Liverpool owner John Henry admits it will be “a huge disappointment” if the Reds fail to qualify for the Champions League this season.

A dreadlocked teenage musician who made it onto a television talent show. A secretary who might have survived if her bicycle had not been in for repair. A gentle young man whose last phone conversation with his father broke off with the words “Dad, someone is shooting.”

Norwegian police tonight began releasing the names of those killed in last week’s bomb blast and massacre at the youth camp, an announcement likely to bring new collective grief to an already reeling nation.

A RUSSIAN man trying to win the Sauna World Championships died after collapsing with severe burns in the final stage of an event that required contestants to sit in a 230-degree (110 Celsius) room as water was tossed onto a searing stove, officials and witnesses said.

Norway closed its embassy in the Afghan capital because of terror threats today, nearly four weeks after a suicide attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul killed eight people including a Norwegian journalist.

Australia today relocated its Afghanistan embassy out of a popular luxury hotel in Kabul that Taliban militants stormed yesterday, killing seven people.

A STUDENT in Norway who posed as a 13-year-old boy turned out to be a 33-year-old woman on the run from police investigating a child abuse case in the Czech Republic.

Oslo police chief Anstein Gjengedal had his wallet lifted while he was on an airport train, just as his department was set to launch a massive campaign in Norway against pickpockets.

Referee Terje Hauge has admitted he may have acted too hastily in sending off Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann in the Champions League final against Barcelona.

JYLLANDS-POSTEN, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that have caused fury throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it emerged yesterday.

A clash of cultures over a dozen caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by a Danish newspaper is escalating – with protests in London, an eruption of fury in the Middle East and Asia, and European newspapers reprinting the cartoons in support of freedom of expression.

Police in Norway denied a report today saying Edvard Munch’s stolen masterpieces The Scream and Madonna had been burned by thieves fearing police were closing in on them.

Norway’s largest newspapers are to break tradition and publish on New Year’s Day, donating profits to help victims of the tidal wave in Asia.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s agent has insisted the Norwegian striker will not be leaving Manchester United for Celtic this summer.

John Arne Riise’s agent will contact Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier to assure him the defender is committed to the Anfield club.