You’re almost certainly safer in these countries than you are at home.

The Norwegian government has awarded 28 oil and gas companies a total of 69 offshore blocks to explore for petroleum in mature areas of its continental shelf, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said.

Norwegian police have opened fire on an armed man who stole an ambulance and reportedly ran down several people in Oslo.

Norway unexpectedly took almost $400m (€360m) from its sovereign wealth fund in August, marking the first such withdrawal in over a year as western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer takes advantage of its enormous piggy bank amid a decline in oil prices.

A suspected gunman accused of an attempted terrorist attack on a mosque in Norway and separately killing his teenage stepsister “will use his right not to explain himself for now” in a detention hearing, his defence lawyer has said.

Phil Neville's England have won their Women's World Cup quarter-final against Norway to set up a semi-final against either the hosts France or the current world champions USA.

Ministers in Norway have acknowledged a problem exists after the country's statistical agency recorded the lowest number of newborns since it started counting in the 19th century.

Norway's National Criminal Investigation Service has been investigating the footage circulating on social media.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has struck in the Arctic Ocean.

In 2011, Anders Breivik killed 69 teenagers at a youth camp on the island of Utoya, Norway. It makes for a bone-chilling start to Paul Greengrass’s new film 22 July, which examines the devastation of the attacks, but also how the country came together in the aftermath.

Norway has pledged 145 million kroner (€15.2m) towards an international partnership to combat illegal deforestation and help reach Paris climate accord goals.

A packed crowd lifted the roof off the Mardyke Arena UCC this evening, but it just wasn’t enough to drive the Ireland senior women’s basketball team over the line.

Rep of Ireland 0 Norway 2

The Republic of Ireland's hopes of qualifying for next summer's European Under-21 Championship suffered a blow with a last-gasp 2-1 defeat to Norway.

Norway's Accident Investigation Board said none of the missing people were inside the helicopter which went down near the Svalbard settlement of Barentsburg on October 26.

A 17-year-old asylum seeker from Russia was arrested on Sunday in connection with an explosive device found near a busy underground station in Norway's capital that police defused before it detonated, authorities said.

Norway is the happiest country on Earth, Americans are getting sadder, and it takes more than just money to be cheery, according to a new report.

A ruling that Norway's government treated mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik inhumanely by placing him in solitary confinement and restricting his movements will be reviewed in a court hearing starting on Tuesday.

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Norway's Supreme Court has rejected Edward Snowden's request for a legal guarantee that would allow him to collect an award in the Scandinavian country without risk of being extradited to the US.

I can't live, if livin' is without you.

Twenty men have been arrested in an inquiry into a paedophile network in Norway, in the country's largest abuse case to date.

Meanwhile Norwegian TV were less than happy!

A Norwegian revolt against Facebook's nude photo restrictions has escalated as the prime minister posted a 1972 image of a naked, screaming girl running from a napalm attack, and the social media network promptly deleted it.

He was going nowhere…

Norway’s largest farmer-owned dairy co-operative TINE are to open a new Jarlsberg cheese production facility in Ireland.

An initial report into the Norway helicopter crash which claimed the lives of 13 people has found the flight appeared normal until a "sudden catastrophic failure developed in 1-2 seconds".

Norway’s government has boosted the amount of oil money it will spend this year to a record level, dipping deeper into its sovereign wealth fund to ward off a recession.

A helicopter accident in western Norway which killed 13 people last week was caused by technical failure and not human error, investigators have said.

The search operation launched after a helicopter crashed off the coast of western Norway has been called off and all 13 people on board are presumed dead, rescue officials said.

Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's human rights have been violated during his imprisonment for terrorism and mass murder, a Norwegian court has ruled.

Norway’s unemployment rate jumped to the highest in more than a decade as a slump in oil prices weighs on an expansion in western Europe’s biggest crude producer.

Statoil, Norway’s biggest oil company, deepened investment cuts and offered to pay dividends in stock as it pledged to maintain shareholder payouts even as a collapse in crude prices eroded earnings.

The so-called Islamic State claims it has executed one Chinese and one Norwegian hostage.

Hungary booked a return to major tournament football for the first time in 30 years.

Hungary took a step towards their first major tournament in 30 years as a strike from debutant Laszlo Kleinheisler steered them to a 1-0 away win over Norway in the first leg of their Euro 2016 qualifying play-off.

A Norway-based Iraqi Kurdish terror recruitment ring that sent people to fight in Iraq and Syria alongside Islamic State has been broken up, with 13 arrests made in Italy, Britain and Norway.