Oslo, Norway Travel News

A Norwegian newspaper said on Thursday that Norwegian King Harald and Queen Sonja were not expected to meet the increasingly frail former South African president Nelson Mandela during a state visit to South Africa later this month.

A twelve-day international festival featuring works of legendary Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen begins today at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the city.

The roadshows were held in Oslo, Copenhagen, and Helsinki. KOCHI: A delegation from Kerala is on tour in Scandinavia with the twin objectives of promoting Kerala as a preferred holiday destination and to increase bilateral trade.

Photographer Stephanie Haas of Stratham is spending one year in Norway on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Juan de la Cruz may be proud of the "bayanihan" spirit, but the recently concluded "Bayanihan sa Bayan ni Juan" concert held in Oslo to raise funds for Typhoon Ondoy victims in the Philippines is proof that Pinoys have no exclusive claim to it.

Norwegian singjay Nico D and his Jamaican crew Junior 'Mangaroo' Crawford, publicist Sean 'Kontractor' Edwards and Prince Jahved at the North Street offices of The Gleaner Company, recently.

The swine flu epidemic has forced the Norwegian National Hospital in Oslo to postpone operations on children and patients with heart problems, due to a shortage of surgeons and nurses.

Norwegian authorities have arrested a 22-year-old man for smuggling pythons by taping them to his body.

Kampala Ugandaa s diplomatic relations with oil-rich Norway suffered a setback at the weekend after President Museveni abruptly cancelled a confirmed three-day state visit to the Nordic country due today.

Various international and Filipino artists in Norway are set to perform at a fund-raiser concert in Oslo for the victims of Tropical Storm "Ondoy." Dubbed "Bayanihan sa Bayan ni Juan," the charity event is organized by different Filipino organizations in Norway and is being supported by the Philippine Embassy here.

Fifty-one years ago, in the spring of 1958 when I was 20, I was offered a summer job at Malmberget in Sweden.

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

Sipping my last few drops of tea, I watched the landscape change outside the airplane's window from white, puffy clouds to an emerald patchwork of meadows and mountains.

Most people around the world were shocked when it was announced on Friday, October 9th that President Barack Obama had been chosen as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 Islamabad The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage Lok Virsa in collaboration with Norway has started the programme of competence building of Heritage Museum and music exchange programme with emphasis on school concerts.

A Norwegian committee's decision to award the 2009 Nobel peace prize to President Obama continues to make waves around the world, with some of the focus shifting away from the appropriateness of the choice to the implications for future U.S. policy.

There will be dancing in the streets of Oslo at the breaking news that Norway has topped an important United Nations survey.

The White House has confirmed that President Obama will personally come to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and the capital is gearing up for the visit, including the massive security arrangements which will have to be made.

UNITED States President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress cooperation rather than unilateralism.

President Barack Obama proclaimed himself "humbled" when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary" efforts to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons and working for world peace.