Category: International News

When the Swedish journalist Peter Letmark tried to track down a housewife for a series on 21st-century parents in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter recently, he failed. Read more CompleteThe Stigma of Being a Housewife

Two Icelanders have challenged traditional scholarly thinking about the 800-year-old Norse Lewis Chessmen, suggesting they were made not in Norway, but in Iceland. Read more CompleteIcelanders Challenge Thinking on Ancient Lewis Chessmen

A lawyer who defended a woman facing death by stoning in Iran said he fled to seek protection from his country’s authorities. Read more CompleteIranian Lawyer Says He Fled to Norway

Officials said one of the men was a Chinese Uighur, and all three arrested supposedly belonged to a group that advocates separatism in China. Read more CompleteChinese Separatists Tied to Norway Bomb Plot

The Norwegian novelist Per Petterson’s new novel doesn’t have the same historical sweep as his best seller “Out Stealing Horses,” but it is just as well written. Read more Complete‘I Curse the River of Time,’ Per Petterson’s Lost Soul

Critics of construction plans in Norway say pylons would mar majestic mountain landscapes. Read more CompleteNorway Power Plan Upsets Nature Lovers

China abruptly called off a meeting with a Norwegian minister in retaliation for Friday’s award of the Nobel peace prize to an imprisoned dissident. Read more CompleteChina Cancels Meeting Over Nobel Peace Prize