Islandsbanki committed to Geothermal Energy development in the U.S
According to the third annual U.S. Geothermal Energy Market Report issued by Islandsbanki (formerly Glitnir), there are around 144 geothermal energy p...
Scandinavians are all immigrants say Swedish researchers
According to Swedish researchers, all Scandinavians are descendents of immigrants who were believed to have first arrived in the region somewhere betw...
Saami against Canadian mining project
Saami people have claimed that a proposal by a Canadian company for gold-mining in Sweden’s northeast violates their UN-recognised human rights and wi...
SecurStore online backup and Iceland Land Survey partnership continues
SecurStore online backup and recovery announced this week it has been asked to continue its longstanding business relationship with the National Land ...
Funeral for famous Finnish brewery
Last week saw a small crowd hold a funeral procession to commemorate the closure of the famous Pori Brewery. The last rites were administered to a bee...
Will Russia loan Iceland money?
The Icelandic Foreign Minister Steingrimur J. Sigfusson today had a meeting with Dmitry Pankin, the Russian assistant finance minister. At the meeting...
Sweden to accept Somali and Eritrean refugees
Sweden has joined a dozen fellow European nations in agreeing to UNHCR quotas for the acceptance of Eritrean and Somali refugees from camps in Sudan a...
Arabic translation of Danish commando book appears online
Denmark was shrouded in controversy last week, following reports of a controversial book on Danish commandos and its translation into Arabic. It is be...