Winter Blue Lagoon city breaks in Iceland
Iceland is fast becoming the ideal destination for city breaks throughout the tail end of 2010, as the cold winter months bring a sense of magic to th...
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John Lennon imagine peace tower on Videy Island to light up again
Yoko Ono will be in Iceland next month for the annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island. The Peace Tower is a work of art that Yoko ...
First terror financing trial kicks off in Norway
A Somali-born Norwegian has pleaded not guilty to sending more than NOK 200,000 (USD 30,000) to the leaders of an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant grou...
Baltic seals steal catch of the day from fishermen
Greedy seals are leaving fishermen in Finland and Sweden with scraps, as they pick the nets clean and scoop the prize catches in the Gulf of Bothnia.
“Village idiots” prompt fringe party member to quit
One of only two elected candidates of a party which claims to support Denmark’s fringe areas has left the group, calling its members a bunch of “villa...
Airline seeks gay couple for cloud-9 wedding
A Scandinavian airline is searching for a gay couple with a head for heights after announcing plans to host the first ever airborne same-sex wedding. ...
Sweden Democrat blogger claims Africans have ‘rape gene’
A politician has quit a far right party in Sweden after his blog, in which he claimed black Africans are genetically predisposed towards rape, caused ...
Queen of Spain to award Stefan Einarsson EU Spanish Presidency Prize today
The Icelandic designer, Stefan Einarsson, will today be awarded the EU Spanish Presidency Prize at a ceremony in Madrid hosted by the Queen of Spain.