One of Norway's leading universities has been forced to change a message warning overseas students of the US's "poorly developed health services", after it was dragged into a storm of criticism on social media.
At a time when it often feels like we are more and more being split up into ‘us’ and ‘them’, King Harald of Norway is being hailed for a speech that highlights our commonalities and embraces diversity and acceptance.
You may have seen some unique wedding and engagement photos online, but you’ve likely never seen a couple go to such great heights as these Norwegian lovers.
Just in time for the vital New York primary on Tuesday, a Norwegian spoof video about US presidential candidate Donald Trump has spread across the internet like wildfire.
This video of a Swede and a Norwegian attempting to cross country ski inside Scandinavia's most famous furniture store has sent social media sites into meltdown. Are you jumping on the bandwagon? (or should that be ski lift?)
Stig ‘Tonish’ Tonsjø is a proud Norwegian police officer and a big fan of Rihanna, so he and a colleague decided to post a video of his fancy footwork to show the human side of Norway’s finest.
A Norwegian campaign to highlight sexual assault and domestic abuse has racked up over five million views in Sweden and Norway and a new English version hopes to bring its heartfelt plea to fathers around the world.
Two Norwegian comedians got Chicago’s fastest rapper and his sidekick to improvise a bank heist film on the spot, then used the recording for a film they acted out themselves back in Oslo. Amazingly, it works.
UPDATED: A Norwegian comic causing a stir in Sweden has told The Local why he wrote a blog post calling on his country people to throw all Swedes out of Norway.
A nine second video of rubber ducks* apparently screaming with excruciating pain, made in Norway, has gone viral, reaching 7.8 million views on Youtube.
The Local spoke with Norwegian filmmaker Eskild Fors, whose video poking fun at the Danish language has gone viral in Denmark, about the difference between the two Scandinavian countries.
An advert by a Norwegian anti-alcohol campaign group is probably the last thing you’d expect to go viral. But then again, never has not drinking looked quite so cool.
A 19-year-old Norwegian high school student who posted a message on Facebook to demonstrate the dangers of internet virality saw it spread to more than 30,000 people over four continents and get more than 27,000 comments in less than 23 hours.
A Norwegian short film about the miseries of life in the age of Facebook has struck such a chord that it has had nearly three million views on YouTube in less than a month.
