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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 was awarded on Friday to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. The Nobel Committee said she was awarded the prize "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to...

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Norwegian writer Jon Fosse whose works span 40 plays, a wealth of novels, essays, children's books and translations. The Swedish Academy in Stockholm praised his innovative plays and prose and said...

Archaeologists have made an exciting discovery in the mountains of Norway: a truly unusual ancient arrow with its original quartzite arrowhead and feather tail still intact. This arrow, believed to have been employed by reindeer hunters around three thousand years...

In Norway, a family found something valuable and antique using a metal detector. This family was searching for a lost gold earring in their garden when their metal detector uncovered ancient artifacts that were over 1,000 years old. Local...

An amateur metal detectorist in Norway recently discovered what archaeologists have hailed as Norway’s “gold find of the century”. He dug up nine engraved gold pendants, ten gold pearls and three gold rings—all dating to the sixth century A.D. on...

In a recent development in Vingrom, located to the south of Lillehammer by Lake Mjøsa in Norway, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of tiny gold objects. These gold pieces no bigger than a fingernail and as thin as...

With geologists hunting high and low for battery materials, an enormous new discovery of phosphate rock could have huge implications for the electric vehicle industry. The reserves, discovered in Rogaland, southwest Norway by Anglo-Norwegian firm Norge Mining, are equivalent to...

Finland is a happy place! For the sixth year in a row, the country has been named the happiest in the world in the annual World Happiness Report 2023. The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway...

Dozens of Norwegian properties are passing one after the other into the hands of the Russian Orthodox Church. The properties are also getting closer and closer to NATO military bases. The Russian Orthodox Church seems to be particularly interested in...

Six high school students from Greece excelled at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) that took place recently in Oslo, Norway winning five medals, namely two silver and three bronze medals. The annual competition brings together the brightest mathematical brains from...