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The first funerals for victims of Norway's gun and bomb attacks are to be held, a week after 76 people were killed in Oslo and on a nearby island.
Norwegian leaders will join relatives for a service held in Oslo by the youth wing of the Labour Party - the target of the shootings on Utoeya island.
It comes as Anders Behring Breivik, who admits carrying out the killings, is to face questioning by police again.
Mr Breivik, an anti-Muslim extremist, is being held in solitary confinement.
The first funerals will be those of Bano Rashid, 18, who will be buried near Oslo on Friday, and of Ismail Haji Ahmed, 19, whose burial will be held in the south-western town of Hamar, Norwegian TV reported.
Both were among the 68 people - mostly members of the Labour Party youth movement - who were shot dead on Utoeya last Friday.
Another eight people died when a massive bomb hit central Oslo earlier that day.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and most of his cabinet will attend the memorial service in Oslo.
The principal message will be that Norway's democracy will not be undermined by extremism, officials say.
Mr Breivik, who says he carried out both the Oslo bombing and the Utoeya massacre, is due to be questioned by police for the second time.
He will also be assessed by psychiatrists. His lawyer has said he believes his client is insane.
The police called off their search of Utoeya on Thursday afternoon, but continue to search the surrounding lake for remains.
They have released the names of another 24 people killed.
The process is taking days, because the authorities are scrupulously following a procedure of contacting relatives when they have positively identified victims.
Most were teenagers. The youngest of those named so far was Johannes Buoe, aged 14.