When is the first Norwegian killed?
Between 21.700 and 55.000 people have died in the Iraq war. Plus four hundred occupying soldiers. When will the first Norwegian soldier come home in a coffin?
Soldiers' Diary
Ny Tid brings here an excerpt from the Norwegian Iraqi force's diary which has been published on Forsvarsnett.
Speaking of the headgear case
"My sisters don't wear headgear like me, but practice Islam just as much for it," says Amber Khan of the World Islamic Mission.
US Army at the breaking point
There will probably be no military coup in the US. But the generals are grumpy.
From adventure to filthy realism
– I don't want any more entertainment. I have tried to break this word, so to speak, by dividing the word in half in the title of the book: "Under attitude", the author Bjørn Skogmo tells about his latest book.
Paying relief work with bottomless debt
They will raise money for the charities' charities. But those who spend the most money on the slot machines end up even in bottomless debt. Will anyone soon set up slot machines to raise money for the gamblers?
- Impossible to win
Those who are hooked on slots are like other gamblers – they are waiting for the big win that will solve all the problems.
The machines become kinder
In recent years, the turnover in the slot machine market has exploded. Only from 2001 to 2002, turnover increased from NOK 15 to 67 billion – an increase of XNUMX per cent.
Much more growth than protection
The EU created its large internal market to achieve more growth than the Member States could individually – and faced an environmental problem that the EU should be well suited to solve – since so many of them are crossing borders. But it's not that simple.
The unknown master of church music
Two new CDs convince us that Giacomo Carissimi is worth a closer acquaintance.
The Thule Agreement is not valid
The lawsuit brought by the forced residents of Qaanaaq / Thule against the Danish state started on Monday in the Danish Supreme Court.
Good old fashioned modernization
Erna Solberg wants to modernize Islam, but who is going to modernize Erna?
Chaos in the constitutional debate
The first meetings on the draft EU constitution have ended in chaos. It seems that during the last 24 hours at the EU summit in Brussels in December, all dissenting views must be reconciled.
With Parliament as decoration
The Swedish parliament may end up as the Swedish king – as a "spicy decoration" without real power. It claims two doctoral students in European law at Stockholm University.
- Lucio Gutierrez is the CIA man
Lucio Gutierrez was brought out by a people who had had enough of thieves. Now it was finally time to elect the president of the people. This was done in November last year. Only a few weeks later, it was clear that they had been deceived.
The speech and the vision
The world hangs in the thin thread of conversation, we believe author Anders Johansen. But what kind of conversation should it be? What kind of world? And what kind of publicity?
- Word front denies genocide
Left-wing Swedish magazine Ordfront denies the Balkan genocide, says Polish-Swedish journalist and author Maciej Zaremba.
- Budget cooperation if we have to
It is Frp who is the government's natural budget partner, but SV is in a crisis situation. The party will spend SEK 2,3 billion to reduce unemployment.
- The power market has become a quagmire
One of the largest power companies, BKK, will abolish the free choice of power supplier, because the costs are too high. Critics of the Energy Act are now getting right in their claims, and want the case up in the Storting.
New life as a dog
Eighteen years after the premiere, Lasse Hallström's classic will be re-installed. You might like that.
So easy – so difficult
Men don't read books, it is said. Well, should they read one, it should be this one.
The Myths of America
"The Fear of America" is an important book. But the authors forget that fascination can be just as important as fear.
Selective self-determination
Do the government parties, Sp and SV think it is okay that we shut down fetuses with Down syndrome – only if it does not become too much of it?
Norman has to go
Minister of Labor and Administration Victor D. Norman's offer to "repay" the 13.000 kroner he and his staff have spent "too much" during their working dinners ...
An open face at school?
Ban on canning in school? The question leads to heated discussion when six teenage girls with immigrant background at Hellerud High School try to agree.