Norway's wealth fund loses £16bn in first half of 2020 after Covid panic – state support has restored investor confidence but fund expects more market turmoil
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Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation
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Kurt Maflin hopes his shock World Snooker Championship triumph in the first round will have Norwegian children swapping ski slopes for snooker cues
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Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard
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Owners of a US B&B have removed a Norwegian flag from outside their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought it was a Confederate flag
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Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso
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A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition
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eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces
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Aurora - Daydreamer (2020)
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One woman, four men bound for the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on a four-month expedition that covered more than 4,500 miles
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GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Asylum seekers persecuted for being LGBT+ will be given priority under groundbreaking Norwegian scheme
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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See the light – why midsummer birding in Norway is life-affirming
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Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns
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Norway should add a number of restrictions to the kinds of weapons its $1 trillion wealth fund is allowed to invest in, a government-appointed commission said
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A Norwegian court has sentenced a gunman to twenty-one years in prison for killing his teenage step-sister and opening fire at a mosque
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What to do when you're stranded in Alaska by a global pandemic and are trying to get back home to Norway – with twenty-four dogs in tow
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Philip Manshaus's trial raises important questions about the role of freedom of speech in enabling far-right extremism
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘My emotions are usually outside my body and that's not what you usually connect to a chess player’
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Norway terror attack – prosecutors demand twenty-one year jail sentence for mosque shooting
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Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow
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At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband
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Australia joins ‘first movers’ group of nations that have kept coronavirus under control
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Norway mosque attack and murder trial begins in Oslo
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Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
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A major project to transport natural gas from the North Sea to Denmark and Poland has taken a significant step forward
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Norway will slash its oil output from June to December of 2020 – the first time in eighteen years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices
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About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece
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Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone
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Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel
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Diamond League plans to stage a behind-closed doors athletics exhibition event in Norway in June after two meetings were called off due to the coronavirus
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Norway has topped Reporters Without Borders' annual press freedom index for the fourth consecutive year
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Norwegian Air reported that four Swedish and Danish subsidiaries had filed for bankruptcy – 4,700 pilots and cabin crew members would be affected
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The outgoing chief executive of Norway's sovereign wealth fund faces probe after luxury jet use
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Norway and the a-ha moment that made electric cars the answer – a country fuelled by hydropower has become the world's electric vehicle leader
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Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus
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A brief history of – Ole Gunnar Solskjær
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Norway may join oil output cuts for first time since 2002 – willingness to cut underscores how painful recent collapse in crude has been for all producers
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Norway wealth fund lost record $113 billion in stock slump – fund faces first forced asset sales for crisis fiscal spending
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Norway's hazmat booksellers – two Oslo bookshop owners deliver books wearing full hazmat suits and gas masks in order to raise local awareness
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In Henningsvær a timeless ritual continues to play out as it has for centuries – the harvesting of a most local and seasonal delicacy: cod tongues
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, named a London-based hedge fund manager as its new chief executive on Thursday
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Norway extradites convicted Kurdish cleric to Italy, where he has been sentenced to twelve years in jail for planning terror
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Denmark charges Norwegian citizen over alleged Iranian assassination plot – attempt to eliminate a leading member of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz
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Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland
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Don't even think about socially isolating from coronavirus in a vacation home – this was the message from Norway's government this weekend
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