More teachers go on strike
Publisert: 14:45 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A strike by municipal employees around the country spread further on Tuesday, and looked set to keep dragging on. Neither side will take the initiative to resume negotiations. More than 10,000 teachers are now on strike, along with around 100 health care workers. |
 
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Contractor turns himself in
Publisert: 14:13 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Harald Langemyhr, a building contractor from Tønsberg who´s charged with defrauding the City of Oslo and violating labour laws, reported to police during the night and said his first priority is to get three employees out of jail. |
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Consumer confidence falls
Publisert: 13:50 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Higher interest rates seem to be taking a toll on Norwegians´ strong consumer confidence of recent years. A new index shows it fell again this spring, and some economists are saying "the party is over." |
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´Heatwave´ descends on southeast
Publisert: 13:21 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A period of unusually warm weather has settled over southeastern Norway, with temperatures due to exceed 30C (nearly 90F) for the next week. No rain was in sight. |
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Bhatti acquitted of terrorism, convicted on other charges
Publisert: 12:13 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s first terrorism trial ended Tuesday with the acquittal of Arfan Qadeer Bhatti, who was charged with firing shots at a Jewish synagogue in Oslo and planning embassy attacks. Bhatti´s alleged accomplices were also acquitted, but Bhatti was convicted for other shootings and for attempted murder. |
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Six embassies under threat
Publisert: 11:09 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s embassy in Pakistan remained closed on Tuesday, following Monday´s terrorist attack on the nearby Danish Embassy. Foreign Ministry officials believe the threat of attack on five other Norwegian embassies is also high, and security measures are being further increased. |
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Technical trouble plagues Nordic stock exchanges
Publisert: 10:11 03-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Trading wasn´t expected to open on the Oslo Stock Exchange until noon at the latest on Tuesday, because of ongoing technical problems with its trading system, which is run from Stockholm. |
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´Cave man´ must wash
Publisert: 15:31 02-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A city magistrate has ruled that Oslo´s so-called "cave man," who once lived in a pile of garbage near the city´s university campus, must agree to wash himself since he´s now living in a publicly funded nursing home. He objects, and vows to take his case to Norway´s supreme court. |
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Embassies hit by staff unrest
Publisert: 14:37 02-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Locally employed staff at Norway´s foreign embassies are protesting low pay, long workdays, lack of overtime pay and few benefits. The situation is viewed as especially serious at embassies in North America and Europe. |
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Traffic deaths soar, experts blame reckless driving
Publisert: 12:51 02-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Deaths caused by traffic accidents in Norway are up 50 percent so far this year, even before the summer driving season gets underway. Speedsters, most often young men, have become a potentially lethal menace on the road. |
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Bombing sparks evacuation of embassy in Pakistan
Publisert: 11:25 02-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s embassy in Islamabad was evacuated on Monday after the neighboring Danish embassy was hit by a massive car bomb. |
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Rwandan war criminal reportedly in Oslo
Publisert: 10:57 02-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The man who´s charged with financing genocide in Rwanda is reportedly hiding out in Oslo, and may want to turn himself in. |
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Beggar boycott urged in Oslo
Publisert: 10:18 02-06-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The head of Oslo´s Municipal Executive Board is calling on Oslo residents and visitors to stop giving money to beggars on the street. It´s the only way, says Erling Lae, to discourage beggars from setting up shop in the capital. |
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StatoilHydro loses bid to boost carbon emissions
Publisert: 17:12 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
State pollution authorities have turned down a request by state oil and gas company StatoilHydro to keep churning extraordinary amounts of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere at its landbased facility for the Snow White gas field. |
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More Munchs to go on display
Publisert: 16:38 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Plans to build a new Munch Museum on Oslo´s waterfront will allow far more of Edvard Munch´s famous paintings to be put on public display. Major relocations and construction of other new museums are aimed at putting Oslo on the cultural map. |
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Summer busts out all over
Publisert: 15:53 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Oslo was set to be one of the warmest cities in Europe this weekend, with temperatures exceeding those in Barcelona and Madrid. Sun-starved Norwegians were already flocking outdoors even before the weekend got underway. |
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Soldier´s loot turned away
Publisert: 12:57 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A Norwegian soldier came home from duty in Afghanistan with a horde of cultural treasures, which he offered to an Oslo museum. He was summarily rebuffed and told to take the treasures back to their country of origin. |
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New raid on controversial building contractor
Publisert: 11:55 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Police swept down on the offices of building contractor Harald Langemyhr on Friday, arresting four of his employees and charging the company with massive fraud against the city of Oslo. Langemyhr was also recently accused of badly exploiting Polish construction workers. |
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Record number of homes on the market
Publisert: 11:24 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegians are trying to sell their homes in record numbers. Never before has the listing service Finn offered more homes on the market. |
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Army forced to sharpen knife as cost cuts loom
Publisert: 10:39 30-05-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
In March, the Norwegian government promised more growth for Norway´s army, but just the opposite is happening. Now government officials say they need to cut costs by NOK 1.5 billion, with most of it to come from budgets for training and military exercises. |
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