Katla volcano calm over the weekend – Crisis Coordination Centre to meet again today
Although a few small tremors continued to stir and the roads around the area remain closed, Katla volcano was relatively calm over the weekend.
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Former Prime Minister voted out as leader of the Progressive party
The Progressive party struggled with considerable tension in the weeks leading up to its annual party assembly on Sunday where Sigmundur David Gunnlau...
RIFF – Eleven day movie bonanza in Reykjavik. It’s on!
RIFF takes place every year in late September for eleven days and it started yesterday, The 2016 edition of the festival will take run from the 29th o...
Yellow alert! Strongest earthquakes around Katla volcano in a series of tremors
The Icelandic Met Office has raised the level of warning from green to yellow because of the recent earthquakes around volcano Katla. Green means that...
Norwegian or Icelandic tourist bites off a piece of local Berlin man’s ear
Conflicting sources state that either an Icelandic or Norwegian tourist bit of a chunk of a Berlin local, in a vicious xenophobic attack last Sunday. ...
Justin Bieber sneers at Norwegian fans (Video)
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The aurora borealis – Northern lights have arrived (Video)
The condition for observing the illusive northern light has been particularly favorable for the last few days and the astronomy website published a vi...
From Panama to the Bahamas – A new data leak
Five Icelandic individuals are found to have offshore companies in the Bahamas. There is no evidence so far to banks having used the tax haven but RUV...