Norway’s former prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has been appointed as special envoy on climate change by Ban Ki-Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, it was announced on Monday.
Former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is joining a global commission set up to push the economic case for tackling climate change ahead of negotiations over a new global treaty in 2015.
Norway's Prime Minister is demanding that the US provide a report on the extent to which Norwegians have been targeted by the National Security Agency's spying programmes, after declaring that "allies and friends should not monitor one another".
Norway's outgoing centre-left government presented a budget on Monday that trims the use of funds from its massive oil wealth as it seeks to cool down the economy.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Monday handed in the government's resignation following his centre-left coalition's election defeat to right-wing parties last month.
Norway's outgoing Prime Minister has met President of the Democratic Republic of Congo to plea for Joshua French, a Norwegian jailed in the country, to be sent home.
Outgoing Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has challenged Siv Jensen, leader of the anti-immigration Progress Party, to publicly apologise for using the term "sneak-islamization".
Norway's outgoing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is to be ousted from the top spot on the Hottest Heads of State index when it is updated next month, making way for his "knock-out" Thai counterpart.
The idea to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control was proposed to President Obama in Stockholm, and served up after a meeting of Nordic and Baltic ministers arranged Carl Bildt, VG has reported.
Norway's Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg is so certain of an election victory on Tuesday that she has already ordered the celebratory cake, VG reported as polling began on Monday.
Judging by the polls, Norway's Jens Stoltenberg will be voted out in the general election on September 9. The Local asks how the PM who won plaudits worldwide for his speeches after the Utøya attacks lost the trust of his people.
The dinner between US President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Scandinavian countries was "inspiring" and "comfortable", Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday night.
A policeman who was allegedly sacked for insulting Norway's Prime Minister on Facebook, also posted a string of anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant comments, VG has reported.
A Norwegian policeman has been sacked after he called Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg "krapylet", which roughly translates as "the creep" or "the filth", on Facebook.
Norwegian flower farmers are up in arms at the Labour party's decision to turn to Kenyan growers to source more than a million red roses for the ongoing election campaign.
One of the passengers carried by Norwegian Prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in a taxi-driving election stunt has complained that her bad back was made worse by his terrible driving.
A Labour party veteran has unleashed a political storm in Norway, describing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as "evasive" and unreliable in a venom-filled autobiography released just weeks before the general election.
An audacious election stunt where Norway's Prime Minister worked undercover as a cab driver has back-fired after it emerged that five of his passengers had been vetted and paid.
Jens Stoltenberg spent an afternoon working undercover as a taxi driver in Oslo, in an audacious political stunt which has become viral viewing worldwide.
Norway's ruling left-wing coalition has received mixed messages from the first polls to emerge since the summer break, with one showing they are narrowing the opposition's lead, and another showing they are falling further behind.
A controversial British book entitled Race has put Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on the front cover alongside Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, sparking a potential copyright battle with the government.
The nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, a fan of US superstar statistician Nate Silver, has come to the "unhappy" conclusion that his uncle will lose the next elections.
