Anders Behring Breivik told a judge on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage that killed scores aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover.
The attacks in Norway are a grim reminder that extremism knows no national, cultural or religious bounds, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
Anders Behring Breivik wants to tell Norway and the world why he killed at least 93 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage.
Not far from of Elverum, 130km north of Oslo, a cluster of buildings, white and red, sits under a low mountain ridge at the end of a dirt track.
A suspected right-wing fanatic accused of killing at least 92 people deemed his acts "atrocious" yet "necessary".
Norwegian police searched for more victims on Saturday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed at least 92 people in a shooting spree.
An assailant who shot dead at least 84 people at a youth camp of Norway’s ruling party turned a "youth paradise into a hell".
The gunman who allegedly killed more than 80 people in Norway on Friday has been named as Anders Behring Breivik.
A gunman dressed in police uniform opened fire at a youth camp of Norway’s ruling political party on Friday, killing at least 80 people.
Seventeen people have been killed in two separate attacks in Norway, in what may be the work of one man with an axe to grind against the state.
Western governments lined up to condemn Friday’s twin attacks in Norway, saying the "cowardly" perpetrators demonstrated a lack of humanity.
The bomb blast in central Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp outside the capital are connected, Norwegian police said on Friday.
US mathematician John Milnor has received Norway’s Abel Prize for work that includes the discovery of exotic smooth spheres in seven dimensions.
The search for a Norwegian sailboat that has been missing in the Antarctic for a week following a massive storm was called off on Tuesday.
A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner.
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Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday.
A Chinese group awarded its own "peace prize" on Thursday, just a day before the Nobel Committee was set to honour jailed China dissident Liu Xiaobo.
China has asked Japan not to attend a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for decades of non-violent struggle for human rights.
It can revolutionise access in remote areas, but its
implementation is tricky and time-consuming.
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Chubby oil platform workers in Norway will have to start watching their waistlines or run the risk of losing their lucrative jobs.
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/ 10 December 2009
The US must uphold moral standards when waging wars that are necessary and justified, Barack Obama said as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
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/ 10 December 2009
A humble US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that others may be "more deserving" of the surprise Nobel Peace Prize.
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/ 4 December 2009
Nasa is also looking at osmotic power as a possible way to provide enough water for long-term manned space missions.
Blackburn Rovers striker Benni McCarthy has spoken out on why he didn’t join Bafana Bafana for two friendly matches against Norway and Portugal.
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/ 17 December 2008
Despite a winning concept amid global climate concerns, Norwegian electric carmaker Think may see its dreams come to a screeching halt.
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/ 10 October 2008
A Norwegian politician said on Thursday she would not be seeking re-election after admitting to a large phone bill for calling fortune-tellers.
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/ 27 September 2008
With police cars wailing behind him, a 10-year-old boy sped and swerved at up to 90km/h along a Norwegian highway on Friday morning.
Donor nations pledged a preliminary ,8-billion in assistance to Sudan on Wednesday, aiming to help bolster a 2005 north-south peace deal in the African country still torn by violence in its western Darfur region. Sudan had said it needed ,1-billion up to 2011, on top of -billion in humanitarian aid.
A six-storey apartment building collapsed early on Wednesday in the west coast city of Aalesund after it was hit by a rockslide, injuring 15 people and leaving five others missing, police said. The search for survivors was hampered when a second rockslide hit the crumpled building, which was partly built into a steep hillside.
Long considered the oil capital of Norway, the small south-western town of Stavanger has begun hunting for a new image that will keep the money flowing in even after the oil wells dry up. In recent years, Norway, which once ranked third among oil exporters, has slipped to fifth place.
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Guarded by motion-detector cameras, security fences and the odd polar bear, a huge cavern has been built in an island off northern Norway to help secure global crop diversity. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a veritable Fort Knox for seeds and aimed at safeguarding genetic heritage for future generations.