The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded this year to the International Counterarm Absorption (ICAN) Campaign. The international organization, headquartered in Switzerland, receives the prestigious award for her work to address 'the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of each use of nuclear weapons.'
In Norway, Oslo will be announced on Friday who will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, the prize went to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who reached a peace agreement with FARC rebel movement.
Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg has claimed victory in parliamentary elections on Monday night. The sitting premier defeated her social-democratic rival Jonas Gahr Støre.
The parliamentary election in Norway seems to be a success for the conservative government of Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Around 3.8 million Norwegians have been called on Monday to vote for a new parliament. Surveys signal a neck-to-neck race between the Conservatives and Social Democrats.
Norway takes additional measures to prevent chaos with results during the parliamentary elections of September 11th. For example, all government-issued votes must be counted one by one in addition to the usual scanning of ballot papers by computers.
Netflix has asked British director Paul Greengrass to make a film about Norwegian massacre Anders Behring Breivik. In Oslo and on the island of Utøya, Breivik killed 77 people, including many children and young people.
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee could not get a visa to attend the funeral of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese Consulate in Oslo would have refused to provide the papers.
Cigarettes may only be sold in Norway in neutral packaging without a brand name. This weekend has become a law that determines that. Norway is the fourth country that imports this.
Norwegian massacre Anders Behring Breivik has officially changed his name. The man who is 21 years in prison for 77 people killed in 2011 is now living as Fjotolf Hansen, reporting Norwegian media on Friday.
The Supreme Court of Norway does not appeal to Anders Breivik's appeal. The massacre wanted to appeal against a March decision by a court that ruled that his human rights in prison were not violated.
Scientists are worried about the World Seed Bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. Due to the exceptionally high temperatures and rain at the end of last year, water has penetrated the entrance of the vault, reports various international media.
Opera has significantly renewed its same-name web browser. The Norwegian company now gives users the opportunity to chat directly through the browser via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram. Furthermore, the look of the browser has also been taken care of.
The Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture ordered Monday to cut 2200 wild reindeer. In some animals, an infectious brain disease has been identified, the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which only recently occurred in North America and South Korea.
Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge Roekke promises to put most of his ability to remove the plastic soup from the world's seas. The former fisherman, who started to grow in the oil industry, is starting to fund a ship that is investigating the floating plastic waste in the oceans.
The seventeen-year-old Russian who was arrested due to hear the discovery of an improvised explosive device in Oslo, received Monday that he remains attached for longer. The lawyer for the teenager claims that his client is not an extremist, but just wanted to play a prank.
Norwegian police have arrested a seventeen year old Russian after the discovery of an improvised explosive device in Oslo. It is still unclear whether the teen was planning to carry out an attack, said the chief of the national security service (PST) Sunday.
The Norwegian police found Saturday in the center of the capital Oslo 'an object that looks very like a bomb'.
Norway has increased the quota for whaling. During the new season started this week, 999 animals may be shot. That's 100 more whales than last year. Norway is, together with Iceland and Japan among the few countries that still hunt whales.
Norway has four Turkish officers and a military attaché for political asylum. The five soldiers were afraid to return to Turkey for prosecution because of the failed coup last July.
The Norwegian government is violating the human rights of mass murderer Anders Breivik by his detention in solitary confinement with three rooms not. A court in Oslo rejected the objections about Breivik.
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway found to their horror in the stomach of a beaked whale thirty plastic bags and found a fair amount of other indigestible material. The mammal, which normally does not enter northern waters, was released from his suffering because it always swam to the land around the island Sotra. At autopsy determined the cause of the disorientation.
Tidal would not have been honest about the number of paying subscribers associated with the music service. According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv argues Spotify-competitor rapicoon Jay Z which has 3 million paying customers, while there are actually 850,000.
The appeal against Anders Breivik, the terrorist who in 2011, 77 people lost their lives spent in two attacks in Norway, on the strict regime that he goes to prison began Tuesday. He brought upon entering the courtroom again a Nazi salute.
Norway says goodbye to radio via FM waves. The Scandinavian country is the first in the world to fully pass to digital DAB system. The transition starts next Wednesday in the northern town of Bodø. At the end of the year throughout the country switched to digital radio.
In the Swedish and Norwegian capitals Saturday awarded the Nobel Prizes. Stockholm received the majority of their winners medal, diploma and a document from the hands of King Carl Gustaf. Oslo is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Colombian President Santos, honored in the presence of the Norwegian King Harald.
Norwegian police have broken up a network of at least fifty pedophiles. Among the defendants are lawyers and politicians. One of the men is suspected of abusing his own children.
The global CO2 emissions in 2015 for the third year in a row more or less remained the same, despite the economic growth. According to a yearly analysis of the Global Carbon Project, which will be presented Monday.
