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ISFiT, the world’s largest thematic student festival, held in Trondheim, Norway in February 2011 has now opened for applications. The main topic of ISFiT 2011 is Global Health.

Norway and Australia are the two best countries in the world in which to be a new mother, according to Save the Children’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report, issued this month.

At 8:30 pm 27 March 2010 Norway will plunge into darkness, joining in the world’s largest visual climate change campaign. For the Norwegian Embassy in Canberra, on the opposite side of the planet, Earth Hour 2010 is about much more than just turning the lights off.

The people of Norway chose Anette Sagen, Norway’s top woman ski jumper, to inaugurate the new Holmenkollen ski jump facility.

Jan Egeland has been elected to co-chair the High-level Taskforce for the Global Framework for Climate Services, an international taskforce that is to compile and make available climate information.

Have you seen them madly sweeping the ice dressed in their clown pants? The Norwegian men’s curling team has attracted widespread attention at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver thanks to its conspicuous attire.

Norway has much to offer tourists in the winter: snow, mountains, fjords and the unique culture of the Sámi people. We invited Audun Pettersen, one of the people most actively involved in Norway’s tourist industry, to tell us about some of the activities he would recommend.

The figure of our planet – a shining blue-and-white orb silhouetted against the stars, the swirl of clouds with the blinding white of polar icecaps set against ocean blue – is an image almost every human carries inside as the symbol of our common home.

Twenty years after the Samediggi (the Sámi parliament) was established, the number of individuals registered as part of the Sámi population has risen from 5 500 to almost 14 000.

The Nordic countries (Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) have today concluded the signing of several new information exchange agreements with states whose international financial services industry focuses on attracting foreign investors. The new agreements are part of a campaign led by the Nordic Council of Ministers aimed at strengthening global efforts to prevent international tax evasion.