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...
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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...
Riotous ringtone is a real gas
Following the truck driver’s protest that ended in violence on Wednesday 23rd April, the Icelandic nation has been looking at itself in a slightly dif...
Finns love their president
According to a recent poll published in the daily newspaper Kaleva last week, the citizens of Finland are highly satisfied with their current Presiden...
Iceland to explore geothermal possibilities in Ethiopia
In January this year, the government of Iceland signed a bilateral agreement with Ethiopia over the matter of geothermal explorations in Africa. As a ...