Future's bleak for Norwegian MP who called on fortune tellers

A Norwegian politician has said she will not seek re-election after running up a large phone bill ringing fortune-tellers at parliament's expense.

Saera Khan, an MP for the ruling Labour Party, admits calling pay-per-minute fortune-tellers 793 times in one nine-month period, for a total of 133 hours.

In one three-month period, she spent 48,000 kroner (£4,590; $7,750).



Ms Khan, 29, who is on sick leave, has said she has paid the money back.

Labour's parliamentary leader Hill-Marta Solberg said advice from fortune-tellers had not influenced the party's work in parliament.

However, neither Ms Khan nor Ms Solberg gave any details of what kind of advice Ms Khan sought, and Ms Solberg said the total amount of the bills would not be made public.