Lonely Planet to reprint after Stockholm error
The travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet is reprinting its most recent issue after a picture of Uppsala featured on the front cover and not, as st...
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Games of Small States kicks off in Iceland
The Laugardal Sports Hall in Reykjavik was the venue for the opening of the 2015 Games of Small States of Europe. The centre was a surprise setting fo...
Icelandic fishermen to visit Morgère to see Exocet trawl door in action
A delegation of nine Icelandic fishermen will visit Morgère in St. Malo next week (9 to 11 June) to see at first hand the new Exocet trawl door and th...
Czech planes to guard Iceland airspace
The Czech Republic is deploying five multirole fighter jets to protect Iceland’s airspace for six weeks while Canada partakes in US-led operations aga...
Aron Gunnarsson signs new contract with Cardiff City
Icelandic captain Aron Gunnarsson has agreed a new deal with Cardiff City that will see him stay with the Welsh club until at least the end of the 201...
Guest threatens Icelandic hotel staff with Tripadvisor
“Tripadvisor is a great page” says Birna Mjöll Atladóttir, hotelier at Hótel Breiðavík in Iceland. A guest recently visited the hotel and used Tripadv...
Icelandic film ‘Rams’ awarded at Cannes Film Festival
Icelandic movie Rams picked up the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival, with former documentary maker Grimur Hakonarson collecting the...
Oslo receives world’s biggest elk statue
The biggest elk structure in the world has arrived in the Norwegian capital Oslo, with the 10-metre-tall animal 30cm higher than its Canadian counterp...