The former Icelandic Prime Minister, Steingrimur Hermansson has died aged 82. Read the full story

A mother and her son fell down a crevasse in the ice on a glacier trip on Saturday. 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

25 individuals lost their lives in accidents in Iceland last year – a decrease of five on 2008. Read the full story

The last surviving member of the famous balsa wood Kon-Tiki raft, which traversed the Pacific Ocean in 1947, has passed away at the age of 92. Knut Haugland, one of six members of the Norwegian crew, died in Oslo hospital of natural causes on Christmas Day. Read the full story

A man in Finland today shot three men and one woman dead in a shooting spree at a shopping centre in the southern city of Espoo. Read the full story

A man Icelandic rescue workers searched for all day yesterday has been found dead in his boat. Rescue services were called out after his boat capsized near the eastern town of Faskrudsfjordur. Another man who had been on the boat was rescued from a rubber dingy by a passing fishing boat when he let off an emergency flare.

Strong reaction by the Norwegian government to the military Appeals Court decision in the DR Congo to uphold the death sentence ordered for two Norwegian citizens, has resulted in assurances by Congolese officials that the penalty will not be carried out. Read the full story

Members and friends of the Ithrottafelag Reykjavikur (IR) sports club and students at Verslunarskoli school are in mourning after an 18 year-old footballer (soccer player) collapsed during practice and died. A memorial service was held yesterday evening. Read the full story

Norwegian police have confirmed they have found the body of a missing Icelandic citizen. Read the full story