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Christmas is traditional, and everything should be as before. But many Christmas traditions have changed throughout history, such as statutory beer brewing and meatless…
In a new survey, 20 percent of those surveyed believe the government will step down next year. Only 49 percent believe the government will survive 2020. This is stated…
After an eight-hour search, the Norwegian-owned ship Ocean Viking picked up 50 people in the Mediterranean, MSF reports. Among the fifty were ten children and one…
In the early hours of Saturday the temperature was measured at 14.2 degrees at the Florida measuring station in Bergen. It is the highest temperature measured in…
A man has been arrested after he deliberately set off a fire alarm at Stavanger Airport in Sola to catch a plane, police say. – The man was taken off the plane and the…
Police in several districts around the country have had their hands full night to Sunday. Especially in Bodø, they report many incidents of violence. – Travel night in…
A passenger who was driven from Gothenburg to Oslo night to Saturday, failed to pay the bill of NOK 4,000. The passenger is being reported for fraud. The passenger was…
Norwegian student Marie Sæther Østbø was reported missing last year in South Africa. South African police believe she was taken by the sea. Norwegian police are not as…
Friday (20-12-2019) is Christmas’s busiest day in traffic as thousands of passengers get on trains, buses, planes and in the car to get home for Christmas celebrations.…
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) believes that terrorist attacks could be attempted in Norway by 2020. The number of people in Norway expressing support for…
King Harald is reported sick with a viral infection, confirms communications manager Guri Ofstad Varpe at the Royal Court to NTB. “He is sick with a viral infection, but…
Troms and Finnmark are set to have a white Christmas. In the rest of the country there will be rain, gray weather and plus degrees. “Not much that suggests Christmas,”…
Harassment and cyberbullying against elected officials, especially local politicians, are a threat to democracy, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Høyre/Conservative…
Several Poles in Oslo have received death threats over the telephone recently and told to put money and valuables outside their homes, according to police. The suspects…
Foreign investors now own 39.3 per cent of the shares on the Oslo Stock Exchange. This is the highest level since the financial crisis in 2008. The proportion of shares…
Ocean, climate and energy will be important subjects when Crown Prince Haakon travels to Kenya and Mozambique in February. Development Minister Dag-Inge Ulstein (KrF),…
The royal couple will celebrate Christmas at Kongsseteren with Princess Märtha Louise this year, while the Crown Prince family will celebrate Christmas at the cottage in…