The world’s first cruise ship propelled partially by battery power is set to head out from northern Norway on its maiden voyage, cruise operator Hurtigruten said.

A beluga whale wearing a harness approached fishing-boats off the Norwegian coast last month

The airline was due to take charge of its first 737 Max jet next month

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has installed 1,000 red paper cranes outside the Norwegian Parliament before formally receiving the award.

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A helicopter that crashed in Norway killing 13 people had to return to base twice in the days before the tragedy after a warning light was triggered.

A Donegal man has spoken of his delight after picking up his Nobel prize for medicine.

IN 1898 the Skibbereen Eagle newspaper famously warned the Czar of Russia that it was keeping an eye on him.

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights.

Cycling’s governing body has announced plans to form an international anti-doping tribunal by 2015.

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From art appreciation to a spell on the slopes, Arlene Harris made the most of what Oslo has to offer on a jam-packed budget trip.

Of Montreal’s flamboyance can even extend to getting naked on stage, writes Ed Power.

Tullow Oil has refinanced its Norwegian exploration prospect with a further $330m (€244m) in funding for its NOK 2 billion (€246m) prospect and it has extended a $500m facility out to 2017 for the NOK 3 billion prospect.

Roy Keane has never been afraid to show his emotions.

Tullow Oil, the Irish-founded driller, will acquire Norway’s Spring Energy AS for $372m (€286m) to add prospects in the North, Norwegian, and Barents Seas.

For the first time, people will be able to take a trip directly from an Irish port on a major cruise ship, courtesy of a deal between a travel agency and the Royal Caribbean International line.

A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months has closed with confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik being declared sane and sent to prison for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people and injured 200 others last year.

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will jet in to Dublin tomorrow for a six-hour flying visit to the Irish capital.

Norway’s prison terms are “pathetic”, mass killer Anders Behring Breivik declared yesterday in court, claiming the death penalty or a full acquittal were the “only logical outcomes” for his massacre of 77 people.

Anders Breivik tried to defend his massacre of 77 people today, insisting he would do it again and calling his rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts today amid fears that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views.

US President Barack Obama has apologised over the burning of Korans at a US airbase in Afghanistan, where three days of protests have killed 14 people.

Ireland’s fishing industry is calling on the EU to implement sanctions against Iceland and the Faroe Islands following the breakdown of bilateral talks in Iceland.

Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen have received the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

THE autumn is upon us and you’re thinking of where to go for a quick break, a pick-me-up after the stresses of the summer and before the dark days of winter.

TWO members of an expedition who were injured in a polar bear attack in which a 17-year-old boy was killed were due to return to Britain last night, the trip organisers said.

The grieving family of the Englist schoolboy who was killed by a polar bear while on an adventure holiday in north Norway paid tribute to him today as “strong, fearless and kind”.

Four British people injured in a polar bear attack while on an adventure holiday in north Norway have undergone surgery and are recovering in hospital, medical staff said today.

THE stepmother of Anders Breivik said he was an apparently normal youth who showed no signs of what he had been planning, even in the months before the massacre.

Police later lowered the death toll in the youth camp massacre outside the Norwegian capital to 68, down from 86.

The death toll from Norway’s bomb attack and mass shooting rose to 93 today as reports emerged of the attacker’s links to the British far right.

The man in the police uniform shouted for the campers to come closer. When they did, he killed them.

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A profits warning from Currys and PC World parent Dixons Retail triggered declines for retailers today, but the news failed to drag the wider market down.

IF YOU were in Chicago yesterday you would have been faced with snow and temperatures of -12°C. If you were lucky enough to be in Oslo you would have been a tad cooler, temperatures around -15ºC were recorded in the Norwegian capital.

The guest of honour was an ocean away, but the show went on.

A police officer shot his ex-girlfriend dead then critically wounded himself outside the Norwegian school where she worked today.

YOUR report on a proposed tour boat service on Cork Harbour (June 16) made no less that three references to the “the second largest natural harbour in the world.”

Amy Winehouse's appeal to postpone her Norwegian court hearing on Friday for drug possession charges has been granted.

Kylie Minogue will perform at the December 11 Nobel Peace Prize Concert honouring this year’s winners, former US Vice President Al Gore and the UN’s climate change panel, organisers said.

Australian pop star Kylie Minogue will perform at the December 11 Nobel Peace Prize Concert honouring this year's winners, former US Vice President Al Gore and the UN's climate change panel, organisers said today.

British singer Amy Winehouse has vowed to fight a ban preventing her from travelling to the United States - after she was "tricked" into confessing to possessing illegal drugs.

The father of singer Amy Winehouse told today of his ongoing fears for her health and claimed she did not touch hard drugs until she married Blake Fielder-Civil.

Seventeen British people were injured when ice falling from a glacier hit their luxury sightseeing boat in the Arctic.

Ice that broke off a glacier hit a sightseeing ship with 72 people aboard off the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic, injuring 18, two seriously, police and the tour operator said today.