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 ...
Culture
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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...
Denmark nominates The Hunt for foreign language Oscar
Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, which won at the Cannes Film Festival, has been chosen as Denmark’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film award at th...
Of Horses and Men up for foreign language Oscar
Benedikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses and Men has been confirmed as Iceland’s contender for next year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Stockholm Film Festival: Ai Weiwei named as judge
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei has been chosen as one of the judges for the Stockholm Film Festival despite the fact he is not expected to be allowed to ...
Icelandic and Russian presidents to meet at Arctic forum
Icelandic President ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is set to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later this week at the The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue...
TREE / Difficulty of Freedom / Freedom of Difficulty 12.09.2013 – 26.09.2013
Press release: TREE / Difficulty of Freedom / Freedom of Difficulty, an art exhibition by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir (IS), Carin Ellberg (SE), Erla S. ...
Finnish alcohol purchasing helps fund Estonian cultural activities
Finns taking the short boat ride to Estonia to stock up on alcohol is helping fund Estonian cultural activities and literature, as a percentage of alc...