Norway News

K - Negotiations over mackerel fishing quotas have fallen apart, Iceland said Thursday, extending a dispute dubbed "the mackerel war" that has been a thorny issue in the country's EU membership bid.The European Union, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway ...

Oslo - Oil-rich Norway said Friday in an ironic twist that it would consider pulling its enormous state oil fund out of overseas investments in fossil fuels.Norway, where oil revenue accounts for nearly a quarter of the economy, has the world's largest sovere...

Oslo - Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, reported last year the second best performance of its history, the country's central bank said Friday, virtually making every Norwegian a millionaire.The so-called oil fund is fed by the state's...

Most people don't know where the "Doomsday vault" is located, and even fewer know what it is used for. But deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between Norway and the North Pole, is a treasure trove of seeds.

Frankfurt - German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said Wednesday its 1.9-billion-euro ($2.6-billion) bid for Norwegian cancer treatment specialist Algeta has been successful and it now holds more than 97 percent in the firm."The way is now clear for the Bayer group t...

Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the world's 23-year-old reigning chess champion, has launched an app based on his own past games to make chess more popular, but he'd prefer its players not get good enough to bea...

New York - US industrial conglomerate General Electric said Monday it would boost spending on environmentally friendly energy research by $10 billion by 2020, including on fracking technologies and wind turbines.The new investment extends and builds on a research...

Norway's male cross country skiers sounded both mystified and downhearted on Sunday after a Winter Games where they started as one of the favorites but underperformed badly.

Norway finally made peace with their cross-country skiers on Saturday when three of their women outclassed the rest of the field to drape the podium in Norwegian colors in the 30km free...

Oslo - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games to alleviate his "torture"-like living conditions, in a letter received by AFP Friday.The right-wing extremist -- who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun...