Iceland is the best place to be gay
Iceland has been ranked number one on the Gay Happiness Index, scoring 79 out of a possible 100, while Uganda is bottom of the pile. PlanetRomeo, a ga...
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Iceland revokes law allowing citizens to kill Basques
Authorities in Iceland have revoked a 400-year-old law that allowed citizens to kill Basques on sight. For the past four centuries, people in Iceland ...
Annual Icelandic-American conference focusses on Arctic opportunities
The annual Icelandic-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) conference will see public and private sector figures from Iceland, the US, Canada and Greenl...
Iceland funds Mozambique sanitation project
The Icelandic government’s Agency for International Development (ICEIDA) is to donate three million euros to finance a water supply sanitation project...
Bjork speaks on gender double standards
Legendary Icelandic musician Bjork has insisted there is still gender double standards within the music industry and revealed that it took a long time...
Huge decline in Russian tourism bad news for Finland
A dramatic fall in the number of Russians travelling to Finland due to the drop in the rouble and the Ukraine crisis does not bode well for the Nordic...
Iceland underlines its efforts for promoting geothermal energy with IGC 2016 sponsor agreement
An agreement has recently been signed between Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, and Rósbjörg Jónsdóttir, Partner at Geko...
Woman murdered in Denmark was upcoming Syrian actress
A women murdered in the Danish city of Horsens on 29 December was believed to have been a promising young Syrian actress who fled with her family to e...