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...
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Gudjohnsen returns as Iceland continue their push towards Euros with comfortable victory
Eidur Gudjohnsen made a scoring return to international football as Iceland secured a comfortable 3-0 victory against Kazakhstan in Astana to keep the...
Copenhagen named second cleanest in Europe
The Danish capital Copenhagen has been named Europe’s second cleanest behind Zurich in the latest European Environmental Bureau (EEA) rankings. The bu...
Sweden becoming more tolerant of alcohol
A recent study by IQ has revealed that people in Sweden are becoming increasingly more acceptant of alcohol. Popping to a bar for an after-work beer i...
Iceland: 11% fall in catch value in 2014
Iceland’s catch value decreased by 11 per cent to 136 billion kronor last year, according to the most recent data from Statistics Iceland. The total v...
Norwegian man could be jailed after gluing his beard to another man’s scalp
A man in Norway could face time in prison after shaving his hair and beard off and then gluing it to another man’s head in what appears to be a bizarr...
Denmark: Jutland’s ‘sex for school’ initiative hits a snag
An agreement between parents and local authorities in Denmark’s northern Jutland region to keep schools open as a reward for producing more babies has...
Young adults in Finland among those at greatest risk of poverty
Statistics Finland has said that as many as 700,000 people in the country could be classed as “very low income earners”, with one-fifth of that number...