The luxury cruise ship that was in need of nearly 1400 passengers and crew on the Norwegian Sea, arrived safely on Sunday at the port of Molde. The ship escaped a disaster when the…
A cruise ship has run into trouble off the coast of Norway. All 1300 people on board are being evacuated, police in the northern European country report.
Four tourists are missing after an avalanche in the north of Norway. The three Finns and one Swede were skiing in the Troms region when they were probably taken down by the...
The Chief of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Norwegian Erik Solheim (63), has finally resigned. He had been discredited by his many expensive journeys, which according to an internal investigation were often incompatible with his job.
Off the coast of Hordaland in Norway, an oil tanker and a ship from the Norwegian navy collided on Thursday morning. According to local media, the frigate KNM Helge Ingstad makes a lot of water, but there is no danger of sinking. The ship has partly run aground and is kept upright.
This week she had to cancel a visit in the country and that was a harbinger of bad news for the Norwegians. PRINCESS METTE-MARIT, the wife of KROONPRINS HAAKON is very ill, suffers from a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis and only a new lung seems to be able to save her...
The Norwegian authorities released a Russian man on Friday suspected of espionage. He was stuck for almost a month. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) wanted to extend the pre-trial detention order, but the Oslo court rejected that request. The appeal of the PST was also unsuccessful.
Norway apologized for the way in which Norwegian women had a relationship with German soldiers during the Second World War. Premier Erna Solberg apologized on behalf of the government on Wednesday, reports the BBC.
The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded on Friday, is one of the most important political rewards that is being forgiven in the world. This year, the choice seems more difficult than in other years because it is not clear how sustainable current peace initiatives will be.
Norway has arrested a Russian on suspicion of espionage, reported the Norwegian press agency NTB on the basis of the security service PST.
The Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis, who was missing in Norway, was seen on 30 August in company of two men in Vikesa, in the southwest of the Scandinavian country. That's what a witness told the Norwegian newspaper VG.
The police in Norway have found a tent in the area where the missing Arjen Kamphuis is possible.
The international community wants to spend more than 1.7 billion euros extra for aid to the crisis area around Lake Chad. During a donor conference in Berlin, the needy population of one of the poorest regions in the world was pledged about three times as much as a year ago at a similar meeting in Oslo.
The Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi does not have to worry about having to hand in her Nobel Peace Prize. The rules do not allow the prestigious award to be withdrawn, says the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The European Court of Human Rights does not consider a complaint from Anders Breivik about his treatment in prison. The mass murderer believes that his human rights are being violated by inhuman conditions behind the bars.
A 62-year-old Norwegian who was arrested in Russia last year on suspicion of espionage has announced that he is a retired employee of his country's military intelligence service. Frode Berg worked for years for the Norwegian army as a border guard, made Berg's lawyer known.
A record number of wolves were killed in Norway last winter. Hunters shot thirty wolves, the Ministry of Environment reported. The high number does not mean that the country counts more wolves. The Norwegian government allowed a higher number of wolves to be shot during the past hunting season: 42.
Norwegian students who recently graduated are urged to no longer 'celebrate' this with nude runners on bridges and roundabouts. They also have to refrain from having sex on public roads.
The US federal police will investigate the nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian police have therefore asked the FBI, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
The Norwegian Nobel Peace Peace Committee believes that a nomination submitted in favor of US President Donald Trump is false. The committee has handed over the case to the police, BBC reports Wednesday.
The pilot of a plane to Munich felt compelled to return to Oslo Airport after it appeared that the toilets in the aircraft were faulty. And that, while there were 60 plumbers on board.
The Netherlands is among the world leaders in countries that are good at educating, retaining and attracting talent. The Scandinavian countries score even better from the European countries.
Heavy snowfall has led to power outages and chaos on roads and airports in the south of Norway. Almost 20,000 households do not have electricity, the Norwegian authorities reported Tuesday.
A survivor of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima has called on the United States and North Korea to prevent a nuclear strike. The 85-year-old Setsuko Thurlow was supported by the head of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Norway is under the spell of years of massive sexual abuse in the village of Tysfjord, a community of Sami in Lapland. In the village with about 2000 inhabitants, people have been sexually abused on a large scale. An investigation has already revealed 151 cases, including 43 rapes.
Over a hundred reindeer, the last days have been killed by Norwegian freight trains. It is controversial in the Norwegian media as 'a bloodbath'. 'I am so angry that I am dizzy,' said one of the shepherds.
The court in Oslo Monday sentenced a 34-year-old Norwegian to 7.5 years in prison for having joined Islamic State. Kristian Michelsen traveled to Syria in 2014 to fight for the terrorist group. He was arrested in 2016 on the Turkish side of the Turkish-Syrian border and extradited to Norway by the Turkish authorities.
A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been fined 30,000 dollars because she was driving under the influence. Quite an amount for a student you would say, but that does not apply to Katharina G. Andresen. After all, she is the richest woman in Norway.
An American scientist who secretly has contacts with the North Korean regime says Pyongyang wants to know if President Trump is really crazy.
