Whaling season in Iceland “a success”
Iceland’s whaling quota this year is coming close to being reached, but according to Managing Director of the Association of Minke Whalers Gunnar Jons...
Icelandic woman forced to give up children to USA
An Icelandic woman received a court order to return to the United States with her two children before the next coming Sunday. Borghildur Gudmundsdotti...
StatoilHydro in trouble for CO2 emissions
StatoilHydro, the gas and oil giant, has found itself in trouble with the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority over excessive CO2 emissions from its ...
Saami Parliament against new mining projects in Finnmark
The Saami parliament (Samediggi) governing the indigenous Saami people in Norway, decided not to approve the new mining law which Norwegian legislator...
Two Russian bombers fly over Icelandic airspace
Two Russian bomber aircraft flew over Icelandic airspace last Wednesday. According to the website of the Icelandic Department of Defense, the two Russ...
Queen of Danish jet set arrested on drug charges
The Danish tabloids call her the ‘queen of the jet set’, and she’s reportedly a close friend of the royal family. But now the 40 year-old businesswoma...
Iceland helps Namibia with deaf community centre
Iceland’s Communication Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SHH) will support a similar organisation in the African nation of Namibia. The SHH wi...
Stockholm’s jumbo jet hostel needs emergency landing
Just seven months after it opened its hatch for business, the world’s first hostel built within an abandoned jumbo jet has been put up for sale. The n...