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What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?
If you decide to drive in downtown Oslo, be forewarned: You won’t be able to park on the street. By the beginning of this year, the city finished removing more than 700 parking spots–replacing them with bike lanes, plants, tiny parks, and benches–as a major step toward a vision of a car-free city center. Without those parking spots, and with cars banned completely on some streets, few people are driving in the area. “There are basically no cars,” says Axel Bentsen, CEO of Urban Sharing, the company that runs Oslo City Bike...
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What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?
It was a huge success: Parking spots are now bike lanes, transit is fast and easy, and the streets (and local businesses) are full of people.
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Tidal under criminal investigation in Norway over 'faked' streams
It's accused of meddling with Beyoncé and Kanye West's play counts.
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Kidnappers demand €9m in cryptocurrency for Norwegian billionaire's wife
The wife of one of Norway’s richest men has been abducted from her home outside Oslo, with the kidnappers demanding a ransom of €9 million in cryptocurrency.
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The Norwegian art of the packed lunch
Could we all learn something from Norway's culture of ‘matpakke’?
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Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales
Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric.
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Rare White Reindeer Spotted in Norway
Photographer Mads Nordsvee describes the sighting as a "fairytale moment".
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Welcome to the witch capital of Norway
Vardø, Norway, makes Salem look like a walk in the park.
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Viking ship found buried next to busy Norwegian freeway
A 20-metre Viking longship, five longhouses and a number of burial mounds are discovered next to a busy Norwegian freeway using a high-tech georadar.
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Norway's Newest Ships Give a Glimpse Into the Future of Sustainable Seafaring
The country is using oil and gas riches to engineer emission-free vessels
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Finals: World Championships Death Diving 2018 (VM i døds 2018) (Canon Balls, Staples, Suicide jumps)
Here you can see the 8 final jumps in this years World Championships in Death Diving. (VM i døds 2018) This year more than 130 jumpers where fighting for the World Champion title and the level was higher than ever. The winner got an historical high score...
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Nordic countries' 'happy' reputation masks sadness of young, says report
The Nordic countries top the polls as the happiest in the world, but the assumption that life in Scandinavia is all bicycles and big smiles disguises the sadness of a significant minority of young people, it has emerged. Among those in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland who do not say that life is good, some of the largest numbers are among the young – and particularly young women. While the reasons will vary from one individual and one country to another, it is thought that stress, loneliness and feeling under pressure to succeed may be playing a large part in their unhappiness.
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Norway's $1tn wealth fund urged to keep oil and gas investments
Government advisers have urged Norway not to ditch oil and gas investments from its $1tn sovereign wealth fund, in a setback for those backing the world’s biggest fossil fuel divestment. Norway’s central bank last year recommended the fund sell the billions it holds in oil stocks to avoid the risk of a permanent drop in crude prices.
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Woman treaded water for 10 hours after falling from ship, sang to stay alive until rescue
A 46-year-old British woman, Kay Longstaff, fell off of a Norwegian Cruise Line around midnight Saturday, plunging into the Adriatic Sea.
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Norway trials free heroin prescriptions for most serious addicts
Norway, which has one of the highest fatal drug overdose rates in Europe, is to trial prescribing free heroin to the most serious addicts to improve their living conditions, the government said. The Norwegian directorate for health and social affairs is behind an experimental project to identify patients likely to benefit from the programme, to examine the implementation method, and to calculate the costs.
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Norway’s hidden scandal
Norway's child protection system, according to the country’s own childcare experts, is “dysfunctional” resulting in children being taken from the parents without adequate justification.
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Cruise line faces backlash over shooting of polar bear
A German cruise line is facing outrage after one of its employees shot and killed a wild polar bear in Norway after the animal attacked another of its employees. Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said its ship was docked at Spitsbergen, the largest island on Norway's Svalbard archipelago, on Saturday when the bear attacked a guard hired to go on shore before passengers to ensure there aren't any polar bears in the area.
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If democratic socialism is so bad, why is Norway so great?
Norway is the most socialist country in the world. It's also a much better place to live than the United States.
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Why Norway is the best place in the world to be a writer
Travel to Norway and one thing strikes you right away: The country is really small. At about 5 million, its population is the size of Alabama’s. So selling a half-million copies of erudite books there, as Karl Ove Knausgaard has, is even more remarkable than it sounds. This is a tough one to fact-check, but I would estimate that on a per capita basis, his autobiographical series, My Struggle, has already sold about as well in Norway as The Great Gatsby has sold in America all time.
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Norway wants to be stricter on immigrants who don’t learn Norwegian
Norway’s government wants to tighten rules on social welfare payments to foreign citizens, the country’s finance minister has said. Minister of Finance Siv Jensen said that newcomers to the Norway must show “willingness” to learn the country’s language. “This is a demand to immigrants that they must learn Norwegian and they should show genuine willingness to do it. It won’t do to just give up and live on state welfare support,” Jensen told newspaper VG
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