Europe Norway 19 people were murdered in Norway last year, the lowest number of registered homicides since 1990: 2025 saw a rise in serious crime among youth, often tied to drug smuggling and brutal gang violence, with a number of cross-border episodes
Europe Norway Cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo became the first athlete ever to win six gold medals and the first to win all six cross-country events in a single Winter Olympic Games
Europe Norway The scandal of ski jumping men wearing manipulated suits was resolved with three team officials and coaches banned for 18 months; the case tarnished Norway's hosting of the Nordic ski world championships last March and its wider reputation for fair play
Europe Norway Nobel Institute issued a statement on the controversial fact that Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado had given her gold Nobel medal to US President Donald Trump; amid international uproar, the institution said prize and winner are 'inseparable'
Europe Norway Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, 52, who in 2018 made public she’d been diagnosed with chronic pulmonary fibrosis, may need to undergo a lung transplant, for which the national hospital is preparing
Europe Norway Less Norwegian children and youth suffer bullying at school, a new survey shows; of 440.000 school students from grade 5 through high school interviewed, a significant percentage is motivated, enjoy school and get support from their teachers
Europe Norway Only one film won more Golden Globe nominations this week than the popular and critically acclaimed Norwegian film Sentimental Value; its eight nominations set a record in Norway, and the film’s Norwegian star was thrilled.
Europe Norway A large trapping “facility” constructed with exceptionally well-preserved birch tree branches was found under melting ice at an altitude of 1.400 meters; piles of reindeer antlers and carved artifacts date back to around 520 AD, prior to the Viking age
Europe Norway Ine Eriksen Søreide, former Defense and Foreign Minister, is the new leader of Norway’s Conservative Party Høyre; she won support of all contenders and revived hopes for those who want Norway to join the European Union
Europe Norway Officials at the Nobel Institute in Oslo have hired international experts to confirm whether they have been spied; they suspect someone revealed who would be winning the Peace Prize, as the odds in favour of Maria Machado shot up before the announcement
Europe Norway A verbal assault on King Harald V, broadcast by his son-in-law Durek Verrett, has set off public uproar among Norwegians; calls for the king to strip Princess Martha Louise, of her royal title have come from monarchists and those favouring a republic
Europe Norway The Sami Parliament Sametinget in Northern Norway won’t go through any major leadership changes: Norske Samers Riksforbund remained its biggest party after last week’s election and leader Silje Karine Muotka will remain Sami president
Europe Norway 78,9% of Norway's eligible voters had cast their ballots for Parliamentary election by the time polls closed at 9pm on 8 September, the highest voter turnout in 36 years, and confirmed leadership to Labour Party and PM Støre that overcome all the odds