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Homosexuals in Norway are now allowed to get married. The new Marriage Act, which the Storting passed in the middle of June, gives homosexuals greater rights in a number of areas.

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Negative thinking is usually not the way to success. The Norwegian film maker Bård Breien proved otherwise when he won the Crystal Globe for Best Director for his debut film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

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The Norwegian comic novel ” The Left Bank Gang” is presented the prize for best foreign comic at the American Eisner Award in San Diego in July.

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Few sceneries are more spectacular than the Norwegian mountains, and there is no need for physical fatigue to experience the mountains on a close distance, although hour long hikes may bring you closer to the wild nature.

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Norway’s glacier museum launched its new climate change center by putting US Vice President Walter M. Mondale in a water pool and unplug it.

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Stavanger is this year’s European Capital of Culture.  The Norwegian oil city kicks off the cultural festival in an opening ceremony with local and international artists alike on 12 January.

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Norwegian innovation reveals the exact time of death. The tool is developed by two Norwegian academics of medicine, and is to be tested by FBI and Scotland Yard.

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Whale safari in the Arctic Circle, sleepover in a lighthouse at 71° north, or what about a GPS-pub crawl in Bergen?

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More than 500 representatives from the world’s resource rich countries will meet in Oslo 16-17 October 2006 to take the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to the next level.

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