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Sunday, October 4, 2015

The Local- News of Norway

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Top Norway billionaire comes out as gay
Stein Erik Hagen (right) with openly gay businessman Christen Sveaas. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB scanpix

Top Norway billionaire comes out as gay

Norway’s second richest billionaire, supermarket tycoon Stein Erik Hagen, has come out as gay, outing himself in front of more than two million viewers on Norway’s leading chat show. 
    Refugee crisis
    Schengen shows cracks with Tunnel incursions
    Entrance to the tunnel near Coquelles, France. Photo: Billy69150/Wikimedia

    Schengen shows cracks with Tunnel incursions

    More than 100 migrants stormed the Channel Tunnel early Saturday, penetrating a third of the way through and attacking staff in an incident that halted overnight traffic. 
    Refugee crisis
    Nordic states fret over migrant threat to borders
    Syrian refugees arriving in Stockholm. Photo: Ols Torkelsson

    Nordic states fret over migrant threat to borders

    Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Saturday said she feared for Europe’s borderless Schengen zone and urged countries to shore up their external frontiers in the face of the migrant crisis. 
    Feature
    How much for that Nobel in the window?
    James Watson's Nobel Peace Prize was sold for $4.76 million at auction in 2014. Photo: Christie's

    How much for that Nobel in the window?

    No need to make peace in the Middle East, resolve one of science's great mysteries or pen a masterpiece: the easiest way to get yourself a Nobel prize may be to buy one. 
      Video 
      Curious elk sniffs at hovering drone
      The elk put his nose right up close to the hovering drone. Photo: Screen Grab/Youtube

      Curious elk sniffs at hovering drone

      Watch this incredible close-up drone film of an elk -- rather than loping off into the bushes, the curious animal sniffs and nuzzles the hovering camera. 
        Russian blogger protests Norway press control
        The picket line outside the Norwegian Consulate in Murmansk. Photo: Blogger 51

        Russian blogger protests Norway press control

        A Norwegian government decision to sack the editor of the international Barents Observer newspaper has sparked 'free press' protests from a Russian blogger.  
          Breivik prison 'will not stop hunger strike'
          Breivik smiling. Photo: Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix 

          Breivik prison 'will not stop hunger strike'

          Norway's prison services will do nothing to stop mass killer Anders Behring Breivik from starving to death if he carries through his planned hunger strike to the end.  
            Jobseeker: 'I hope I get to slaughter all of you'
            Oslo's high court, where the man will be tried. Photo: Haakon Mosvold Larsen / NTB scanpix

            Jobseeker: 'I hope I get to slaughter all of you'

            A twenty-year-old Norwegian man sent a series of job applications in which he praised mass killer Anders Breivik and threatened to blow up his prospective employers.  
              Norway child champion calls for refugee camps
              Coming to Norway? Zaatari refugee camp in Syria. Photo: US State Department

              Norway child champion calls for refugee camps

              Norway's children's ombudsman has called for the country to set up refugee camps, as the present poor level of refugee reception is actively harming child asylum seekers.  
                Arctic cycling refugees risk return to Russia
                The Storskog border station between Norway and Russia. Photo: Cornelius Poppe/NTB scanpix

                Arctic cycling refugees risk return to Russia

                Norway's immigration authorities have said they will send many of the refugees cycling over its far northern border back to Russia.  
                  Features
                  The Local interview
                  VIDEO: Origins of Danish language revealed
                  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.  
                  'Trekker Willi' heads to Norway at 18 km/h
                  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.  
                  Video

                  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. 
                  Schumacher's Norway retreat sold for $3m
                  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.  
                  More news
                  Norwegian quit job to hike with his husky
                  Henrik Vikse mediates in nature alongside his beloved husky. Photo: Instagram 

                  Norwegian quit job to hike with his husky 

                  A young Norwegian who quit his job to travel his country with his husky Akiak has fired imaginations across the world with his Instagram portraits of the dog in spectacular scenery. 
                  Norway man arrested for sexually abusing cows
                  A cow at a farm in Hordaland county around Bergen. Photo: Hordaland County

                  Norway man arrested for sexually abusing cows 

                  A man in Norway has been arrested for sexually abusing cows and horses after a suspicious off-duty police officer decided to trail him.  
                  BBC to shoot docusoap in Arctic Svalbard
                  Houses on Longyearbyen. Photo: Smudge 9000/Flickr

                  BBC to shoot docusoap in Arctic Svalbard

                  BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK's national broadcaster, have commissioned a docusoap portraying the life in Longyearbyen, the isolated capital of Norway's Arctic Svalbard archipelago. 
                  Oslo man admits axeing to death gay love rival
                  Gianluca Ros stood waiting in the stairwell of the apartment disguised as a woman. Photo: Norwegian Police

                  Oslo man admits axeing to death gay love rival 

                  An Italian man has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-boyfriend's new lover with an axe, after ambushing the couple disguised as a woman in a leopard skin coat.  
                  Breivik pledges hunger strike 'until death'
                  Norway killer Anders Breivik makes a fascist salute as he enters the courtroom during his trial in 2012. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix

                  Breivik pledges hunger strike 'until death'

                  Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has threatened to go on hunger strike until he dies of starvation in protest at what he claims has been a dramatic worsening of his prison conditions. 
                  From our other editions
                  Politics
                  Regional elections see seismic shift to Blue
                  Heinz-Christian Strache celebrating his party's results in Upper Austria. Photo: Freedom Party of Austria

                  Regional elections see seismic shift to Blue

                  This weekend's state elections in Upper Austria have seen a significant drop in support for the coalition-ruling Christian Democrats (ÖVP), with an almost doubling of seats for the Freedom Party. 
                  Nightclub bouncers 'beat executive into a coma'
                  The incident occurred on Geneva's Rue du Rhône, a shopping precinct known for its luxury boutiques. Photo: Geneva Tourism

                  Nightclub bouncers 'beat executive into a coma'

                  The executive of a Geneva-based multinational company is in a coma after being allegedly beaten by bouncers at an upscale restaurant-bar in the Swiss city, a media report said on Monday. 
                  Refugee crisis
                  Mass violence erupts at Hamburg refugee home
                  Bergedorf refugee centre. Photo: DPA

                  Mass violence erupts at Hamburg refugee home

                  A mass brawl involving around 200 refugees from Afghanistan and Syria broke out on Wednesday night at an asylum centre in Hamburg which has been beset by problems. 
                  Danish police officer stabbed at asylum centre
                  A large area around Center Sandholm was cordoned off following the stabbing. Photo: Niels Meilvang/Scanpix

                  Danish police officer stabbed at asylum centre

                  UPDATED: A stateless Palestinian who was due to be expelled from Denmark was arrested for trying to kill a Danish police officer in a stabbing attack at Center Sandholm, Denmark's largest institution for asylum seekers. 
                  As it happened
                  Catalan regional election results: Independence parties claim victory
                  Photo: Lluis Gene / AFP

                  Catalan regional election results: Independence parties claim victory

                  Pro-separatist parties won the most seats in parliament despite failing to secure 50 percent of the vote in an election on independence that saw the biggest turnout in history. 
                  National
                  Norway armed forces to get organic underwear
                  International
                  Syrians cross Norway's Arctic border on bicycles
                  Society
                  Norwegians reveal the (hilariously inaccurate) origins of the Danish language
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                  Rugby in Scandinavia: an expat love story
                  National
                  Norway man built secret child's room in cellar
                  Education
                  Norway starts school for Vikings
                  Sport
                  Sepp Blatter should win Nobel Peace Prize: Putin
                  National
                  The oddest TripAdvisor comments about Norway
                  National
                  Experts baffled by freak downpour in Norway
                  National
                  Dude, where's my house? Avalanche smashes Norway farmhouse
                  Culture
                  VIDEO: Norway artist's naked tree stunt goes awry
                  Health
                  Norway scientists find secret behind gluten intolerance
                  National
                  VIDEO: Have you seen this jet ski blunder at a Malmö hotel opening?
                  National
                  Oslo is the crystal meth capital of Europe
                  Sport
                  VIDEO: Man in Norway catches fish too big for boat 
                  International
                  'Snowden could come to Norway to collect prize'
                  Technology
                  Oslo builds world's first bumblebee highway
                  Culture
                  World’s biggest elk statue arrives in Oslo
                  Norway's men soon to be among Europe's fattest
                  National
                  Muslims form 'ring of peace' at synagogue
                  Business & Money
                  Schumacher's Norway retreat sold for $3m
                  National
                  King Harald visits Antarctic namesake
                  Culture
                  Norwegians streak the streets of Berlin
                  Culture
                  Norway couple find love on word game app
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