Topic: Norway
Norway's triple Olympic champion Marit Bjoergen's domination of Nordic Skiing continued on Saturday as she won the World Cup 30km race for her 34th career victory and fourth this season. In the men's sprint, victory went to Sweden's Emil Jonsson, who extended his lead in the World Cup standings in the discipline in which he only ...
NEW YORK/OSLO (Reuters) - Fertilizer maker CF Industries Holdings Inc <CF.N> on Friday said it will buy rival Terra Industries Inc <TRA.N> for more than $4.6 billion in cash and stock after Norwegian rival Yara International ASA <YAR.OL> decided not to raise its offer for Terra. The deal ends a ...
OSLO (Reuters) - A "doomsday" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said on Thursday. Set up on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard two years ago, the vault aims to store seeds of all food crops deep beneath permafrost to withstand threats ...
