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Norway hosts a great variety of popular festivals during the summer months, extending across the entire music spectrum, from the more classically-based Bergen International Festival to the modern Øya Festival in Oslo.

A three day exhibition was held at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in cooperation with Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK), showing paintings made by underprivileged children. The exhibition was titled “My Country”, reflecting the green and colorful beauty of Bangladesh. The paintings were nostalgic as many of the children originally are from villages but came to the city for working. The children are aged six to eighteen years, and work as garbage collectors, domestic helpers and shop assistances. The motives reflected protests against child labor and a yearning of attending school and play with...

“American Steven Holl’s latest project is a breath of fresh architectural air set just above the Arctic Circle,” wrote the journal Wallpaper about the new Hamsun Centre.

Have you seen them madly sweeping the ice dressed in their clown pants? The Norwegian men’s curling team has attracted widespread attention at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver thanks to its conspicuous attire.

At the Ice Music Festival in Geilo, the timing of the concerts is set by the moon and the music takes its resonance from the weather. Innovative use of nature’s own materials is front and centre at this one-of-a-kind music festival.

Norwegians like to think they are born with skis on their feet. But will their country’s illustrious history of polar expeditions and skiing innovations actually help Norwegian skiers to compete against the crème-de-la-crème at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver? And will Norway be rewarded once again for fair play?

Twenty years after the Samediggi (the Sámi parliament) was established, the number of individuals registered as part of the Sámi population has risen from 5 500 to almost 14 000.

With great enthusiasm and much publicity, the fourth international Ibsen-festival is being arranged in Dhaka from the 12th to the 22nd of November 2009.

After nearly three decades together, Norway’s most renowned pop group is splitting up.

The fjords of Norway have once again been crowned the world’s top travel destination in the annual survey of National Geographic Travelers panellists.