Government lawyers have accused mass killer Anders Behring Breivik of abusing the country's rule of law as a four-day trial over his prison conditions closes in Norway.

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

‘Ginger extremist’ wanted to shoot Charles ‘for Aryan people’

This month, Europe marked two anniversaries that inspire sober reflection. July 11 was the 20th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia.

The Events uses a different Cork choir each night in the manner of a Greek-style chorus reacting to events, writes Colette Sheridan.

After working with the group Elbow, Cork composer John Browne has now switched his attentions to a play set in the aftermath of a massacre, writes Jo Kerrigan

Almost three years ago, Anders Breivik committed the worst mass shooting in living memory, killing 77 people in Norway.

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games and other perks to alleviate his “torture-like” prison conditions, in a letter received by AFP yesterday.

A teenager accused of planning a repeat of the Columbine massacre was “inspired” by mass shooting spree killers and told a friend on Facebook he wanted to “take some Muslims down”, a British court has heard.

Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg, nicknamed “Iron Erna”, will become Norway’s new prime minister, leading a centre-right coalition government which will probably include an anti-immigration party.

The mother of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has died after a long illness.

Norway’s prime minister has apologised in parliament for mistakes in the response to last year’s bomb and gun rampage by Anders Breivik that killed 77 people.

Anders Breivik has said he will not appeal against his prison sentence for the massacre of 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year.

Anders Breivik has today apologised to “militant nationalists” for not having killed more people in the attacks in July last year.

A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months will end today as confessed mass killer Anders Breivik receives his judgment for attacks that left 77 people dead and more than 200 injured.

Czech Republic police have arrested a man who sympathised with Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik and may have been planning a bomb attack, authorities said at the weekend.

Norway's chief of police has quit following a report which found that police could have prevented all or part of the attacks carried out by Anders Breivik.

The bomb attack by Norwegian Anders Breivik could have been prevented and his gun massacre stopped earlier, according to an official report into the tragedy.

There are reports from Norway that police are evacuating parts of Oslo after finding a suspicious object.

Even if found criminally insane, mass killer Anders Breivik is likely to remain inside the walls of the prison where he has been held since his bomb and gun attacks in July.

The trial of Anders Breivik has ended with the mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb-and-gun rampage that killed 77 people.

The trial of Anders Breivik has ended with the confessed mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb-and-gun rampage that killed 77 people.

Confessed mass killer Anders Breivik is not a delusional madman but a political militant motivated by an extreme right-wing ideology, his lawyers told a court today.

The defence has started its closing arguments in the 10-week trial of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik.

Prosecutors today asked a court to send confessed mass killer Anders Breivik to a mental institution instead of prison for his massacre of 77 people in a gun and shooting rampage.

Norwegian prosecutors say self-confessed mass killer Anders Breivik should be committed to compulsory psychiatric care instead of prison.

A handful of Norwegian right-wing extremists testified today in Anders Breivik's defence, backing his ideological claims that Norway is "at war" with Islam.

Anders Breivik took a cocktail of stimulants before launching his fatal gun and bomb attacks in Norway last year, a court has been told today.

Norwegian police have said they are confident that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik acted on his own in terror attacks last year that killed 77 people and found no evidence that he belonged to a Europe-wide anti-Muslim network.

A mentally-ill man has set himself on fire outside the court where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried for the bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people.

A man has set himself on fire outside the Oslo court where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried for his bombing and shooting massacre.

The trial of Anders Breivik was interrupted briefly today when the brother one of his 77 victims hurled a shoe at the mass killer and yelled, “Go to hell,” before being escorted from the court.

The trial of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has been interrupted by a spectator who shouted “Go to hell” and threw a shoe at him.

A Norwegian court has heard the autopsy reports of the first victims of a youth camp massacre that left 69 people dead on Utoya island.

Mass killer Anders Breivik has dismissed a psychiatric report that declared him insane as based on “evil fabrications” meant to portray him as irrational and unintelligent.

Mass killer Anders Breivik is set to return the witness box in an attempt to prove that he is not insane.

A police officer has described the chaos that reigned in Oslo after the bomb planted by Anders Breivik exploded on July 22 last year.

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.

Desperate to prove he is not insane, mass killer Anders Breivik today claimed questions about his mental health were part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology.

Confessed mass killer Anders Breivik says his original plans for a terror attack was for three bombings, possibly including the Norwegian royal palace.

Mass killer Anders Breivik said today he thought he had only a slim chance of escaping Norway’s capital alive after setting off a bomb in the government district on July 22.

Mass killer Anders Breivik today declared that Norway’s prison sentences were “pathetic” and demanded he either be executed or cleared.

Mass killer Anders Breivik’s claims of belonging to a secret anti-Muslim militia appeared to crack today after he admitted it was “not an organisation in a conventional sense.”