Two Icelandic couples have set off to run the Route 1 highway all the way around Iceland. They are running to raise money for cancer. Read the full story

Nearly 17,000 Icelanders are so-called World Parents with UNICEF and support the charity with a monthly direct donation from their bank accounts. A UNICEF report states that Iceland has proportionately more World Parents than any other country — around five percent of the whole population. Read the full story

A 700-metre peak in eastern Greenland has been named after polar explorer Tom Crean, who served with both Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The mountain was given its new title last week by a group of Irish climbers who became the first people to scale the summit. Read the full story

So-called wholesale deposits taken by Landsbanki and Glitnir are to be treated as priority claims on the banks’ estates. The Reykjavik District Court passed judgement on the case this morning. Read the full story

A hardy couple are preparing themselves to brave temperatures of -30°C when they kite surf across the Greenland ice cap later this year. Read the full story

Around ISK 21 million (USD 188,000) was collected this Saturday by the Icelandic Red Cross in a co-ordinated door-to-door collection across the whole of Iceland. Read the full story

The Icelandic Cancer Association is encouraging workplaces all over the country to take part in Pink Friday this week as a fundraiser and awareness event for cancer in women. Read the full story

A fundraising balloon, released at a village fete in the UK, has been found by a family in Norway, more than 600 miles from home. The blue balloon was sent on its long journey from North Somerset by 10-year-old Beccy Filer in a bid to raise money to buy equipment for her school. Read the full story

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has urged people to participate in a blanket ban of handing out money to Roma beggars on the street. Read the full story

“This is sad. I wasn’t prepared for something like this to happen in our society, especially by an organisation which helps people in need. It hasn’t mattered who the distressed are or where they come from; but now it does,” said Amal Tamimi, the manager of Iceland’s House of Equal Rights. Read the full story