A morning television programme in France this weekend broadcast a section on an Icelandic brand of skincare drops, leading to an instant rush on the product. Read the full story
Posted on 30 January 2012.
A morning television programme in France this weekend broadcast a section on an Icelandic brand of skincare drops, leading to an instant rush on the product. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 January 2012.
Iceland was under the spotlight in the BBC comedy quiz show QI this week, in the programme’s festive special presented, as always, by Stephen Fry. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 December 2011.
A Swedish sports pundit may be reprimanded after jokingly announcing a women’s naked relay event while thinking he was off air. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 November 2011.
A thousand people applied to appear as extras in the upcoming Game of Thrones film shoot in Iceland. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 September 2011.
The Icelandic company Latibaer, world famous for its LazyTown children’s television series and merchandising, has been bought out by a company promising to make a new series and keep production in Iceland. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 February 2011.
The ESA, the regulatory agency of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has formally requested changes to the way Iceland’s state broadcaster is managed. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 February 2011.
A Danish journalist has been criticised after repeatedly referring to a transsexual woman as a man and using the phrase “freak show” in a programme about sex change operations. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 September 2010.
Spaugstofan, Iceland’s most famous weekly comedy sketch show, will not be consigned to history as had previously been reported. Despite being dropped from RUV for monetary reasons, the show’s creators this week signed a deal to move over to rival station, Stod 2. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 August 2010.
One of Iceland’s most popular television programmes, Spaugstofan, will not be on RUV Television this winter due in part to budgetary restrictions. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 July 2010.
Some 200 people are currently at work laying fibre optic cables to 8,000 homes in the Reykjavik capital area of Iceland. It is hoped 40,000 homes will be connected with high speed fibre optic communications by the end of the year and 65,000 by the end of 2014. 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
