FT awards Glitnir Bank for geothermal energy loan
Nordic bank Glitnir won second prize for ‘Sustainable Deal of the Year‘ at the Financial Times Sustainable Banking awards in London last week. Glitnir...
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Elvis is a little girl from Sweden
Sweden’s interesting naming laws have come into the spotlight again, as the country’s tax bureau has decreed that a five-month-old Stockholm girl is n...
Iceland detains illegal bees
40,000 honey bees on their way from Norway to an Icelandic bee farm have been delayed at the Icelandic port of Seydisfjordur. The bees had already com...
Alzheimer’s dentist to stop work
A dentist in the Skane region of southern Sweden has been carrying out her delicate job despite being an Alzheimer’s disease sufferer for many years. ...
Iceland can avoid recession says PM
The Prime Minister of Iceland, Geir Haarde, said the economy could evade a recession forecast by the Ministry of Finance and the Icelandic Central Ban...
“Cave Man” forced to wash
A man living in a publicly funded nursing home in Oslo is reserving his right to be dirty, a right he is willing to take all the way to the Supreme Co...
Norway wedged between China and Tibet
It has come to light that Norway has been playing a pivotal role in attempts to bridge the gap between China and Tibet. Several top level officials fr...
Bangladeshi author seeks refuge in Uppsala
Taslima Nasreen, a controversial author from Bangladesh, has been offered refuge in Uppsala, Sweden. According to reports in The Local, Nasreen has be...