Start of arctic land grab
On August 2nd, representatives from Russia planted a Russian flag on the bottom of the ocean, two miles underneath the polar ice-cap, starting a rush ...
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First Canada – Iceland football match
The Canadian men’s football team will play Iceland for their first ever game in Reykjavik on Wednesday 22nd August. It will also be the first match fo...
Femin women flock to new female-only UK website
A new social networking and lifestyle website for young women has been launched in the UK at www.femin.co.uk Femin.co.uk is free for anyone to use and...
Beam me to Iceland, Scotty
Movie scouts looking for a location to film the next Star Trek movie first visited Iceland in June. Things are looking good for the island nation now ...
Icelandair commence les vols vers Toronto
Après l’ouverture d’Halifax en mai 2007, Icelandair va offrir les vols vers Toronto dès le printemps prochain, tout en réfléchissant à de futures opér...
Fujitsu to overhaul Reuters IT infrastructure
Fujitsu Services, a leading European IT services company, has signed a 10-year agreement with Reuters to provide IT services for Reuters’ 17,500 emplo...
What Icelanders earn
Once a year, the personal income tax payments of every resident of Iceland is available to the public for 3 days. This year, the period began on July ...
Thousands attend free fish festival in Dalvik
Dalvik, a small town outside Akureyri in Northern Iceland, celebrated its annual Fish Day last Saturday. The town swelled from a population of 2,000 t...