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More than 2 000 police, including snipers and sniffer dog handlers, will be mobilised for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on Thursday honouring US President Barack Obama, police said. "It's without doubt the biggest police mobilisation ever in...

Mobile operators including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Reliance Communications are locked in a tariff war, raising concerns about telecom firms' rofitability. The price war is aimed at grabbing new users as new firms enter the market. Norway's Telenor launched...

Back home, Congress wrestles with overhauling the health care and financial service industries and administration officials continue their sales job on the president's plan for Afghanistan. Host Liane Hansen talks to Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving.

David Gardner's top pick took an epic run of 1,334%!...Just when the company seemed to be getting its stuff together, it gives us a report with nearly no reasons for optimism . I've been on Novell's case for years about...

Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Institute director said. Obama plans to travel to Oslo from Copenhagen, Denmark, where he will attend the third day of the U.N.-backed climate change summit, Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported Wednesday...While details of his trip...

Cisco Systems on Tuesday said it is extending the offer period for its bid to acquire Tandberg of Norway...Cisco last month raised its offer for the videoconferencing company to $3.4 billion, hoping to overcome resistance from some shareholders.

Region Needs to Depart From Failed Economics Ama Achiaa Amankwah 30 November 2009 opinion Oslo — Talks are underway to launch a major debate on refocusing of Africa's development. Proponents argue that the theory that everything gets right when the...

Norwegian scientists say they've discovered a mutated version of swine flu in two patients who died and another who is severely ill. The mutation "could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause...

Experts have surprised a man in Norway, telling him the old abandoned sword he found by the roadside is in fact 3,000 years old. Four years earlier, Ernst Skofteland found an old sword lying by the side of a lumber...

OBAMA BRINGS AMERICA BACK IN THE MAINSTREAM By Robert Weller The United States is back in the world's favor faster than almost anyone could have predicted. President Barack Obama, less than a year in office, has been awarded the Nobel...