Iceland will have lowest European dependency population
Figures charting current population growth and population trends for the next 40 years show that Iceland will keep its pensioner population in balance...
Canadian project to explore climate change in the Arctic
The British Council in Canada has chosen a Prince Edward Island high school to participate in its international climate change youth expedition to Ice...
Norway considers plastic bag ban
Norway’s Environment and International Development Minister, Erik Solheim, said that the country is considering a blanket ban on plastic bags, accordi...
Finland proposes non-transferable parental leave
Finland’s Minister of Labour, Tarja Cronberg, put forward a plan for non-transferable parental leave last week, according to the Finnish News Agency S...
Prayers and protests against cartoon continue
A prayer leader in Tehran last week urged all Islamic countries to sever their ties with Denmark and with all “those who desecrate Prophet Muhammad.” ...
Iceland likely to restart commercial whaling
Iceland is likely to restart hunting minke whales in May according to a report from the BBC. Iceland resumed commercial whaling in 2006 but in August ...
Somalis arrested in Sweden
Two men are being held in custody in Sweden on suspicion of helping militant groups in Somalia, according to the Associated Press. Prosecutors told a ...
Bush and Rasmussen discuss climate change
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on the US president to join him in help persuading the developing economies of China and India ...