News on Norway

France Alpine Skiing World Cup

2010-12-11T08:05:35Z

Ted Ligety of the United States, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom race, celebrates on the podium with second placed Aksel Lund Svindal, of Norway, left, and third placed Italy's Nobel Peace Prize winner, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is projected on the wall of the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway Friday Dec. 10, 2010. Liu, 54, is serving an 11-year sentence on subversion charges brought after he co-authored a bold call for sweeping changes to...

Norway Nobel Peace China

2010-12-10T14:01:54Z

A woman holds a candle during a torchlight procession in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Oslo, Norway, Friday Dec. 10, 2010. Friday's ceremony marked the the first time in 74-years the prestigious $1.4 million award was not handed over, because Liu is serving an 11-year sentenc...

Norway China Nobel

2010-12-10T07:31:24Z

A small group of pro-China supporters protest in a street in Oslo, Norway Friday Dec. 10, 2010 to voice their opposition to the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned in hi...

Norway Nobel Peace Prize

2010-12-08T22:01:27Z

Yang Jianli , a Tiananmen Square activist in 1989, speaks in Oslo, Norway on Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. Yang has been appointed by the wife of Liu Xiaobo to be the peace award winner's representative and spokesman in Norway during the Nobe...