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Solskjær may coach Norway’s national football team

Speculation is flying that Norway's own "Sunny Boy," Ole Gunnar Solskjær, may take over as head coach for his homeland's national men's football team (herrelandslaget). It finally got a big and badly needed boost this week, when it won...

New Quisling film opens in Norway, as the winds of war blow again

Vidkun Quisling was such a traitor during Nazi Germany's occupation of Norway during World War II that his name became synonomous with helping the enemy in English-language dictionaries. A new film about his fate right after Norway's liberation opened...

Mullah Krekar wants to ‘come home’ to Norway

The Norwegian defense attorney for Mullah Krekar, a former refugee who later faced multiple charges tied to terrorism, has launched a new effort to bring Krekar "home" from a jail in Italy. Norwegian officials are not willing to cooperate. "We're...

Cycling champ hits the brakes

Edvald Boasson Hagen, one of Norway's many cycling champions over the years, announced this week that he'll be retiring after nearly two decades at the top of his profession. The still-boyish-looking Boasson Hagen thinks it's time, at the age...

Johaug keen on a winning comeback

Norwegian skiing star Therese Johaug is coming out of early retirement, saying she'd felt obliged to bow out after her latest Olympic success two years ago. Life had become more than skiing, and last year, she and her husband...

Thor Heyerdahl ‘back home’ in Norway

Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was honoured with a state funeral at the Oslo Cathedral after he died in 2002 at the age of 87, but his remains were kept in an urn at his last residence in Italy. Now...

Mixed reaction to latest ministerial embarrassment

Oddmund Hoel has narrowly avoided becoming the third government minister in charge of research and higher education to resign in disgrace during the past year. He readily admitted, though, that kissing and hugging the woman who serves as a...

A Ukrainian refugee in Norway shares her story of war and hope

SPECIAL FEATURE: More than 6.3 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland since Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Since then, Norway has accepted the largest number of Ukrainian refugees among the Scandinavian countries, more than 70,000, and the...

Haaland scores again, also off the field

He's been depicted as a sword-wielding Viking back home in Norway, and Erling Braut Haaland showed himself to be fierce enough after scoring four times for his British football club Manchester City during the weekend. It marked a comeback...

Ingebrigtsen mounts a poetic defense

The controversial Norwegian track and field coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen has responded to his indictment for family violence this week with a poem on social media. His medal-winning sons may not take kindly to his use of a song text...

Disgraced biathlon boss sentenced to prison

Anders Besseberg, the Norwegian sports bureaucrat who headed the International Biathlon Union (IBU) for 25 years, has fallen victim to the expensive watches, prostitutes and hunting trips he accepted from foreign officials, mostly Russian. A court in Norway ruled...

Norwegian twins open Eurovision, for Sweden

Marcus and Martinus Gunnarsen were 10-year-old twins when they won the junior version of Norway's Eurovision qualifier, Melodi Grand Prix, in 2012. They went on to become a pop phenomenon well beyond Norway's borders, and now they'll lead off Eurovision...

Nobel committee elects young leader

UPDATED: The Norwegian Nobel Committee, responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize, has elected its youngest leader ever: Jørgen Watne Frydnes, age 39, who led the revival of the Utøya terror site and first joined the committee in 2021...

Monarch hailed as a ‘moral authority’

Norway's King Harald V now ranks as Europe's oldest monarch, and he could celebrate his 87th birthday this week knowing that a solid majority of Norwegians support the monarchy. They also don't want him to abdicate like the Danish...

Norway bids ‘Lillebjørn’ good night

Norwegians of all ages mourn the passing of singer-songwriter Lillebjørn Nilsen, who died on January 27. He was 73. Nilsen was laid rest on Friday during a special ceremony at Oslo’s City Hall, in a public homage to his...
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