Norway’s national anthem explained
Did you know Norway’s national anthem isn’t the country’s national (official) anthem at all? Or that it was largely...
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‘Educating Yorkshire’ documentary boon for UK school
They say some teachers have eyes in the back of their heads – the kind pupils simply cannot hide...
Norway’s electric car market speeds ahead
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY While the Scandinavian country of Norway may be one of the largest oil producers in Europe, it...
A peak behind the doors of secretive Nobel Committee
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The Norwegian...
Norway shifts right in first post-Breivik election
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a center-right coalition alternative including the anti-immigration...
Two years after terror attacks on the left, Norway turns to the right
As Norway goes to the polls in the first parliamentary elections since Anders Breivik’s 2011 terror attacks where he...
UK Syria stance sounds echoes of Iraq invasion
For Deutsche Welle As the British government holds close talks with Washington on military intervention in Syria, critics in...
Arctic Norwegian town welcomes Russian “invasion”
For decades they lived just minutes from a cold war frontline. But the people of Kirkenes in the Arctic...
Norwegian extremist arrest recalls Breivik case
Police in France are questioning Norwegian neo-Nazi Kristian “Varg” Vikernes over a suspected terror plot, but have yet to...
Norway’s Arctic town waiting for the oil bonanza
The Arctic is one of the world’s last regions left to be exploited for oil and gas, and the...