Finland limits firearms ownership
The process for obtaining a firearms licence in Finland has been made increasingly difficult in recent years as police seek to minimise the availabili...
Iceland returns EU questions
The Icelandic Government submitted yesterday its answers to a questionnaire from the European Commission as part of ongoing preparations for Iceland’s...
A-Ha bids farewell to three decades of music history
After nearly thirty years of pop music history, the internationally renowned Norwegian trio A-Ha has announced that its 2010 World Tour will be the la...
Denmark refuses to apologise for child experiments
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has defended his government’s stance in the controversial case of 22 children from Greenland. In a statemen...
Burning bunnies for biofuel
Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood has solved the problem of finding fuel for a central heating plant by using thousands of rabbits as firewood.
Swedish start up companies boosted by immigrants
Foreign-born residents have aided the new business boom across Sweden in recent years.
Streamlined religious teaching called for in Finland
Municipalities around Finland have called for sweeping reforms to the way schools teach religion.
Microsoft uses Iceland to promote Windows 7
The magnificent waterfall Goðafoss travels around as a part of the promotion material for Microsoft Windows 7. “This came as a surprise when I saw it”...