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The suspected gunman who tried to shoot-up a mosque in Norway in an attempted terrorist attack has been accused of killing his teenage stepsister because of ...

Terror charged Philip Manshaus (C) is flanked by his lawyers Unni Fries (L) and Audun Beckstrom (R) as he appears for his hearing at a courthouse in Oslo on ...

NORWAY — State police Tuesday afternoon recovered the body of a woman buried in the backyard of a home at 239 Harrison Road. Department of Public ...

Kjell Hoelstad will share his story of being a child in Norway during the World War II Nazi Germany occupation at today's Sons of Norway meeting. Retired U.S. ...

A man caught a dinosaur-like fish in Norway and the image has gone viral on social media.

The Norwegian electorate voted heavily in favour of leftist and green parties this past week. The municipal elections showed that Norway's Green Party has ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition said on Sunday a dialogue mediated by Norway to try to resolve a political crisis had ended, six weeks after ...

Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The prime minister of Norway has signaled that her ...

Norway's Labor Party took a hit in this week's elections. But the radical left surged — showing that socialist politics are still alive in the Nordic country. An exterior ...

It all started earlier this month. Veterinarians in Oslo, Norway were reportedly flummoxed by a rising number of sick dogs being brought to their practices.

The central bank of Norway, dubbed by local economists as “the last hawk,” could this week be about to deliver its fourth interest rate increase. It may also be the ...

A Norwegian fisherman recently lured a catch fit for a horror movie. Oscar Lundahl works as a guide with a sports fishing tour company. He recently went out to ...

Beautiful locations around the world are being challenged by overtourism. Norway has a fix.

At least a dozen dogs in Norway have been struck with a mysterious illness in these past few weeks, and officials are scrambling to identify the disease.

Hundreds of dogs have been sickened by a mysterious bowel illness that has killed over two dozen pets. Bacteria and wild mushrooms are among the possible ...

A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn near Trondheim in central Norway.

For five years, geologists in Norway had urgently warned that the top of a mountain called “Little Man” could collapse and destroy huge swaths of a nearby town.

You might expect the dramatic collapse of a mountain in a popular hiking area of western Norway to create fear among the handful of local residents. Instead ...

A Norwegian man accused of killing his stepsister before opening fire in a mosque near Oslo in August had racist motives, police said Tuesday. Authorities ...

Funding from Norway will be used to provide nutritious school meals to some 55 000 children in conflict-torn Mali. 'Malnourished children have problems ...

This story is part of a weeklong series on climate change and sustainability. It's in partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global journalism initiative to cover ...

It will be important to utter exchange polite phrases about what actually works in the relationship between Norway and Russia. However, when foreign ministers ...

Norwegian police have said more than 100 sheep were swept away by a river during a heavy rainfall. Houses and a retirement home were also cut off by rising ...

Heightened assessment based on extremists expressing backing for recent attacks.

Several smaller parties are set for big gains in Norway's nationwide local and county elections, but the main opposition Labour Party are bracing themselves for ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegians voting in local elections abandoned major parties in record numbers on Monday, according to early counts, opting for a plethora ...

With a pint costing £11, only a mug would head to Oslo for a 'budget' break, right? But it's possible …

Regional elections in Norway on Monday are being billed as a referendum on the country's environmental policies, with the country split over road toll rises that ...

Together with Polish forces, the Norwegian Navy is testing its main anti-ship weapon in a fjord near Tromsø, Northern Norway.

On Monday, the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA) announced that it may intervene in the proposed...

An oil tanker suffered a fire during refuelling at the Sture terminal in western Norway.

Norway's centre-right four party project is once again at risk of collapse, this time over immigration. Report this ad. Venstre (Liberal) leader Trine Skei Grande ...

OSLO — Two of Norway's greatest cultural treasures, the preserved Viking longships Oseberg and Gokstad, managed to survive sea voyages more than a ...

OSLO (Reuters) - European regulators have ordered immediate checks on recently delivered versions of some Airbus helicopters after a crash in Arctic Norway ...

HELSINKI (AP) — Norwegian authorities haven't been able to detect the cause behind an unexplained disease that is estimated to have killed dozens of dogs in ...

Norwegian delegation visited Venezuela on September 14-16.

Meeting of the Norway Select Board. September 19, 2019. 7 p.m. at the Municipal Office. 1) Call to Order. 2) Flag Salute. 3) Moment of Silence. 4) Public ...

The upcoming local elections will likely see the first ever electoral gains by the country's young Capitalist Party, Liberalistene.

Would your kids love to visit Frozen's homeland of Norway? Or how about Junibacken, a children's playground and storybook museum in Stockholm, Sweden?

A minority group of opposition parties in Venezuela agreed on 16 September to enter Norway-mediated negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro's ...

Norway could see value creation of between $7.7bn and $13bn from floating wind power over a 30-year period and create up to 128,000 jobs, according to a ...

Norway's Equinor signed preliminary agreements on Thursday with seven potential industrial customers for its project to develop carbon dioxide storage under ...

After more than a century in Norway, energy giant has agreed to sell oil and gas assets in the country, say sources.

Aidan Barlow has swapped Old Trafford for the Arctic Circle as the teenager looks to impress Manchester United and make headway on foreign soil like former ...

Climate change is making life difficult for the indigenous people - and wildlife - of the Sami region.

A recent terror attack at a mosque near Oslo raises important questions about the extent and range of radical right extremism and the Norwegian state response ...

The social-democratic party is the big loser in this Monday's regional elections in Norway. And the downturn is the most dramatic in the northern parts of the ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's $1-trillion-plus sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, may seek to shift the balance of its investments between Europe, the ...

There's a great deal we know about the era of the vikings. It was an age of exploration, trade, and expansion. But what prompted its beginnings? Report this ad.

The sustainable energy solutions provider Vestas Wind Systems A/S has received a 34 MW order for the Haramsfjellet wind project…

Set to open in December 2019, Scandinavian Mountains Airport sits on the border of Norway and Sweden between some of the region's best alpine ski resorts.

Vestas has received a 34 MW order for the Haramsfjellet wind project on the island of Haramsøya in western Norway, based on the supply of eight V136-4.2 MW ...

Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund looks set to join Saudi Arabia and Singapore in investing in unlisted companies as startups delay turning to public ...

The bizarre fish is reportedly at ratfish, which have been in existence for 300 million years.

The broken prison system is in desperate need of reform. U.S. prisons are trying to find answers overseas.

The price of Brent oil surged on Monday in response to the drone attack on Saudi Arabian oil platform. The 14.6 per cent price increase started as soon as ...

DOG events in Oslo, Norway have been called off following a mysterious disease that has claimed the lives of a number of canines in the area.

Protests over price rises have drawn comparisons with France's gilets jaunes.

Norway's capital offers visitors a crash course in the country's culture, history and mythology. Travel writer Tom Hall explores Oslo, Norway.

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund should slash its investments in Europe and increase them sharply in North America, according to a recommendation ...

The man managing Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund is looking beyond the current political turmoil, vowing to invest in the U.K. “no matter what” and planning to ...

Norway's $1tn oil fund should be able to invest in large unlisted companies, the investor's manager has proposed, as it seeks greater exposure to private ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A mountain range in southern Norway is in serious danger of landslides after overnight rain and snowfall, Norwegian ...

The two largest funds based around Oslo are engaging with three United States companies to stop rainforest destruction.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nature correspondent Jeff Tollefson about the Amazon Fund and the web of diplomacy aiming to prevent deforestation in the ...

I am confident that today's visit will boost economic relations, first of all, as at the political level we have no open bilateral issues and have always been countries ...

Norway's Liberal Party, a junior member of Norway's four-party government, will accept the prime minister's ultimatum on transport policy, preventing the ...

OSLO (Bloomberg) - Norwegian voters have fired a warning shot at the country's oil industry. Parties that want to rein in the country's golden goose made ...

Europe's top human rights court ruled Tuesday that Norway's controversial child services agency violated a mother's rights by forcibly adopting her son to a ...

Britain doesn't want chlorine-washed poultry to be part of a future U.S.-U.K. trade deal. Norway offers lessons in how Washington can win over London.

England's patchy run of form continued as they surrendered a half-time lead with Caroline Graham Hansen grabbing a late winner to cap a fine solo display.

Population is down in all the three northernmost counties of Norway the first six month of the year, Statistics Norway can tell. For Troms and Finnmark, two ...

An umbrella group for unions in Norway has said it is “delighted” after testing a new helicopter seeking to enter the North Sea. LO (Landsorganisasjonen), a ...

Explore music inspired by the ethereal lights, breathtaking scenery and long winter nights of the frozen north.

As the Almen family of Little Falls hiked down the mountain to Aurland Valley in Norway, they couldn't help but wonder: What had life been like for their ...

A massive male orca surfaces and checks up on a man on a kayak in the fjords of Northern Noway. Crazy!

A glimpse into Scandinavian fashion's subversive future in Oslo, where street-level concerts, and even a 'sustainable art rave' mark the cultural shift away from ...

KLP, Norway's largest pension fund, with over US$80 billion in assets, is saying it may divest from transnational commodities traders operating in Brazil such as ...

Chelsea's Jorginho scored the winner for Italy but they had to work hard to beat Finland 2-1 while Henrikh Mkhitaryan got two as Armenia beat ...

We took a quick trip to Oslo's Øya Festival to sample some artists going far beyond Scandi-pop: girl in red, Deathcrush, Bendik HK, and Lil Halima.

Russia has sailed the world's last civilian nuclear-powered cargo ship along the coast of Norway in a voyage that has caused concern in Oslo.The Sevmorput ...

A Norwegian project aimed at storing millions of tonnes of carbon emissions underneath the North Sea received a shot in the arm on Thursday (5 September), ...

Norway's summer tourist season is far from over, even though most Norwegians are back in school and at work. Along with the hordes of foreign tourists still in ...

Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, the oldest child of Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon, had her confirmation *service* at the Royal ...

Powerhouse Brattørkaia will be the largest energy-positive building in Norway as partners hope it will create momentum for smart cities.

Wilco fit six songs from their forthcoming 'Ode To Joy' studio album into the setlist of Wednesday's Fall Tour 2019 opener in Trondheim, Norway.

(Adds quote, background, currency). OSLO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Oil and gas companies working in Norway have slightly cut their 2019 investment forecasts since ...

Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM has entered into an agreement to divest stakes in oil and natural gas resources in Norway, per Reuters. This accord — which ...

Tribune News *Service*. Kapurthala, September 17. A native of Jattpura Mohalla here, Amritpal Singh (41) has become the first turbaned councillor of Norway.

Fixed-income investors are increasingly looking at environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, data. A new sustainability ranking puts Norway and Uruguay ...

Sometime around 150-300 CE a person died at the place now called Gylland in the Gaula River valley, in southern Trøndelag county. After the body was ...

Norway's wealth fund proposed overhauling its global holdings, calling for a shift away from Europe in a move that would allow it to boost its U.S. stock ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — First, Brazil announced it would take foreign aid away from projects to protect the Amazon rainforest and give it instead to cattle and ...

How to see some of the best scenery Norway has to offer from the comfort of the country's railway network. To some, the train is simply a mode of transport, ...

September 18 (Renewables Now) - Norwegian engineering and construction group Kvaerner said on Tuesday renewables will be one of its two focus growth a.

A program of subsidies and tax breaks means electric vehicles now make up more than half of vehicle sales in the country.

Enjoy a magical trip for two to Norway with the chance to see the spectacular Northern Lights!

Kenny Shiels' Northern Ireland fall to a heavy defeat to a classy Norway outfit in their Euro 2021 qualifier at Seaview.

On the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), the Troika ...

Election practitioners from five countries were impressed with the professionalism, transparency and trust in Norwegian local elections, but warn that too much ...