The bird was already a Brigadier but now has the respectable title of Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands. The military mascot is one of a long line of king penguins that have served in the Norwegian Armed Forces.
The sole princess of Norway, Princess Märtha Louise, is putting her royal duties aside to build a life with her self-described ‘shaman’ fiancé.
Named after the Norse goddess of love and beauty, Freya, a real whopper of walrus, has been making a massive splash across social media.
Anders Breivik is the most infamous murderer in Norway’s history. His attack in 2011, using both bombs and guns, claimed the lives of 77 people, the majority of whom were teenagers.
The European Handball Association has enmeshed itself in a sexism row after fining the Norwegian women’s handball team for choosing to wear shorts in last week’s tournament.
Technology is changing society and human connection, so much so that a man can lie dead in his apartment for nine years with automated payments preventing anybody from knowing.
Many wish we could be free of the trappings of time, and now one Norwegian island is trying to make that dream a reality.
Located on a freezing cold Norwegian island, where there are more polar bears than people, a Doomsday seed vault is already proving useful.
Keen to see some pictures of William and Kate in the snow? The pair dropped by Oslo yesterday for an official royal visit and the reception was frosty.
I know you and your mates crushed so many cold ones with the boys in Plett and Umhlanga, but you have nothing on the teen rager that goes on over in Norway.
Everyone’s doing it, from our national cricketers through to the royals over in Norway. It’s the dab, and there’s nothing we can do to stop its rise to the top.
Norway’s PM was caught playing Pokemon Go while a debate was going on in Parliament, and the speaker didn’t seem to mind at all.
Facebook’s headquarters might be in California, but the massive amount of data they rely on is stored all the way in Norway. Pretty chilled.
The Brangelina split has already prompted one shameless advert, and people are responding by calling the effort “genius”. To each their own, I guess.
He’s more than likely the most hated man in Norway, and it seems that his time behind bars has done little to soften the monster.
It looks like one of our foreign diplomats in Norway has a fair bit to answer for, his drunken antics threatening relations between the two countries.
This year’s prosperity index featuring 142 countries of the world yielded predictable results, yet interesting trends.
Sex education is an important part of growing up. It’s a pretty obvious fact that we all need to learn about it, but is this the most un-awkward way to do it?
So this crazy Slovenian man just made ski jumping history when he smashed the world record for longest jump. Seriously, all he is missing is a cape.
Sometimes you just have to applaud the ingenuity of criminals. This woman showed her inner-thigh strength is not to be scoffed at as she grabbed herself a new telly.
An 11-year-old boy sits shivering in the cold at a bus stop in Norway. Hidden cameras capture acts of kindness that restore your faith in humanity.
Check out Norway’s Halden prison. This maximum security prison seems more like a hotel than anything else. The prison spent around $1million on paintings, photography and light fixtures to ease the psychological burdens of being punished. Since the maximum sentence for any crime is 21 years in Norway, the prison focuses on preparing the inmates […]
Tomorrow sees the much-anticipated Bafana Bafana versus Norway football game at Cape Town Stadium. The match will kick off at 20:30, and is part of Bafana Bafana’s preparation for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations later this month.
A Norwegian man is in hospital with serious injuries after setting himself on fire yesterday. The incident took place outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is standing trial for mass murder and terrorism. N5FW video of the incident inside.
This feels like it should have been news sooner, but it wasn’t. Which is why we’re going to talk about it now. Hege Dalen and wife Toril Hansen were one of several Norwegians who, on hearing gunshots and screaming coming from Utöyan Island, got into their boat and drove across the water to try and help.
In the wake of the Norwegian terror attacks, a cartoonist and writer from Norway has written a letter to the creators of South Park. In it he appeals to them to help defuse the damage that Anders Behring Breivik has caused over the weekend, by writing an episode of South Park about it. Read his full message inside.
Well it seems that technique does work. I think many of us have had that chat about “what would you do if” a madman stormed a restaurant and started spraying bullets. I have often said (and if you’ve also said it before, then you heard it from me) that I would play dead. Just lie […]
Pro-whaling representatives from Japan, Iceland and some African and Caribbean nations, upped and left the room yesterday at a gathering of the International Whaling Commission. The topic they were touchy about was a proposal to create a sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic. Guess walking out was a simple way to ensure the vote could not proceed?
In yet another move to convince us that Scandinavian politics makes sense: the government of Norway is inexplicably offering to ‘train’ foreign diplomats in the ways of black metal. As in, the musical genre. Specifically, ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’, which you would know by now if you were a foreign diplomat in Norway.
Those Scandinavians, darem. Not only do they have lovely fjords, now they’re also setting trends in the workplace. The latest management technique to come from Norway involves women wearing red armbands when it’s that time of the month. I kid you not.