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For the last six days the Brattli Tunnel in northern Norway has been closed. The culprit? A 27-ton truckload of a burning brown goat cheese called Brunost and the toxic gasses that emerge when you light the stuff on fire.
Today in books and publishing: Veteran Knopf editor Ashbel Green dies; meet the movers in Brooklyn's book scene; how Norwegian publishing works.
HBO, the content provider that has said many times that it has no interest in offering HBO Go as a standalone service, will now offer its content through a standalone streaming service. Don't get too excited: This isn't happening here in the good ole U.S.A but rather in Norway, Finland and Denmark.
The Norwegian man who killed 77 people in mass murder spree last summer has been ruled legally sane and will be sent to prison, instead of psychiatric care.
A new independent report (PDF) on the police response to last summer's massacre on Utoya Island in Norway finds that the Oslo bombing, which preceded the island shooting, could have been prevented using protocols the police already had in place.
We learned today that the Aurora mass shooting is as big a story around the world as it is in the U.S., but the reaction is not. A headline in Norway's largest newspaper captured the disbelief in other industrialized countries in the wake of the tragedy: "Stricter Firearms Is a Non-Issue Even After Massacre."
In what must have been the oddest day of a long and painful trial, attorneys for Norwegian mass murderer Andres Breivik called anti-Muslim extremists to the stand to testify in their client's defense.
Wouldn't you throw one too if, say, you had to hear how much "fun" Anders Breivilk had when he killed your loved ones?
Infamous terrorist network Al Qaeda may be many terrible things but it's no Anders Breivik.
The trial of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik got underway in Oslo today, with the defendant admitting that he killed 77 people last July, but that he was acting in self-defense and doesn't recognize the authority of the court anyway.
Anders Breivik wasn't insane when he carried out the killing spree he's confessed to in Norway last year, and he's not insane now, court-appointed psychiatric experts said on Tuesday, but they didn't say why they'd reversed a November finding that he was insane.
Perhaps worried Norway had momentarily forgotten about how much it hated him, Anders Breivik put on a show of being a hero in his court appearance Monday, demanding a medal and saying he acted to prevent "cultural destruction."
A psychiatric report has ruled that Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in a mass killing spree in Norway this summer, is mentally ill and should not face a normal criminal trial and prison.
The Players: Per-Arne Tuftin, a tourist official from Norway who isn't sold on the Finnish Northern Lights; Mervi Holmén, who works for the Finnish Tourism Board and hopes to bank off of their Northern Lights-gone-viral marketing success
Government cameras captured Breivik in police garb
Kristoffer Clausen became a sensation for hunting his own food--from a hotel in Sweden
Breivik said he was ready to surrender after 'fulfilling his operation'
Breivik shows "no remorse" as he reenact his tragedy for police
America's least charming activists are planning to protest the massacre victims' funerals
Couple eating lunch rushed into water to save fleeing kids
It turns out 'Dogville' is one of Anders Behring Breivik's favorite films
A look at the false narrative Breivik painted of himself
The combined attack was merely "Plan B"
Norway's Halden prison focuses on rehabilitation
Norwegians appear to have largely bypassed bloodlust and vengeance
On facial recognition, the big economic picture, Norway's children, and more
Investigators suspect Anders Breivik used fertilizer to make his bombs
Anders Breivik could be sent to a prison with climbing walls and flatscreen TVs
Anders Behring Breivik's idols ranged from Vladimir Putin to Geert Wilders
The camp was crassly described as "a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever"
He declined to say if Anders Breivik will plead insanity in court
Counters earlier claim that he acted alone in bombing and shooting Friday
At least 100,000 have gathered in response to Friday's attacks
Police reduced the death toll number to 76 after missing persons reports
Judge denies Breivik a public hearing in which he can wear a uniform
On Norway's far-right, Geoff Dyer, and Republican fanaticism
On far-right terrorism, James Murdoch's fall, and the debt ceiling as Sci-Fi
Why were so many so quick to report Al Qaeda Involvement?
Right-wing fundamentalist has been charged as the death toll soars past 90
Government says attacks unlikely to have been the work of international terrorists
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