The past Friday June 14th the Norwegian parliament approved by a large majority of votes a new law to establish compulsory military service for women. So far in this Nordic country women could enter the military service on a voluntary basis, being the aim of this new measure to double the ...

The Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal was proclaimed world champion today in Downhill skiing at the alpine skiing World Cup held in Austria. The downhill competition took place today, Saturday, in the Austrian ski resort of Schladming, being the Norwegian a clear winner. He marked a time that none of his competitors ...

Eight European countries, including Norway, Sweden, Finland along with the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and the UK, are looking for workers from other countries in the fields of metal engineering, shipbuilding and medicine. The employment representatives of two Nordic companies and three firms of the Netherlands  were present in the European ...

In the last month of April was released in the U.S. and UK the nordic thriller "Headhunters" ("Hodejegerne" in Norwegian). Of Norwegian and German production, the film is now being released in worldwide distribution and is filling the movie theaters this summer in Europe and North America. Based on the novel ...

The famous painting "The Scream" by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch has become the most expensive painting ever sold in an auction. The work was auctioned yesterday May 2, 2012 in New York at the auction house Sotheby's for a total of $ 107 million, $ 119.9 million with commissions, beating the record of the work of Picasso's ...

The shares of the Norwegian fuel retailer Statoil Fuel & Retail have soared 50% after accepting the takeover bid the by the Canadian food group Couche-Tard. Couche-Tard has offered the amount of $ 2.8 million (1,139 million Euros) to buy the Norwegian company, which has an extensive infrastructure of gas stations ...