An advocacy group in Sweden has called for national guidelines on issuing breast implants to transgender women, claiming they can save countless lives. Read the full story

People who have been married for many years live longer than those who are single or divorced, according to a Finnish-British study. Read the full story

The Nordic Council has released its Nordic Statistics Handbook 2011, which contains all sorts of interesting facts about life in the Nordic region over the last year. Read the full story

“It’s our lifestyle,” say two British friends who travel the world, working. One of them has been visiting Iceland annually for over 20 years to take part in the autumn sheep slaughter season. Read the full story

New international surveys are painting an unfamiliar picture of Iceland: the happiest nation in the world…but with some pretty big flaws all the same. Read the full story

Jogging is as important as spending time with the family or having sex, according to a new survey of Swedish women. The study, carried out by iFORM lifestyle magazine, found Swedish women would rather don a pair of trainers and trot round the block than have coffee with friends, watch TV or call up their mums. Read the full story

Icelandic teenagers are more content now in the midst of a recession than they were in the boom years. This is the conclusion of a new research report which indicates that parent-child relationships seem to have improved since the economic crisis began. Read the full story

The European Commission recommended that Icelandic should become one of the EU’s official languages in a statement on Iceland’s EU accession talks. Read the full story

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has defended his government’s stance in the controversial case of 22 children from Greenland. In a statement that echoed the sentiments of his predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Lokke Rasmussen dismissed claims that the Danish state should make a public apology for a social experiment undertaken by authorities in 1951 which saw nearly two dozen of Greenland’s ‘elite’ children relocated to Denmark. Read the full story

Once again Norway has taken the honour of being named best country in the world to live in, heading off Australia and Iceland to win for the second consecutive year. The Norway post announced the accolade, which is based on the United Nations Development Index. The top three places remained unchanged from 2008 and the top ten featured only one change as France reappeared at number 8 at the expense of Luxembourg. Read the full story