Crown Prince Haakon of Norway will continue his roll as the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), it has been announced. Read the full story

Luis E. Arreaga, the new Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Iceland, presented his credentials to Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson yesterday. Read the full story

ISK 850 million (USD 6.5 million) flowed into the Icelandic state treasury when the country changed its ambassadorial residence in London to a smaller house with cheaper running costs. Read the full story

Barack Obama, the President of the USA, has appointed Luis E. Arreaga as the country’s new ambassador to Iceland. The United States of America has been without an ambassador at its Reykjavik embassy for around a year. Read the full story

Germany’s ambassador to Reykjavik, Dr. Karl-Ulrich Muller, has been found dead in his car near Skagafjordur in northern Iceland yesterday. Read the full story

All foreign ambassadors in Iceland will be informed in detail about the current state of the Icesave bill today. European Union representatives in Brussels will be updated with the same information at the same time. Read the full story

There has been no reply from the Chinese Embassy in Reykjavik on whether or not Ambassador Zhang Keyuan has been recalled to Beijing, Mbl.is reports.

Meanwhile, Frettabladid reported this morning that the ambassador has been called home in protest at the Dalai Lama’s visit to Iceland this week. Read the full story