Norwegian violinist, Alexander Rybak, 23, won the Eurovision Song Contest with an upbeat ballad that got the most votes in the history of one of the world's most watched television shows.
An amorous motorist faces a fine and a driving ban after he was caught having sex with his girlfriend while speeding on a highway, Norwegian media reported Tuesday.
Arctic reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia are getting a view from space to help them look after their herds as the region copes with climate change.
BEIJING -- It's one of the most widely accepted pieces of conventional wisdom in women's soccer: The rest of the world has caught up to the United States and the other heavyweights in the women's game.
SHENYANG, China -- The chances of the U.S. women's soccer team winning its group (and avoiding a quarterfinal clash with Brazil) were so unlikely that on Tuesday, forward Amy Rodriguez's parents canceled their hotel reservations for Shanghai later in the week.
Bergen's old Hanseatic Quarter has a crude yet romantic charm. I crouch under creaky timbers, as I wander through the Hanseatic Museum. The oversized cupboards around me once housed humble Norwegians -- each miniscule "bedroom" giving them darkness and warmth through the cold, but not very long, Nordic night. Primitive paintings of buxom maidens with come-hither smiles decorated the doors, as if to bring sweet dreams to those rustic 16th-century lives.
Norwegian violinist, Alexander Rybak, 23, won the Eurovision Song Contest with an upbeat ballad that got the most votes in the history of one of the world's most watched television shows.
An amorous motorist faces a fine and a driving ban after he was caught having sex with his girlfriend while speeding on a highway, Norwegian media reported Tuesday.
Arctic reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia are getting a view from space to help them look after their herds as the region copes with climate change.
BEIJING -- It's one of the most widely accepted pieces of conventional wisdom in women's soccer: The rest of the world has caught up to the United States and the other heavyweights in the women's game.
SHENYANG, China -- The chances of the U.S. women's soccer team winning its group (and avoiding a quarterfinal clash with Brazil) were so unlikely that on Tuesday, forward Amy Rodriguez's parents canceled their hotel reservations for Shanghai later in the week.
Bergen's old Hanseatic Quarter has a crude yet romantic charm. I crouch under creaky timbers, as I wander through the Hanseatic Museum. The oversized cupboards around me once housed humble Norwegians -- each miniscule "bedroom" giving them darkness and warmth through the cold, but not very long, Nordic night. Primitive paintings of buxom maidens with come-hither smiles decorated the doors, as if to bring sweet dreams to those rustic 16th-century lives.
A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean.
Travelers heading to Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia this year will be greeted by a host of new museums, improved infrastructure and special events. Here's what to expect if you visit.
The Sri Lankan government has officially withdrawn from an internationally brokered peace agreement with Tamil rebels -- a cease-fire that had existed in name only since the two sides resumed fighting two years ago.
Imagine this for a government conundrum: revenues so high it's hard to know how to spend them. No wonder Norway, flush from oil exports, is picky about where it invests its $236 billion government ...
Imagine this for a government conundrum: revenues so high it's hard to know how to spend them. No wonder Norway, flush from oil exports, is picky about where it invests its $236 billion government pension fund - the third largest on the planet.
Could the Sahara become Africa's next breadbasket? Torfinn Johnsen, founder of Norway's Albedo Technology International, thinks it can. The startup has formulated a fertilizer that boosts soil's ab...
A fugitive al Qaeda member has called on Muslims in an Internet video to attack Denmark, Norway and France for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol detonated Sunday afternoon in southeast Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding five others and two police officers, Baghdad police told CNN.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the new wife of Britain's Prince Charles, wore a royal tiara for the first time at a banquet honoring the visit of Norway's King Harald V.
She was the embodiment of pre-war glamour, a photogenic British princess with a sharp eye for contemporary fashion who became a much-loved queen across the North Sea.
Oil prices settled above $53 a barrel Friday, closing at a record high for the fourth straight session, as labor strife in Nigeria and Norway rekindled supply worries.
It may get down to chilly sub-zero temperatures in mid-winter, but the cold climate country of Norway remains the best place in the world to live, according to the latest research by the United Nations.
U.S. stocks headed toward a lower opening Wednesday amid continuing concern about a strike in No. 3 oil exporter Norway, but the return of flows through a damaged Iraqi pipeline tempered the fears of a shortage.
Investors in the U.S. have been pouring cash into China. During the first two months of this year, China-focused mutual funds took in $260 million, according to Lipper, and that was on the heels of...
Royal Dutch/Shell Group's guidelines on accounting for natural-gas reserves were relaxed as early as the mid-1990s, a move that appears to have played a role in Shell's overstatement of its energy holdings, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Rescuers have pulled 12 people to safety after a cargo ship has capsized off the coast of Norway and are hoping to save 16 others who might be trapped inside the overturned hull.
-- The health ranking table in December's "The Best Charities in America" incorrectly reported that the United Cerebral Palsy Association had not been evaluated by the Council for Better Business B...
Norway said it would consider curtailing its North Sea oil production if OPEC can agree on its own production curbs. Britain, whose lead Norway has traditionally followed in oil policy, said it rem...
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