John Lennon imagine peace tower on Videy Island to light up again
Yoko Ono will be in Iceland next month for the annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island. The Peace Tower is a work of art that Yoko ...
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Queen of Spain to award Stefan Einarsson EU Spanish Presidency Prize today
The Icelandic designer, Stefan Einarsson, will today be awarded the EU Spanish Presidency Prize at a ceremony in Madrid hosted by the Queen of Spain.
More vintage bubbly fished from shipwreck
Divers have started an operation to salvage dozens of bottles of vintage champagne from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland. The bubbly, which was fi...
Finnish gym bans locker room prayers
Finland’s Minority Ombudsman is to investigate whether a gym is guilty of discrimination after it banned Muslims from praying in its locker room. Eva ...
TV4 bans Sweden Democrats’ burka chase ad
The Sweden Democrats have submitted their controversial election film for review by a top legal official after broadcaster TV4 refused to air the adve...
Mohammed cartoons book may refuel Muslim anger
Tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world could be reignited as the man who approved the controversial Mohammed newspaper cartoons prepares to pub...
Climax comes too soon for Sweden’s orgasm church
The Madonna of the Orgasm church was turned away by Sweden’s highest court this week as it made a last-ditch attempt to be registered as a faith commu...
Frenchman strings up air guitar competition
A Frenchman has strummed his way to glory for the second year in a row at Finland’s fifteenth annual air guitar championships. Sylvain Quimene “out ai...