A group of Norwegian lawyers filed a complaint Wednesday accusing 10 Israelis of war crimes in Gaza under the country’s new universal jurisdiction law, officials said.

A $225 million fund to provide low-price anti-malaria medicine around the world was launched in the Norwegian capital Friday to fight a disease that kills 2,000 children a day.

The five nations bordering the Arctic said Thursday that the survival of polar bears depends on success in fighting climate change, identified as the biggest threat facing the giant carnivores.

Anne Wiggins Brown, the African-American soprano who starred as the original Bess in George Gershwin’s landmark folk opera “Porgy and Bess” but saw her career limited by racial discrimination, has died at age 96.

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway has clinched his second World Cup overall title when Benjamin Raich of Austria straddled a gate in the opening run of the final slalom of the season and was disqualified.

A mudslide hit several houses and vacation homes in central Norway on Friday, sweeping some into the fjord below, police and rescue officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway has won the men’s World Cup downhill finale and takes the overall lead while Michael Walchhofer clinches the downhill championship.

A 450-year-old painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder has been stolen from a Lutheran church in the southern Norway town of Larvik, police said Sunday.

Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn, whose unique style of blending modern forms with Scandinavian traditions earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died. He was 84.

President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are believed to be among a record 205 nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.