Iceland’s biggest music festival celebrates eleventh outing
Iceland Airwaves began life in an aircraft hangar at the Reykjavik domestic airport back in 1999 and over the years, despite much competition, has gro...
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The European Union’s Swedish presidency has declared that the Irish ‘Yes’ vote on the Lisbon Treaty was “a good day for Europe”.
Nobel Literature Prize goes to Herta Muller
The Swedish Nobel Academy has been awarding this year’s Nobel Prizes this week and next, including the Nobel Literature Prize which was awarded today ...
90 percent of Icelandic households with Internet access
In 2009, according to the eighth survey on the use of Information and Communications technology by Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Islands) 92 percent of...
Norway rated world’s best place to live, again
Once again Norway has taken the honour of being named best country in the world to live in, heading off Australia and Iceland to win for the second co...
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The product, Atorvastatin Magnesium, has been launched by four of Spain’s largest generic pharmaceutical companies. Actavis recently announced that it...
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...