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OSLO, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - A video that appears to show last week's attack on a Norwegian asylum centre has been posted on YouTube and could be used as evidence against the perpetrators, Norwegian police said on Tuesday.
OSLO, July 25, 2008 (AFP) - More than 20 people were injured when a large crowd armed with iron bars and knives attacked a centre for asylum seekers in southeastern Norway overnight, authorities here said Friday.
OSLO, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - Hundreds of farmers demonstrated in Oslo Thursday against a proposal at a WTO meeting to reduce duties on agricultural imports to Europe, claiming the move would put 40,000 farmers out of work in Norway alone.
OSLO, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - Norwegian Telecommunication group Telenor posted mixed second-quarter results on Wednesday, reporting a rise in sales but revising down its outlook for its full-year revenues.
OSLO, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - A group of Iraqi boys invited to play in an international football tournament in Norway have been denied visas for fear they might not return to their war-torn country, an immigration official said Tuesday.
OSLO, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro said on Tuesday that profit margins crumbled in the second quarter amid rising costs and despite strong prices for its products.
OSLO, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - In Norway, many motorists are up in arms over why they have to pay the highest petrol (gasoline) prices in Europe when the country is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and a recent tax hike has done little to cool tempers.
OSLO, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Two people have died in what appears to be an outbreak of the respiratory illness Legionnaire's disease in southeastern Norway, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health cautioned on Monday.
'Much indicates that there is an outbreak of Legionnaires disease in the Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad area (east of Oslo),' the agency said in a statement.
LOSBY, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair met on Friday with the foreign minister of Norway, the only European country to have contacts with Islamist movement Hamas, ahead of a Palestinian aid meeting.
LAGOS, July 16, 2008 (AFP) - Nigerian security agents said Wednesday they were investigating reports of a raid on a Norwegian vessel by pirates in the restive Niger Delta region.
'We have launched an inquiry into the alleged attack,' Brigadier-General Wuyep Rimtip told AFP.