Charities donating goods to poor Danish families this Christmas say they have rejected thousands of bogus applications from well-off households. Read the full story

The Swedish Army Museum (Armémuseum) has defended selling hand grenade-shaped baubles as part of its Christmas charity drive. Read the full story

A fundraising campaign has kicked off in Iceland to collect money for the Faroe Islands’ search & rescue organisation, which worked extremely hard to protect lives and property when the islands were recently ravaged by a hurricane-force storm. Read the full story

It is still possible to bid on the auction of an old bottle of whisky found buried in the ground in Reykjavík in 1994. The bottle is being sold to benefit a former electricity worker who lost both his arms in a work accident. Read the full story

The sale of red noses began in Iceland this Friday, and it had nothing to do with the weather. Read the full story

The Icelandic search & rescue organisation ICE-SAR (known domestically as Landsbjorg) sold over 60,000 plastic figures in its annual Neydarkall appeal at the weekend, raising ISK 90 million (EUR 568,000). Read the full story

There are just three days until the Islandsbanki Reykjavik Marathon and 7,000 people are already registered to take part. Read the full story

A cyclist and singer from Britain is uniting his two hobbies in unique style for his charity bike ride around Iceland. And he’s not doing it the easy way. Read the full story

The Icelandic Red Cross is collecting money to help with the famine crisis in Somalia. Read the full story

“We still haven’t weighed ourselves, but we have probably lost a few kilos,” says Sveinn Benedikt Rognvaldsson, one of the four people who have been running the round-Iceland ring road over the last two weeks. Read the full story