When three become two: Austria more equal than others
There are three candidates currently in competition for two vacant seats on the U.N. Security Council. According to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon...
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Head of Glitnir Bank named Person of the Year
Nordic bank Glitnir has announced that its CEO Larus Welding has been named Person of the Year 2008 by the readers of Intrafish, the world’s largest s...
Testers accepted for new ‘twinning’ site
TellMeTwin.com, a new website that offers to find user’s personality ‘twins’, is inviting people to take part in its Beta testing stage before the sit...
Iceland very similar to Barbados
Despite the obvious differences between Iceland and the Caribbean, the two regions are looking at increasing their strategic links according to the Ja...
Iceland to explore geothermal possibilities in Ethiopia
In January this year, the government of Iceland signed a bilateral agreement with Ethiopia over the matter of geothermal explorations in Africa. As a ...
Less pollution from Icelandic aluminium smelters
Iceland’s Ministry for the Environment recently released a report stating that greenhouse gas emissions from Iceland’s aluminium smelters has decrease...
Lithuania hosts 2008 Cruise Europe conference
The Cruise Europe Association, an organisation that promotes Europe as a world-class cruise destination, will hold its annual AGM and conference in th...
Norwegian helicopters too hot in Afghanistan
Experts predict that high temperatures in Afghanistan may be bad for the helicopters designed to transport Norwegian troops who have been wounded in t...