Finns to manufacture hybrid sports cars for US market
In the latest move to expand the range of hybrid electric cars available to US consumers, Finnish car manufacturer Valmet Automotive announced a deal ...
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US VIPs to visit Svalbard’s Global Seed Bank
A diverse delegation of VIPs from the US will travel to Norway’s Arctic archipelago of Svalbard this week in an attempt to learn more about global war...
Where to put the new US Embassy in Oslo?
The ruling labour party has erupted into a bitter row over the re-zoning of a downtown site on which the new US embassy was to be relocated. The party...
Iceland’s genealogical database helps pinpoint roots of deadly disease
A group of scientists from the United States is working in collaboration with Icelandic scientists and their genealogical database to pinpoint the cau...
FT awards Glitnir Bank for geothermal energy loan
Nordic bank Glitnir won second prize for ‘Sustainable Deal of the Year‘ at the Financial Times Sustainable Banking awards in London last week. Glitnir...
Norway wedged between China and Tibet
It has come to light that Norway has been playing a pivotal role in attempts to bridge the gap between China and Tibet. Several top level officials fr...
Americans help recover Finnish wreck
In June 1940, just a few days before the Soviet Union annexed Estonia, an airliner from Finland crashed into the Baltic Sea. Today, experts from the U...
Rice and Gisladottir discuss women and war
Condoleezza Rice held a joint press conference in Iceland this week with Iceland’s Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir. The two discus...