Norwegian airline Widerøe has announced the first direct flights from London Stansted to the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand, launching on August 13th next year.

“True luxury is always modest,” muses Eero Koivisto, one of the Swedish architect and design trio Claesson Koivisto Rune. The firm have recently completed work on Bergen Børs, their third hotel project for hyperlocal Norwegian hospitality group De Bergenske inside a year.

Four victims of the polar bear attack that resulted in the death of a British teenager, are recovering in University Hospital in Tromsoe after undergoing surgery, according to reports.

Travellers in Norway have been urged to avoid the centre of Oslo as investigations into an explosion on Friday continue. Anders Behring Breivik, 32, is believed to have detonated a car bomb in the government district of the city before launching a further attack at a youth camp on Utoya Island, 40 kilometres to the west.

An explosion has killed at least two people outside offices occupied by the prime minister in Oslo, Norway. The offices of Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg were extensively damaged following what officials described as a “bomb”.