Microsoft wants FAST
Publisert: 12:10 08-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Software giant Microsoft has bid for Norwegian search technology company Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). |
 
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Moderate moonshiners
Publisert: 11:44 08-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Young adults in Norway´s North Trøndelag County drink more moonshine and smuggled spirits than their peers in the rest of the country, but have a relatively modest consumption of intoxicants. |
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Norway resident convicted of blasphemy
Publisert: 11:10 08-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A Kurdish author with asylum in Norway was sentenced in absentia in Iraq last month to six months imprisonment for blasphemy. |
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Teen fined after killing gull
Publisert: 15:44 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A 17-year-old boy in the northern district of Vesterålen has been fined after cutting the head off a live seagull chick. |
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Street music struck sour note
Publisert: 15:15 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Police in the northern city of Tromsø are cracking down on the accordion players who have been trying, unsuccessfully, to strike a lucrative chord with passersby. |
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Lund Svindal named ´Sportsman of the Year´
Publisert: 15:02 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Injuries have spoiled this year´s World Cup race, but Aksel Lund Svindal is still a winner in the eyes of his peers. |
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Wind and snow closed roads
Publisert: 13:19 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Five mountain passes were closed in southern Norway Friday morning, after a storm system moved in from the North Sea. |
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Opposition blasts proposed tax on coastal zones
Publisert: 13:18 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s left-centre coalition government is reportedly plotting new taxes for use of the seas around the country. Opposition politicians quickly branded the proposed tax as "absurd." |
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Embattled Gro to move home
Publisert: 12:48 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, fending off news reports of lucrative business deals and non-payment of taxes, says she’ll move back to Norway in part to silence her critics. |
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Local trains halted in Oslo
Publisert: 10:56 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The first major commute day of the New Year got off to a bad start on Monday, when a signal error halted most train traffic through the capital. |
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Southern Norway digs out
Publisert: 10:37 07-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Heavy snowfall in southern Norway closed roads, halted train, delayed flights and left thousands without electricity over the weekend. |
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Finally a win in Tour de Ski
Publisert: 17:33 04-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian cross country skiers landed in first, third and sixth place in the sixth event of the eight-race Tour de Ski in Italy on Friday. |
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Scientists on Svalbard eye underground CO2 storage
Publisert: 16:27 04-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The university on Svalbard is preparing to test out a possible underground storage facility for carbon dioxide in Longyearbyen, in hopes of making the area "CO2-neutral." |
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Hopes dashed after Rally Dakar cancellation
Publisert: 14:28 04-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Four Norwegians were among the many stunned and disappointed participants in Rally Dakar when the annual event was abruptly cancelled on Friday because of terrorism fears. |
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Christmas shopping spree sees super finale
Publisert: 12:54 04-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s year-end shopping spree beat all records, reaching a total of NOK 45 billion (USD 9bn) in December, according to figures turned in by shopping centers across the land. |
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Peace monitors ordered to leave Sri Lanka
Publisert: 12:43 04-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Thirty observers from Norway and Iceland who had been monitoring a failed peace process in Sri Lanka have been ordered to leave the troubled country within 12 days. |
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Wind and snow close roads
Publisert: 11:29 04-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Five mountain passes were closed in southern Norway Friday morning, after a storm system moved in from the North Sea. |
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Pension questions for Gro
Publisert: 16:01 03-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s former prime minister fended off criticism last month for accepting a paid consultancy post with Pepsico. Now Gro Harlem Brundtland is being questioned for failing to report her Pepsi income to Norwegian authorities. |
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Teens caught after wild night
Publisert: 14:09 03-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Three 14-year-old Norwegian boys attacked a juvenile authority who was charged with looking after one of them, and then stole his car. They crashed it and ran off again before police caught up with them. |
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Oil price can soar even more
Publisert: 12:53 03-01-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Traders calmed down a bit on Thursday and sent the price of oil back under USD 100 a barrel, but a Norwegian analyst thinks it could still soar to as high as USD 150. |
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