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Oslo’s ‘angry toddler’ left red-faced by vandals
Norwegian police are hunting vandals who painted Oslo’s iconic angry toddler statue (Sinnataggen) red over the weekend. The prank was just the latest in a series of attacks on Gustav Vigeland’s popular...
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Suu Kyi finally delivers Nobel speech in Norway
Burmese democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi finally delivered her Nobel Lecture in Oslo this week, 21 years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize while under house arrest in the military dictatorship....
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Norway attack victims remembered one year later
Sunday saw Norway commemorate the one-year anniversary of last year’s attacks in Oslo and Utoeya Island. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg placed a wreath at the site of the bombing in Oslo and...
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Afghan President Karzai postpones Norway visit amid film controversy
Afghanistan’s president cancelled a scheduled trip to Oslo on Wednesday amid high tensions surrounding a US-made anti-Islamic film. Officials from the office of President Hamid Karzai said that the...
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Study: Oslo world’s most expensive city
Oslo is the world’s most expensive city, according to a new report. The news comes via a study commissioned by Swiss banking firm UBS. The probe said that although the Norwegian capital has the highest...
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Immigration prompts increased home prices Oslo
Home prices in several districts in the Norwegian capital continue to rise due to an increased flow of immigrants into the area. The price of flats in Alna, Grorud, Bjerke, Stovner and Søndre...
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Report: Oslo, Copenhagen among world’s most expensive locations
The Norwegian and Danish capitals have once again been named as two of the most expensive cities in the world. The news comes via The Economist December 2012 Cost of Living Index, which placed Oslo as...
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Oslo needs your garbage
A shortage of rubbish in Norway’s capital is having an unusual effect on heating for the city. Oslo’s forward thinking use of incinerators to produce heating has come unstuck due to supply...
View ArticleNorwegian airline refuses requests for food and water
The third-largest budget airline in Europe, Norwegian Air Shuttle, has apologised after criticism was leveled at it for refusing passengers’ requests for blankets, food and water on its recently...
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Man on toilet shot by moose hunter in Norway
An elderly Norwegian man enjoying a peaceful getaway at his holiday home in the countryside got the fright of his life when he was accidentally shot by a moose hunter while seated on the toilet. The...
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Swedish thieves target wealthy Norwegians
Police in Oslo have reported an increase in robberies from Swedish thieves who’ve headed west to target wealthy Norwegians. The Norwegian capital’s Majorstua Police Station police superintendent Geir...
View ArticleLlamas found wandering on Oslo city centre
Three llamas were found wandering the streets of central Oslo after managing to escape from a zoo in the Tøyenparken district of the city last Thursday. University of Oslo student Henriette Vintermyr...
View ArticleJagger impresses fans with Norwegian skills
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger impressed fans at the Telenor Arena in Oslo on Monday night by coming out with two sentences in Norwegian. The 70-year-old frontman surprised the audience after...
View ArticleHappy ending for Norwegian squirrels after cat attack
Two baby squirrels who suffered a vicious cat attack on their nest in the Norwegian town of Gressvik, just south of Oslo, have lived to tell the tale after being treated with a special formula milk....
View ArticleSnow in June? Only in Norway
The northern Norwegian city of Tromso experienced a freak summer snowfall on Monday after freezing wind from the North Pole saw temperatures plummet. It was the first time since records began that the...
View ArticleIceland to receive Norwegian Christmas tree after reconsideration
It seems all the fuss was about nothing, as Oslo’s City Council has now decided it will indeed send its annual Christmas tree to the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, after an earlier decision to scrap the...
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Norway: Prostitute 1 Taxman 0
A Nigerian prostitute in Norway left an Oslo court with a smile on her face last week after the judge ruled that police should not have claimed taxes on the money she earned selling sex in the city....
View ArticleOslo receives world’s biggest elk statue
The biggest elk structure in the world has arrived in the Norwegian capital Oslo, with the 10-metre-tall animal 30cm higher than its Canadian counterpart Mac the Moose. The statue, Storelgen (The Big...
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