It’s the kind of news that doesn’t boost public confidence, but it has surfaced that the managers of one of Sweden’s nuclear power plants used their janitors to guard the highly sensitive facility. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, the nation’s nuclear watchdog group, condemned the incident at the Oskarshamn plant for the obvious reason that janitors are not properly trained to act as security guards. Read the full story

Icelandic police in the capital Reykjavik are investigating a rather unique money counterfeiting case.

The story goes, according to MBL.is, that an opportunistic gentleman went into a Reykjavik convenience store on Monday and paid for his shopping with a 10,000 kronur note. Eye brows should have been raised instantly. Read the full story