Second-year students at the Art University of Iceland have caused a stir in Reykjavík by putting advertisements in empty shop windows claiming that H&M and other famous brands will be opening up soon in Iceland. Read the full story

Scientists say rocks from Greenland prove that precious metals, such as gold, were deposited in the Earth’s crust by asteroid showers billions of years ago. Read the full story

Kofi Annan, the Nobel Peace Prize holder and former United Nations Secretary General, is set to visit Iceland next month. Read the full story

A team from an Icelandic university has been awarded at the Formula Student international design competition at the famous Silverstone race track in Britain. Read the full story

Last week saw several structures destroyed at the Royal Institute of Technology’s (KTH) School of Architecture in Stockholm. Read the full story

The University of Iceland celebrates its 100th anniversary this year with an extensive schedule of events. Read the full story

Southern Sweden’s Lund University has agreed to pay out compensation to two dozen female students who were refused entrance into the psychology programme on gender grounds. Read the full story

The first ever Muslim MP to be selected as a member of the British cabinet is Tooting (Borough of Wandsworth, South London) MP Sadiq Khan, a London Met University visiting professor and alumnus. Mr Khan was chosen Minister for Transport in the recent government reshuffle, making him the most senior Muslim politician in the UK and the first Muslim to join the Privy Council or attend Cabinet. Read the full story

Sweden’s national security service, Sapo, has issued a warning that Iranian citizens studying at Swedish universities could have ties to their nation’s nuclear and military establishments. Therefore, the government agency has advised Swedish universities to ban all Iranian nationals from studying in any field with connections to these weapon-based sectors. Read the full story

It appears that Danes are hitting the books again as most of the nation’s major universities have reported sharp increases in their applications for enrollment this year. Upper educational institutions throughout Zealand, Jutland, and Funen are even witnessing record-breaking figures. Read the full story