Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen review – sacrifice and strength in postwar Oslo
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘You need to be very fortunate to be number one in fantasy football’
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Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway, 1940–1945 – Tony Insall
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New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla's vehicles – but the company will face a more competitive market in 2020
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Major fire at Stavanger airport on Norway's west coast destroyed hundreds of cars, grounded air traffic and led to the evacuation of the facilities
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Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
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Norway's Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050
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Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C – the main cause for the record-breaking temperatures at this particular site was from a foehn wind
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How Germany reacted to Dortmund's coup – teenage sensation Erling Haaland's shock move to the Bundesliga is dominating the sports pages
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Martin Ødegaard poised for Real Madrid return in June 2020 – Norwegian has been one of the stand-out players in the first half of the 2019-20 LaLiga season
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Author and Norway princess's ex-husband Ari Behn dies aged 47
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Norway gives Sámi names to distant star and planet as part of the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union
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Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
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Magnus Carlsen, the world's best chess player for the last decade, is on the brink of reaching the top in another game – fantasy football
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'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay
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The world's biggest gingerbread city is on display in Bergen, adding a dash of sugar and spice to Norway's Christmas celebrations
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Norwegian convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia's submarine fleet
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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
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Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration – a Norwegian initiative to make schools safer even during war
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Magnus Carlsen won't count Norway league games in record streak – world champion calls them 'Tivi-esque' in dig at Sergei Tiviakov
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Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden
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From January, jet fuel suppliers in Norway must blend 0.5% of biofuel in all their aviation fuel – a policy Oslo hopes will lead to lower CO2 emissions
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Norwegians are eating less sugar than at any time in the last forty-four years – annual consumption per person has fallen by more than 1kg a year since 2000
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From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square
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Never mind how many electric cars are sold there – Norway has to change tack and end prospecting for new oil reserves
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Oslo studio Metric creates Norway's new banknotes, telling the story of life along Europe's longest coastline
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Oslo wants to build the world's first zero-emissions port
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Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
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The value of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, grew to a record ten trillion Norwegian crowns ($1.09 trillion) on Friday
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The European Union, Iceland and Norway agree to deepen their cooperation in climate action
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Women in Norway have the best quality of life according to the latest Women, Peace and Security Index
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An armed man has been arrested after he stole an ambulance and drove into a family in Oslo, injuring two babies
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower
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More bad news for Norwegian Air as the airline loses Norway's biggest single customer contract to domestic rivals SAS
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Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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Norwegian teen cooks and eats her own horse after it was put down
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Norway decides against participation in NATO missile defence system
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Martin Ødegaard named player of the month in La Liga
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Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth – The Oslo Architecture Triennale celebrates ideas over new products
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Norway's fifth and newest Unicef ambassador is 15-year-old Penelope Lea – the second-youngest ambassador of all time and the first climate activist to be chosen
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Norway's massive wealth fund got the go-ahead to sell oil and gas stocks worth $5.9 billion
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AFC Bournemouth's striker Joshua King on his Black history tattoos, the impact of visits to Gambia and teaching his son to take nothing for granted
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Tencent will acquire 29% of the shares in Funcom, becoming the largest shareholder
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France believes state aid to budget carrier Norwegian Air was partly to blame for the bankruptcy of Paris-based XL Airways and will seek EU intervention
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Norway's Bodø named a European Capital of Culture for 2024
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Norway does not plan to block China's Huawei Technologies from building the country's 5G telecoms network
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