SECURITY experts say suspicion is likely to fall on Islamists and right-wing extremists following the killing of at least 17 people in a massive bomb blast in Oslo city centre and a massacre at a youth camp on a quiet Norwegian island.

Clapping solemnly, dignitaries in Norway paid tribute to Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo – with an empty chair.

President Mary McAleese today travels to Norway for a three-day state visit.

President Mary McAleese will travel to Norway next week for a three-day state visit.

Connections of King Harald are praying the ground dries up for the gelding to take his chance in the Coral Scottish Grand National at Ayr on Saturday week.

Aka Jake will wear blinkers for the first time in public as he bids to break his duck in the totesport Eider at Newcastle on Saturday.

Cheltenham Festival winner King Harald is set to return to the track this weekend after an absence of over 12 months.

Bookmakers can see little danger to Kauto Star in the Aon Chase at Newbury on Saturday.

The King and Queen of Norway continue their three-day state visit to Ireland today with Queen Sonja attending the opening of a seminar on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen at Trinity College, Dublin.

Connections of ante-post favourite King Harald are hopeful of a big run from the eight-year-old in the Sky Bet Chase at Southwell tomorrow.

Jockey Mattie Batchelor is hoping King Harald can bounce back to form in the Sky Bet Chase at Southwell on Saturday.

Hayley Turner stole the show when scooping two awards at the Lesters at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Saturday night.

Trabolgan has been given a clean bill of health following his impressive display in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup and is on course for the Stan James King George VI Chase at Sandown on St Stephen's Day.

CORAL have reported a significant market plunge for the Martin Pipe-trained Comply Or Die in Saturday’s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup.

ANTE-POST favourite Trabolgan heads 24 horses remaining in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday following the five-day confirmation stage yesterday.

Trabolgan is now favourite for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup with some bookmakers following continued heavy sport.

Connections of King Harald are delighted to be finally get their Festival winner back on the track at Cheltenham on Saturday.

King Harald is as low as 7-1 favourite for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup after weights for the November 26 feature were released.

Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup hope King Harald is poised to make his reappearance at Cheltenham over the weekend.

King Harald is now set to have his prep run ahead of the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Carlisle on Sunday week.

ACCORDION ETOILE is unlikely to be given a prep run ahead of his engagement in the Independent Newspaper Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham on November 13, despite being entered at Fairyhouse on Saturday.

Le Roi Miguel could make his seasonal bow in Sunday’s Grade Two bonusprint.com Old Roan Chase at Aintree.

Norway celebrates 100 years of independence today with parades, a star-studded concert and a waterfront bash in front of Oslo’s City Hall.

Wild Passion heads a high-class field for the Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle on the first day of the Punchestown Festival tomorrow.

King Harald put up tremendous front-running performance under Mattie Batchelor to land the Jewson Novices’ Handicap Chase on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival.

NORWAY’S Princess Martha Louise and her husband, writer Ari Behn, are expecting their second child.

A 15-member surgical team yesterday removed Norwegian King Harald’s cancerous bladder, and said the near six-hour operation had gone without complications or any indication that the cancer has spread.

A penguin is set to get one of Norway's most prestigious military honours.