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Norway: The Oil State

Anders Lorenzen | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Tar Sands, Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, Statoil, Oil, Shareholder Rights, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy, Scandinavia, World News

Welcome to Norway, home to a proud people who enjoy telling the myth about how they cheated their rival and neighbor Denmark by, despite owning very l...

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Police: Norway Killer Acted Alone

AP | BJOERN H. AMLAND | Posted 05.30.2012

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OSLO, Norway — Norwegian police said Wednesday they are confident that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik acted on his own in terror a...

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Deep-Sea Jellyfish Are Out Of This World

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Jellyfish Photos, Norway, Bergen, Espen Rekdal, Slideexpand, Hydromedusae, Animals, Norwegian Jellyfish, Lurefjorden, Green News

These deep-sea jellyfish might seem like special effects from the latest sci-fi blockbuster, but they're real. Espen Rekdal, a Norwegian photograp...

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Friends Suspected Norway Killer Was Deeply Depressed, Gay

AP | BJOERN H. AMLAND | Posted 05.30.2012

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OSLO, Norway — Former friends of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik said that some years before the massacre he came across ...

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Norway Killer Posed Like Body Builder After Arrest

Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012

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OSLO, May 25 (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik first requested a band aid for a cut finger when police arrested him, then pos...

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Last Island Survivor Testifies In Breivik Trial

AP | JULIA GRONNEVET and LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 05.25.2012

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OSLO, Norway — A Norwegian who survived Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage on Utoya island capped two weeks of chilling witness statement...

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World's Cushiest Prison Has Tanning Beaches, No Armed Guards

Newser.com | Posted 05.24.2012

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Norway's Bastoy Prison is home to murderers and rapists. Here's what it's not home to: armed guards or fences. In fact, the convicts carry the keys...

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Norway Killer Won't Appeal Sane Ruling

AP | Posted 05.24.2012

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OSLO, Norway -- The Norwegian right-wing extremist who has admitted to killing 77 people in a massacre last year said Thursday that he doesn't plan to...

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Munch's Hidden Treasure

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Digital Nomad, Video, Norway, Edvard Munch, National Geographic, Edvard Munch Art, Slideexpand, World News

Edvard Munch could have used the cash. Although the Norwegian artist’s most famous painting just sold for $120 million at a Sotheby’s auc...

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PHOTOS: Norway's Royal Family Gets Decked Out For Norwegian Constitution Day

Posted 05.18.2012

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Sure, we fawn over Kate Middleton's "real girl" style. But we'll never get tired of seeing royals in their traditional garb, whether it be the Queen o...

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Culture Contrasts: Norway's Support of Working Families

Melanie Coffee | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Parental Leave, Maternity Leave, Working Mothers, Motherhood, Norway, Paternity Leave, Save the Children, Parenthood, Parents News

In the race to be bigger, faster, stronger, we've lost sight of what makes us better: Time with each other.

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Chip Taylor: Still Chasing the Chills

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Train Wreck Records, Music News, Church of the Train Wreck, Chip Taylor, Norway, Live Music, Chip Taylor and the New Ukranians, Jon Voight, Singer-Songwriter, Scandinavia, Barry Voight, Merilee Rush, Entertainment News, Hill Country Live, Evie Sands, Chet Atkins, Carrie Rodriguez, Chip Taylor Music, Entertainment News

It is difficult -- well nigh impossible really -- to cover a career like that of Chip Taylor's in just a few hundred words.

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WATCH: Chilean Toddler Drums In His Sleep!

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 05.13.2012

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Many parents are probably familiar with the challenges of negotiating kids and naps. But one Chilean-Norwegian family has come up with a creative solu...

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Spectator Tells Norway Killer: 'Go To Hell'

AP | JULIA GRONNEVET | Posted 05.11.2012

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OSLO, Norway — An Iraqi man whose brother was killed in Norway's worst peacetime massacre hurled a shoe at the confessed killer and urged him to...

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Norway Killer Asks To Confront Survivors

AP | JULIA GRONNEVET | Posted 05.09.2012

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OSLO, Norway -- Survivors of a youth camp shooting massacre that left 69 people dead in Norway testified Wednesday about their panicked attempts to hi...

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This Is What A Power Station In Norway Looks Like

| Posted 05.06.2012

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By Victoria King Click here for the original article. Copyright Mir & Stein Hamre Arkitektkontor As Stein Hamre Arkitektkontor As shared with...

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Autopsy Reports Revealed In Massacre Trail

AP | JULIA GRONNEVET | Posted 05.04.2012

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OSLO, Norway — Families of Anders Behring Breivik's victims sought to balance the technical details of how they died with testimony Friday of ho...

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What People of Conscience Need to Know about Norway

Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Middle East, International Relations, Norway, Israel, European Union, Foreign Policy, Anti Semitism, Civil Rights, World News, Norwegian Politics, Norway Israel Relations, Scandinavia, World News

Norway has never posed a direct threat to Israel nor has it advocated Israel's liquidation. However, many in its government, and some large businesses, have recently displayed a pattern of strong anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic attitudes.

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Odd Organism In Lake Called Man's Remotest Relative

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Unicellular, Video, Protist, Collodictyon, Norway, One-Celled Organism, Animal Kingdom, Protozoan, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/29/2012 06:51 PM EDT on LiveScience Talk about extended family: A single-celled organ...

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Norway Killer: Insane Diagnosis Based On 'Evil Fabrications'

AP | KARL RITTER and JULIA GRONNEVET | Posted 04.26.2012

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OSLO, Norway — Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik slammed a psychiatric report that declared him insane, insisting Wednesday it was based on "ev...

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Norway Killer: 'I Am Being Subjected To Grave Racism'

AP | KARL RITTER and JULIA GRONNEVET | Posted 04.24.2012

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UPDATE: Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who confessed to killing 77 people last July, punctuated another day in court on Monday by coolly st...

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Norway Killer Shocks Courtroom

AP | KARL RITTER and JULIA GRONNEVET | Posted 04.20.2012

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OSLO, Norway — Norwegians who lost loved ones on Utoya island relived the horror Friday as far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik described in...

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'We Want To Create A European Version Of Al Qaeda'

AP | KARL RITTER and BJOERN H. AMLAND | Posted 04.21.2012

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OSLO, Norway -- Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik took to the Internet to learn how to carry out a bombing-and-shooting rampage, st...

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In Norway, You Can Murder 77 People and Still Enjoy Retirement

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Anders Behring Breivik Norway Bombing, Capital Punishment, Norway, Anders Breivik, Criminal Justice System, Anders Breivik Trial, Anders Behring Breivik Trial, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Anders Behring Breivik, World News

If Anders Behring Breivik is found to be mentally competent, the toughest sentence Norwegian law can mete out is 21 years, though he may still remain incarcerated if he is deemed to be a danger to society. Breivik may be walking the streets by the time he's 55.

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Norway Killer: 'Death Penalty Or Acquittal'

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 04.19.2012

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OSLO, Norway — The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's p...

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