Scandinavia strikes!
Both Sweden and Denmark were plagued with strikes last week as workers in the health sector demanded better wages, according to reports on the World S...
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Land of leisure: Iceland to become one big park?
Iceland recently announced plans to create a national park which will cover 15,000 square kilometres (3 million acres), or nearly 15 percent of the en...
Fixing Iceland danger road
Reykjanesbraut, has been one of Iceland’s worst traffic accident black spots for decades, but improvement works have now restarted, according to Frett...
Landslides hit Norway
Last Thursday a landslide demolished several homes in the Oppland country in Norway, according to accounts in Aftenposten. Although the landslide resu...
Head of Glitnir Bank named Person of the Year
Nordic bank Glitnir has announced that its CEO Larus Welding has been named Person of the Year 2008 by the readers of Intrafish, the world’s largest s...
Helsinki’s EuroMayDay rally most violent yet
This May Day ranked among the bloodiest in the history of Helsinki according to Finnish Police reports noted in the Finnish News Agency (STT). Local p...
Testers accepted for new ‘twinning’ site
TellMeTwin.com, a new website that offers to find user’s personality ‘twins’, is inviting people to take part in its Beta testing stage before the sit...
Iceland very similar to Barbados
Despite the obvious differences between Iceland and the Caribbean, the two regions are looking at increasing their strategic links according to the Ja...