This morning begins a very high profile weekend for the internet in Iceland with today’s Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and the accompanying high-tech expo which runs until Sunday. Read the full story

A four year-old girl fell out of a third floor window in central Reykjavik on Friday; but was extremely lucky. Read the full story

The Reykjavik City Welfare Board confirmed today it wants to welcome refugees from the recent earthquake in Haiti. Read the full story

Debts in the bankrupt estates of two companies owned by the lawyer Bjorn Thorri Viktorsson in Reykjavik amount to ISK 140 million (over USD 1 million). The companies changed name shortly before going bankrupt. Read the full story

The so-called Grondalshus House was this week ripped off its foundations at Vesturgata 16b in Reykjavik and carefully moved to Orfirisey, where Reykjavik’s master renovators are based. Read the full story

A man in his twenties succumbed to a house fire in central Reykjavik last night, despite a daring rescue effort by police officers before fire fighters arrived on the scene. Read the full story

The new Reykjavik concert and conference centre currently under construction by the harbour, will be called Harpa following a naming competition open to the public. Read the full story

Reykjavik city plans to save ISK 45 million per year by cutting back on street lighting, according to Sighvatur Arnarsson, head of the city’s Asset Management department. Read the full story

Several hundred people gathered outside the Icelandic parliament on Austurvollur Square in Reykjavik yesterday to protest on behalf of struggling householders. The three speakers were very well received by the crowd as they called, among other things, for continued payment strikes. Read the full story

The feared cutbacks in Reykjavik City’s welfare provision will not happen, despite the welfare department’s budget cuts next year. Read the full story