Denmark mulls Olympic performance
Despite poor performances from many of Denmark’s favoured athletes, the Nordic nation still bagged its predicted seven medals at the 2008 Beijing Olym...
Icelandair sponsors Iceland Airwaves music festival
Iceland Airwaves, the biggest event in Iceland’s musical calendar, will take place this year on October 15-19. Icelandair, one of the main sponsors of...
Huge weapons bust made near Stockholm
Police in Sweden have arrested six men and charged them with illegal possession of weapons, seizing an exceptionally large cache of explosives and wea...
Finland reigns supreme in Sauna World Championships
Sauna aficionados Finland withstood the heat longest to win the 2008 Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland, defending their current reign as s...
Norway irks its farmers, but collapse of global talks appeases
Last week’s collapse of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Geneva is causing soul searching among governments and NGOs, but was the cause of ...
New software manages the production of giant cranes for the offshore industry
Danish Software Company manages the production of giant cranes for the offshore industry in Kristiansand (Norway), Singapore, China and Malaysia Hans ...
Denmark hosts Santa Claus summer convention
The annual World Santa Claus Congress kicked off another year in Copenhagen, bringing the spirit of Christmas to Scandinavia a little early. Even thou...
Best summer in Iceland since 1944
According to MBL.is, the summer of 2008 is the best since 1944 and probably the best summer since weather records began. According to Trausti Jonsson,...