Governments across the world have begun investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful following a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly showed how clients avoided tax or laundered money.

Anders Behring Breivik has told a court that the Norwegian government is trying to kill him by holding him in isolation.

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.

Was it not strange and neglectful that the script of Micheál Martin’s leader’s speech to the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis did not contain any references to either of the two referendum proposals that the electorate will consider on May 22?

SMOKED salmon is the easy part of Christmas. Throw it on brown bread, with lemon and black pepper, and the innocents will think it’s posh and that you’ve spent a lot. 

Concern chief executive Tom Arnold writes from Somalia exactly one year on from the famine that struck the country and wider region, and finds a country that has been rejuvenated

A security guard in the Norwegian government building struck by a car bomb that killed eight people, detonated by mass killer Anders Breivik, told a court today he had just put a security camera on the number plate when it exploded.

Norway has closed its embassy in Tehran due to security concerns after Britain’s embassy was stormed by Iranian protesters, a Norwegian government official said today.

Norwegians are today paying tribute to 77 people killed in last month's bombing and shooting massacre by a right-wing extremist.

The lawyer defending the confessed killer in Norway’s twin terror attacks said today that his client has presented a long list of “unrealistic” demands.

Norwegian police say a number of people have been killed after a blast ripped through a building in the capital Oslo.

AN official deposit of Irish agriculture seeds to the recently opened Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway was made yesterday.

The United Nations has set up a team of experts in conflict mediation who can deploy quickly to global hotspots with advice on power sharing, constitution drafting, security, justice and human rights.

The Government is reportedly set to hike the amount of tax imposed on energy firms that discover oil and gas off Ireland's coast.

Shell to Sea campaigners will take part in the annual Irish/Norwegian community’s Dublin parade today.

Shell to Sea campaigners will today take part in the annual Irish/Norwegian community’s Dublin parade.

A group of Norwegian “war children", born as part of a German plan to create a genetically pure race, are taking their case to Europe’s human rights court to demand financial compensation and recognition of their suffering at the hands of the Norwegian government.

THE Corrib Gas Field is worth billions and has been given away for nothing to Shell, Statoil and Marathon.

The Green Party has called for an end to what it calls unethical investments by the National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) in Sudan.

Campaigners opposing the Corrib gas field project failed to dampen the spirits of more than 100 Norwegians celebrating Independence Day in Dublin today.

Activists opposed to the Corrib gas field project are to protest during celebrations of Norwegian Independence Day in Dublin today.

Sri Lankan government leaders and Tamil rebels made initial contact today at a secluded chateau outside Geneva, Switzerland, before their first direct talks in nearly three years, hoping to shore up a ragged ceasefire agreement and move peace talks back on track.

A “DOOMSDAY vault” hewn out of a Norwegian mountain is planned to safeguard the world’s food crops in case of global disaster.

WHAT’S happening to us can happen to anyone: that was the message from the wives of the Rossport Five as they called for public backing for a national rally in support of the men.

The Labour Party has said it hopes an impending change of government in Norway could spark a breakthrough in the case of the so-called Rossport Five.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has urged the Government to appoint a mediator to resolve the Corrib gas pipeline impasse.

British Gas owner Centrica discussed a £19bn (€27bn) merger with a Norwegian rival as it battles to overcome dwindling gas stocks in the North Sea, it was reported today.

Lobsters probably do not feel pain, according to a new study that stirs up a long-simmering debate over whether the creature suffers when it is being cooked.

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is donating €576m to support immunisation programmes in developing countries, he announced today.

The Norwegian government ordered an end to a labour dispute involving offshore oil workers that threatened to stop production by the world’s third-largest oil exporter.

A workplace smoking ban almost identical to the one introduced in Ireland earlier this year was due to come into effect in Norway today.

Statoil ASA, (formerly Den norske stats oljeselskap), Norway's oil and gas exploration, production, transport, refining, and marketing giant, delivered fourth quarter operating profits of 12.7bn nkr (€1.442bn) compared to 11.3 bn nkr (€1.282bn) a year earlier, amid record oil and gas output and high prices.

The World Trade Organisation is set to adopt a report next week that declares US steel tariffs illegal, opening the way to rapid retaliation from some of its biggest trading partners.

The political leadership of the Tamil Tigers rebels who are fighting a civil war with the Sri Lankan government have held talks in Ireland.

The Norwegian government today proposed tough anti-tobacco legislation that it claimed could make it the first country in the world to totally ban smoking in all bars and restaurants.

Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tiger rebels today agreed to establish a panel to resettle people displaced by almost 20 years of fighting and to work for a permanent peace.

The Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels have signed a permanent ceasefire as a crucial step toward end their 18 year civil war.