International maritime laws have prevented authorities from prosecuting a group of Somali pirates captured by a Danish warship in the Aden Gulf this weekend. Denmark’s defence minister said a lack of witnesses forced a decision to free the rogue sailors. Read the full story

The results of a DNA test carried out on the exhumed corpse of chess legend Bobby Fischer indicate that he is not the father of Jinky Jong, Icelandic officials say. The results were passed to the Reykjavik District Court yesterday. Read the full story

A New York court has granted the Glitnir Bank resolution committee an extension until the 10th September to provide evidence against the motion for dismissal of their case put forward by defendants. Read the full story

A Swedish man who translates Japanese Manga comics has been fined for possessing child porn cartoons, sparking a heated debate about censorship. The man was reprimanded by Uppsala district court for downloading 51 drawings of children engaged in sexual acts from the internet. Read the full story

A woman was yesterday given a three-month suspended prison sentence at the Reykjavik District Court for breaking her four week-old son’s foot. Read the full story

A fraudster, who claimed to be crippled by cerebral palsy, has been sent to jail after being caught taking part in a table tennis tournament. The 32-year-old man, who claimed to be confined to a wheelchair, was sentenced to three years in prison by a Swedish court after it heard that he had conned country’s Social Insurance Agency out of millions of kroner. Read the full story

The Supreme Court of Iceland yesterday confirmed the Minister of Justice’s decision to deport a Polish man, who has been living in Iceland, back to his homeland. Read the full story

In the asset freezing case brought by Glitnir Bank against Jon Asgeir Johannesson, it was not known who had GBP 202 million in British bank accounts connected to Johannesson’s UK business. He now intends to bring charges against the head of Glitnir’s resolution committee for saying that he had the money himself. Read the full story

A Stockholm sports trainer has been jailed for three years for a string of sex attacks against boys. The 22-year-old man was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and child rape against one boy and one count of sexual assault against another. He was also convicted of a further 16 additional counts of sexual harassment. Read the full story

The Lysing finance company has taken a case to the Reykjavik District Court claiming that the interest on foreign currency indexed car loans – which were recently ruled illegal – should be changed to the same as domestic inflation indexed car loans. Read the full story