Iceland experiencing positive side effect of economic crisis
While temperatures are now falling below zero, Iceland is becoming an increasingly interesting destination as the exchange rate for Icelandic krona ha...
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Copenhagen Airport to get budget terminal
Not wanting to be left out in the cold by the popularity of budget airline travel, Copenhagen Airport (CPH) will be constructing its own dedicated bud...
UN Security Council: We went in to win the seat
After a long and expensive campaign, Iceland has finally learned that it will not be a member of the United Nations Security Council in 2009-10. Austr...
Swedish couple murdered in Tobago
Reports coming out of the southern Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago state that an elderly Swedish couple have been brutally murdered at their h...
Sweden bans certain number plate combinations
Following their trend of curtailing the names that parents may choose to give their child, Swedish authorities have now added vehicle number plates to...
Protest over dismissal of lesbian editor of Finnish newspaper
The Alma Media newspaper group made its own news last week when it fired one of its recently-hired chief editors after learning she was a lesbian. Joh...
Green cars offered for rent in Reykjavik
Reykjavik rent a car, a car rental service in Iceland offering a wide range of cars, recently introduced their new offer of ecologically friendly cars...
Copenhagen’s buses get free Wi-Fi Internet
In a sign of things to come for public Internet use, Denmark’s largest bus and train operator Arriva Scandinavia AB, is now offering free broadband In...