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A Norwegian chef, Geir Skeie, won France’s Bocuse d’Or cooking prize Wednesday, beating out 23 other contestants to turn out the tastiest meat and fish dishes during a tense two-day contest.
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Collaborating with Rolls-Royce, the renowned shipbuilder Palmer Johnson has designed a mega-yacht concept that promises the luxury and comfort (of the celebrated car)...
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Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Norway is all set to herald a new era where wind turbines won’t be eyesores anymore. Generally sidelined as aesthetic repellents, the tale about the renewable energy...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Eco Factor: Zero-emission car powered by hydrogen.
Mazda’s ecofriendly hydrogen-powered car the RX-8 Hydrogen RE made it to the streets of Norway last October,...
made popular Apr 28 2009
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
made popular Mar 14 2009
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn, whose unique style of blending modern forms with Scandinavian traditions earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, has...
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President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are believed to be among a record 205 nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
made popular Feb 27 2009
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Norway won the men’s team sprint at the Nordic skiing world championships Wednesday.
made popular Feb 25 2009
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Norway plans to resume the search for South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen’s plane 81 years after it vanished during an Arctic rescue mission, the Royal Norwegian...
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No one likes Internet Explorer 6 (IE6 for short), a web browser that’s been around since 2001 and just won’t die. Designers truly loathe it, because it...
made popular Feb 19 2009
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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men’s super-combined Monday at the world championships.
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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men’s super-combined Monday at the world championships.
made popular Feb 9 2009
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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway led after the downhill portion of the men’s super-combined event at the World Championships on Monday.
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A NATO spokesman says a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on a Norwegian oil tanker.
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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...
made popular Apr 22 2009
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NATO warships and helicopters pursued Somali pirates for seven hours after they attacked a Norwegian tanker, NATO spokesmen said Sunday, and the high-speed chase only...
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A NATO spokesman says alliance warships and helicopters have foiled an attack on a Norwegian tanker by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
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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...
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Aaron Burmeister on Thursday took the lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and a Norwegian musher had to abandon the race after a sled accident that organizers...
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Four-time champion Martin Buser kept his Iditarod lead Thursday, and a Norwegian musher had to abandon the race after a sled accident that organizers said probably left...
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Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn, whose unique style of blending modern forms with Scandinavian traditions earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, has...
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Environment ministers and other representatives of more than a dozen nations are at a remote Norwegian research station in Antarctica to learn more about the danger the...
made popular Feb 23 2009
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Norwegian broadcaster NRK says one adult was killed and another injured in a shooting in the parking lot of a school in northern Norway.
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Norwegian philosopher, writer and mountaineer Arne Naess, best known for launching the concept of “deep ecology” has died, his publisher said Tuesday. He...
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Norwegian state-controlled oil company StatoilHydro ASA on Thursday temporarily shut down its Kristin natural gas field after tests revealed problems with a new type of...
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British singer Amy Winehouse dropped her appeal in a Norwegian drug case and will accept a fine for illegal marijuana possession in 2007, her attorney said Tuesday.
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British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in a Norwegian court on Jan. 12 in her appeal against a fine in a drugs possession case, a police...
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The Norwegian branch of the Scandinavian Airlines Systems on Friday said it is dropping 10 seasonal routes to destinations in southern Europe because it expects demand...
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A Norwegian escort told a court Monday that Boy George manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer.
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The Norwegian government Sunday said it will put aside an additional 50 billion kroner ($7 billion) for the state export credit agency to ease the effect of the global...
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The U.S.-developed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been chosen to replace Norway’s aging F-16 aircraft in a deal worth about 60 billion kroner ($8.5 billion), the...
made popular Nov 20 2008
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The Norwegian government says it has picked the U.S. developed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace its aging U.S.-made F-16 aircraft in a roughly 60 billion kroner...
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