A charter plane with 16 people aboard caught fire and skidded off the runway at a western Norway airport today, reduce officials said.

Around 200 people were tonight being airlifted from an offshore barge which broke loose from its tow lines amid rough waters in the North Sea.

A large freighter with 30 people aboard capsized near the western Norwegian port of Bergen today, with rescuers working into the bitterly cold night to free some of them from inside the overturned hull.