Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland’s education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs. Read the full story
Posted on 01 February 2012.
Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland’s education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 January 2012.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, has so far kept quiet over the news that a group of supporters has opened a petition website asking the incumbent head of state to stand for re-election in June. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 December 2011.
The undersea cable which Emerald Networks intends to lay between Ireland and the USA, with a connection to Iceland, will help Iceland create jobs in the creative sector and support environmentally friendly business, according to the company’s Icelandic rep, Þorvaldur Sigurðsson. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 November 2011.
A new website called Betra Island (Better Iceland) was formally opened in a tent outside the Icelandic parliament building on Wednesday. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 November 2011.
The combined Nordic consumer agencies are investigating whether advertising laws have been broken on the social networking website, Facebook. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 November 2011.
A debate has been sparked over a new website featuring secretly snapped photos of attractive men riding the Stockholm metro. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 October 2011.
Norwegian police are attempting to get a trailer for an American film about the July 22 Utoya massacre removed from YouTube after complaints from survivors and the families of victims. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 September 2011.
A 15 year-old boy has become the youngest Swede ever to be charged with violating copyright laws after uploading 24 films onto internet filesharing sites. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 August 2011.
A new website has opened which aims to collect all the best photographs of Iceland by thousands of different people in one place. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 July 2011.
Finnish police have promised to monitor the internet more closely for so-called ‘weak signals’ in the wake of the twin terror attacks in Norway. 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
