Oslo - Norwegian Princess Martha Louise, daughter to King Harald and Queen Sonja, gave birth Monday to her third child, a daughter.
The mother and newborn baby were doing well, the palace said, adding that the newborn baby weighed 3.7 kilograms and measured 53 centimetres long at birth.
The king has notified the speaker of parliament that the baby was to be named Emma Tallulah Behn.
The baby was born at 12:53 at the home the princess shares with her husband, writer Ari Behn near Oslo, the palace said.
The couple were married in 2002.
The princess, 37, has published several books, some for children, under her own name.
Oslo - A Norwegian search service has launched the site Kvasir Junior (http://www.kvasir.no/jr/) which targets children aged six to 12 who want to explore the internet.
The aim is to give children a safe option and focuses on learning, information and entertainment.
"The internet offers great opportunities for children and youths, but also contains dangers," Ingrid Stover Jensen of Kvasir said in a statement.
The criteria for sites that can be registered on Kvasir Junior include "varied content" and even if the sites are geared towards adults, they can be accessed by older children if the language and quality is acceptable.
The sites also have to be up and running, and easy to use.
Oslo - Speculation on the possible winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced October 10, centred Thursday on human rights activists, according to an Oslo-based researcher.
The Nobel Committee may well consider a human rights activist since 2008 is also "the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Stein Tonnesson, director of the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), said.
Tonnesson's personal shortlist included two Chinese dissidents, Hu Jia and Wei Jingsheng.
Oslo - A Congolese priest was named winner of the 2008 Rafto Prize on Thursday for his work supporting reconciliation and peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and speaking out against mass rapes of women as part of the "strategy of war."
Pastor Bulambo Lembelembe Josue was cited as "a visionary church leader with high personal integrity and a unique ability to turn strategies into concrete action," the jury said, noting that women were often the victims of the long-standing conflict in the African nation.
Oslo- Norway's central bank kept its key lending rate unchanged at 5.75 per cent Wednesday, citing the "unusually high degree of uncertainty" in wake of the recent global financial turbulence.
Norges Bank deputy governor Jan F Qvigstad noted that "there are wide daily swings in money market rates, equity prices, the krone exchange rate and oil and commodity prices."
"It is difficult to determine how long this pressure will last and the effects on inflation and activity in the Norwegian economy. It is therefore appropriate to keep the interest rate unchanged now," he added in a statement.
Oslo - Norwegian parliament speaker Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday he was to leave Norwegian politics, opting to stand as a candidate for secretary general of the Council of Europe.
The veteran Social Democrat, who has also held the posts of prime minister and foreign minister, hoped to succeed Terry Davis of Britain who was slated to step down next year.
Jagland, 58, said the Council of Europe was a key part of the European political and security system along with the European Union, NATO and the Organization of Cooperation and Security (OSCE).
Oslo - Speculation on the possible winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced October 10, centred Thursday on human rights activists, according to an Oslo-based researcher.
Oslo- Norway's central bank kept its key lending rate unchanged at 5.75 per cent Wednesday, citing the "unusually high degree of uncertainty" in wake of the recent global financial turbulence.
