Families of the more than 120 men killed when an oil rig capsized 45 years ago were failed by official investigations, a new study has concluded. The Alexander Kielland platform was being used as an ...

The Alexander L Kielland platform (right) provided accommodation for rig workers in the Norwegian North Sea oil fields On a stormy night in March 1980, 22 British men were among more than 120 killed ...

This raw, powerful novel is based on the Norwegian woman whose case has been notorious for more than a century In the early 1880s, Brynhild Størset, an impoverished young maid-of-all-work, left Norway ...

The Norwegian author Victoria Kielland’s novel “My Men,” translated into English by Damion Searls, is based on the exploits of Belle Gunness, a real-life serial killer (“Hell’s Belle”) who preyed upon ...

A union is demanding a renewed investigation of a 1980 accident in which 123 workers lost their lives when an accommodation platform keeled over during a storm at the Ekofisk field off Norway after ...

On a stormy night in March 1980, 22 British men were among more than 120 killed when a floating accommodation platform capsized in the North Sea oil fields. It was Norway's biggest ever industrial ...

The Alexander Kielland (right) was in the process of being converted from an accommodation platform back into a drilling rig Seawater surged in through doors which were supposed to be shut. They had ...