Oslo - Climate change poses the main threat to the world's polar bear population, the world's five biggest polar bear nations said Thursday.

Norway, Denmark/Greenland, Russia, the US and Canada all agreed in 1973 to sign an agreement protecting polar bears and their habitat.

But back then, hunting was regarded as the biggest threat to the bears.

Oslo  - Threats to polar bear populations, mainly due to climate change, were the topic of a three-day meeting that opened Tuesday in the northern Norwegian city of Tromso.

"Climate change has superceded hunting as the main threat to polar bears. We have to act to protect the habitat of the polar bear," Norwegian Environment Minister Erik Solheim said in his opening remarks.

"Global warming has to be stopped if we are to succeed," he added.

Oslo - A small plane, parked in a hangar in northern Denmark, caused a scare Monday after it transmitted distress signals that were picked up by other planes, reports said.

Several planes flying over Kristiansand, southern Norway including a plane operated by carrier British Airways picked up the signals and alerted the southern Norwegian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre based in Stavanger.

Oslo - Sales of military trucks to Myanmar was Friday cited as the reason Norway's state pension fund removed Chinese company, Dongfeng Motor Group Co Ltd, from its list of assets.

"We cannot finance companies that support the military dictatorship in Burma through the sale of military materials," Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said in a statement.

Oslo  - Norwegia