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Breivik trial forces Norway to look again at insanity

Friday, May 4th 2012, 0:26

Why Breivik has given Norway a legal headache
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Norway heads net address shift

Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 23:01

Norway is leading the way in preparing for the move to the net's new addressing scheme, suggests a survey.
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Munch's The Scream sold for $120m

Thursday, May 3rd 2012, 11:04

Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch's The Scream becomes the most expensive art work sold at auction as it is bought in New York for $119.9m (£74m).
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Munch canteen murals may be sold

Tuesday, May 1st 2012, 17:32
related places: Oslo

Kraft Foods confirms its factory canteen housing a frieze of 12 large paintings by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch in Oslo may be sold.
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Norwegian swimming champion dies

Tuesday, May 1st 2012, 15:57
related countries: United States United States

Norway's world swimming champion Alexander Dale Oen dies suddenly in the US, aged 26, the country's swimming federation says.
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VIDEO: UN observer commander arrives in Syria

Sunday, April 29th 2012, 23:07
related countries: Syria Syria
related places: Damascus

Norwegian Maj Gen Robert Mood, who will command a 300-strong contingent of UN observers in Syria, has arrived in Damascus.
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Norwegians defy Breivik in song

Thursday, April 26th 2012, 14:27
related places: A, Oslo

Some 40,000 people gather in Oslo to sing a peace song which mass killer Anders Behring Breivik condemned at his trial.
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Breivik: Insanity report is lies

Wednesday, April 25th 2012, 18:37
related places: Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik tells his Oslo trial that a psychiatric report finding him insane in relation to his 77 killings last July is a fabrication.
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VIDEO: Breivik: Insanity report lies

Wednesday, April 25th 2012, 17:17
related places: Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo that a psychiatric report finding him insane in relation to the 77 killings he carried out was a "lie".
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VIDEO: Breivik says insanity report is lies

Wednesday, April 25th 2012, 14:14
related places: Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo that a psychiatric report finding him insane in relation to the 77 killings he carried out was a "lie".
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Witness trauma at Breivik trial

Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 14:03
related places: A, Breivik

A security guard at Norway's government headquarters describes the moment he saw Anders Behring Breivik's car bomb explode.
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VIDEO: Witness trauma at Breivik trial

Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 12:51
related places: Breivik, Oslo

Witnesses in a Norway court have been describing the moments after a bomb went off outside the government headquarters in Oslo last July - killing eight people.
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Norway row children back in India

Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 4:47
related countries: India India
related places: Delhi

Two Indian children at the centre of a foster care dispute in Norway arrive in Delhi, after being handed over to their uncle.
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Breivik: Delay led to more deaths

Monday, April 23rd 2012, 15:45

Anders Behring Breivik tells his trial that, when he called police to surrender and they failed to return his call, he decided to carry on killing.
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Breivik describes island massacre

Friday, April 20th 2012, 15:39

Anders Behring Breivik, who is on trial in Norway for killing 77 people last July, tells a Norwegian court he shot people who were begging for their lives.
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Breivik 'normally a nice person'

Friday, April 20th 2012, 12:29

Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik tells his trial he is "normally a very nice person" but "dehumanised" himself after 2006.
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Breivik 'hoped to kill hundreds'

Thursday, April 19th 2012, 16:52
related places: Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik aimed to kill hundreds of people with his gun and bomb attacks, he tells day four of his murder trial in Oslo.
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Breivik: Jail term 'ridiculous'

Wednesday, April 18th 2012, 16:35
related places: Oslo

The man who killed 77 people in Norway last July tells an Oslo court there can be only two "just" outcomes to his trial - acquittal or the death penalty.
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VIDEO: Breivik quizzed on extremist ties

Wednesday, April 18th 2012, 13:19
related places: Oslo

The man who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer has been telling a court in Oslo about the far-right network to which he says he belongs.
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Burma's Suu Kyi to visit Europe

Wednesday, April 18th 2012, 10:35
related countries: Burma Burma

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years, suggesting she has growing confidence in reforms.
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Breivik boasts of Norway massacre

Tuesday, April 17th 2012, 15:35
related places: Oslo

The man who killed 77 people in Norway last July boasts of carrying out a "spectacular attack", and says he should be acquitted.
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VIDEO: Breivik gives massacre testimony

Tuesday, April 17th 2012, 5:49
related places: Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik has addressed his trial in Oslo saying he acted to prevent a wider civil war and that he would have done it again.
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Anders Breivik pleads not guilty

Monday, April 16th 2012, 15:50
related places: Breivik, Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik, who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year which left 77 people dead, pleads not guilty on the first day of his trial.
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VIDEO: Crucial question: Is he sane or not?

Monday, April 16th 2012, 10:51
related places: Oslo

The man who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year, which left 77 people dead, has pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial in Oslo.
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VIDEO: Breivik murder trial begins in Norway

Monday, April 16th 2012, 8:54

Anders Behring Breivik carried out a bomb and gun attack in Norway last year that left 77 people dead.
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VIDEO: Norway prepares for Breivik trial

Monday, April 16th 2012, 5:28
related places: Breivik, Oslo

Anders Behring Breivik, who admits carrying out mass killings in Norway, goes on trial in the capital Oslo
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