Arctic Security: The New Great Game? In 2007, Russia laid claim to parts of the Arctic seabeda historic first and an act that has been challenged by ...
AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
OSLO — The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo. Guinness Boo...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
An academic boycott of Israel in Norway was averted on Thursday, when the executive board of the University of Trondheim unanimously decided to reject...
Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Renowned National Geographic extreme photojournalist Paul Nicklen has released a new book titled Polar Obsession, which chronicles his expedition unde...
Sky Hi Daily News | SkyHi Daily | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Sons of Norway will gather in Tabernash on Sunday Staff Writer Circle Nov. 15 because on Sunday the recently established Sons of Norway, ...
David Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Later this month, Norway's second largest university will consider a proposed boycott of Israel for developing "Zionist ideology and renouncing Palestinian history and identity."
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board v...
Michael Kimmel | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
A fleet of 35 pink taxis recently debuted in Puebla, Mexico, a colonial city halfway between Mexico City and Veracruz. These taxis are driven only by women, and they do not stop for male passengers.
AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
OSLO — 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.
Breilid said the non-venomous snakes – the smallest species in the python family – were hidden in stockings duct-taped to the man's abdomen. The geckos were in boxes taped to his thighs.
Customs officials found the reptiles, which are not endangered, Sunday during a search following the discovery of a tarantula in one of the man's bags.
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
A 19-year-old Norwegian is $20,580 (£12,200) richer - in real money - after sweeping the board at the World Monopoly Championships in Las Vegas....
GlobalPost | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
OSLO, Norway -- The first time I went to prison, it was to an idyllic place with lush woodland, bright-colored houses and the waters of the Oslo fjord...
Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.
Tim Mohr | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
The northwesternmost outpost of the Hanseatic league--the drizzly harbor town of Bergen, Norway, nestled on the country's craggy west coast--is an unlikely hotbed for new music.
NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home
The Columbus Day Parade has a special meaning for me. It was the day in 1967 when I met my wife, Vera. ...
Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.
David Wallechinsky | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, citing "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen in...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy
A spokesman for the Nobel committee said she hoped that Mr. Obama's victory would be seen not only as a victory for him, but "as a tribute to the healing power of beer."
Tom Matlack | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Obama sets an example for the rest of us 40-something guys looking in the mirror asking ourselves those difficult questions how to move forward.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The neoconservatives will trumpet this as the ultimate evidence of Obama being a socialist, embraced by notoriously socialist Norway.
AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
OSLO — Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
An annual report by the United Nations has found that Norway has the highest standard of living for its citizens. The BBC reported that the UN looke...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home
In a move which Foreign Ministry sources defined as "unusual," Israel's embassy in Norway has officially protested the launch of a high profile academ...
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has fired the top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.
U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said in a statement Wednesday that Ban decided to recall Peter Galbraith and end his appointment as the U.N.'s deputy special representative.
Diplomats said Galbraith disagreed with the head of the U.N. mission, Kai Eide, over how to deal with widespread fraud charges from the presidential election in Afghanistan.
Montas said the secretary-general reaffirmed his full support for Eide.
AllAboutElectric | AllCarsElectric | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
Yesterday, Coulomb Technologies announced the successful installation of the first ChargePoint station in Norway. Along with the help of European s...
FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home