Café Paris sounds great in Reykjavik
Reykjavik’s Café Paris will be dishing out strong musical sounds along with servings of hot chocolate and coffee as the establishment recently install...
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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...
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...
Icelandic Prime Minister welcomed in Canada
Iceland has become a surprising middleman between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Premier of Newfoundland, Danny Williams. Geir Haarde,...
Swedish government funds feminist porn
The Swedish government plans to fund pornography through a series of cultural subsidies valued at SEK 350,000 according to reports in The Local, a Swe...
Britain pays dearly for Euro sarcasm
With just 23 days to the big off, Eurovision fever is already gripping the people of Europe – and none more so than Terry Wogan. The BBC’s veteran Eur...
Fiscal frustration flowers: daffodil duty disputed
Representatives of Norway’s Grimstad Planteskole horticulture centre have sent a letter to the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture, Terje Riis-Johansen,...