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'A gun is a passport for leaving town,' one scientist says. Photo: Mike Lockhart/ US Geological Survey/ AP /TT

Polar bears 'a nightmare' for Arctic scientists

Residents of the remote Arctic settlement of Ny-Ålesund never lock their homes -- happy to sacrifice privacy for the option of barging through the nearest door if a polar bear attacks. READ

McDonalds in Bryggeriveien in Fredrikstad. Photo: Google Street View

Norway McDonalds ejects lady for guide dog

A McDonalds restaurant in southern Norway faces a possible police investigation after staff ejected a blind woman in tears because she had a guide dog with her. READ

A Norwegian daily reported the flight that the pilot and crew were pulled from had 109 passengers on board. Photo: Nora Krevneva/DPA

Pilot, crew fail breathalyser test

A Latvian Air Baltic pilot and three crew members were pulled off a Greece-bound passenger plane in Oslo early on Saturday after failing a breathalyser test before take-off, Norwegian police said. READ

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A strolling reindeer. Photo: Alexandre Buisse/Wikimedia

Norway plans reindeer Slow TV programme

They’ve done the train to Bergen, and the ferry up the west coast, Nor NRK’s is to give another journey its pioneering Slow TV treatment: the reindeer migration. READ

Roald Bentzen, a Progress Party municipal politician and Labour deputy leader Hadia Tajik. Photo: Twitter/NTB canpix

Labour top on 'mission from Allah to Islamise'

An operative for Norway’s anti-immigration Progress Party has caused outrage after accusing the Labour Party’s deputy leader of having “a mission from Allah to islamise Norway” in a post on Facebook. READ

Auf leader Mani Hussaini opens the summer camp on Friday morning. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB scanpix

'22 July will forever be part of Utoya’s history'

Four years after Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 69 people on Utoya island in Norway, about 1,000 Labour Party youths gathered Friday for the first summer camp to be held there since the massacre. READ

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Ole Martin Juul Slyngstadli at Bergen University. Photo: John Gabriel Fløysand/springbrettet

Reclaiming Utoya: A survivor's story

The day of the massacre, he saved the life of a woman riddled by bullets, but lost two close friends. Now this young activist is determined to reclaim Utoya. READ

Tara Lynn's ELLE cover and Unni Askeland's picture. Photo: Facebook/Unni Askeland

Artist challenges Norway PM to pose naked

Norwegian artist Unni Askeland has challenged Prime Minister Erna Solberg to join her in posting a naked picture of herself on the internet to inspire curvaceous women to flaunt it during the bikini season. READ

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg relaxing with AUF head Mani Husseini. Photo: Jon Olav Nesvold/NTB scanpix

Nato boss sang anti-Nato songs as a youth

NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg has reminisced about his evenings as a teenager spent singing anti-Nato protest songs from a song booklet with a picture of Lenin on the front page. READ

Police outside the Blindern campus on Wednesday morning. Photo: Vegard Wivestad Grøtt / NTB scanpix

Guard admits to planting hoax bomb at Oslo Uni

The security guard who on Tuesday night claimed to have been shot in the chest by a gunman outside Oslo University has admitted to police to shooting himself and then planting a fake bomb on the scene. READ

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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. READ

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. READ

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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. READ

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. READ

Glacier ice: The world’s new luxury ice cube?

Imagine you’re lounging in a Dubai sky bar and you get served a vodka martini filtered through thousand-year-old ice mined from a glacier in the far north of Norway. This is the idea behind Norwegian start-up Svaice. READ

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The three dancers wrestled in the Målselva river. Photo: Screen Grab

Norway men wrestle naked in freezing water

Are they wrestling? Dancing? Cuddling? A new Norwegian music video by the pop duo Robaat features three naked men in a freezing river with stunning views. READ

Bastøy prison seen from the air. Photo: Cornelius Poppe/Scanpix

Prisoner breaks free with surfboard and toy spade

A prisoner has escaped from an island prison in Norway by sneaking out of a window, stealing an old surfboard and paddling the three kilometres to shore with a toy spade. READ

Police outside the Blindern campus on Wednesday morning. Photo: Vegard Wivestad Grøtt / NTB scanpix

Bomb scare and shooting at Oslo Uni

Police have evacuated parts of the University of Oslo after "bomb-like object" was found on the grounds, following shots fired at a security guard last night. READ

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Pyramiden was a thriving town of 1,200 people. Photo: Kate Bum/Flickr

Bears stalk former Soviet Svalbard mining outpost

A man in a chapka hat and black coat, rifle slung over a shoulder, idles on the pontoon as a group of tourists sail in to visit Arctic oddity, Pyramiden, a Soviet-era ghost town. READ

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The waters around the Ny Alesund research base no longer freeze. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute

Svalbard veterans report alarming changes

Not so long ago, skeleton staff overwintering at the Ny-Alesund research centre could walk on the Arctic town's frozen bay and race their snow mobiles across its surface. Now there is liquid water even in the coldest months. READ

A boat on the way over to Utøya. Photo: AUF

Four years on, Utøya comes back to life

Four years after Anders Behring Breivik's bloody rampage, the Norwegian island of Utøya will return to life this weekend as it hosts its first Labour youth camp since the carnage. READ

Olaf Karlsen advertising his art work. Photo: Olaf Carlsen

Norway artists’ naked flash-mob stunt backfires

A Norwegian artist who called on his local village to stand naked on a beach to greet Norwegian TV's touring 'Summer Boat' failed to draw a single other participant. READ

Bonito in a fish market. Photo: Lars Dugaiczyk/Flickr

Mediterranean fish caught in Oslo fjord

During the last few days, no fewer than 17 bonito fish, which are more usually found in the Mediterranean, have been caught in the Oslo fjord. READ

Unlike Russia, Denmark and Canada, Norway has no claims on the Pole. Photo: Jonathan Hayward/Scanpix

Russia's Pole claim sparks 'Arctic battle' fear

Norwegian commentators have expressed alarm at Russia’s renewed claim on the North Pole, with the Aftenposten newspaper predicting a "battle for the Arctic", arguing: "The only question is how dramatic it will be”. READ

Pulpit Rock is about 25m squared and almost completely flat. Photo: amanderson2/Flickr

Poo problem at Norway’s Pulpit Rock

Norway’s most visited natural tourist attractions Pulpit Rock is faced with a delicate problem: tourists pooing in the bushes on the the way up and down. READ

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Can you guess the German word for slug? Photo: Wikimedia/Prashanthns

Ten wonderfully literal German words

One of the best things about the German language is undoubtedly its logic. The wonderful compound nouns which German is famous for can sometimes be notoriously complex, but also make perfect sense.READ

Image of pigs at 'factory farm' that animal group alleges shows mistreatment. Photo: VgT

Pigs gassed to death by own excrement

A total of 135 pigs died after inhaling gas produced from their own excrement on a farm in the canton of Aargau, a TV report has revealed. READ

If you want to rest in place while you're still alive, a car park isn't the place place to choose. Photo: DPA

Man promises to stop coffin naps in public

When a man walking his dog alerted police to the fact that a black coffin was lying in the middle of a public parking place, the cops were surprised to find someone inside. READ

Photo: Lego Group

'Offensive' Lego set angers disability group

The group argues that the inclusion of an old man in a wheelchair in a new Lego toy set creates the misleading impression that disability that only affects the elderly. READ

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The Real Madrid attempted to earn some pennies with his footwork Photo: Screenshot Ronaldo - ROC Live Life Loud / Youtube

Cristiano Ronaldo pranks Madrid as homeless man

It’s Cristiano Ronaldo as you have never seen him before, disguised as a homeless man loitering in Madrid’s busy shopping area of Plaza de Callao with his begging tin and scruffy dog. READ

Screengrab from the Facebook page where the shocking images of the dog was published. Photo: AFP

Dog buried alive sparks French social media fury

Photos of a dog buried alive up to its head in France sparked an outpouring of anger on social media Wednesday and police said the owner was taken into custody. READ

The medieval town of Sellia, Calabria. Photo: Comune di Sellia

Italian town warns people to 'stop dying'

A small medieval village in Calabria has taken a unique approach to the problem of its dwindling and ageing population: ban people from getting sick. READ