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Breivik on trial in 2012. Photo: Cornelius Poppe/NTB scanpix

Breivik rights case may be heard in prison gym

A compromise may have been found for court proceedings involving terrorist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who is suing the Norwegian government for breaching his human rights.

Photo: Gorm Kallestad/NTB scanpix

Norway's Arctic 'to get six degrees warmer'

This year's mild winter is unlikely to be the last in Norway with experts predicting a temperature rise of up to six degrees in the country's Arctic regions by the end of the century.

Norway's Justice Minister Anders Anundsen. Photo: Jon Olav Nesvold/NTB Scanpix

New Norway law to stop citizens fighting for Isis

Norway's justice minister is set to propose a law reform which will make it easier to charge Norwegians suspected of participating in the Syrian conflict. There will also be harsher punishments.

Northern lights over Tromsø. Photo: Jan-Morten Bjørnbakk/NTB scanpix

Northern lights wow locals in Norway's south

With Christmas just around the corner, residents in Norway's deep south have been blessed with an incredible light show in the heavens above.

Damaged houses in Longyearbyen. Photo: Tore Meek/NTB Scanpix

Two dead as avalanche hits Norway's Svalbard

UPDATED: An avalanche in the Svalbard archipelago in the heart of the Norwegian Arctic claimed a second life Sunday as a child died from injuries sustained in the disaster, authorities said.

Grey wolf. Photo: Per Løchen/Scanpix

Norway's hunters target 'tiny' wolf population

Over 11,000 applications to hunt wolves in Norway were received in 2015 despite the animal's dwindling numbers in the wild, official figures show.

Norwegian DJ Kygo. Photo: Kygomusic

Norwegian DJ Kygo breaks Spotify record

Electronic artist Kygo has become the fastest artist to hit one billion streams on Spotify, capping a phenomenal year for him, the music site said Thursday.

Apti Nazjujev had been part of the resistance against Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov (above). Photo: Russian Federation

Chechens deported from Norway tortured to death

Two Chechen men who were denied asylum in Norway on the grounds that their "fears of prosecution were unfounded" were tortured to death on their return.

Bergen's Pepperkakebyen contained too much plastic to win the Guinness World Record. Photo: Pepperkakebyen

No record for Norway gingerbread town

The world's largest ginger bread town in Bergen, Norway, has been refused entry into the Guinness Book of World Records on the grounds that some of the components are not edible.

Several mink at the farm had deep untreated wounds. Photo: FSA

Badly wounded mink found at Norway farm

Norway’s Food Standards Agency is considering banning a mink farmer from operating after finding large numbers of animals with deep untreated wounds during a surprise check on his farm

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A man and his child cross the border at Storskog. Photo: Cornelius Poppe / NTB scanpix

Freedom is a bike for migrants at Arctic border

Neither snow nor freezing temps have put off the thousands of migrants who have crossed in to northeast Norway on two wheels.

Watch this pattern suddenly disintegrate. Photo: Magination

VIDEO: This Norwegian magnet game is amazing

Three Norwegian students have created, if not the coolest game ever, then at least the coolest game ever made using magnets.

Refugee crisis

A crowded Swedish Migration Agency office in Malmö. Photo: Simon Skipper/Scanpix

Nordic welcome chillier as numbers snowball

Asylum seekers flowing to Scandinavia are finding chillier welcomes as their numbers surge and far-right parties increasingly assert their influence on immigration policy, analysts say.

This seal is one of many animals suffering the effects of plastic pollution. Photo: Svalbard Governor

Arctic ice melt worsens plastic pollution

Decreasing Arctic ice and increased fishing are leading to a growing problem of plastic waste pollution on Norway's Svalbard Archipelago, endangering wildlife, a new study claims.

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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.

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The Haldi mountain straddles the border of Finland and Norway. Photo: Ken Bartlett/Peakbagger.com

Norwegians campaign to give Finland a mountain

A Facebook campaign has been launched for Norway to give their flat Finnish neighbour a mountain that would become its new highest peak as a gift for the centenary of its independence.

Sylvi Listhaug takes over the Immigration role at the Ministry of Justice. Photo: Haakon Mosvold Larsen / NTB scanpix

Norway populists win new immigration ministry

Norway’s Prime Minister has appointed a politician from the populist Progress Party as the country’s first ever Immigration Minister, as her government seeks to bring in an ever-tougher asylum policy.

Refugees waiting outside the Police Immigration Unit (PU) in Tøyen, Oslo. File photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB scanpix

Norway refugees had Isis beheadings on phones

Asylum seekers coming into Norway this autumn were found to have pictures of Isis beheadings, dead children and terrorist flags on their phones, Norway's intelligence services have reported.

Norway's oldest windfarm, Smøla, developed by Statkraft in 2002. Photo: Statkraft

Norway oil fund to make green investments

Norway’s oil fund has asked to shift part of its vast $830bn holdings into green infrastructure projects such as wind turbines and solar energy parks in the wake of last week’s climate deal in Paris.

The UN praised the high level of gender equality in Norway. Photo: Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix

Life in Norway ranked world's best for 12th year

Norway has been ranked the world’s best country to live in for the twelfth year in a row, in the annual benchmark report on human development published by the UN Development Programme.

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Photo: Damüls - Faschina Tourismus

Inexorable spread of Silent Night

When "Silent Night" was born in Austria almost 200 years ago, those present had little idea that the Christmas carol would one day be sung the world over, including this year by Miley Cyrus and some Swedish goats.

Fifa corruption scandal

Photo: Fifa

Swiss software caught Blatter-Platini payment

Fifa investigators used special software for financial watchdogs to catch the $2-million transfer that led to the ban on Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, a source close to football's Zurich-based world governing body said.

Central Duisburg. Photo: DPA

Woman sends thieves packing with one punch

When two robbers in Duisburg attacked a young woman late at night they probably thought they’d found an easy victim. But things turned out very differently to how they planned.

Aarhus University. Photo: IK's World Trip/Flickr

Deported African cleaner blitzes Danish uni exams

An international student at Aarhus University passed three exams in one day, all with the highest possible grade, after finding out he is to be deported from the country.

Christmas 2015

Catalonia's Tió de Nadal. Photo: Josep Ma. Rosell/Flickr

The weird and wonderful Christmas traditions celebrated across Spain

From Catalonia's 'crapping log' to the Basque Country's very own version of Santa Claus, The Local guides you through the weird and wonderful world of Spanish Christmas.