Magnus Carlsen defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi 4-1 to win the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Finals and his fifth consecutive title ~games.tabletop Link 8 votes
Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good? ~enviro Article 1215 words 6 votes
Norwegian payment service Vipps becomes world's first company to launch competing tap-to-pay solution to Apple Pay on iPhone – follows agreement with European regulators ~tech apple.pay Article 318 words 17 votes
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales ~enviro pollution.noise Article 1105 words 6 votes
Norwegian Parliament votes to extend abortion access to eighteen weeks into a pregnancy, adding six weeks to a limit set in 1978 when the procedure was first legalized ~health Article 77 words 9 votes
Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining ~enviro Article 419 words 17 votes
Jakob Ingebrigtsen's father will stand trial next year on charges that include abusing the double Olympic champion and threatening to “beat him to death” ~sports Article 483 words 6 votes
Norway wants to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals – the WWF is suing the state in a bid to halt exploration ~enviro Article 1316 words 9 votes
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 ~books literature libraries.national Article 573 words 17 votes
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 ~life Article 534 words 16 votes
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 ~news norway crime Article 19 votes
Gothminister – Tonight (2024) ~music metal.gothic metal.industrial Video 3:30, published Oct 31 2024 4 votes
Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick as Norway thrashed Kazakhstan to seal promotion to the top flight of the UEFA Nations League ~sports.football Article 179 words 4 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 518 words 8 votes
Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon ~enviro climate change Link 7 votes
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 ~sports tennis Link 3 votes
Norwegian study shows microplastics in wastewater are shielding pathogens from being destroyed by treatment ~health Article 357 words 13 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 719 words 5 votes
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 ~hobbies Article 834 words 11 votes
New deadline by which only zero-emission new vans may be sold in Norway will no longer be 2025, but 2027 ~transport Article 227 words 9 votes
Police in Norway say four people were injured when a tram jumped the rails and crashed into an electronic device store in central Oslo ~transport Article 357 words 7 votes
Beautification project in California prison inspired by Norwegian approach to incarceration – rehabilitation in humane prisons surrounded by nature leads to successful reintegration into society ~life education Article 1000 words 30 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 18 votes
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 ~finance economics Article 9 votes
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” ~tech social media Article 508 words 32 votes
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 ~tv Article 791 words 14 votes
Karl Ove Knausgård on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges ~books Article 890 words 13 votes
2024 Nobel Prize – This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place between 7th - 14th October 2024 ~misc Link 19 votes
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway ~books reviews nonfiction Article 525 words 2 votes
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland broke Norway's all-time goalscoring record at the age of 24 in their Nations League win against Slovenia ~sports.football Article 273 words 2 votes
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 ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1015 words 17 votes
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 ~arts art.modern art.contemporary Article 364 words 8 votes
Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide. ~enviro pollution energy climate change Article 400 words 10 votes
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 ~arts art painting Article 1991 words, published Sep 30 2024 5 votes
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 ~enviro Article 727 words 11 votes
Norway is shying away from tourism – and other countries could learn from it ~travel Article 1097 words 13 votes
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 ~hobbies Video 1:43 10 votes
Norwegian Cor Dekker hits an incredible nine-darter at the 2024 Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest ~sports Video 1:27 4 votes
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.’ ~sports.football Link 4 votes
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 VAR ~sports.football Article 3065 words 5 votes
Norway sees electric cars outnumber petrol models – sovereign wealth fund cushion has made it possible for government to offer green incentives to motorists ~transport Article 313 words 11 votes
After a summer track season that ended just two days earlier, Jakob Ingebrigtsen's audacious half-marathon debut in Copenhagen fell apart after 10km ~sports Article 507 words 5 votes
Norway’s oil capital Stavanger feels the squeeze as krone slides. The krone has lost about 20% against the euro since 2022. ~finance economics Article 67 words 4 votes