All Tomorrow’s Parties: Portishead and Interpol to play at Iceland festival
Portishead and Interpol have been announced as the headline acts for this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Iceland.
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Swedish house speaker removes bare breasts painting
The deputy speaker of Riksdag in Sweden has removed a painting featuring a bare-breasted woman from the parliament’s dining room wall.
Hollywood stars sign petition against Iceland film cuts
A number of renowned Hollywood filmmakers have signed a petition against the Icelandic government’s proposed 40 per cent cuts on the Icelandic Film Fu...
Norway to build world’s biggest Viking theme park
Norway has revealed that it plans to start work on what will be the world’s largest Viking theme park in the near future. The park, which is expected ...
Lonely Planet names Sweden world’s fourth best country
Sweden has been named as the fourth best place to visit in the world by travel guide Lonely Planet, which lists its food and pop culture among its mai...
Finnish punk film wins documentary of the year
A film telling the tale of a Finnish punk band whose musicians suffer from learning disabilities has won the TV Documentary of the Year award at the P...
Thousand-year-old arrows found frozen in Swedish mountains
Arrows that have been frozen in Sweden’s northern mountains for around 1,000 years have been found in two separate locations. The perfectly preserved ...
Nature Picture of the Year won by ‘Swallowed Alive’
A photograph entitled Swallowed Alive has been named as the 2013 Picture of the Year. The photograph, which was taken by Finn Jukka-Pekka Tikkanen, sh...