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A serious butter shortage in Norway has left some Norwegians fearing they won't be able to do their annual Christmas baking.

Store shelves in Norway are empty of butter and prices are through the roof, Agence France-Presse reported. Online vendors have been selling butter for as much as $465 for a 500-gram block, according to the news agency.

There were other reports of a 250-gram pack of butter being sold for a relatively more reasonable $13, which is still about four times the usual price.

AFP reported:

The dire shortage poses a serious challenge for Norwegians who are trying to finish their traditional Christmas baking — a task which usually requires them to make at least seven different kinds of biscuits.

According to Time magazine, the butter crisis is because of a diet fad in Norway that has "depleted the nation's supply of butter."

Two forensic psychiatrists have diagnosed Anders Behring Breivik with paranoid schizophrenia, Norwegian prosecutors told a press conference Tuesday.

Breivik attempted to style himself as a "military commander in the Norwegian resistance movement," before being cut off by the judge.

Teenager Patrick Flinders, who was mauled by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic earlier this month, told his story for the first time Sunday.

A 550-pound male polar bear attacked multiple sleeping teenagers including Flinders, 16, at a camp site of young British boys on August 5. They were at a remote Von Postbreen glacier near Longyearbyen, the Guardian reports.

Flinders fought back and punched the bear in the head. However, the bear clamped down on Flinders' head and left fragments of his teeth in the teen's skull.

Earlier in GlobalPost: One killed as polar bear attacks British campers in Norway

"It hit me with its paw and my arm came out of my sleeping bag. Then I felt its teeth around my elbow, biting down on the bone," he told the Sunday Mirror newspaper.

"I looked up and saw its huge mouth snapping. All around its nose there was blood. At that moment I thought I might die."

The bear killed one of the other teenagers, Horatio Chapple, 17, whose funeral was held this weekend.

Flinders said he could hear the bear "crunching my skull" as it clamped down on his head.

He has had to have 20 staples on his skull and has a number of injuries including on his left eye, which is now twisted. He underwent an operation earlier this month to remove pieces of bone and teeth from his skull, the Telegraph reported.

Here is a photograph in the Guardian of the teenager.

The relatives of those killed visited the island Friday to mourn and get more information from the police. An officer will show each family member where his or her loved one was shot.

The trip was made under heavy security, with Behring Breivik shackled on the boat and kept on "a leash" while on the island

Police believe the camera may still be on Utoya and are scouring the island for it and other evidence

English singer Morrissey says the massacre Norway is "nothing compared" to what happens to animals killed for fast-food chains, according to reports.

OSLO — How could it have taken an hour to stop this sick rampage? Whose fault is that? Why has no one resigned over this?

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