Nobel week – who gets the prizes and who picks the winners?
Nobel week has kicked off in Stockholm with the Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to a trio of...
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New Norwegian government must ponder post-oil future
In September Norwegian voters decided to give the country’s right-wing government coalition another four years in power. For the...
What election result says about Norwegians
Norwegians returned a right-wing coalition in parliamentary elections on Monday 11 September, while the opposition Labour Party took a...
Norway goes to the polls, and we are none the wiser…
Norwegians decide on 11 September whether to stick with the current right-wing Conservative/Progress Party coalition, or to go for...
Did the youth sway the UK election?
When Theresa May called a snap election this summer, she was on track to cement her parliamentary majority and strengthen her...
When terror came to Manchester
Late on Monday 22 May 2017, a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured more than 100 at the...
Reindeer slowing Norway’s slow TV to a halt
Slow TV has become a huge success in Norway and also a valuable export for the state broadcaster NRK. But the...
Norway’s electric car revolution
Norway is the electric car capital of the world. Nearly 40 percent of all new cars sold in the...
Can oil-rich Norway meet emission pledges?
Norway became of the first countries in the world to ratify the Paris treaty at a UN ceremony in...
Saving the Lemur Leaf Frog with Lucy from Manchester (10)
Something bad is happening to the world’s frogs. Around 200 species have disappeared in recent decades, and many more...