Finland reports rise in sick leave due to exhaustion
Exhaustion is being attributed in increasing numbers of cases as reason enough for Finnish workers to be granted paid sick leave. Traditionally Finlan...
McDonald’s closes in Iceland
With the collapse of the Icelandic currency, the krona, McDonald’s licence holder Lyst has decided to shut down the three McDonald’s resta...
Remote villages in Greenland under threat
The future of Greenland’s remote settlements has come under scrutiny after the Democratic Party’s Palle Chritiansen questioned the feasibility of vill...
Danish Liberals call for abolition of minimum criminal age
The Danish Liberal Party’s spokeswoman for social affairs Ellen Trane Norby has called for the minimum age of criminal liability to be done away with ...
Swedish woman injured in unprovoked elk attack
The Swedish residential area of Utby on the outskirts of Gothenburg was the scene of a bizarre assault recently when a local woman was sent tumbling i...
Greenland’s newspapers being killed off by government policy?
Changes in subsidies distributed by the Greenland government combined with the lingering effects of the economic downturn are forecasted to spell the ...
Reykjavik joins global climate change action day – over 4600 events around the world
Today people from around Reykjavik will gather to clean rubbish around the Vatnsmyri area as part of the largest global day of climate action ever. Th...
Swine flu still plagues Iceland
Four people are currently in intensive care in Iceland due to H1N1 (the swine flu) – but according to Olafur Baldursson, the chief medical docto...