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LIVERPOOL STRIKER Andy Carroll and West Ham goalkeeper Rob Green will start for England in today’s Euro 2012 warm-up match against Norway in Oslo (live on UTV, 7.45pm kick-off) .

MANAGER begins his reign in Norway tonight determined to show he is the right man

The two grandfathers, one from the maternal and the other from paternal side, have lodged complaints against each other in connection with custody of the two kids.

Norway defender says England manager could find it hard to get big-name players to accept his ideas.

From the Department of Unhelpful News Items comes this local TV report on Mitt Romney's La Jolla home and the car elevator he's building: "The nice thing about this is that at the grade level it looks like a regular garage floor," said Cheryl Nauman, an employee at American Custom Lifts. "When you hit a button, another comes up." Brad Davies created the sophisticated car elevator. His shop, ...

The Three Lions captain, who is teammates with the former Newcastle United striker at Liverpool, backed the 23-year-old to continue his ‘unplayable’ form through the summer

England manager Roy Hodgson confirms striker Andy Carroll and goalkeeper Rob Green will start against Norway on Saturday.

Soccer:England manager Roy Hodgson has confirmed both Andy Carroll and Rob Green will start tomorrow’s friendly against Norway in Oslo.

OSLO, Norway -- The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed gunman who killed 77 people last year in a bomb and shooting rampage, is entering a new phase after the court heard testimony from one of the only people Breivik spared.Twenty-two-year old Adrian Pracon's witness statement wraps up more than two weeks of testimony from witnesses who survived the right-wing extremist's massacre o...

Researchers from Vestfold University College in Norway have created a simple, efficient energy harvesting device that uses the motion of a single droplet to generate electrical power.

The beautiful animals, which are between one centimetre and a metre in size, swarm in their hundreds as they emerge from the murky depths.

Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last year, says he will not appeal against a guilty verdict if the court finds him sane.

Thousands of public sector workers go on strike in Norway in a pay dispute - the first walk-out by state employees since 1984.

A girl who at the age of just 14 survived Anders Behring Breivik’s shooting massacre on Utoeya island last year showed her large scars to an Oslo court Wednesday, describing them as her dues to democracy.

Bad outing at IIHF World Hockey Championship doesn’t hurt national team for Olympic seeding

Stockholm (ots/PRNewswire) - ? NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), announced today that it has extended its global network and cloud solutions into the Nordics and has opened an office in Stockholm to serve customers in Sweden, Norway, …

SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) - Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish minister got very drunk, but the Norwegian managed to stay sober. As a result, Norway carved out a jagged shape that included Ekofisk, which has proved to be a major field,...

Photographer Tommy Eliassen spends his nights chasing auroras around his home town of Mo i Rana in Norway to capture them in all their glory.

NEIL SAUL, from the ad agency Publicis, and Cian Tormey, from Rothco, have won Best Yet 2012, a European creative competition, in Oslo, Norway, after designing an advertisement intended to drive international sales of Jarlsberg cheese, Norway’s third largest export product.

Spectacular displays of the northern lights or aurora borealis in Norway.

With Square yet to reveal when or where it might offer its mobile payment service in Europe, and PayPal apparently still only talking with would-be partners, the door is wide open for more local players to jump in and pick up some market share. Sweden's iZettle, which often gets compared to Square, is now doing just that: today it is launching its iOS, dongle-based mobile payment service to the...

George Michaelson, APNIC's Senior Research and Development Scientist recently visited the RIPE NCC to collaborate on various research projects with his RIR colleagues. IPv6 measurements were one of the topics we looked at. Recent IPv6 statistics from the RIPE NCC show an accelerated uptake of IPv6 in Norway, both in terms of the number of allocated prefixes, and visible announcements in the r...

Young Norwegians injured in Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage on Utoeya island testified for the first time Monday, describing how he calmly hunted them down, but also taunting the killer of 77 people.

Norwegians wounded in Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage have testified about how he hunted them down and used the trial to taunt the killer.

Soccer: Alex Ferguson has confirmed Manchester United skipper Nemanja Vidic will miss the club’s pre-season tour. United are due to release details of their summer plans soon, having so far only confirmed a friendly in Norway on August 5th.

The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire a majority stake in Meadowhall in a deal that values the Sheffield shopping centre at £1.6bn.

India today assured Norway that foreign investments would be protected amidst the Scandinavian nation saying it apprehended political implications if Telenor suffered losses due to adverse telecom developments in this country.

A man identified as the older brother of one of the victims of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik threw a shoe at him during his trial, the first time the proceeding has been interrupted by a public outburst.

It was the first outburst from the normally subdued crowd watching the terror trial

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The trial of Anders Behring Breivik was interrupted briefly Friday when the brother one of his 77 victims hurled a shoe at the confessed mass killer and yelled, "Go to hell," before being escorted from the court room, police and witnesses said....

OSLO (Reuters) - A man identified as the older brother of one of the victims of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik threw a shoe at him during his trial on Friday, the first time the proceeding has been interrupted by a public outburst.

Anders Breivik uttered "cries of joy" as he carried out the Utoeya, Norway massacre last July, according to witness testimony at his trial Wednesday, published reports said.

Anton Breivik offered to abandon defence in exchange for a chance to question survivors of the July 22 massacre

Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers from Norway have developed a new tool to measure this phenomenon.

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA on Tuesday said net profit dropped 4 percent in the first quarter, though the decline had much to do with the sale of a stake in a Canadian oil sands project that boosted the same quarter a year ago....

Psychologists in Norway have published a list of questions designed to detect addiction to the social networks

By Nerijus AdomaitisMONGSTAD, Norway (Reuters) - Norway on Monday launched the world's largest facility of its kind to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), the so-far commercially unproven technology that would allow greenhouse gases from power plants to be buried safely underground.A 5.8 million Norwegian crown ($1.00 billion) government-funded centre will test two post-combustion carbon ...

The question that nobody in Indian media has asked, is why Norway did not, as should have been done, provide counselling and help to the parents of a special-needs child, instead of taking the kids away.

“We value our relations with our neighbours, Norway in particular, and I’m sure these projects will develop very favorably and will enjoy the Russian government’s unreserved support,” Putin said.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund sold all its Irish and Portuguese government bonds after rejecting the Greek debt swap and warned that Europe faces considerable challenges.

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Flowers and condolences are flooding in as Norwegians mourn the death of swimming world champion Alexander Dale Oen, who had been one of his country's best hopes for a medal at the London Olympics....

The reigning swimming world champion and a 2008 Olympic silver medalist in the 100-meter breaststroke died Monday of an apparent heart attack after a practice session in Arizona. One of Norway’s top medal hopes for the London Olympics, Alexander Dale Oen was attending a training camp in Flagstaff with the Norwegian team when he collapsed in his bathroom and could not be resuscitated. He was 26....

An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have discovered a benign algae eating protozoan in a lake near Oslo, Norway whose gene sequence does not match any known organism living on earth today, and this beasty combines genetic characteristics across plant, animal, and fungal kingdoms. It is believed to be the closest living organism to the original organisms that spawned all animal life on earth....

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Robert Mood of Norway as the head of the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS).

Jesper Olsen is running from one end of the world to the other, soaking up the atmosphere mile after mile. He began in July 2008 in Nordkapp, Norway, and aims to finish in Newfoundland in July.

An experiment with a fish-out-of-water story about a New York mobster who relocates to frosty Norway helped convince Netflix Inc to add more original programming to its video-subscription service as it undergoes a transition.  

Breivik claims attacks were "necessary" and the victims had betrayed Norway by embracing immigration.

TheWorldGeography has a list of six places whose names are a single character: seven villages in Norway called Å and another in Sweden called Å, a river in Oregon called D and another in Scotland called E, Denmark's Ø hills, and a village in France called Y. Why not? Å is a village in the [...]

A child welfare agency in Norway says it will hand over two Indian children taken into foster care 11 months ago to their uncle in India.

On sixth day of trial for murder of 77 people, Breivik explains how he picked off "Marxists" with his rifle and pistol while passing over a young man he thought looked conservative.

A Norwegian court on Monday handed over two Indian children to their Kolkata-based uncle, ending a year-old custody battle that drew in two prime ministers, angered MPs and even threatened to scar bilateral ties. Dipankar De Sarkar reports. Uncle get kids' custody 

Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people last July, said Monday he wanted to apologise for killing "innocent" people in his Oslo bombing, but offered no similar apology for the Utoeya massacre.

In watching the Anders Breivik trial in Norway, our task is to witness it and allow the weight of reality to break through.

Anders Behring Breivik, the shooter behind Norway’s July 2011 massacre, is currently on trial in Oslo criminal court. Thursday, while Bre…

Anders Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people last year, said that before carrying out his bombing-and-shooting rampage, he studied attacks by Al Qaeda and other terrorists.

5 years ago, the foreign ministers of Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Thailand, Senegal, and South Africa, launched the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative in recognition of the central importance of health and its connection to multiple global governance processes. In many ways, protecting and enhancing the health of its population is one of the most important goals and duties of an...

DELUDED mass killer says he's 'likeable' after planning to decapitate former Norway PM

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Anders Breivik says he learned how to carry out bombing, shooting rampage by searching the InternetAmerican Makes Norway Mass Killer His Pen Pal

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik acquired the knowledge to carry out a bombing and shooting rampage on the Internet, studying case studies of al-Qaida and other attacks and reading more than 600 bomb-making guides, he told a court Friday....

Prosecutors on Thursday depicted Anders Behring Breivik, who is on trial for killing 77 people, as a loser who spent his time playing online games in his mother’s home.

Terrorist claims two more Christian ultraconservative cells are ready to strike in Norway

A Norwegian court has decided to hand custody of the 5 year-old son of Irina Bergseth over to his father, a pedophile. The mother was permitted only a single meeting with her son each year, under the supervision of custodial guardians. However, a second court in Norway permitted a paedophile father to meet with his daughter alone without supervision

To mark the release of the new book Global Search Engine Marketing: Fine-Tuning Your International Search Results , co-author Kristjan Mar Hauksson will...

Opposition leader’s trip caps months of dramatic change in Myanmar, including a historic by-election on April 1 that won her a seat in parliament

Demanding his acquittal, Anders Behring Breivik took the stand for the first time, describing his killing of 77 people last year as a “sophisticated political act.”

RAWALPINDI - The Swiss and German teams, after completing their assigned task of assisting search and rescue mission, have gone back to their counties. The report submitted by Swiss and German teams validated earlier identified sites by Pakistan Army, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, the Norway and US Teams are at Gayari to assist the ongoing rescue operations. ...

RAWALPINDI - The Swiss and German teams, after completing their assigned task of assisting search and rescue mission, have gone back to their counties. The report submitted by Swiss and German teams validated earlier identified sites by Pakistan Army, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, the Norway and US Teams are at Gayari to assist the ongoing rescue operations. ...

RAWALPINDI - The Swiss and German teams, after completing their assigned task of assisting search and rescue mission, have gone back to their counties. The report submitted by Swiss and German teams validated earlier identified sites by Pakistan Army, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, the Norway and US Teams are at Gayari to assist the ongoing rescue operations. ...

Petrol prices are a hot topic in Britain - but how do we compare to the rest of the world? We reveal the most expensive countries and how much of people's income goes on filling the tank.

After Sweden's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Denmark's The Killing, Norway has now taken the "Scandi crime" spotlight with the film Headhunters.

An "iris" blooms among the stars, auroras paint Norway, a supernova gets mapped, and more in the week's best space pictures.

A Lithuanian truck driver suffered broken bones but survived after his vehicle tumbled 180 feet down a snow-covered cliff in central Norway.

(Reuters) - British oil explorer Cairn Energy said it would buy Agora Oil & Gas for $450 million to increase its drilling activity in Britain and Norway in 2012 and expand its lower risk, near-term...

Click to listen to Ane Brun's 'Neighbourhood #1' Ane Brun strips down Arcade Fire's "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" for the May 1st release of It All Starts With One The track will be appear on the iTunes deluxe version of the album which has already gone platinum in Brun's native Norway  Brun distills...

Release Time:  For Immediate Release On the occasion of their participation in the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, the governments of Australia, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, ...

MORE THAN 1,000 Norwegian poker players arrived in Dublin over the weekend for a week-long event deemed illegal under gambling laws in their home country.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday welcomed news that Norway planned to increase its order for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets by four planes, and was considering pulling forward the delivery of two initial training jets by one year to 2015.

The Duchess of Cornwall brushed up on her camping skills today on a visit to an outdoor nursery school in Bergen. It is unlikely that she will every need to recall the lesson, but Camilla was taught the art of wood whittling on the second day of her Scandinavian tour.

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- German composer and music director Heiner Goebbels has won the International Ibsen Award for creating new insights in theater that have influenced producers and musicians....

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Seems like all the action is in Norway these last few years... Meteorite crashes through roof in Oslo from Verdens Gang Fist size meteorite smashes through roof in Oslo suburb Nice looking chunk - be worth a pretty penny, as one of the few meteorites with confirmed provenance of hitting a structure. see also Fireball over Norway - at VG Read the comments on this post... Also check out ...

The mind-altering drug LSD could be used to treat alcoholism, a new report says. LSD prevented alcoholics from relapsing during treatment, according to researchers in Norway who analyzed six previous studies of alcoholism treatment.from Live Science

A Norwegian on the Costa del Sol is giving classes to local job seekers

“It’s a great fish-out-of-water story. An American mobster is relocated to Lillehammer, Norway, under witness protection. Madcap hilarity ensues! Also, subtitles”

NORWAY, S.C. (AP) -- In the two decades since Jim Preacher arrived in rural Norway, he's been this tiny town's police chief, self-proclaimed constable and now the mayor. He's pulled over a state trooper who wrote him a speeding ticket, and sneaked into town hall before he was sworn in so he could change the locks and take over the town's checkbook....

A new report states that while Chinese mobile apps have benefited from increased revenues in Apple's App Store, apps in Norway earn far more per download. Hong Kong-based analytics and market intelligence firm App Annie has issued a new report called "Rise of the Planet of the Apps" that claims apps in Norway earn nine [...]

Netflix launched its first foray into original programming with the release of the TV show Lilyhammer Monday. The show, which stars Steven van Zandt as an ex-mobster in a witness protection program in Norway, was co-financed by Netflix and is, at least in the U.S., only available to the company's subscribers -- a move that mirrors original series produced by cable networks like HBO and Showtime...

Netflix's first original series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York mobster who retreats into witness protection in Norway.In "Lilyhammer," whose eight parts debut Monday as an exclusive Netflix stream, Steven Van Zandt retries his Silvio wig from the "Sopranos" costume box to play Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, a New York mobster who retreats into witness protection in Lillehammer, Norway. He re...

Not a bad start to her Super Bowl weekend! Madonna's newest album, MDNA, has reached #1 on iTunes in the U.S. and 34 other countries for pre-sales, including: Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, US, Canada, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cypress, Czech Republic, Denmark, Deutschland, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Nederland, N...

Most Aurora Borealis hunters head to Norway, Sweden, Finland or Canada to spot nature’s magical light show but the solar phenomena is expected to be visible over Irish skies thanks to a peak in the sun's activity.

OSLO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Norwegian fertiliser company Yara would like to boost its current 35-percent stake in Australian ammonia maker Burrup and is considering whether to match Apache Corp's bid for...

The Harlequin ladybeetle, Japanese knotweed and the American lobster -- while this trio of creatures may have friendly sounding names, they are all introduced species in Norway, and may be anything but friendly to the Norwegian environment. But determining exactly how damaging introduced species may be in their new environment has always been something of a challenge for biologists and land man...

Norway's prime minister said his country has offered the International Monetary Fund a loan of 55 billion Norwegian kroner ($9.4 billion) to support the agency's efforts to stabilize the economic situation in Europe.

Scientists from Austria, Norway and Sweden took the blood pressure measurements of 580,000 people and then waited to see if they went on to develop a benign or malignant brain tumour.

The Norwegian prime minister hails 100 years since Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the south pole - but bad weather halts many explorers who had hoped to join the celebrations.

BUTTER, of all things, has become a precious commodity in Norway these days, with a shortage of the slippery spread leading to black market sales, astronomical price offers and even smuggling.

An acute butter shortage in Norway has left people worrying about how to bake their Christmas goodies with shelves empty and prices through the roof.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's prime minister braved deep freeze temperatures on Monday to ski around the South Pole as he prepared to celebrate the 100th anniversary of countryman Roald Amundsen becoming...

Plus, if there's one word euro zone understands, it's 'nein'

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Foreign Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Stre spoke to Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on telephone to convey his sympathies on the killing of the Pakistani soldiers in Mohmand Agency and raised the matter of Pakistan’s participation in the Bonn Conference. Hina briefed her Norwegian counterpart… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

The owner of British Gas has agreed to pay £1bn for assets owned by Statoil of Norway as it secured a 10-year supply deal valued at £13bn

The Legatum Prosperity Index indicates that trustworthiness of fellow citizens in lesser populated countries such as Norway creates an easier path to well-being

Japanese officials and environmentalists traded blame Wednesday as nations failed to reach a deal to curb whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Icelandcountries that kill hundreds of whales every year.