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How Did Medics Drop British Grandmother Into Icy North Sea?

Police are investigating a bizarre incident at sea involving a 73-year-old British grandmother who took ill on a cruise ship and was accidentally dropped into the sub-zero North Sea by medics trying to transfer her to a rescue boat. Janet Richardson, a diabetic from Cumbria in the U.K., was on the Ocean Princess off...

63 Evacuated From Norway Oil Rig After Gas Leak

OSLO, Norway -- Rescuers say more than 60 people have been evacuated from an oil platform off Norway's west coast after operator Statoil received reports of a gas leak. Statoil said in a statement Saturday it mobilized its emergency response teams after being informed about a leak at the Visund platform at 08:18 a.m....

Prince Harry Hits the Ice for Polar Charity Trek

LONDON -- Fresh from his brother's bachelor party, Prince Harry is hitting the ice, taking part in the first five days of a charity hike to the North Pole by British veterans. WPA Pool / Getty Images Prince Harry joins the Walking With the Wounded team Tuesday on the island of Spitsbergen before setting off to...

Farmers Deposit Seeds in Arctic Doomsday Vault, Patrolled by Polar Bears

Farmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and...

Opinion: Looking for Prosperity? Go North!

When Americans think of Scandinavia, what comes to mind is probably Ikea, breathtaking landscapes and maybe Ingmar Bergman's movies. But what they should do is ask how we can learn from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland when it comes to prosperity. After all, these are among the most prosperous nations on the planet,...

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49 Injured, 19 Hospitalized In Norway In Bieber Concert

Justin Bieber's free concert Wednesday in Oslo, Norway did some serious damage.

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49 Beliebers Injured at a Free Concert in Norway

Apparently the crowd got so rowdy that Oslo's Mayor, Fabian Stang , who was forced to hide behind a tree to avoid being trampled, has reached out to the Emergency Planning Agency to figure out what went wrong.

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Justin Bieber Fans Make Norway Cops Threaten State of Emergency; Performs and Debuts Two New Songs

TMZ is reporting that police in Norway are close to declaring a state of emergency in Oslo, after thousands of Beliebers took over the city.

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Justin Bieber Fans Make Norway Cops Threaten State of Emergency

TMZ is reporting that police in Norway are close to declaring a state of emergency in Oslo, after thousands of Beliebers took over the city.

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World's Cushiest Jail, Norway's Bastoy Prison, Has Tanning Beaches, No Armed Guards

Norway's Bastoy Prison is home to murderers and rapists.

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06/02/12 A New Path in Global Health Source: U.S. Consulate in Ecuador Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mayor, my dear friend and colleague, your excellent foreign minister, also let me recognize Ingrid Schulerud, wife of the prime minister who, along with her husband, just hosted me and my delegation for a wonderful luncheon, and to everyone who has organized this extraordinary conference, which I think does come at a historical turning point.
06/02/12 Remarks With Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr... Source: U.S. Department of State FOREIGN MINISTER STOERE: (In progress.) â share with you just a few impressions from this day.
06/02/12 With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a... Source: The Guardian - London - UK After Alexander Dale Oen died, they began to search for clues.
06/02/12 Norway to Hire âFriendsâ for Mass Murderer Source: Neatorama It has luxury prison for common criminals, island getaway for hardened ones, and now, it is looking to hire friends for a mass murderer.
06/02/12 Clinton urges cooperation in resource-rich Arctic Source: Casper Star-Tribune - Casper WY US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere, right, talk together onboard the Arctic Research vessel Helmer Hanssen on a fjord, near the northern Norwegian city of Tromso, Norway, Saturday June 2, 2012.

Background on norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island.

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