India to open embassy in Iceland
Officials from the government of India have announced that they will be opening embassies in four countries around the world as well as a new Consulat...
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First Canada – Iceland football match
The Canadian men’s football team will play Iceland for their first ever game in Reykjavik on Wednesday 22nd August. It will also be the first match fo...
Beam me to Iceland, Scotty
Movie scouts looking for a location to film the next Star Trek movie first visited Iceland in June. Things are looking good for the island nation now ...
What Icelanders earn
Once a year, the personal income tax payments of every resident of Iceland is available to the public for 3 days. This year, the period began on July ...
Thousands attend free fish festival in Dalvik
Dalvik, a small town outside Akureyri in Northern Iceland, celebrated its annual Fish Day last Saturday. The town swelled from a population of 2,000 t...
Norwegian army conducts exercises in Iceland
Military units from the Norwegian Special Forces and some of Norway’s F-16 fighter jets will be conducting military exercise in Iceland this week in o...
New high-speed communications cable to link Iceland with the world
A new fibre-optic cable system will soon be built under the sea, connecting Iceland to Hibernia Atlantic’s northern Atlantic submarine cable system. H...
Plane crash-lands in lava field
On the evening of August 9th, a Cessna-152 plane with two people on board crashed into a lava field near Reykjavik. The two passengers were airlifted ...