Norway News

Food prices in Norway increased by up to 5 percent as a result of the global increase pointed by he FAO Food Price Index.

As part of the fight to make slavery history, KrF MP Dagfinn Hoybraten proposed to have a special anti-slavery-day in Norway.

Italian web site SpazioRock.it conducted an interview with guitarist Mike Spreitzer of California metallers DEVILDRIVER before the band's November 13 concert in Milan, Italy.

One of the key figures behind the Norwegian South Film Fund, set up last month to finance films from developing countries, arrived at the Berlinale Friday to tubthump for the org.

With 155,480 votes, 24-year-old Tooji Keshtkar has surpassed all the other competitors in the gold final.

The CD was recorded at Strand Studio in Oslo and features cover artwork by Trine + Kim Design Studio .

An arts festival in northern Norway is offering a rare glimpse into North Korean culture this weekend, including performances by musicians whose accordion version of A-ha's megahit "Take on Me" has become an online sensation.

Kjerag and Trollstigen in Norway offer an unmatched Wingsuit Base Jumping experience for the passionate lovers of this extraordinary sport.

The Consumer Price Index declined from December 2011 to January 2012. Seasonal price reductions on clothing and footwear jointly contributed most to the fall, Statistics Norway reports.

The championships will produce four world champions: in slopestyle and halfpipe for men and women.

"Auroro australis" are northern lights / southern lights of southern hemisphere and "aurora borelias" are northern lights of the Northern hemisphere.

Anders Behring Breivik, responsible for the July 22nd terrorist attacks in Oslo and on UtA ya, will be committed to a special ward at the Ila Prison for a newA psychiatric examination.

Drammen, 10 February, 2012: Reference is made to enclosed joint announcement by Nera Telecommunications Limited and Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited , regarding the proposed acquisition of NeraTel by way of a scheme of arrangement .

Promoters are preparing for a high turnout for Madonna's just-announced world tour.

Fresh of the the festival circuit, where it was projected in super wide-screen, Kiss is what I'd safely classify as an art film.

On February 1, 2012, Norway's Kongsberg Jazz Festival unveiled its first series of shows scheduled for the 2012 edition, running from July 4-7, 2012: a total of fourteen shows&#151 seven of them detailed in this press release .

The shows amount to a milestone in Internet television, an early sign of the leveling between broadcasting and streaming.

Recently the Partij voor Moslim Nederland , which already enjoys a significant presence in various municipal governments in that country, announced that it intended to run candidates for the Dutch Parliament.A An article in Forbes listed the party's major principles, which included limits on "offensive" speech about religion; the criminalization of ... (more)

Maung Tun Khin Ziaul Gaffar, the president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, visited with Norwegian officials in Oslo recently, where he met with the former prime minister.

Norway's largest bank, DNB recorded profits of NOK 4 089 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with NOK 5 284 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, despite financial turmoil.