A strike at five airports in Norway left thousands of travelers stranded Friday, officials said. Only about 220 workers spread over the five airports walked off the job, but that was enough to leave the airports short staffed, Aftenposten reported.

Bears are thriving in Arctic forests between Norway and Russia at the northern tip of a planned European "Green Belt" along the route of the former Iron Curtain.

OSLO, Norway - The Sami reindeer herders of Norway's Arctic are building a snowmobile drive-in theater using, of course, the tundra's most plentiful winter resource: snow.