Summer heat sends holidaymakers to the mountains
Publisert: 12:12 31-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Good snow conditions and tropical heat, draw vacationers to the Norway´s highest mountains. Summer ski resorts and mountain guides, report record numbers of visitors. |
 
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Women desert officer training
Publisert: 11:31 31-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
"This is an incredibly high no-show rate and it´s very worrying," says Øyvind Strandman who is responsible for Air Force recruitment. He has no good explanation for the shortfall in female applicants. |
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Farmers depend on migrant labour
Publisert: 10:28 31-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Around 70 percent of Norwegian farmers rely to a greater or lesser extent on cheap labour from Eastern Europe. |
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Suspect named in Norwegian student´s murder
Publisert: 18:11 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
New Scotland Yard has formally named a young man from Yemen as their suspect in the murder, and now also rape, of a Norwegian student in London last spring. London police earlier had said they only sought 21-year-old Farouk Abdulhak for questioning as a possible witness. |
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Sisters design head-coverings, Norwegian-style
Publisert: 16:42 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Two sisters who emigrated from northern Iraq to Norway as children and have studied costume and fashion design are launching their own line of head-coverings, geared to Muslim women in Scandinavia. |
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´Cycled for his life,´ with a moose on his heels
Publisert: 15:22 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Asbjørn Larsen was out riding his bicycle in the forest northwest of Oslo when he suddenly was confronted by an angry moose that started chasing him. |
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Man threatened to blow up sheriff´s office in Lørenskog
Publisert: 14:45 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Police in Lørenskog, just northeast of Oslo, were faced with a dramatic situation Wednesday after a man parked his car outside the local sheriff’s office, claimed it was full of explosives and threatened to blow the building to bits. |
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Lightning struck out trains
Publisert: 12:35 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Some train lines and Oslo´s public transport system were disrupted after a sudden and severe thunderstorm hit southern Norway Tuesday night. |
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Støre vows to help restart failed WTO talks
Publisert: 12:03 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is clearly disappointed that efforts to hammer out a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement failed. He vowed, however, that Norway will help take responsibility for relaunching new WTO talks amidst what he called a "new world order." |
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Reaction mixed after WTO talks collapse
Publisert: 11:21 30-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian farmers were jubilant on Wednesday. The collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) means they get to keep their subsidies and avoid foreign competition. Norwegian consumers, however, are paying a high price to protect their farmers, and industrial and fishing interests are deeply worried. |
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Flights running despite strike
Publisert: 16:06 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Neither Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) nor its partner Lufthansa itself has had to cancel any flights out of Oslo, at least not yet. Ground and cabin personnel went on strike against Lufthansa from Monday. |
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Heat wave due to taper off
Publisert: 15:32 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Oslo has just recorded its highest temperature in 53 years, but the capital´s sizzling days are about to end. Cooler weather and some rain are in the forecast. |
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´Christian Radich´ wins first stage of Tall Ships´ Race
Publisert: 15:02 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The Norwegian sailing vessel Christian Radich
has cruised to victory in the first stage of the Tall Ships’ Race from Liverpool to Måløy on Norway´s west coast. |
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Athletes to fly business class
Publisert: 13:14 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway is sending its Olympic hopefuls to Beijing in style this time. The Norwegian Olympic Committee has decided that it may improve their chances for medals. |
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Police to use ´mafia´ law in cannabis cases
Publisert: 12:49 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Last winter saw a wave of raids on cannabis plantations in Norway, and now those charged are facing their day in court. Two Swedes and a Dutch defendant are linked to two of the largest plantations, and they´re charged under Norway´s so-called "mafia" law designed to fight organized crime. |
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Steen & Strøm sale to ease Hagen´s debt burden
Publisert: 11:52 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Businessman Stein Erik Hagen, long listed as one of Norway´s wealthiest entrepreneurs, says he´ll use proceeds from this week´s sale of retailing and real estate group Steen & Strøm to pay down debts in other areas of his empire -- and for new investments. |
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Russia deported ´taggers´
Publisert: 11:18 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Two young Norwegian men visiting Moscow last week were summarily deported, after Russian police caught them trying to break into a restricted area of the city´s public transportation system. They reportedly were on the verge of spraypainting their "tags" on tram cars. |
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Organic farmers giving up
Publisert: 10:41 29-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Despite expanding markets for organic farm products, Norwegian farmers are leaving the ecological branch of agriculture as fast as others are joining. They claim they can´t make enough money at it. |
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Hotel computer crash resulted in free lodging
Publisert: 15:21 28-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
One of Scandinavia´s largest hotel chains couldn´t charge its guests late last week because of a computer crash. "This can be expensive," said Choice Hotels owner Petter Stordalen. |
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Swedes save Norway´s restaurant business
Publisert: 14:49 28-07-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Without the thousands of Swedes serving with a smile in Norway this summer, the restaurant branch would be in big trouble. Young foreigners are also providing needed help in everything from the hotel to the bakery industries, and some say they work harder than young Norwegians. |
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