Tourists witness Northern Lights during volcano tours in Iceland
Tourists travelling via volcano tours to the volcanic eruption near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier last week were presented with the most powerful North...
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No immediate Danish exit plan for Afghanistan
A government decision for Danish troops to remain in Afghanistan this year has been accepted by opposition parties on the condition that a more precis...
Press Release: The Report of the Althingi Special Investigation Commission
Press Release: The Special Investigation Commission (SIC), which was established by Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament, in December 2008, to investiga...
IMF schedules second review of Iceland’s economic programme
Ministry of Finance press release: Agreement has been reached on a letter of intent for the second review under Iceland’s Stand-By Arrangement w...
Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland celebrates 40th anniversary
The annual Reykjavik Arts Festival (Listahátið) is this year celebrating its 40th anniversary. The 2010 festival will include over 60 events that repr...
Statoil announces new US deal
Norwegian-based Statoil has announced a new agreement with US energy giant Chesapeake that will see the addition of 59,000 acres to the existing 600,0...
Swedish ‘hate cleric’ withdrawn from Muslim youth conference
Controversial Swedish ‘hate cleric’, Abdullah Hakim Quick, did not speak at the Easter weekend conference of young Swedish Muslims after his invitatio...
The View from Here, No. 3
The third in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Chay’s interview with author Christina Sunley, whose debut novel The Tricking of Freya...