Tens of thousands risk ID theft

August 11, 2007

Up to 60,000 Norwegians have had their personal ID number stolen through the web site of a telecom company, and now risk ID theft, according to Norway's data inspectorate.

Record compensation for injury

August 11, 2007

Footballer Dagfinn Enerly, whose life was turned upside-down in a 2005 accident, receives NOK 9,5 million in compensation for breaking his neck on the field, the highest ever compensation given to a Norwegian athlete.

Norwegian hotels fail to attract international travellers

August 11, 2007

While the Norwegian hotel industry is experiencing a boom in visitors, it is loosing the battle for international business travellers. Hotel owner Petter Stordalen blames what he calls poor international marketing of Norway.

British tourists injured as ice hits sightseeing boat

August 11, 2007

18 people injured, three seriously, after blocks of ice from a glacier hit a sightseeing boat with British tourists on Svalbard Island.

One out of five Norwegian criminals fail to show up to serve their sentence

August 11, 2007

20 percent of convicted criminals do not show up for their prison terms, according to the Norwegian Correctional Services. Prison authorities can do little but hope that the criminals will eventually come knocking on the prison door.

Norwegian flowers in space

August 11, 2007

Seeds of Norwegian flowers were on board when space craft «Endeavour» left Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. Seeds of vårskrinneblom will help scientists understand how to grow flowers with no gravity, knowledge necessary in order to send man to Mars.

Norwegian army heads to Iceland

August 8, 2007

Norwegian F-16 fighter jets and Special Forces soldiers are headed to Iceland this week for a military exercise to practice defence of the island nation.

Football player beat up and robbed

August 8, 2007

Football talent Abdou Razack Traoré was robbed by four armed men while on holiday in his home country. "I think they would have killed me if I didn?t give them anything," the Rosenborg player says.

Local authorities 'waste' money, Norwegians say

August 8, 2007

One out of two Norwegians think that local municipality they live in wastes money, according to a new survey.

Ambulance refused to drive seriously injured man to hospital

August 8, 2007

Paramedics refused to take seriously injured Ali to hospital after he was beat up in a park in Oslo, allegedly because he had wet his trousers. Ali's family now fear that he will suffer permanent brain damage. "This would never happen to a white man," lawyer Abid Q. Raja says.

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