Norway not so "green" after all

Norwegians like to think of their country as environmentally progressive and at the forefront in championing environmental protection. A European agency, however, claims there's a lot of room for improvement.
Norway unleases more carbon dioxide emissions per resident than the European average, claims the EU's environmental agency EEA, nor is the country on its way to meeting its goals for reduction of such emissions.
Norwegians thinks that they are the best in the world , but they are definitely not!

Friends

I've heard that cats can't be friends.
It's that true?

Vandals attack graveyards

More than 130 graves outside a church in suburban Bergen were systematically vandalized over the weekend. The graves of children were hardest hit.
Shame on you to the vandals who did this
Norwegian

Big eyes

Why do I have big eyes?
I accept an initiative

Drunken moose terrorizes family

A Swedish family is being plagued by a drunken moose.
It helps itself to the fallen fruit from the family's ten apple trees.
The decomposing fruit have begun to ferment, and the result is a tipsy moose. The animal eats all it can, stumbles around the yard and finally falls asleep.

Hawk through the window

Hansen was relaxing at home, listening to some music over the weekend, when his peace literally was shattered by a bang and splintering glass. A fully grown hawk, flying at high speed, crashed through his veranda window and landed on his living room floor.
The hawk wasn't injured and immediately started making himself at home, proving to be a messy houseguest in the process.

Got a flu?

If you got a flu, this is a useful equipment

Christmas Tree from Oslo to London

A majestic fir tree from the forest outside Oslo began a sentimental journey to London on Friday, where it will do service as the city's Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square.
It's the 59th year in a row that Oslo has supplied London with a towering Christmas tree for outdoor display. The tree-tradition started shortly after World War II ended.
You can ask just about anyone you like in London, and they will know the tree is a gift from Norway and Oslo.
I think Rotterdam and Antwerpen gets a tree as well.
Norwegian (Old article)

Cancer boom

The Cancer Registry of Norway believes the nation faces a steady increase in the number of cancer patients in the next 15 years.

The Registry said that the total number of cancer patients will increase by 26 percent by the year 2020.
For women it is breast and lung cancer that is most on the rise.

Working day

One cigaret shortens your life by to minutes.
One bottle of wine shortens your life by five minutes.
A working day shortens your life by eight hours!!
Norwegian

There's no life before coffee!

Violence against children

In the past three years parents have abused 20 small children to death in Norway, and now police want legal changes.

According to the magazine Police Forum, seven children a year die in Norway because their parents mistreat them. Child welfare authorities must be notified when an abused child arrives at a medical center - police are not warned automatically
One case involved a father who beat his five-month-old daughter to death because she wouldn't stop crying. She suffered several fractures of the skull, fractures in six ribs, her leg was broken in two places and hemorrhaging in both eye.
Link in Norwegian

Female rapist

A Norwegian jury Tuesday upheld a lower court's conviction of a young woman found guilty of raping a male acquaintance.
The 24-year-old woman was earliers sentenced to nine months in prison for raping the man after a night on the town in January 2004.
This is the first time in Norway that a woman is sentenced to prison for rape.

The woman was found guilty on Thursday of forcing sex on a sleeping man has been sentenced to eight months in prison by a Bergen court.

The woman was sentenced according to rape laws. This was the appeals trial, after she had been sentenced to nine months for the same offense.
Link

Olympic Games 2008

I'm training for the Olympic Games i Beijing 2008

Warmest autumn in Norway since 1850

Norway looks set to record its warmest autumn for 150 years. Some welcome the unusually mild temperatures, but they're upsetting the natural order of things.
Ski competitions already have been cancelled and foliage in the forest seems downright confused. There's even been scattered sightings of wild strawberries blooming eight months early.
Link
Aftenposten

Am I the father?!?

You have been unfaithful to me!

Cocaine record in Norway

Customs officers uncovered a record 190 kilos of cocaine during a routine check of the South American ship "Crusader" in northern Norway on Wednesday night.

Cocaine with an estimated street value of NOK 80-90 million (USD 12.25-13.8 million) was found aboard the Panama registered "Crusader"

The old record for confiscation of cocaine in Norway was 49.8 kilos

I'm a Metallica fan

Grete Waitz New York-bound

Norwegian marathon star Grete Waitz, running the race of her life against cancer.
The nine-time winner of the New York Marathon has been undergoing cancer treatment since January, and now needs to go through chemotherapy.
Waitz says she's optimistic about her chances for winning her battle against cancer, and that she's grateful for her prize. Money raised at the Chamber dinner will go to charity, and she'll also spend time working with budding Norwegian athletes who are in New York as part of an exchange program she's worked to set up. "I love New York, but after a week I tend to get tired," she said. "It's a city with so much energy."

Grete Waitz will undoubtedly be remembered as the pioneer in women's marathoning as well, most probably, as the patron saint of the New York City marathon.
Winning the New York City marathon an unprecedented nine times is no mean feat, then to set a new world record on 4 occasions is simply unbelievable.
As a barrier breaker she became the first woman athlete to break 2Hr 30min.
Waitz came from a background of track and cross country before she went on to make her name in the marathon.

The race proved to be a turning point for Waitz' career. She would return to New York and win an unprecedented nine times, in '78, '79, '80, '82, '83, '84, '85, '86 and '88. She set world records in '78, '79 and '80.

Holocaust

A growing number of young Norwegians doubt the truth of the Holocaust after a website has begun translating neo-Nazi propaganda.
Vigrid(Norwegian neo-Nazi group) and their leader Tore W. Tvedt try to convince readers that the killing of millions of Jews by the Germans during the second world war is a bluff, and the presentation of arguments in Norwegian is something new.
The Mosaic Religious Community is concerned about the development.
My recommendation: Send them to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to see the truth.