Norwegian police have admitted for the first time that they could have responded faster to the youth camp shooting massacre that left 69 people dead in July.

Norwegian prosecutors have formally indicted Anders Behring Breivik on terror charges, more than seven months after he confessed to attacks that killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage.

Mass killer Anders Breivik told a court today he deserved a medal of honour for the murder of 77 people and demanded to be set free.

Mass killer Anders Breivik appeared before a Norwegian court today in his last remand hearing before trial.

Mass killer Anders Breivik will show himself to the world today for the first time since he murdered 77 people in Norway.

Mass killer Anders Breivik will be sent to a psychiatric hospital and not prison after doctors decided he was insane when he murdered 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway.

The forensic psychiatrists who evaluated the mental state of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have handed over their assessment to a Norwegian court.

The Norwegian right-wing extremist who carried out a shooting rampage that killed 77 people in July has arrived at his first open court hearing.

Nineteen people have been arrested across Poland on suspicion of producing and possessing explosives, a Polish security agency said today.

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik must remain in pre-trial detention for eight weeks, four of them in solitary confinement, a Norwegian court has ruled.

The confessed perpetrator of a bomb and shooting spree in Norway in which 77 people died is planning to give a speech at his pre-trial detention hearing today, his defence lawyer said.

Confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is sticking to his claim of belonging to a militant order of Knights Templar, even though police have found no evidence it exists, his lawyer said.

Norway's King Harald has said freedom is stronger than fear, as the country concluded a month-long mourning period with a memorial service to the 77 people killed by a right-wing extremist.

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

Survivors of a massacre which claimed the lives of 69 people in Norway last month carried flowers to the site of the killings today, laughter blending with tears as they remembered the joys of an island youth camp that turned into a scene of horror.

Survivors of the massacre of 69 people at a youth camp on a Norwegian island are revisiting the scene today to grieve for their lost friends.

A court has extended the isolation detention of the man who massacred 77 people in Norway by another four weeks.

The man who massacred 77 people in Norway is facing a closed-door hearing to determine if he should be kept in isolation.

The Norwegian man who confessed to killing 69 people at an island youth camp has reconstructed his actions for police back at the crime scene.

A Norwegian prosecutor says he is concerned that the man who has confessed to killing 77 people is declining to give information that could determine if he had accomplices.

The leader of Norway’s right-wing Progress Party today said former party member Anders Behring Breivik’s anti-Muslim views are “perversely unique” and not in any way linked to her party.

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.

Norway's Prime Minister has called on political leaders to show public restraint as the country emerges from mourning the 77 victims of the bombing and youth camp massacre.

Norway massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik is unlikely to be declared legally insane, the head of the panel that will review his psychiatric evaluation said today.

The man who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway told police he also considered other possible locations to attack.

A person who was wounded in last week's terrorist attacks in Norway has died, raising the death toll from the massacre to 77.

Norway has today honoured the memory of 76 people killed in the nation's worst peacetime violence, with the prime minister calling on the nation to unite around its core values of democracy and peace.

The man who confessed to a bombing and youth camp shooting spree in Norway is facing his second interrogation since the massacre, as the nation mourns the 76 victims in memorial services marking a week since the attacks.

The tweeters and facebookers among us are being asked to stop social networking for one minute today as a mark of respect to the people of Norway.

The Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 76 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre appears to be a lone-wolf sociopath who kept his plans to himself for more than a decade, a top security official says.

Norwegian police are to question 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik again about the bombing and shooting massacre that killed at least 76 people.

Anders Behring Breivik ended his killing spree the moment police approached him, authorities said today, handing himself over with his hands raised high above his head.

Norway's prime minister vowed today that the response to the murders that have rocked his country will be "more democracy".

Police in Norway say an abandoned suitcase which sparked a security alert in Oslo's central train station did not pose a safety threat.

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.”

Police in Norway say they are looking for a "dangerous and unstable" man who was released from jail on Monday.

Parts of Oslo’s central station were evacuated today as police investigated an abandoned suitcase, a spokesman for the Norwegian Railway Authority said.

Police have blown up explosives found at the farm being rented by the man behind Norway's double terror attack on Friday.

When Anders Behring Breivik launched his assault on the youth campers of Utoya Island, he expected Norway’s special forces to swoop down and stop him at any minute.

Lawyers for Anders Breivik have said he used some sort of drug before carrying out the double attack in Norway on Friday in which 76 people were killed.

Massacre gunman Anders Breivik is insane and appears to have no idea of the worldwide revulsion at his acts, his lawyer said today.

Books of condolence for the victims of the Norway tragedies have just been opened in Dublin.

Norway’s justice minister said today that some employees from his department are still missing after a bomb attack on the government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting spree on a nearby island.

The self-described perpetrator of Norway’s deadly bombing and shooting rampage was ordered held in solitary confinement after calmly telling a court that two other cells of collaborators stood ready to join his murderous campaign.