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A-ha take on new world tour

Thirty years after they burst onto the music scene, Norwegian synth pop heros A-ha are back with a new album and a world tour.

Norway

Heavy rain causes chaos in southern Norway

Several parts of southern Norway have been flooded after heavy rainfall over the last couple of days. Several houses have had to be evacuated, roads

Norway

Norwegian youth return to Utoya island

Norway is turning the page on the most bloody event in its history. On 22nd July 2011, right-wing extemist Anders Behring took the lives of 77 people

Norway

Norway's Young Labour return to Utoya island

For the first time in four years the Norwegian Labour party’s youth wing is gathering for summer camp on Utoya island. In 2011 it was the scene of a

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Students return to Norwegian island four years after massacre

Just over four years since dozens of students were gunned down by a right wing extremist in Norway, activists from the country’s largest political

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Norway: Teenagers return to island, four years after Breivik massacre

Four years after dozens of teenagers were shot dead by a far-right extremist, the youth wing of Norway’s Labour Party has returned to the island of

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Norwegian police investigate 'bomb-like' package at Oslo university

Poland

Nearly 1.5 million counterfeit cigarettes seized in Poland

Several arrests have been made and nearly 1.5 million cigarettes seized after police and customs officers raided an illegal cigarette factory in

Sport

Svindal and Mikkelsen race in the fjords

Rally driver Andreas Mikkelsen and Olympic champion skier Aksel Lund Svindal recently joined forces to test their speed and skills in stunning

Norway

Norway: fourth anniversary of attacks in Oslo and on Utoya

It is four years since the attacks on a government building and a youth camp on the island of Utoya claimed the lives of 77 people and changed

World

Summer holidays: making the most of the big break

School’s out for summer! The words every student longs to hear as the academic year drags on. It means weeks of down-time and relaxation; long days

Cinema

Heart-warming doc will make you smile and want to play volley-ball

This week’s choice is ‘The Optimists’, a Norwegian documentary film which will touch you, make you laugh and make you want to play volley-ball

Norway

Norwegian cruise ship runs aground off Bermuda

A Norwegian Cruise Line ship has run aground on a reef as it was leaving Bermuda.The Norwegian Dawn was returning to Boston with 2675 passengers and

Norway

The cold war in the Arctic

Russia said on Monday its deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin had every right to visit Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, near the North Pole, despite

Sport

Jansrud wins overall downhill title

The men’s downhill title went to Kjetil Jansrud, who kept his composure to clinch the 10th World Cup win of his career and the seventh this winter

Sport

Gravity: Kristoffersen breaks 4-month famine while Fenninger is on the brink

Welcome to Gravity our weekly programme dedicated to downhill skiing. Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen, who won the first slalom of the season, tasted

Sport

Severin Freund makes it three-in-a-row on the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo

Severin Freund clinched his third successive win on Saturday, this one on the imposing Holmenkollen. The large hill World Champion sealed victory in

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Woman miscarries after boyfriend secretly gives her abortion pills

Sport

Reichelt clinches World Cup downhill in Norway

Austria’s Hannes Reichelt produced yet another flawless run to claim his second straight World Cup downhill victory in Norway on Saturday. Fresh from

Norway

Norway: Muslims form protective 'Ring of Peace' around synagogue

Around Oslo’s synagogue it was called a ‘Ring of Peace’ – more than 1,000 Muslims offering symbolic protection for Norway’s Jewish community. A human