A Norwegian journalist abducted last week and held captive in eastern Afghanistan has been freed, Norway said on Thursday
We received hundreds of questions from you for The Clinic live Webcast, hosted by Dr Sanjay Gupta on August 23. Here are the best questions and the all important answers from our panel of cancer experts.
An international youth camp in western Norway is being shut down after swine flu broke out among the teenagers, the organizers, 4H Norway, announced Saturday.
The sleek, dark wood has all the characteristics of endangered mahogany from Peru's Amazon rainforest.
Norway has condemned the ransacking of the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo by Tamil demonstrators.
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.
My ancestors came from Norway, so I'm partial to that corner of Europe. But even if you're not from Viking stock, don't miss the fjords.
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.
Sebastien Loeb continued his perfect start to the new World Rally Championship season by taking victory in Norway -- dealing a major blow to Ford's title hopes in the process.
The biggest surprise on a busy night of international football on Wednesday came in Duesseldorf, where Euro 2008 finalists Germany were beaten by Norway for the first time in 73 years.
A Norwegian journalist abducted last week and held captive in eastern Afghanistan has been freed, Norway said on Thursday
We received hundreds of questions from you for The Clinic live Webcast, hosted by Dr Sanjay Gupta on August 23. Here are the best questions and the all important answers from our panel of cancer experts.
An international youth camp in western Norway is being shut down after swine flu broke out among the teenagers, the organizers, 4H Norway, announced Saturday.
The sleek, dark wood has all the characteristics of endangered mahogany from Peru's Amazon rainforest.
Norway has condemned the ransacking of the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo by Tamil demonstrators.
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.
My ancestors came from Norway, so I'm partial to that corner of Europe. But even if you're not from Viking stock, don't miss the fjords.
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.
Sebastien Loeb continued his perfect start to the new World Rally Championship season by taking victory in Norway -- dealing a major blow to Ford's title hopes in the process.
The biggest surprise on a busy night of international football on Wednesday came in Duesseldorf, where Euro 2008 finalists Germany were beaten by Norway for the first time in 73 years.
One of the planet's most fragile and pristine ecosystems sits atop a bounty of untapped fossil fuels.
Local favorite Werner Heel has won the men's super-G at Val Gardena, the first Italian to prevail at the Saslong slope since 2001.
The Federal Reserve Bank announced a deal with four nations Wednesday meant to help global financial markets.
French legend Julien Absalon took his status to new heights when he became the first rider to defend the men's mountain bike Olympic title.
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.
QINHUANGDAO, China -- Who said amateurism was a dying concept at the Olympics?
Finn Mikko Hirvonen returned to first place in the world standings by winning the Rally of Jordan, the fifth of the 15-race world rally championship series.
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 took delivery of its first shipment Tuesday.
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.
At least 26 people were killed and more than 50 were wounded Wednesday in a pair of attacks in southern Sri Lanka, authorities said.
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.
Turkey are favorites to join Greece at the Euro 2008 finals after coming from behind to defeat Norway 2-1 in Group C in Oslo and leave the Scandinavian side facing qualifying heartache.
SHANGHAI, China -- A few final thoughts from the World Cup:
Striker John Carew's double fired Norway to a surprise 2-1 win over Argentina in a friendly on Wednesday.
Sweden's Maria Hjorth and Linda Wessberg, along with Norway's Iben Tinning, were selected as captain's picks on Tuesday for Europe's Solheim Cup side.
Finland and Norway were handed extra UEFA Cup places next season following a Fair Play draw by UEFA on Tuesday.
Norway and Bosnia are likely to face punishment from UEFA after their Group C qualifier was marred by crowd trouble on Saturday.
Former Norway international Tore Andre Flo has signed for struggling Leeds United, the English Championship club confirmed on Wednesday.
Norway is the world's best place to live, according to the United Nations Human Development Index. Here's everything you'd want to know about the Scandinavian paradise.
To a generation that has grown up with environmentalism as part of its conscience, it must seem that saving the whale was a battle that had already been won, or at least wasn't in danger of losing.
European champions Greece made it two wins out of two matches when they edged past Norway 1-0 in their Euro 2008 Group C qualifier in Athens' Karaiskaki stadium on Saturday.
Nothing says hot like an Arctic bidding war.
Norway coach Aage Hareide has included both Riise brothers in his 23-man squad for the Euro 2008 qualifier against champions Greece in Athens on October 7.
Norway extended their unbeaten record against Brazil to four matches when they held the five times world champions 1-1 on Dunga's debut as coach.
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.
New rallies in Ireland, Norway and Portugal will replace Australia, Cyprus and Turkey on next year's world championship calendar.
Norway will bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2018 and will choose its venue next February.
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...
Paraguay striker Roque Santa Cruz will miss the World Cup warm-up with Norway on Wednesday with an inflamed right knee.
Norway's Ole Hermann Borgan, who posed for newspaper pictures in a Barcelona shirt, has been replaced as linesman for the Champions League final.
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.
Austria won the Olympic ski jumping team event for the first time on Monday, giving teenager Thomas Morgenstern his second gold of the Torino Games.
Russia's Eugeni Dementiev won a thrilling men's 30-km pursuit race in the cross-country skiing at the Torino Winter Olympics.
Germany's Georg Hettich gave his country its second gold medal on Saturday by winning the Nordic combined individual event ahead of Austria's Felix Gottwald.
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.
Ski jumping is one of the rare skiing disciplines that did not evolve from military, transportation or communication origins. The sport dates back to 1860, when Sondre Norheim, who is still lauded in Norway as the "father of skiing", jumped 30 meters from a rock without ski poles.
Biathlon combines cross-country skiing and shooting.
Vladimir Smicer's first-half header enabled the Czech Republic to take a giant step towards next year's World Cup finals in Germany, giving them a 1-0 victory over Norway in the first leg of their qualifying playoff in Oslo.
Lyon striker John Carew has won Norway's player of the year award, edging out IK Start midfielder Kristofer Haestad and Blackburn midfielder Morten Gamst Pedersen.
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.
The following six teams will go into Friday's draw for the playoffs for the three remaining World Cup qualifying slots from the European zone.
Holders CSKA Moscow will face former European champions Olympique Marseille in the UEFA Cup group stage following the draw in Nyon, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
Holders CSKA Moscow will start the defense of the UEFA Cup against FC Midtylland of Denmark following the draw for the first round of the competition in Monaco on Friday.
World champions and tournament favorites Germany beat Norway 3-1 to win their fourth successive UEFA European Women's Championship at Blackburn on Sunday.
Bastian Schweinsteiger scored his first two international goals as Germany drew 2-2 with Russia in their final warm-up before the Confederations Cup.
Italy strengthened their chances of reaching the World Cup finals by drawing 0-0 with closest rivals Norway in a qualifying game with few chances.
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.
Bottom team Moldova held Norway to a goalless draw in a dull Group Five World Cup qualifier played in driving snow in Chisinau on Wednesday.
Norway has announced plans to raise its pledge for tsunami victims from $16 million to about $180 million -- an 11-fold increase.
Francesco Totti scored twice as Italy got their World Cup qualifying campaign back on track with a 4-3 victory over Belarus in a remarkable group five game.
Oil prices remain at record highs Tuesday, hovering close to $54 a barrel as tight supply fears weigh on consumers.
A header by Bostjan Cesar eight minutes from time gave Slovenia a famous 1-0 win over Italy in their World Cup qualifier.
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.
Alessandro Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy for more than a year as Marcello Lippi's side picked up their second straight win with a 1-0 away victory over Moldova in Chisinau.
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.
The government of Norway moved Friday to end a labor dispute which threatened to halt the flow of approximately 3 million barrels a day of Norwegian oil and send world oil prices soaring.
Norway's prime minister says his government is closely watching an escalating conflict threatening to close down the country's oil output.
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.
John Carew is back in Norway's squad for the first time since a training ground bust-up with teammate John Arne Riise last September.
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 called off their search for 15 crew members missing from a freighter that capsized off the coast of Norway.
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.
Roma striker John Carew is set to end his boycott of the Norway national team after talks with new coach Aage Hareide in Rome on Thursday.
A MasterCard commercial famously said that taking a parent to explore your roots is priceless. I can tell you otherwise. It's expensive as hell.
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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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