Norway's government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria
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Oslo to introduce electric ferries from next year – five newly-built electric boats will ply their way around the Inner Oslofjord
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Train driver's view: "Stormy" winter conditions on the mountainpass (Bergen Line, Norway)
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Magnus Carlsen breaks record for longest unbeaten streak in chess history – world's No 1 chess player makes it 111 games without defeat
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Melodi Grand Prix 2020 semi-final 1 - songs and results
Eurovision season is finally here! Last night was the first semi-final of the Norwegian national selection (Melodi Grand Prix). This year there are 5 semi-finals, one for each region of the...
Eurovision season is finally here! Last night was the first semi-final of the Norwegian national selection (Melodi Grand Prix). This year there are 5 semi-finals, one for each region of the country, plus five songs that automatically qualify for the grand final.
Last night four songs competed for a spot in the grand final:
The qualifier was Raylee with her song Wild, which will face 9 other songs in the grand final on the 15th of February. One of the automatic qualifiers were also presented during the show:
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Jo Nesbø: ‘We should talk about violence against women’
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Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen review – sacrifice and strength in postwar Oslo
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Norway opens its doors to 600 people evacuated from Libya to Rwanda
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘You need to be very fortunate to be No 1 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 Braut 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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Ari Behn – Author and Norway princess's ex-husband dies aged 47
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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Norway gives Sami 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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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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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 44 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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Russia has taken part in a carefully co-ordinated spy swap with Norway and Lithuania
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Syrian refugees ask Norway police to investigate war crimes – torture survivors file dossier of evidence against 17 high-ranking Syrian officials
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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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Norwegian police have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist as he was scheduled to address a far-right conference in Oslo
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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 10 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 Knausgaard 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 as the airline loses Norway's biggest single customer contract to domestic rivals SAS
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What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long
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Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch
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