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 ~news norway.stavanger Article 5 votes
Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities ~life Article 814 words, published Jan 3 2020 5 votes
Norway's Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050 ~enviro climate change Article 330 words 6 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 282 words, published Jan 2 2020 9 votes
How Germany reacted to Dortmund's coup – teenage sensation Erling Haaland's shock move to the Bundesliga is dominating the sports pages ~sports.football Article 318 words 4 votes
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 ~sports.football Link 4 votes
Norway gives Sámi names to distant star and planet as part of the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union ~space astronomy Article 315 words 6 votes
Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway ~tech Article 78 words 4 votes
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 ~games.tabletop Article 732 words 12 votes
'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay ~life Article 748 words 8 votes
The world's biggest gingerbread city is on display in Bergen, adding a dash of sugar and spice to Norway's Christmas celebrations ~food baking Link 6 votes
Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway ~humanities.history Article 353 words 7 votes
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 ~misc Article 4 votes
Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety ~news norway Article 466 words 10 votes
Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration – a Norwegian initiative to make schools safer even during war ~life education Article 745 words 10 votes
Magnus Carlsen won't count Norway league games in record streak – world champion calls them 'Tivi-esque' in dig at Sergei Tiviakov ~games.tabletop Article 678 words 8 votes
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 ~enviro Article 557 words 7 votes
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 ~food diet Article 516 words 12 votes
From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square ~life Article 207 words 7 votes
Never mind how many electric cars are sold there – Norway has to change tack and end prospecting for new oil reserves ~enviro climate change Article 884 words, published Nov 12 2019 8 votes
Oslo studio Metric creates Norway's new banknotes, telling the story of life along Europe's longest coastline ~design Article 283 words 6 votes
Russia has taken part in a carefully co-ordinated spy swap with Norway and Lithuania ~news norway lithuania russia Article 614 words 7 votes
Syrian refugees ask Norway police to investigate war crimes – torture survivors file dossier of evidence against seventeen high-ranking Syrian officials ~news norway syria crime.war Article 841 words 5 votes
Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling ~enviro climate change Article 736 words 7 votes
Norwegian police have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist as he was scheduled to address a far-right conference in Oslo ~news norway.oslo crime usa Article 248 words, published Oct 30 2019 24 votes
Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi ~humanities.languages Article 300 words 4 votes
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 ~finance economics Article 343 words 7 votes
The European Union, Iceland and Norway agree to deepen their cooperation in climate action ~enviro Link 11 votes
Women in Norway have the best quality of life according to the latest Women, Peace and Security Index ~life.women Article 462 words 6 votes
An armed man has been arrested after he stole an ambulance and drove into a family in Oslo, injuring two babies ~news norway.oslo crime Article 399 words 5 votes
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 ~books libraries Article 519 words 9 votes
Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower ~enviro water.waste Article 395 words, published Oct 14 2019 9 votes
More bad news for Norwegian Air as the airline loses Norway's biggest single customer contract to domestic rivals SAS ~transport Article 415 words, published Oct 14 2019 4 votes
What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long ~misc politics Article 4 votes
Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch ~food Article 1573 words, published Oct 7 2019 15 votes
Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway ~humanities.history Article 513 words, published Oct 10 2019 4 votes
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali ~news ethiopia eritrea politics norway Article 721 words 13 votes
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years ~science biology Article 244 words 9 votes
Norway decides against participation in NATO missile defence system ~news norway russia politics Article 216 words 7 votes
Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth – The Oslo Architecture Triennale celebrates ideas over new products ~design architecture Article 870 words 8 votes
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 ~enviro Article 346 words 8 votes
Norway's massive wealth fund got the go-ahead to sell oil and gas stocks worth $5.9 billion ~finance business Article 8 votes
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 ~sports.football Article 1239 words, published Sep 27 2019 4 votes
Tencent will acquire 29% of the shares in Funcom, becoming the largest shareholder ~games Article 580 words 8 votes
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 ~transport Article 287 words 3 votes