News that some Iranian soccer players have defected after their team was knocked out of the Asian Cup in Australia this week should come as no surprise.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Danish String Quartet and Danish National Girls’ Choir, 7 p.m. Friday, April 10 at The Granada Theatre in Santa ...

EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump, more than a week into his seismic military campaign in Iran, no longer wants to talk about winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The president often claims that his ...

The obvious first question is “How?” As in how exactly did Catherine Cohen — the Houston-born, New York-forged comedian — wind up in “Sentimental Value,” the Norwegian arthouse film that’s nominated ...

Norway has opened an aggravated corruption investigation into former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland. Authorities announced Thursday that the probe follows ...

That was the experience of Lisette Saldivar (29) and Dahlia Jean Girvin-Smith (23) which inspired starting Bergen’s new girls club, Søta Social. The two Americans, who have over 90,000 followers on ...

Tiny Norwegian club Bodø/Glimt is turning the Champions League into a feelgood story by toppling Europe’s biggest clubs in ...

In a lounge beneath the Metropolitan Opera, the towering Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is the picture of calm. “My husband jokes I am like a pressure cooker,” she says with a laugh, sitting ...

Chris Stokes, a founding member of Jamaica's original "Cool Runnings" bobsleigh crew, recalls being mobbed by fans at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics the moment he put on the team jacket and left the ...

No injuries were reported at the U.S. embassy in Oslo, Norway after what the city's police called a deliberate attack on the building. Oslo police officials suggested at a news conference that the ...

Norway celebrated a golden double ​on Sunday as Sander Eitrem surged past American defending champion Jordan Stolz to win the ...