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Jessy Matador is Eurovision-bound for France

Jessy Matador is Eurovision-bound for France

It’s official. This year’s French entry at the annual musical jamboree, the Eurovision Song Contest, will be sung by Jessy Matador. Who? You might well ask! Probably unknown to many in this country, the choice was immediately (...)

23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

French entry for Eurovision Song Contest - Christophe Willem?

It’s one of those rumours that has been doing the rounds on the Net over the past week, and just like any speculation, once it’s out there it seems that it won’t go away - even though it has been denied. Christophe Willem, the winner (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

Skah Leads a Protest in Front of the Norwegian Embassy

Several civil society representatives and sympathizers with the former Moroccan athlete Khalid Skah stand yesterday in front of the Norwegian Embassy in Rabat, in a protest against the kidnap of his two minor children. Skah denounced the (...)

20 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Skah Would Pursue the Norwegian Government in International Courts for Kids Kidnapping

Skah Would Pursue the Norwegian Government in International Courts for Kids Kidnapping

During a press conference at the Moroccan Royal Athletics Federation, Khalid Skah, a former Moroccan track champion (the Olympic 10,000-meter gold medallist in 1992) said that he would sue the Norwegian government for kidnapping his two minor (...)

7 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

98 days before the Norwegian election - some social media tendencies

98 days before the Norwegian election - some social media tendencies

Social media is the big buzz word in the Norwegian election campaign. 2005 was the election year when the parties competed on having the coolest, flashiest website, 2009 is the year when the parties are competing about being everywhere (blogs, Facebook, (...)

8 Jun. 2009 | | Bente Kalsnes

Oslo, Norway: Queen visits mosque

Oslo, Norway: Queen visits mosque

Never before had a member of the Norwegian royal family visited a Norwegian mosque. but yesterday Queen Sonja visited the mosque of the Islamic Cultural Centre Norway (ICCN) in Grønland in Oslo. The Queen toured the mosque and looked at old, handwritten (...)

27 May. 2009 | | Esther

Arts & Entertainment

Whatever happened to....."Norway nul points?"*

After Saturday night’s clear win in the Eurovision Song contest for the Norwegian entry "Fairytale" (written and performed by Alexander Rybak) it surely leaves many a fan wondering what ever happened to the country’s appalling track (...)

19 May. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Norway joins Sweden in anti-P2P move

Norway joins Sweden in anti-P2P move

Norway, home of the Nobel peace prize, seems to have joined Sweden in paying obeisance to the feral corporate entertainment cartels. With every passing day, the lines of demarcation between the corporate studios and labels and their customers become even (...)

21 avr. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Why the Norwegians don’t have an energy crisis

Why the Norwegians don't have an energy crisis

By Newt Gingrich I am writing to you this week from Norway, where Callista and I have witnessed extraordinary natural beauty - and some things America could learn about creating a more sensible balance between protecting the environment and finding more (...)

12 jui. 2008 | 1 comment | Chip D.

Norway thoughts

Norway thoughts

I’m back home but I still haven’t made sense of the place, not even on a superficial level... Oslo first struck me as more like Scotland than Sweden, most of all the craggy, weather-beaten faces and the wandering derelicts. I mean Inverness (...)

5 jui. 2007 | | Marginal Revolution

Norway liberals back file sharing

It’s wrong to brand an entire generation as criminals, says Trine Skei Grande (right), vice-chair of Norway’s Liberal Party. Quoted by Out-Law.com, and with her words ringing loudly in reference to the Big 4 music cartel’s sue (...)

18 avr. 2007 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

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