Norway has become the first European country to raise its interest rates since the global financial crisis began in earnest, citing better than expected economic growth as the reason for the decision.

What do Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden have in common, except for cold winters? These Nordic countries, of all nations in the world, have the smallest equality gap between men and women.

The world champion Monopoly player won the final game at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when his opponent landed on Pacific and North Carolina Avenue and could not afford the rent due.

Saturday marked the 178th day since demonstrations began in front of the United States Consulate in Toronto and also the 150th day since displacement camps for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka started. Hundreds of protesters walked the streets of Toronto.

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, says that President Obama shouldn't go to Oslo to receive the Nobel Prize. Liz Cheney appeared on Fox News Sunday attacking the president's Nobel win.

Barred from the White House, the Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner sends Obama a letter with congratulations and some good advice, but his message may be ignored just like an earlier message from Lech Walesa, also a Nobel Prize laureate.

According to the United Nations human development index, Norway takes the number one spot. The UN human development index makes judgments based on the country's life expectancy, literacy, school enrollment and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.

Mohammad Othman, a Palestinian human rights activist, was detained and is being held on administrative detention by Israeli military forces.

After a variety of different reports, high-ranking United States diplomat Peter Galbraith has been officially removed from the UN mission in Afghanistan after he made fraud allegations in the region.

In a Northern Norway, a new law was enacted that bans the purchasing of sexual services; however, a man used the services but it did not meet his satisfaction so he complained about it to the police.