Iceland Music Export celebrates first year at Midem
Iceland Music Export (IMX) will host its first stand at the world-famous Midem music event which is running in Cannes until 30th January. Over 10,000 ...
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The complicated legacy of Bobby Fischer
Chess legend Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17th, was recently buried at a country church in Iceland during a Catholic funeral service. Though the...
UN criticises Icelandic fishing quotas
Iceland has been accused by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of disregarding the rights of two fishermen in Iceland by refusing to allocate t...
Icelandic mid-winter feast preparations underway
Winter holidaymakers are making their way to Iceland where residents will soon be celebrating the ancient Viking mid-winter feast known as Thorrablot....
Promising results for new deCODE heart drug
The biopharmaceutical company deCODE Genetics Inc has described a recent trial for a drug to prevent heart attacks as having positive results, accordi...
Bobby Fischer dies aged 64
Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer died yesterday in Iceland after a long battle with illness, according to Visir.is Fischer was born 9th March...
Iceland wary of Euroisation
Kaupthing, Iceland’s biggest company with total assets valued at €56bn, has been denied permission by the Central Bank of Iceland to adopt the euro as...
New equity rights market opens in Iceland
The Nordic Exchange Iceland opened a new specialty submarket for equity rights earlier this month, reports newsdesk.se. The OMX ICE Equity Rights subm...