US meeting with Icelandic President focuses on energy
Environmental issues were on the agenda at a meeting between Barbara Boxer, an American senator and Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of Iceland. ...
Iceland a model for public sector expansion in Canada
Iceland has only twice as many inhabitants as Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island, yet the Nordic country is being held up as a model for...
´Barbarity and a bad situation´ in Reykjavik
Last week city officials met with police chiefs to discuss violence in downtown Reykjavik. The City Council met with the Chief of Police, Stefán Eirík...
Reykjavik marathon runner raises money for diabetes
Esther Horner was one of the thousands of people who participated in the annual marathon in Reykjavik on Saturday. Unlike many of the other participan...
Femin women flock to new female-only UK website
A new social networking and lifestyle website for young women has been launched in the UK at www.femin.co.uk Femin.co.uk is free for anyone to use and...
What Icelanders earn
Once a year, the personal income tax payments of every resident of Iceland is available to the public for 3 days. This year, the period began on July ...
Thousands attend free fish festival in Dalvik
Dalvik, a small town outside Akureyri in Northern Iceland, celebrated its annual Fish Day last Saturday. The town swelled from a population of 2,000 t...
Huge turnout for Gay Pride
Over 50,000 people attended the this year’s Reykjavik Gay Pride festival which took place over the weekend. Every year during the second weekend...