Clubs battle it out for Icelandic star Birkir Bjarnason
Birkir Bjarnason is in hot demand, with Italian Serie A clubs Torino and Palermo, as well as England’s Leeds United, all keen on the Pescara’s Iceland...
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Reykjavik nightclubs to close to allow space for tourism businesses
A number of nightclubs located in a single building in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik are to shut down in order to create space for more tourism busi...
Artist Haukur Halldorsson meets Norway’s king
Icelandic artist Haukur Halldorsson met with King Harald of Norway and his wife Queen Sonja during a recent trip to the Scandinavian country’s remote ...
Icelandic photographer captures stunning fog ‘waterfall’ footage
Photographer Kjartan Gunnsteinsson has filmed incredible footage that shows fog cascading down a cliff like a waterfall before pouring into a bay. The...
Pamela Anderson urges Putin to block fin whale passage
Former Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson has written an open letter to President Putin, urging him to block the passage of ships transporting 1,700 tonn...
New Norwegian oil field discovered
Wildcat drilling in the North Sea has revealed a new oil and gas reserve potentially worth 9.3 million barrels, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, t...
Denmark tightens immigrant controls
The new minority government in Copenhagen has acted immediately to appease an anti-immigration block in parliament and announced it will re-impose bor...
Ryanair sets up new base in Sweden
Irish low cost airline Ryanair has announced plans to set up a new Scandinavian hub in Gothenburg, with its first scheduled service from September 201...