Norway Live Blog

A Norwegian working for the United Nations was freed on Friday, nearly two weeks after he was kidnapped in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Interior Ministry said.

A tribal source had said the Norwegian was abducted by tribespeople from oil-producing Maarib province demanding the release of a suspect accused of killing two members of the security forces.

"He arrived in Sanaa and is in good health," an official at the UN office in Sanaa told Reuters.

Lawlessness has gripped Yemen, one of the world's most impoverished countries, since mass protests calling for the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule began in February.

Violence in Yemen's south has forced tens of thousands of people to flee, compounding a humanitarian crisis in a country where about half a million people are displaced.  [Reuters]

The man who is alleged to have influenced Anders Breivik through anti-Islamic blogs says the mass killing in Norway was 'pure evil'.

Paul Ray, a founding member of the English Defence League has admitted meeting leaders of Europe's far right groups in Malta, where he now lives.
 
Ray gave his first television interview to Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher. To read Alan's blog on his meeting with Ray, click here. 

Norway has withdrawn its final four F-16 fighter jets from the NATO campaign over Libya, the military has announced.

The aircraft carried out 583 missions, out of a total of 6,493 flown by NATO warplanes since March 31, said Petter Lindqvist, a military spokesman. The planes dropped a total of 569 bombs.

They are now back at their bases in Bodoe in the north of the country and Oerland in the central west.

On June 10, the centre-left Norwegian government announced that it would gradually withdraw the six F-16s it had taking part in the bombing campaign.