Business innovation on the up in Iceland
Today, with the banks rather smaller than before, knowledge-based companies are again able to tap the talent which Iceland’s highly educated people ha...
Icelandic paramedic and CPR courses to be held in Palestine
The Paramedic Training School, Sjukraflutningaskolinn, and the Red Cross of Iceland, Raudi kross Islands, are planning to host a course in CPR for Pal...
Norway teams up with Russia to map Barents Sea
In a sign that Russia might not take an aggressively autonomous approach to staking its claim of the Arctic’s riches, it has been announced that Russi...
StatoilHydro in trouble for CO2 emissions
StatoilHydro, the gas and oil giant, has found itself in trouble with the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority over excessive CO2 emissions from its ...
Outer space phone call to Finnish President
The President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, received a phone call from the International Space Station on Monday. Astronaut Timothy L. Kopra initiated th...
Iranians selectively barred from Swedish universities
Sweden’s national security service, Sapo, has issued a warning that Iranian citizens studying at Swedish universities could have ties to their nation’...
Sweden’s Pirate Bay website may go legitimate
Having survived its recent court case for copyright infringement, Sweden’s popular file sharing website, The Pirate Bay, is now considering going legi...
Sweden’s government monopoly on pharmacies ends
The legal drugs market has finally been cracked open now that Sweden’s state-run monopoly on pharmacies has officially ended. This will allow new comp...