Iceland selects Maria Olafsdottir for Eurovision
Maria Olafsdottir is to represent Iceland in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna after winning the country’s national selection competition, So...
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Kaupthing bankers jailed for fraud in Iceland
Iceland’s Supreme Court has rejected appeals by four Kaupthing executives and upheld their prison sentences for their part in the country’s 2008 finan...
Mother to trek Iceland to raise funds for rare heart condition
A mother is to trek across Iceland’s volcanic and snowy terrain in order to raise funds for a rare heart condition that her daughter suffers from. Thi...
Volcanic eruption in Holuhraun ongoing
The Scientific Advisory Board of the Icelandic Civil Protection has released the latest facts about the volcanic eruption in Holuhraun: The volcanic e...
Icelandic canyon carved by brutal floods
One of Iceland’s biggest canyons was created by three devastating floods that occurred thousands of years apart, geologists have learnt. The 280-kilom...
Icelandic exporting more cod to Spain than anywhere else
Spain has overtaken the UK to become Iceland’s number one cod market in terms of volumes, revealed Marko Partners’ Seafood Intelligence Report. In 201...
Game of Thrones’ ‘The Mountain’ becomes World’s Strongest Viking
Game of Thrones star Hafthor ‘Thor’ Bjornsson is officially the World’s Strongest Viking after smashing a weight-lifting record that has stood for a t...
Iceland reiterates that it will not be joining EU
Icelandic Foreign Minister Jon Hannibalsson has outlined the reasons why the North Atlantic nation will not be joining the EU. Despite formal negotiat...