailand for the murder of his former girlfriend who went missing three years ago. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 March 2012.
Edvard Munch’s famous masterpiece The Scream is set to go under the hammer at New York auction house Sotheby’s, with an estimated selling price of EUR 59 million. Read the full story
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Posted on 25 February 2012.
A 116 year-old Norwegian church, which survived a bombing in WWII, has been burnt beyond repair by two boys playing with a cigarette lighter. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 February 2012.
A former Norwegian politician has been acquitted of sexually assaulting under-age boys, but convicted of secretly filming naked young men in his bathroom and using a false online identity to obtain naked pictures of boys. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 February 2012.
An inspector from Lloyd’s Register, who has technical oversight on coastguard patrol ships, says that one of the main engines aboard the Icelandic Coastguard’s newest cruiser, Þór was broken when the ship was handed over last autumn. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 February 2012.
This week’s Reykjavík mackerel fishing negotiations between Iceland and the Faroe Islands on one side and the EU and Norway on the other have ended without agreement and with the EU’s fishing chief blaming Icelandic and Faroese unwillingness to properly engage in negotiations. Read the full story
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