Norway and Russia team up for Arctic oil exploration
Norway’s state-owned Statoil firm has signed a deal with Russian oil giant Rosneft to explore the sea around the Arctic.
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Famous Chechen couple granted asylum in Finland
A Chechen couple featured in the award-winning Finnish documentary The 3 Rooms of Melancholia has been granted asylum in Finland.
Cartoon terrorist court proceedings end
The sentence of the man who attacked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe has been confirmed at 10 years after the case finally ended in Denmark’s ...
Web-based Japanese language learning software developed by Cooori
Cooori has developed a web-based language learning software that utilises artificial intelligence to helps its users learn Japanese faster and more ef...
The Scream fetches jaw-dropping record price at auction
Edvard Munch’s The Scream fetched $119.9 million at auction last week, making it the most expensive piece of art to ever go under the hammer.
Martha Stewart reveals anti-ageing BIOEFFECT EGF SERUM as secret behind radiant skin
On today’s Martha Stewart Show, Martha unveiled her beauty secret to be next generation beauty product BIOEFFECT EGF SERUM.
Al-Khawaja to continue hunger strike
Imprisoned Bahraini-Danish activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, has vowed to continue his hunger strike despite the promise of a retrial.
Majority of Icelanders against joining EU
A new poll suggests that more than half of Icelanders do not want to join the European Union. The University of Iceland’s Social Science Research Inst...