An editorial in the New York Times, one of the USA’s biggest and most respected newspapers, describes Iceland’s chosen way back to growth after the economic crash as looking “Increasingly smart”. Read the full story

According to a New York Times article, foreign investors are profiting from good house buying deals in Iceland because of the property market depression following the banking crash. Read the full story

(UPDATED AND CORRECTED) American newspaper The New York Post reported yesterday that Icelandic authorities had drilled through Bobby Fischer’s coffin and into his body in order to take a DNA sample from the exhumed chess grand master’s corpse. But the Selfoss district commissioner says the NYP got it wrong. Read the full story

“We have already put in an advertisement here in the local paper in Selfoss and also decided to advertise in the New York Times. There is a slight difference between them” says Olafur Snorrason, owner of a gorgeous, two-storey house at Reynivollur 8 in Selfoss, Iceland. Read the full story