Norwegian swimming world champion Alexander Dale Oen has died after suffering a heart attack at the age of 26, according to the Norwegian Olympic Committee. Dale Oen, who won the men’s 100-meter breaststroke gold medal at last year’s world championships in Shanghai, had been attending an altitude training camp. A silver medalist at the 2008 [...]

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After 24 years of campaigning for democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi is leaving. She’ll take her first foreign trip since 1988, visiting Norway and Britain, the spokesman for her political party said today. U Nyan Win, the spokesman, said the trip was a sign of confidence in the country’s political reforms. “It’s a [...]

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Here are your top news headlines for this Tuesday night, April 17, 2012: – New grilling set for current, former GSA officials – Woman in jaywalking death wants charges dropped – Norway killer Breivik defends massacre – Space shuttle Discovery takes final flight Mobile users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBeLXuul8V8 Incoming search terms:news headlines from april 17 2012world headline [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Tuesday morning, April 17, 2012: – Congress investigates GSA spending scandal – Tornadoes tear through plains states – Norwegian right-wing nationalist defends July killings – Canada remembers Titanic victims Mobile users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkCvgcbU3Ik Related articles 112 TORNADOES: 5 Dead in Midwest, More Storms on Tap Sunday (VIDEOS)(blippitt.com) Incoming search [...]

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Here are your top news headlines for this Monday night, April 16, 2012: – Norway mass killer trial begins – Fighting in Kabul stops – Six UN monitors arrive in Syria as shelling continues – Roger Clemens retrial begins

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Here are your top stories for this Tuesday evening, April 10, 2012: – Syria passes April 10 peace deadline – Anders Breivik declared sane – Tulsa shooters confess to killings – Five terror suspects detained in Britain extradited to US Incoming search terms:top 10 world news headlines of 2012brooke harris fire teacherNewspaper Headlines April 10 [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Tuesday morning, April 3, 2012: – President Obama confident health care law will stand – 7 killed in Oakland Christian university shooting – Immigration officials arrest more than 3,100 – Truck rescue ends in cliff plunge in Norway

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UPDATE: 5 skiers are confirmed dead, 1 missing. Six tourists have been buried in an avalanche in Norway, according to local authorities. The avalanche trapped about half of a group of 12 skiers in Kaafjord, with unconfirmed reports indicating that they may be from France. The police chief of Tromso says that the avalanche took [...]

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Here we go again.  Just when you thought it was safe. The New Year got off to an ominous start in Beebe, Arkansas as about 100 dead blackbirds dropped from the sky. Shortly after midnight, the birds started flying into objects and each other, eerily reminiscent of the 2011 New Year, when thousands of birds [...]

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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work with regard to women’s rights. The three recipients were announced in a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. From the Nobel Peace Prize official website: “It is the Norwegian Nobel [...]

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Looks like more trouble ahead for that Norwegian cruise ship. Crews are currently busy pumping water from the hull of the cruise ship just one day after a fire broke out, killing two crew members and forcing the evacuation of 260 other people. The ship is now dangerously close to tipping over, according to officials. [...]

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Here are your top stories for Friday, September 16, 2011: – President Barack Obama awards Medal of Honor to Marine – Casey Anthony must pay almost $100,000 for investigation – Fire on Norwegian cruise ship kills 2 – Dog a surrogate mom to rare white tiger cubs. Related articles Sgt. Dakota L. Meyer becomes first [...]

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