Recent News Headlines : Norway
HOW TRADE AND SANCTIONS MADE THIS RUSSIAN FISHERMAN A BILLIONAIRE
The 30 million structure is the crown jewel of Orlov's Murmansk-based Norebo Holding JSC... READ MORE›
NATO SECRETARY GENERAL HITS BACK AT TRUMP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is running for reelection this fall... READ MORE›
COLD WAR JITTERS RESURFACE AS U.S. MARINES ARRIVE IN NORWAY
The deployment of 330 U.S. Marines recalled a Cold War era in which Russian intrigue grabbed headlines and Norwegians lived in fear of Soviet hegemony... READ MORE›
CUTTING CASH WOULD BE A BOON FOR THE WORLD'S POOR, ROGOFF SAYS
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Scandinavia's efforts to rely less on cash have been gradual, and backed by a well-functioning digital economy... READ MORE›
AN ENTIRE COUNTRY JUST SWITCHED OFF THEIR FM RADIO
Norway becomes world's first country to switch off FM radio... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP AND RUSSIA: NORWAY URGES CLEAR, PREDICTABLE US POLICY ON MOSCOW
U.S. and NATO officials said this high level of Russian submarine activity was last seen during the end of the Cold War in the 1990s... READ MORE›
NORWAY REPRIEVES 32 OF 47 WOLVES EARMARKED FOR CULL
Predator management in Norway has not always been based on sound knowledge... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE IS COMING FOR THE U.K.'S FISH AND CHIPS
According to marine scientists, rising temperatures in the North Sea are causing a permanent change to Britaina??s fish stocks... READ MORE›
NEW COLD WAR: US MARINES' NORWAY WAR GAMES
READ MORE Danger of Donald Trump's NATO comments The Norwegian official says that over the past two years, we have gradually seen more and more ..... READ MORE›
NATO DEPUTY CHIEF STRESSES DIALOGUE WITH RUSSIA
NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller on Tuesday stressed the importance of continuing dialogue with Russia at a forum in Germany, according to a NATO statement... READ MORE›
ARCTIC TERRITORY OF SVALBARD SEES 'SHOCKING' TEMPERATURES NEAR FREEZING POINT
There are still huge areas in the Barents Sea and Kara Sea to the east of Svalbard that are free of ice, he said... READ MORE›
EMAILS POINT TO DOPING CONSPIRACY IN RUSSIAN TRACK AND FIELD
In a July 2014 message, which ARD published on its website, former Russian athletics head Valentin Balakhnichev wrote of cynical and cruel blackmail by IAAF officials... READ MORE›
ANOTHER TRUMP U-TURN? PRESIDENT-ELECT SAYS US IS 'STRONGLY COMMITTED' TO NATO
Another U-turn? Trump says US is 'strongly committed' to Nato alliance... READ MORE›
NATO CHIEF TELLS EU: SPEND MORE TO SECURE TRUMP'S SUPPORT
Britain is one of just four European members of Nato to hit the agreed Nato spending target... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP RIGHT ON EUROPEAN DEFENCE SPENDING, SAYS NATO CHIEF
It's not viable in the long run that the United States pays 70 percent of the total defence spending of NATO, the former Norwegian prime minister said... READ MORE›
'WITH TRUMP'S WIN WE MIGHT'VE DODGED NUCLEAR BULLET'
RT Donald Trump wants NATO members to pay their way and even suggested he doesn't mind the alliance breaking up... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Norway
NORWAY PLANS TO CULL MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF ITS WOLF POPULATION
But the new legal hunting limit is beyond anything that the wild population can withstand, according to Norway's leading green groups... READ MORE›
COUPLES WHO SHARE THE HOUSEWORK ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE, STUDY FINDS
Norway has a long tradition of gender equality and childrearing is shared equally between mothers and fathers in 70 per cent of cases... READ MORE›
NORWAY FACES CLIMATE LAWSUIT OVER ARCTIC OIL EXPLORATION PLANS
Campaigners say decision to open up the Barents Sea violates the nation's constitution and threatens the Paris climate agreement... READ MORE›
BYPASSING THE RISKY SEA REFUGEES REACH EUROPE THROUGH THE ARCTIC
On Wednesday, 73 asylum seekers crossed into Norway from Russia at Storskog, a record for a single day... READ MORE›
EU PROPOSES TOTAL COMMERCIAL FISHING BAN ON ATLANTIC SEA BASS
EU sources predicted a very difficult meeting at the council, where ministers traditionally vie to appear strong in defence of their domestic fishing industries... READ MORE›
NORWAY HAS A NEW PASSION GHOST HUNTING
Along with a group of like-minded young friends, he travels around the region hunting for traces of ghosts and then posts videos of their findings -- always invisible -- on the Internet... READ MORE›
ICELAND TO BUILD FIRST NORSE GODS TEMPLE SINCE VIKING AGE SO YOU CAN WORSHIP THOR AND ODIN
Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since the Viking age... READ MORE›
SYRIANS FLEEING WAR FIND NEW ROUTE TO EUROPE A?? VIA THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
Intriguingly, in 2013 a Facebook group which advises Syrians about how to reach Europe suggested that Norway's border with Russia was impenetrable... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP'S SECRET 'WIG FARM' GETS DISCOVERED BY NORWEGIAN TV
The clusters, the video jokes, are part of Donald Trump's secret wig farm... READ MORE›
CONTROVERSY AFTER NORWEGIAN COURT FINES HAIRDRESSER FOR DENYING SERVICE TO MUSLIM WOMAN
The court ordered that Hodne pay Bayan 10,000 kroner 1,200 in compensation as well as court costs of 5,000 kroner 750 ... READ MORE›
HUNDREDS OF NORWEGIAN MUSLIMS FORM HUMAN SHIELD TO PROTECT JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN OSLO
Muslims have formed a human shield around a Synagogue in the country's capital as a symbol of solidarity with the city's Jewish community... READ MORE›
SHELL RESUMES ARCTIC DRILLING BUT CUTS $15BN FROM GLOBAL INVESTMENT
Related Stories Royal Dutch Shell is reviving plans to drill for oil in the Arctic in a move likely to intensify its battle with environmentalists... READ MORE›
MCDONALD'S FORCES A BLIND WOMAN WITH HER GUIDE DOG TO LEAVE IN TEARS
McDonald's forces blind woman to leave in tears because she was accompanied by her guide dog... READ MORE›
GENEROUS WELFARE SYSTEMS ACTUALLY MAKE PEOPLE MORE KEEN TO WORK, EUROPE-WIDE STUDY FINDS
On the contrary, employment commitment was much higher in all the studied groups in bigger welfare states... READ MORE›
NORWAY HELICOPTER CRASH: '11 KILLED' NEAR BERGEN
It was flying from the Gullfaks oil field to Bergen, a centre for the North Sea oil and gas industry... READ MORE›
NORWEGIAN EBOLA PATIENT 'GIVEN LAST DOSE OF ZMAPP'
Please read our A Norwegian woman infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is to be given the last remaining dose of ZMapp in the world... READ MORE›
BP EVACUATES VALHALL OIL FIELD IN NORTH SEA
Meanwhile, BP said it is working to completely evacuate a North Sea oil field because a barge is drifting out of control in the turbulent seas... READ MORE›
EASYJET AIRLINE STAFF PHOTOGRAPH SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 37,000FT IN THE AIR
UK flight was en route to Icelandic capital as it passed over the Faroe Islands Rose Troup Buchanan Rose is an online news reporter... READ MORE›
NORWAY WANTS TO PUT REFUGEES ON REMOTE ISLANDS FULL OF POLAR BEARS
Norwegian politicians propose putting refugees on Svalbard a?? remote Arctic islands with more polar bears than people... READ MORE›
DECORATED WAR HERO, 94, DENIED LONG-TERM CARE IN HALIFAX FACILITY FOR VETERANS
They are saying that--and this upsets my family in Norway--they say Norway surrendered in World War Two, said Blendheim... READ MORE›
IRAQI REFUGEES IN FINLAND RETURNING HOME DUE TO 'CHILLY WEATHER AND HOSTILE LOCALS'
Nearly 80 per cent of the returnees are Iraqis, while just 22 of the 877 Syrians who have sought asylum in Finland have asked to return home... READ MORE›
MASS SHOOTINGS PREVENTABLE? THESE COUNTRIES HAVE TRIED
According to the Small Arms Survey 2007 Guns and the City, there are almost 32 firearms per 100 people in Norway... READ MORE›
NORWEGIANS LAUGH AT NEW FENCE ON RUSSIAN BORDER
Many local Norwegians travel into Russia to buy cheaper petrol and alcohol, while Russians travel into Norway to buy consumer goods like nappies and coffee... READ MORE›
20 LEAST PROSPEROUS COUNTRIES
Updated 11 27 EST, 4 November 2015 European Union outsider Norway has been named the most prosperous country in the world for the seventh year in a row... READ MORE›
'ISIS PLOT TO KIDNAP BRITISH DIPLOMATS' IS BUSTED
Among them was a 33-year-old from Handsworth, Birmingham, who is accused of being the British head of Ansar Al Islam... READ MORE›
MASS KILLER ANDERS BREIVIK ACCEPTED BY UNIVERSITY
Rector Ole Petter Ottersen said that all inmates in Norwegian prisons are entitled to higher education in Norway if they meet the admission requirements... READ MORE›
NORWAY VIOLATED RIGHTS OF ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK MASS KILLER JUDGE RULES
Mr. Breivik sued prison officials last year, asserting that the government was slowly killing him... READ MORE›
IS CLAIMS TWO MORE HOSTAGE KILLINGS
IS gave no details about when or where Ole-Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Norway and Fan Jinghui, 50, from China were killed... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S IMMIGRATION MINISTER DONNED A FULL-BODY WETSUIT IN AN ATTEMPT AT SOLIDARITY WITH REFUGEES
A day earlier, Norway's new immigration minister also found herself floating in the Mediterranean -- but she didn't even get wet... READ MORE›
COORDINATED EUROPEAN RAIDS TARGET RING SUPPORTING TERRORIST GROUPS
All of the suspects are likely to face charges in Italy of conspiracy to commit international terrorism... READ MORE›