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Exchange of knowledge and expertise, bartering and wooing. Kirkhellaren Cave on Sanna in Træna is one of Norway’s oldest meeting places, having first been used about 10,000 years ago.So far west out at sea that witty people claim that the gulls here speak English, it is midsummer on the Arctic Circle and we are on the island of Sanna in Træna Municipality.A 10 to 15-minute walk from the quay we find Kirkhellaren, a very famous cave where, throughout repeated ice ages, the frost and sea have carved out a cathedral in a crack of the mountainside...The first archaeological excavations in...

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - An Al-Qaida terror cell was behind a mortar strike against the U.S. embassy in Yemen that missed its target but killed a security guard and wounded 13 students at a nearby school, an Interior Ministry official said Saturday. The official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said al- Qaida militant Hamza al-Dayan launched three mortars at the embassy Tuesday before fleeing the scene in a vehicle with three accomplices. The mortar shells crashed into the school in the downtown Sawan district of San'a, killing the security guard and wounding 13 schoolgirls, three grievously. On Thursday, the...

A German family of five, including a former high-ranking diplomat, have become the latest foreigners taken hostage by tribesmen in Yemen, tribal sources said Wednesday. They were abducted from a restaurant on the road to from the southern port city of Aden from the eastern region of Shabwa, 480 kilometres (300 miles) east of the capital Sanaa, the source told AFP. He said they have been held for some three days and that their captors had demanded "the release of tribesmen imprisoned in Aden." A German foreign ministry spokesman confirmed the disappearance of Juergen Chrobog -- who served as...