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Fire on oil tankers at S.Korean port injures 10

Hyonhee Shin and Terje Solsvik, Reuters
Posted at Sep 29 08:17 AM

A fire that spread across two oil tankers in a South Korean port injured 10 people on Saturday, coastguard and fire officials said, adding the blaze had largely been put out. Read more »

Filipino chefs take over Oslo´s premier Theatercafeen

Macel Ingles, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 09:49 AM

OSLO, Norway - For four days this month, two Filipino chefs took over Theatercafeen´s eminent kitchen and served Filipino cuisine favorites to a well-heeled clientele.   Read more »

'Russian' whale leads to espionage speculations in Norway

Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 04 04:07 AM

OSLO, Norway - A spy, a far away visitor, or a fugitive on the run? A mysterious Beluga whale, caught wearing a suspicious harness, has ignited the imaginations of Norwegians who have yet to receive answers. Read more »

ACT Party-list's Castro wins international award for work on trade union rights

Macel Ingles, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 16 02:24 PM

OSLO, Norway – The Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights has named ACT Party-list Rep. France Castro a recipient of the award, citing her work in advocating for the rights of her fellow teachers and other workers. Read more »

Luxury cruise ship lost engines due to low level of lubricating oil: Norway govt

Reuters
Posted at Mar 28 02:12 AM

OSLO - The engines of a luxury cruise ship that narrowly escaped disaster during a storm off Norway on Saturday failed because of relatively low levels of lubricating oil in the engines, the Norwegian Maritime Authority said on Wednesday. Read more »

Man charged with sex crimes involving 300 boys in Norway

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 06:11 AM

OSLO - Norwegian authorities have charged a man in his 20s, reportedly a football referee, with sexual offenses involving some 300 teenage boys -- the biggest such case in the country's history, prosecutors said Tuesday. Read more »

Dureza leaves for Oslo Forum; to conduct 'town hall' with Pinoys in Norway

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 17 09:58 PM

Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza left the country for Europe Sunday night to attend the Oslo Forum in Norway.   Read more »

The Day in Photos: 11 December 2017

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 11 08:15 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Anti-nuke campaigners win Nobel Peace Prize

NTB Scanpix/TBerit Roald via Reuters
Posted at Dec 11 08:01 PM

Leader of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow and Executive Director of ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Beatrice Fihn, are seen at the City Hall on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN, in Oslo, Norway on Sunday. Read more »

A-bomb survivor urges N. Korea, U.S. to never use nuclear weapons

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 10 02:55 AM

OSLO - An atomic bomb survivor who played a role in the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to a group campaigning to ban nuclear weapons urged North Korea and the United States on Saturday -- ahead of the prize awarding ceremony in Oslo -- to never resort to using nuclear weapons. Read more »

Frustration and fury at Trump's Jerusalem declaration

Reuters
Posted at Dec 07 05:20 AM

CAIRO/AMMAN/BEIRUT - Arabs denounced President Donald Trump's plan to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as a slap in the face but few thought their governments would do much in response.   Read more »

'Dear Evan Hansen,' Bette Midler, 'Oslo' win big at Broadway's Tony Awards

Chris Michaud, Reuters
Posted at Jun 12 12:10 PM

"Dear Evan Hansen," the teen-angst driven musical about a high school outsider, won the top prize at Sunday's Tony Awards, Broadway highest honors, while J.T. Rogers' Mideast peace accord drama "Oslo" was named best play. Read more »

City noise linked to hearing loss: study

Agence France Presse
Posted at Mar 03 03:19 PM

Urban noise pollution and hearing loss are closely linked, according to rankings of 50 large cities in both categories released on Friday. Read more »