Norway’s Environment and Development Minister warned on Monday that melting Arctic ice is threatening the habitat of polar bears.

OSLO, Norway - The United Nations ranked Norway as the best country to live in for a sixth consecutive year Thursday, prompting the country's aid minister to tell Norwegians to stop whining about wanting more. Oil-rich Norway, with its generous welfare state, topped the U.N.

JEVNAKER, Norway (Reuters) - Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers said on Friday they had reassured mediator Norway that they stood by their commitment to a cease-fire and peace process in their conflict with the Colombo government.

By James Kilner and Peter Apps OSLO/COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government said Tamil Tiger rebels had refused to meet them at talks in Oslo on Thursday, a blow to hopes of revitalizing a peace process many fear is about to degenerate into renewed civil war.

By Peter Apps COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels accused each other of attacks on Thursday, as talks on the safety of the island's Nordic unarmed ceasefire monitoring mission began in Oslo.