7.00% online bond from offshore savings bank
Offshore savings specialist Bradford & Bingley International (BBI) has launched a limited edition fixed rate savings bond paying an interest rate ...
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France plugs the American gap left at Keflavik
For years Iceland’s Keflavik airbase was an important strategic outpost in the Cold War as American fighter jets and air force personal were based the...
Iceland’s Gunnarsson set to play English football
Emerging football star Aron Einar Gunnarsson will play for Championship league club Coventry in the 2008/2009 season after a three-year deal was signe...
In the name of the Dog, the Cat and the Holy Hamster
Every man and his dog is welcome to attend the Sunday church service at the Amiralitet Church in Karlskrona in southern Sweden – indeed, every man, wo...
IBM system reduces traffic in Stockholm
Traffic in the capital of Sweden has been reduced by 18 per cent following the roll out of the Stockholm Congestion Charging System. The system was pi...
Baugur abandons Moss Bros bid
Icelandic investment group Baugur paid advisers to help them on a deal to acquire Moss Bros. When the group decided against the GBP 40 million bid for...
Prince and princess purchase pokey premises
Norway’s Crown Prince and Princess recently purchased a modest hytte on a private island off the southern coast of the country and have announced that...
Priests can have affairs too: it’s the law
A man who was fired for having an affair with a married woman recently received a favourable ruling from Sweden’s Labour Court. The court ruled in fav...