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19 Countries to Skip Nobel Ceremony for Liu Xiaobo, While China Inaugurates Confucius Peace Prize.
The number of countries declining to attend the Nobel ceremony on Friday has tripled; China schedules its own prize for Thursday. Read more Complete19 Countries […]
Mammograms’ Value in Cancer Fight at Issue
A new study suggests awareness and treatments are the main force in reducing the breast cancer death rate. Read more CompleteMammograms’ Value in Cancer Fight […]
Norway Power Plan Upsets Nature Lovers
Critics of construction plans in Norway say pylons would mar majestic mountain landscapes. Read more CompleteNorway Power Plan Upsets Nature Lovers
China Cancels Meeting Over Nobel Peace Prize
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 […]
Norway Announces 3 Arrests in Terror Plot Linked to U.S. and Britain
The three men were suspected of having links to Al Qaeda in a terrorism conspiracy tied to plots in the United States and Britain, police […]
Norwegian Newspaper Taps Into Web’s Efficiencies
Edda, a publisher in Norway, now makes employees at its newspapers work for both the paper and Web versions. It’s a strategy that has helped […]
Norway Says July Detainees Planned Reprisal for Muhammad Cartoons
The three men, detained in July, had been planning an attack on the Danish newspaper that first published cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. Read more […]
The Stigma of Being a Housewife
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 […]
Icelanders Challenge Thinking on Ancient Lewis Chessmen
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 […]