Oslo Attacker

The suspect whom police have arrested following deadly shootings in Oslo overnight is a Norwegian of Iranian descent, police said on Saturday.

Jewish museums in Norway remained closed to the public on Friday, the day after Norway stepped up security as it announced a possible imminent terrorist attack by jihadists coming from Syria.

The imam of Oslo's main mosque was recuperating in hospital on Tuesday after a masked assailant repeatedly hacked him with a small axe in the centre of the Norwegian capital, a report said.

A man set himself on fire on Tuesday outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for killing 77 people in twin attacks last July, police said.

The Norwegian who massacred 77 people to protest against Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he had hoped to kill as many as 150 and kept on killing because police failed to respond urgently to his phone call. Breivik has given a detailed account of his car bomb attack at government headquarters in Oslo on July 22, which killed eight peopl...

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik insisted Tuesday he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his July rampage the most "spectacular" attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. Reading a prepared statement in court, the anti-Muslim extremist lashed out at Norwegian and European governments for embracing immigration and mul...

The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts today, amid worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Anders Behring Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to ...

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik had planned to assassinate US President Barack Obama with a car bomb when he went to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2009, the Daily Mail reported. The terrorist used a similar plan when he attacked the centre of Oslo last July that left 77 people dead.

The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister's Labor Party, police said Saturday.During a 10-hour questioning session on Friday, Anders Behring Breivik asked interrogators h...

A teenage girl, who was on the Utoya Island when gunman Anders Behring Breivik launched his deadly attack at the youth camp, sent her mother text messages as she hid under a rock. Julie Bremnes, 16, called her mother as she took shelter with friends under a rock on the island of Utoya when Breivik started his rampage, the Daily Express reported.

Mohammad Aslam Ansari, Anders Behring Breivik, Oslo, Varanasi

Oslo's central train station was partially evacuated on Wednesday morning because of a suspicious item of baggage, Norway's NTB news agency reported.

The self-described perpetrator of one of the worst modern mass murders in peacetime calmly said in court Monday that that he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison for bombing Norway's capital and opening fire on a political youth group retreat, officials said.Anders Behring Breivik told the court as he entered a not guilty plea that he wa...

A judge denied Anders Behring Breivik the public stage he wanted to air his anti-Muslim rants and call for revolution on Monday, ruling that the first hearing for the man who has confessed to Norway's twin terror attacks be held behind closed doors.Breivik had prepared a speech for his day in court even before launching the attacks that left 93 peo...

An Oslo district court judge decided Monday to hold the arraignment for the suspect in the twin attacks in Norway behind closed doors.Judge Kim Heger made the decision on a request from police. The suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, had asked for an open hearing."Based on information in the case the court finds that today's detention hearing should b...

The suspect whom police have arrested following deadly shootings in Oslo overnight is a Norwegian of Iranian descent, police said on Saturday.

Jewish museums in Norway remained closed to the public on Friday, the day after Norway stepped up security as it announced a possible imminent terrorist attack by jihadists coming from Syria.

The imam of Oslo's main mosque was recuperating in hospital on Tuesday after a masked assailant repeatedly hacked him with a small axe in the centre of the Norwegian capital, a report said.

A man set himself on fire on Tuesday outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for killing 77 people in twin attacks last July, police said.

The Norwegian who massacred 77 people to protest against Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he had hoped to kill as many as 150 and kept on killing because police failed to respond urgently to his phone call. Breivik has given a detailed account of his car bomb attack at government headquarters in Oslo on July 22, which killed eight peopl...

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik insisted Tuesday he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his July rampage the most "spectacular" attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. Reading a prepared statement in court, the anti-Muslim extremist lashed out at Norwegian and European governments for embracing immigration and mul...

The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts today, amid worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Anders Behring Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to ...

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik had planned to assassinate US President Barack Obama with a car bomb when he went to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2009, the Daily Mail reported. The terrorist used a similar plan when he attacked the centre of Oslo last July that left 77 people dead.

The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister's Labor Party, police said Saturday.During a 10-hour questioning session on Friday, Anders Behring Breivik asked interrogators h...

A teenage girl, who was on the Utoya Island when gunman Anders Behring Breivik launched his deadly attack at the youth camp, sent her mother text messages as she hid under a rock. Julie Bremnes, 16, called her mother as she took shelter with friends under a rock on the island of Utoya when Breivik started his rampage, the Daily Express reported.

Mohammad Aslam Ansari, Anders Behring Breivik, Oslo, Varanasi

Oslo's central train station was partially evacuated on Wednesday morning because of a suspicious item of baggage, Norway's NTB news agency reported.

The self-described perpetrator of one of the worst modern mass murders in peacetime calmly said in court Monday that that he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison for bombing Norway's capital and opening fire on a political youth group retreat, officials said.Anders Behring Breivik told the court as he entered a not guilty plea that he wa...

A judge denied Anders Behring Breivik the public stage he wanted to air his anti-Muslim rants and call for revolution on Monday, ruling that the first hearing for the man who has confessed to Norway's twin terror attacks be held behind closed doors.Breivik had prepared a speech for his day in court even before launching the attacks that left 93 peo...

An Oslo district court judge decided Monday to hold the arraignment for the suspect in the twin attacks in Norway behind closed doors.Judge Kim Heger made the decision on a request from police. The suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, had asked for an open hearing."Based on information in the case the court finds that today's detention hearing should b...