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The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm tried to sell the home of the Norwegian Nobel Institute to fund construction of a new building in Stockholm. Photo: Norwegian Nobel Institute

'Swedes tried to take over peace prize': exec

The former Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has accused Sweden's Nobel Foundation of attempting to interfere in the winner of the annual Nobel Peace Prize.

Syrian refugees wait under a sign at Malmö Central Station to receive bus and train tickets for Oslo. Photo: The Local Norway

Asylum claims soar by 80% in Norway

The number of people applying for asylum for the first time in Norway shot up by 81 percent between April and June, figures released by the Brussels statistics authority Eurostat showed on Friday.

Loai Deeb speaking at GNRD's International Conference on Terrorism and Human Rights. Photo: GNRD

NGO sues to expel Norway TV from Egypt

The Egyptian ally of a Norwegian NGO charged with money-laundering has asked a court in Egypt to expel a journalist working for state broadcaster NRK.

A brown bear taken in the Dählhölzli zoo in Bern. Photo: Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr

'Combine outdoor life with bear poo picking'

A Norwegian government wildlife agency has asked hikers and hunters to collect any bear poo they stumble upon and send it in for DNA analysis.

The mountains of north west Svalbard. Photo: Norwegian Foreign Ministry/Flickr

Svalbard peaks 100,000 years older than thought

The mountains of north west Svalbard are hundreds of thousands of years older than previously thought, a new study has found, throwing doubt over the way mountains' ages are estimated.

Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya with one of their children shown on Indian TV. Photo: Screen Grab

Norway foster care row becomes Indian theatre

The bitter battle of an Indian couple to recover two children forcibly taken into care by Norway's authorities has been made into a stage play that will premier in the Indian city of Chennai on Saturday.

Film director Roar Uthaug launches The Wave on Sunday. Photo: Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix

Norway disaster movie The Wave sold in US

The US's Magnolia Pictures have bought the rights to the disaster movie The Wave, Norway's official entry this year for the Best Foreign Language film at the Oscar's.

A Kvikk Lunsj snack laid out during summer hiking trip. Photo: Kvikk Lunsj/Facebook

Norway's Kvikk Lunsj beats KitKat in EU courts

Norway's Kvikk Lunsj bar has won the right to remain on sale in the UK, after it won a legal battle with the makers of KitKat, who had attempted to trademark the four finger bar concept.

Bob Geldof (middle) during the Protest Festival in Kristiansand, where Geldof will get Erik Byes Memorial Prize. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB scanpix

Geldof slams Norway refugee 'nonsense'

Musician and political activist Bob Geldof has laid into Norway for taking too few refugees from Syria, calling it a 'nonsense' that one of the world's richest countries was doing so little.

Here are some of the refugees Siem Pilot has rescued in its five month mission. Photo: YouTube screen grab

Crewman goes awol from Norway rescue boat

A crew member for one of the two Norwegian ships sent to rescue refugees crossing the Mediterranean has gone missing without leave at a port in Sicily.

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Norwegian filmmakers Esikld Fors and Anders Øvergaard said they love Denmark and its "slurry" language. Photo: Submitted

VIDEO: Origins of Danish language revealed

The Local spoke with Norwegian filmmaker Eskild Fors, whose video poking fun at the Danish language has gone viral in Denmark, about the difference between the two Scandinavian countries.

Winfried Langer with his vintage tractor "Robert." Photo:DPA

'Trekker Willi' heads to Norway at 18 km/h

Spring is in the air and Trekker Willi, Germany's answer to Jack Kerouac, is hitting the road again aboard his trusty tractor “Robert” - with a destination well over the horizon.

Google Maps puts Pulpit Rock on Street View

Google Maps staff have trekked to the top of Pulpit Rock, one of Norway’s tourist attractions, making stunning views of the Lysefjorden available to anyone everywhere over the internet.

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VIDEO: Bird's eye view of Lofoten in winter

Moscow-based filmmaker Igor Byrko has has just released a beautiful birds-eye film of the Lofoten Islands in mid January, using a drone to pan over the ice-strewn shores, fishing villages, and dazzling peaks of one of Norway’s most beautiful regions.

A photo from the sale documents. Photo: Screen grab from Finn.no

Schumacher's Norway retreat sold for $3m

The Norwegian mountain holiday home owned by Michael Schumacher has been sold for close to 22 million Norwegian kroner ($2.9m), as the former Formula One star continues his slow recovery in Switzerland.

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Nobel Institute director Geir Lundestad (right) with US President Barack Obama and then Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland in 2009. Photo: Photo: Jarl Rehn-Erichsen / Scanpix

Nobel director regretted Obama peace prize

A former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has admitted his regrets about the 2009 award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama.

The remaining half of the outhouse on Nesøya. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB scanpix

Norway man sawed neighbour's house in half

A man in Norway faces up to six years in jail after he sawed his neighbour's outhouse in two on the grounds that part of it jutted over onto his land.

Is Norway being 'swedified'? Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT

Comedian: 'Throw the Swedes out of Norway'

UPDATED: A Norwegian comic causing a stir in Sweden has told The Local why he wrote a blog post calling on his country people to throw all Swedes out of Norway.

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. Photo: CIFOR/Neil Palmer

Norway pays Brazil $1bn for slowing Amazon loss

Norway will soon pay Brazil the final instalment of a $1bn payment for slowing the rate at which the Amazon rainforest is cut down, and is in talks about a further scheme.

A dog waiting outside a polling station in Oslo during Norway's church elections. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix

'Are you really taking that homo-ballot?'

An election official overseeing Norway's church elections was banned from a polling station on Monday after he ridiculed voters asking for ballots from a group campaigning for the church to allow gay marriage.

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Refugee crisis

Refugee children being fed at Vienna's Westbahnhof railway station. Photo: Caritas

Germany reinstates Austrian border checks

The German government has effectively suspended the Schengen agreement by reinstating controls at its borders with Austria, with the first passport checks already taking place on Sunday night.

Photo: www.americanswelcome-expats.ch

Swiss site shows where Americans are welcome

An entrepreneur in the canton of Zurich has launched a platform for US expats to let them know where in Switzerland their business is still welcome — even if certain banks would rather they close their accounts.

Refugee crisis

Alexander Dobrindt, Germany's transport minister. Photo: Michael Kappeler/DPA

'Germany has reached its limit', says minister

Germany's transport minister on Sunday said that Germany has 'reached its limit,' as he called for measures to halt a record migrant influx that has seen the infrastructure of the southern city of Munich buckling.

A selfie posted to the teen's Instagram account. Photo: Instagram

Danish teen who killed mum ‘inspired by Isis’

UPDATED: A 15-year-old girl who murdered her mother was fascinated by the terror group Isis and viewed online Islamist propaganda including videos of beheadings.

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Photo of Castellón Cathedral: Shutterstock

Ten wonderful reasons to explore Spain's newest tourist destination

From thermal springs to castles and music festivals, The Local guides you through the best things to do in Spain's newest tourist hotspot - Castellón.