Europe Norway For the second year in a row, Christmas shopping increased: Norwegians spent almost 130 billion Norwegian kroner (US$ 14 billion) on Christmas shopping in November and December 2021
Europe Norway About two-thirds of Norwegian museums are struggling with electricity bills so high that they may have to close during part of the winter
Europe Norway State prosecutors blamed the collision and sinking of the Norway Navy frigate Helge Ingstad in 2018 on an inexperienced young man who’d been left in charge on the bridge; his defense attorney later blamed those who put him in charge
Europe Norway The heir to one of Norway's great shipping fortunes has sold another Munch painting he inherited; this time he will share the proceeds with the heirs of a previous owner who had to sell it cheaply before fleeing Nazi Germany in the early 1930s
Europe Norway More women are revealing incidents of bullying, sexual harassment and even rape within the Norwegian military, while defense chiefs now admit to a "culture problem" among young male recruits who attack their own female colleagues