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Nansý Davíðsdóttir this weekend became the first girl to be crowned Icelandic children’s chess champion. The Icelandic Children’s Chess Championship has been running since 1994. Read the full story
Posted on 10 January 2012.
chess pieces
Nansý Davíðsdóttir this weekend became the first girl to be crowned Icelandic children’s chess champion. The Icelandic Children’s Chess Championship has been running since 1994. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 January 2012.
The German DIY chain Bauhaus has decided the time has come to open its Icelandic store, which has lain empty since completion in 2008. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 July 2011.
The Swedish branch of Durex has caused a surge of excitement after launching an advertising campaign appealing for condom testers. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 June 2011.
Last summer, a group called artsave installed a shipping container at the Reykjavik harbour. The container was called the artsave lab; the goal of which was to research and investigate through art. Read the full story
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Posted on 10 March 2011.
Both of Iceland’s biggest D.I.Y chains, Byko and Husasmidjan, have had their head offices searched and bosses arrested this week. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 October 2010.
The Norwegian Supreme Court has ordered an airline to pay damages after it was found guilty of stealing strategic information from one of its competitors. The court threw out an appeal by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and ordered the carrier to cough up NOK 160 million (USD 27.3 million). Read the full story
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Posted on 12 September 2010.
A Scandinavian airline is searching for a gay couple with a head for heights after announcing plans to host the first ever airborne same-sex wedding. SAS plans to hold the unusual nuptials in December, when one lucky couple will be walking down an altogether different sort of aisle. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 September 2010.
A Frenchman has strummed his way to glory for the second year in a row at Finland’s fifteenth annual air guitar championships. Sylvain Quimene “out aired” Canadian Cole ‘Johnny Utah’ Manson and compatriot Soraya ‘Eva Gina’ Runner in the final stage of the prestigious competition in Oulu this past week. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 August 2010.
One man has died and another was hospitalised after just six minutes enduring temperatures of 110°C in the finals of the World Sauna Championships in Heinola, Finland. The annual event came to a tragic end in the Finnish city on Saturday, when a Russian man passed away in the final stages of the competition. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 February 2010.
The Reykjavik District Court has ordered Hagar to pay ISK 315 million in fines for abuse of market position. Read the full story
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No Motörhead wine for Icelanders, branding too negative
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival begins today
Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
