Workers flee platform fire
Publisert: 16:11 04-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Workers on an oil platform in the North Sea had to take to the lifeboats on Tuesday after a fire broke out. |
 
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More crashes in the full moon
Publisert: 14:59 04-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Statistics show that a full moon really can "bring out the beast," at least in Norway, where the most collisions between cars and moose occur when the moon is full and the weather is cold. |
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Melkøya emissions soar
Publisert: 11:24 04-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Just as top government officials are gathering in Bali for the UN Climate Change Conference comes news that carbon dioxide emissions at a new gas power plant in northern Norway are exceeding all limits. |
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'The Boss' is back in town
Publisert: 10:33 04-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Fans waited for hours outside Oslo’s Grand Hotel to get a glimpse of their hero Bruce Springsteen, in town to hold a concert Tuesday night. |
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NRK challenges Disney
Publisert: 17:00 03-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) launched a new channel for children over the weekend, part of a bid to pry them out of the market grip now commanded by Disney's three cable channels. |
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Norway's emissions growing
Publisert: 15:55 03-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway has sent its prime minister and two other top ministers to Bali for the international climate conference that begins this week, but the country doesn't have much to brag about. New figures show that Norway's carbon emissions per capita are much higher than neighboring Sweden's, and next year they'll be the highest ever. |
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Fatality delayed airport train
Publisert: 13:50 03-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
The high-speed train running between Oslo and its main airport at Gardermoen faced delays on Monday after a train hit a person at Lillestrøm station. |
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Housing prices fall again
Publisert: 13:05 03-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway's hot real estate market has definitely cooled off, and suddenly the sales that do occur are often at prices below appraisal. |
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Judge scolds taxi suspects
Publisert: 11:08 03-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
An Oslo judge deemed it necessary on Monday to scold two of five taxi drivers suspected of massive tax evasion, even before their trial began. The suspects arrived late for their date in court, while the main suspect didn’t show up at all. |
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Bus collision injures 21
Publisert: 09:57 03-12-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
First one bus slid off the road at an icy roundabout next to Norway's biggest lake. Then another bus crashed into the first bus. More than 20 passengers wound up in the hospital. |
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Skier still under intensive care
Publisert: 15:50 30-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian downhill racer Aksel Lund Svindal was still in the intensive care division of a Colorado hospital on Friday, after suffering an ugly fall earlier this week. |
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Students not testing well
Publisert: 14:40 30-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian teenagers aren't doing very well in school, compared to their counterparts in more than 50 other countries around the world. |
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Stormy weekend ahead
Publisert: 13:33 30-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Wind, rain, sleet and snow were expected from northern to southern Norway over the weekend. |
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Dark times up north
Publisert: 12:18 30-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
A ballooning financial crisis in northern Norway is making the days even darker and colder than normal at this time of year. It now seems unavoidable that four townships will have to log heavy losses on their highly unfortunate investment in Citibank products. |
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'Tran' production tainted
Publisert: 11:01 30-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegians have a long tradition of taking cod liver oil, called tran,<br/> but it now may be even harder to swallow after news emerged about filthy conditions surrounding its production. |
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Norway's new underclass
Publisert: 17:25 29-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Thousands of people, most of them immigrants with no legal right to be in Norway, are believed to be working in the country under conditions that some experts describe as modern-day slavery. |
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Munch art still hot
Publisert: 16:25 29-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Another piece of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's work fetched a record price this week, setting off applause at an auction in Oslo. |
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Oslo dumps new jump
Publisert: 15:45 29-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Oslo's top politicians have cancelled plans to build a brand new ski jump at Holmenkollen, and instead will rehabilitate the existing ski jump, to save money. |
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Chelsea outclassed Rosenborg
Publisert: 15:42 29-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Never before has Rosenborg suffered such a big loss on home turf as it did Wednesday night, but team leaders in Trondheim took it in stride. |
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Greed gets the blame
Publisert: 12:21 29-11-2007 Kilde: Aftenposten
Both the firms that sold risky American investments and the Norwegian townships that bought them were motivated by greed, according to newly released documents. |
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