´Welcome to Norway... let me see your bags´
Publisert: 14:59 02-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian customs inspectors seem to be racist, accuses an international finance and development consultant who has been stopped on over half of the 31 occasions he has visited Oslo on business. |
 
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IOC´s Heiberg mum on new report of abuses in China
Publisert: 13:59 02-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Gerhard Heiberg, the Norwegian member of the International Olympic Committee, remained unwilling this week to criticize China´s abuse of human rights as documented in a new report from Amnesty International. |
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April Fool´s jokes abounded
Publisert: 12:05 02-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s media continued to take tradition seriously on Tuesday, punctuating newspapers and broadcasts with silly stories aimed at fooling readers and listeners. |
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Slide victims declared dead
Publisert: 12:04 02-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Five missing residents of an Ålesund apartment building hit by a massive landslide last week are now officialy considered dead. Work has started to retrieve their remains from the building´s ruins. |
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Money couriers charged with faking armed robbery
Publisert: 11:35 02-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Police in the Oslo area were still trying on Wednesday to track down an estimated NOK 10 million in cash, stolen in a reported armed money courier robbery that police now claim was faked. |
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State funding halted strike
Publisert: 11:02 02-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian labour organizations, and business as well, scored major victories when the country´s left-centre government coughed up more money to fund pensions, and thereby ended the threat of a massive strike. Taxpayers will probably end up footing the bill. |
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Government steps into labour negotiations
Publisert: 17:00 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s prime minister and the minister in charge of labour issues were meeting Tuesday afternoon with both sides in this year´s labour negotiations, in the hopes of warding off a major strike. |
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Brothers survived fall through the ice on Svalbard
Publisert: 16:28 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The scent of a polar bear suddenly prompted a dog team to lead two brothers out onto thin ice on Svalbard. The ice cracked. The brothers survived. The dogs didn´t. |
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April Fool’s jokes abounded
Publisert: 14:55 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s media continued to take tradition seriously on Tuesday, punctuating newspapers and broadcasts with silly stories aimed at fooling readers and listeners. |
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Celebrities team up to improve new Holmenkollen
Publisert: 13:11 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A high-profile team of business, political and sports celebrities are pooling their own resources and "inviting" the state to cough up money as well, to re-build a "complete" and "fully worthy" Holmenkollen Ski Jump. |
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Lyn still faces charges
Publisert: 12:23 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Oslo soccer club Lyn still may lose the money it collected on the controversial transfer of young former player John Obi Mikel. Former Lyn director Morgan Andersen, convicted of falsifying documents related to the transfer, dropped his appeal on Monday. |
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Bhatti denies any grudge against the US or Israel
Publisert: 12:04 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Terror suspect Arfan Bhatti said in court Tuesday that he’d never kill innocent people to support the Palestinians. It would be against his religion, he said. |
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Crocodile safely ´home´ again
Publisert: 11:00 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A dwarf crocodile snatched from an aquarium in Bergen over the weekend was returned Monday night, by the animal rights activist who took it. |
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Armed robber hits couriers
Publisert: 10:37 01-04-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A masked man armed with a pistol forcibly joined the rounds of two cash couriers in suburbs west of Oslo Monday night. He may have made off with as much as NOK 10 million (USD 2 million) in cash. |
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Thousands of children need state care and protection
Publisert: 16:46 31-03-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
More than 40,000 children in Norway had to be taken in or cared for by the child protetective services agency known as Barnevernet
in the most recent reporting year of 2006. That´s double the number in 1990. |
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Croc kidnapped in Bergen
Publisert: 15:48 31-03-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
An aquarium in Bergen is offering a reward for information leading to the return of a crocodile that apparently was snatched during opening hours over the weekend. |
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First terror trial begins
Publisert: 14:20 31-03-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
An Oslo court started hearing arguments on Monday in the first trial ever held in Norway that involves terrorism charges. A 30-year-old man is charged, among other things, with firing shots at a synagogue in Oslo. |
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Fire finally out in Ålesund, some evacuees return home
Publisert: 13:30 31-03-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A fire that burned for five days in a residential building hit by a landslide in Ålesund last week ebbed out on Monday, when the gas in a tank fueling it finally ran empty. Police and firefighters remained worried, however, about the danger of explosions. |
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Bingo players foil robbery
Publisert: 12:54 31-03-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A group of Norwegian bingo players weren´t about to let an armed robber make off with their potential winnings over the weekend. |
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Executive pay hikes boost threat of massive strike
Publisert: 12:35 31-03-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The rich got richer in Norway last year, and now the hefty pay raises enjoyed by top executives may come back to haunt them. |
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