Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators – aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI
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Annual gift of a Christmas tree from the people of Oslo in Norway to London continues – tree was cut down early yesterday morning in woods in the northern part of Oslo's capital
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Marius Borg Høiby, the 27-year-old son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in her 20s
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Gothminister – Tonight (2024)
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Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick as Norway thrashed Kazakhstan to seal promotion to the top flight of the UEFA Nations League
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Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island
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Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon
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Casper Ruud was at his all-around best to recover from his recent blip and dismiss Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets at the ATP Finals in Turin
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Norwegian study shows microplastics in wastewater are shielding pathogens from being destroyed by treatment
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The Swedish photographer capturing the vanishing glaciers – Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer
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Sex | International trailer
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Finland exports snow-saving mats to ski resorts hit by climate crisis – preserving previous year's snow for start of season can combat increasingly unpredictable winters
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New deadline by which only zero-emission new vans may be sold in Norway will no longer be 2025, but 2027
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Police in Norway say four people were injured when a tram jumped the rails and crashed into an electronic device store in central Oslo
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Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text
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Norway's $1.8 trillion wealth fund issues stock market warning – heightened uncertainty and concerns over the economic outlook mean that stock market risks are tilted to the downside
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Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains”
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Inside the Norwegian TV station using reporters that all have learning disabilities – every week they put together an hour-long magazine programme covering news, entertainment and sport
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Karl Ove Knausgård on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges
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Udåd – Avgudsdyrker (2024)
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2024 Nobel Prize – This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place between 7th - 14th October 2024
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The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway
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1349 – Shadow Point (2024)
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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland broke Norway's all-time goalscoring record at the age of 24 in their Nations League win against Slovenia
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Norway's national football stadium has the world's largest vertical solar roof – new solution for northern regions, yielding 20% more energy than traditional panels
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Trondheim set to welcome PoMo museum in 2025 – minimum of 60% of its acquisition budget to women artists to tackle gender inequality in museum collections at large
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Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide.
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Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it
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Southern Water, serving 4.7mn UK customers, in discussions with private supplier to tanker water from Norwegian fjords to mitigate against potential supply shortages and drought
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Norway is shying away from tourism – and other countries could learn from it
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Speed puzzlers from sixty-eight countries battled for glory at Spain's World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships – Kristin Thuv from Norway took the individual title this year
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Norwegian Cor Dekker hits an incredible nine-darter at the 2024 Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest
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Armand | Trailer
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Mikel Arteta on Martin Ødegaard's injury: ‘He's got some damage, especially on one of the ligaments in the ankle. It's something quite significant so we're going to lose him for a while.’
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Norwegian matchdays have become a scene in which fans throw fishcakes, champagne corks and croissants onto the pitch against what they perceive to be the invasive technology of Video Assistant Referee
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Norway sees electric cars outnumber petrol models – sovereign wealth fund cushion has made it possible for government to offer green incentives to motorists
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After a summer track season that ended just two days earlier, Jakob Ingebrigtsen's audacious half-marathon debut in Copenhagen fell apart after 10km
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When Rob Barrett surveyed one of Norway's largest seabird colonies in the '70s there were too many birds to count – stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline
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Where has the best metro system in Europe? Oslo came top of the rankings, with an index score of 8.06 out of 10.
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Norway's economy is thriving yet the krone is becoming less and less valuable. What's going on?
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Jan Hakon Erichsen explains how he became an Instagram star by smashing vegetables, popping balloons – and nearly killing himself with a knife sculpture
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Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard a doubt for Sunday's North London derby after suffering an ankle injury on international duty for Norway
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Fig Tape – It's Only Been a Week (2023)
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Magnus Carlsen won his fourth title at the Speed Chess Championship 2024, defeating Alireza Firouzja in front of a live audience in Paris
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China's Arctic dreams make the Norwegian port of Kirkenes a global prize – and an unlikely hotbed of East-West rivalry
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Magnus Carlsen beats Hans Niemann, in first match since infamous cheating scandal, at the 2024 Speed Chess Championship in Paris
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Norway's anti-doping agency left red-faced after mistakenly producing a list for testing that included two footballers who have been dead since 1962 and 1983
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Olympic pole vault champion Armand Duplantis beat 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm in a 100m exhibition race in Zurich
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Hvaldimir, a celebrated ‘spy’ whale, is found dead in Norway – first spotted in 2019 wearing what looked like a camera harness
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