The man arrested in Iceland in February for bomb and weapons offences, which he bragged about on Facebook, will remain in police custody pending trial once again. This time until 2nd April, the court decided. Continue Reading
Posted on 28 March 2012.
The man arrested in Iceland in February for bomb and weapons offences, which he bragged about on Facebook, will remain in police custody pending trial once again. This time until 2nd April, the court decided. Continue Reading
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Posted on 28 March 2012.
Iceland’s most internationally successful band, Sigur Rós, has announced it will release a new album in May. Continue Reading
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Posted on 27 March 2012.
“He wanted to know whether there was interest in selling the collection and offered over ISK 30 million for it. But selling is out of the question, because the museum has to be in Iceland.” So says Hjörtur Sigurðsson, head of the Icelandic phalleological museum. Continue Reading
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Posted on 27 March 2012.
Both of Iceland’s ruling coalition parties voted to pass the government’s new fisheries bill at their meetings yesterday. The bill will therefore be put to Alþingi for debate later this week. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 March 2012.
Icelanders’ earnings were spread more evenly in 2011 than any year since 2004 – when Statistics Iceland began its standard-of-living research. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 March 2012.
It is still not clear what sort of tech glitch led to an Icelandic man’s smart phone logging him in to the Facebook page of another Icelander, who he does not even know. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 March 2012.
The Icelandic finance company Lýsing several days ago paid around ISK 30 billion (EUR 179.3 million) to Deutsche Bank. Continue Reading
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Posted on 25 March 2012.
It is important for the next Bishop of Iceland to be a woman, both for the church’s countenance and its equal rights policy. So says Agnes Sigurðardóttir, the priest in Bolungarvík, who is one of two who will go into the final round of voting. Her opponent is a man. Continue Reading
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Posted on 24 March 2012.
The Supreme Court of Iceland has granted a police custody request for the Polish man who was recently extradited to the country from Switzerland following last October’s raid on a Reykjavík Rolex shop. The man has confessed. Continue Reading
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Posted on 24 March 2012.
A Swedish woman’s hairy armpit, which flashed up for mere seconds on a live television broadcast, has gone viral across the country, sparking debate about body image and feminism. Continue Reading
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, MBL, Society, Sweden5 Comments
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