Swedish students report high rates of bullying by teachers
Kamratposten, the biggest Swedish children’s magazine, has revealed its latest annual survey with much of the public focus expected around the questio...
Televised assisted suicide reopens euthanasia debate
Debate has raged in Denmark following the Sunday broadcast by TV2 of the story of Kaj Guldbech, a cancer sufferer who chose to end his life after livi...
Record number of student graduates in Iceland
During the school year 2007-2008, 3,588 students graduated from high school and a further 3,611 at higher level education in Iceland. Statistics Icela...
90 percent of Icelandic households with Internet access
In 2009, according to the eighth survey on the use of Information and Communications technology by Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Islands) 92 percent of...
Norway rated world’s best place to live, again
Once again Norway has taken the honour of being named best country in the world to live in, heading off Australia and Iceland to win for the second co...
Funeral for famous Finnish brewery
Last week saw a small crowd hold a funeral procession to commemorate the closure of the famous Pori Brewery. The last rites were administered to a bee...
Will Russia loan Iceland money?
The Icelandic Foreign Minister Steingrimur J. Sigfusson today had a meeting with Dmitry Pankin, the Russian assistant finance minister. At the meeting...
Sweden to accept Somali and Eritrean refugees
Sweden has joined a dozen fellow European nations in agreeing to UNHCR quotas for the acceptance of Eritrean and Somali refugees from camps in Sudan a...