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Carlsen captured big TV audience

More than half-a-million Norwegians were glued to their televisions this week when their home-grown chess sensation Magnus Carlsen battled to retain his title as...

Bestseller hits the stage, but not NRK

One of Norway's most popular books this year, Tante Ulrikkes vei, is due to debut on the stage of Det Norske Teatret in June....

Frigate questions frustrate minister

He hasn't resorted to calling them "enemies of the people," like US President Donald Trump has, but Norwegian Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen has definitely...

Northug prepares for new ‘after-ski’

Norway's bad boy of skiing, Petter Northug, has been unusually humble and self-deprecating in recent weeks, as his hopes for a comeback on the...

Norwegians tune in to their oil history

Hundreds of thousands of Norwegians have been hunkering down in front of their televisions, or clicking in online, this fall to watch a dramatic...

Skavlan loses viewers back home

Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan quickly zoomed to Scandinavian stardom when his show that started on Norway's NRK, Skavlan, also started being carried...

NHO’s boss will be missed

Colleagues at Norway's national employers association NHO were all but mourning the looming loss of their boss, Kristin Skogen Lund, after she confirmed that...

Much-loved TV cook dies at 94

Ingrid Espelid Hovig was Norway's first  TV cook who taught Norwegians how fish could be prepared in many ways and enjoyed, introduced them to...

Duck and cover! Donald hits Oslo

Calls for even more diversity at the international football tournament Norway Cup this week were at least fictionally met with the arrival of the...

Huge Telia deal didn’t surprise rival Telenor

The chief executive of Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor claimed it was “no surprise at all” that Telia of Sweden has agreed to pay around...
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