Norway

OMG! TV News Presenters Unaware Of Slang Eye Chart In Background

Huffington Post UK | Simon Crisp | Posted 01.03.2012 | UK

TV news bosses in Norway were probably left thinking "OMG WTF" -- after inadvertently using an internet slang eye chart as a background for a report. ...

Norwegian Massacre Man Breivik Diagnosed With Paranoid Schizophrenia. Is This Reasonable? What Does the Voice of the Internet Say?

Dr. Sohom Das | Posted 12.02.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Dr. Sohom Das

If I was Breivik's doctor (which I'm not), I would want to at least attempt to rehabilitate him. If I was a relative of one of his victims (which I'm even more not), I would want him to suffer. Thinking about it now, I don't know which is right. Neither? Both?

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It's A Norwegian Daredevil Flying At 155mph In A Wingsuit (WATCH)

Huffington Post | Alastair Plumb | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK Comedy

Adrenaline junkie Espen Fadnes may not actually be Superman (or a bird, for that matter), but he does a damn good impression of him as he soars throug...

Dolphin Tattoo Transforms Amputee's Shoulder Into A Work Of Art (PICTURE)

Huffington Post | Alastair Plumb | Posted 02.12.2011 | UK Comedy

Heine Braeck, 33, from Sarpsborg, Norway, has been without an right arm since he lost it during a freak accident when he was 13. Today, his should...

Norway Mass Killer Declared Criminally Insane, May Escape Jail Term

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK

Mass killer Anders Breivik, who has admitted carrying out the cold-blooded massacre of 77 people in Norway, has been declared criminally insane and ma...

Centrica Signs £13bn Norwegian Gas Deal

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 21.11.2011 | UK

Centrica has signed a £13bn deal with the Norwegian company Statoil to supply gas to the UK, in a deal that the company said would be a boost to ener...

The Evils of Obscene Income Inequality

Adnan Al-Daini | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK Politics
Adnan Al-Daini

The greed, excess and selfishness that brought liberal democracy and capitalism to the edge of the abyss have been demonstrated once again by the late...

Who's got the X-Factor on the Global Stage?

Indra Adnan | Posted 20.12.2011 | UK
Indra Adnan

Against all previous form, I took part in a round of the X Factor this week. It was the familiar mix of competing styles and contingent emotion, followed by measures of first kind then merciless appraisal. My group didn't win: our blend of British "existential angst" with bold Brazilian overtones lost out and we were sent home.

Media's role in Norway tragedy

Victoria Uwonkunda | Posted 07.12.2011 | UK
Victoria Uwonkunda

Last Friday (Sept 30) marked 10 weeks since the Utøya massacre and earlier this week, the media; both Norwegian and international were welcomed back ...

Review: 'Hate' Is Where The Heart Is

Nick Ryan | Posted 27.11.2011 | UK
Nick Ryan

Back in 2003 I was completing publication of an exhaustive six-year journey inside neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. The results of that journ...

Creating the Generation we Want Your Responses

Pippa Bartolotti | Posted 20.10.2011 | UK Politics
Pippa Bartolotti

Thank you to so many people for your imaginative and intelligent responses which came to me as a result of publishing the piece 'Building the Society ...

Anders Breivik Shows No Remorse As Reconstructs Utoya Island Shooting

The Guardian | Posted 14.10.2011 | UK

Norwegian police took the self-confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik back to Utøya island on Saturday to stage a reconstruction of his slaught...

Norway Attacks: Breivik Taken Back To Shooting Island

www.bbc.co.uk | Posted 14.10.2011 | UK

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has been taken back to the island of Utoeya for a police reconstruction of the killing of his 69 victims there...

Norway attacks and biases in judgement

George Chondrakis | Posted 11.10.2011 | UK Politics
George Chondrakis

Norway witnessed an unprecedented tragedy on 22 July. Anders Behring Breivik's actions demonstrated in a vivid manner how human insanity, propelled by...

Man Who Shot Killer Polar Bear Undergoes Head Operation

PA | Posted 12.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- One of the leaders of the Arctic expedition in which a British public schoolboy was mauled to death by a polar bear is to undergo...

Police Confident That Norwegian Gunman 'Acted Alone'

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 10.10.2011 | UK

Norwegian police increasingly believe the man who confessed to killing 77 people in last month's attacks planned and committed them on his own, a pros...

What Norway Should Teach the Media About Covering Terrorism

Peter Blair | Posted 10.10.2011 | UK
Peter Blair

I wasn't alone on July 22nd in thinking that the attacks in Oslo and Utoya bore few of the hallmarks of Al Qaeda, but it certainly didn't seem that way to anyone watching rolling news coverage of the events unfolding in Norway.

Eton Schoolboy's Polar Bear Death Probed

Posted 08.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- An independent investigation is being launched into the polar bear attack that killed an Eton schoolboy. The organisers of the e...

Bear Attack Victims Return Home

Posted 07.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Plans are being made to bring home the remaining members of an expedition party rocked by a polar bear attack that left an Eton s...

Family Of Boy Killed By Bear In Tribute To 'Fearless Son'

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 06.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The family of an Eton pupil killed by a polar bear while on an adventure holiday in Norway have hailed him as a "strong, fearless...

Family Of Boy Killed By Bear Pay Tribute To 'Fearless Son'

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 06.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The family of an Eton pupil killed by a polar bear while on an adventure holiday in Norway have hailed him as a "strong, fearless...

Time to Stop Mainstreaming the Far-Right

Humza Yousaf | Posted 04.10.2011 | UK Politics
Humza Yousaf

Where we should take on the issues that drive people to the far right and address the misconceptions about immigration and integration, we have instead created a battleground in which mainstream media and politicians fan the flames of far-right extremism.

17 Year-Old British Tourist Killed In Polar Bear Attack

Olivia Williams | Posted 05.10.2011 | UK

A polar bear has killed one person and seriously injured four others from a British tour group visiting the Arctic. Horatio Chapple, a student at ...

The Appreciation of European Islam

Peter Kellow | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK
Peter Kellow

The Norway killer, Anders Breivik, saw his massacre of 69 people as a strike against what he sees as the growing threat posed by the presence of Musli...

Norway Killings Show Importance of Challenging Hate Online

Alex Morrison | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK Politics
Alex Morrison

Sitting behind a keyboard, it is easy to be selective about what information and whose opinions you see, and to be radicalised as a result, especially because the internet allows communities of like-minded people to share their views unchallenged.