Some 330 Marines will be stationed in Norway until the end of 2018, the government said on Wednesday, doubling the length of what was initially billed as a one-year trial period, according to Reuters. The deployment last January to practice ...

It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been ...

Norway has unveiled plans to build the world’s first ship tunnel by smashing through a solid rock peninsula, Joinfo.com reports with reference to CNN. The mile-long, 118-feet-wide tunnel will pass through the narrowest part of the Stad peninsula in western ...

Norwegian is expanding its network of flights to the United States starting in mid-June after receiving long-awaited US approval in December for its Irish subsidiary Norwegian Air International to operate routes across the Atlantic, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Reuters. ...

The only rule of the drunk football is that the players must have more than 1 per-mille of alcohol in blood. After each scored goal, the player must be tested so that the alcohol level is right. If not, the ...

According to the Ministry of Education and Research, there are about 70 public and private institutions of higher learning located throughout Norway, from Kristiansand in the south to Svalbard in the North, Joinfo.ua reports. Norway has 8 universities, 20 university colleges ...

Norway leads the United Nations development rankings. In 2015 the country has again earned the highest score of 0.944 based on three key indicators: wealth, education and life expectancy. Its life expectancy is 81.6 years, gross national income (GNI) per ...

During the weekend, around 70 people were transported from various facilities in North Norway to Finnmark Arrival Center in Sor-Varanger for transporting back to Russia, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to nrk.no. Migrants said that they were woken up early in ...