Posted on 05 February 2012. Tags: britain, foods, Iceland, Landsbanki, mitt romney, UK
Offers on the British supermarket chain Iceland Foods are close to the value which the resolution committee of failed Icelandic bank Old Landsbanki had hoped for. The likely Republican presidential candidate in the USA is connected to one of the bidding investment funds.
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Posted in Business, Holland, Iceland, MBL, United Kingdom, United States
Posted on 04 February 2012. Tags: accident, climate, collins, golbal warming, Greenland, ice, map, publishing
The world’s most authoritative atlas maker has updated its most recent edition following widespread criticism from scientists who said Greenland was looking far too green.
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Posted in Business, Environment, General, Greenland, International, MBL, Technology, United Kingdom
Posted on 28 January 2012. Tags: cairn, Greenland, Norway, Oil, Statoil
Cairn Energy is to team up with Norwegian group Statoil in their quest to look for oil off the coast of Greenland.
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Posted in Business, Energy, Environment, Greenland, MBL, Norway, Technology, United Kingdom
Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: catco, Glitnir, Iceland, Larus Welding, malcolm walker, reyka
President and founder of Iceland supermarkets in the UK, Malcolm Walker, has been revealed as the main investor behind the purchase of Catco Vín ehf. in Iceland (the country).
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Posted in Business, Iceland, International, MBL, United Kingdom
Posted on 23 January 2012. Tags: army, britain, Iceland, military, rescue, UK, war, wwii
This weekend marked 70 years since residents of the Veturhús farm near Eskifjörður, east Iceland, saved the lives of over 40 British soldiers.
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Posted in Iceland, MBL, Travel, United Kingdom, Weather
Posted on 20 January 2012. Tags: Greenland, Nature, navigation, seal, skegness, UK
An electronically tagged seal pup with a terrible sense of direction is to be flown back to Greenland after washing up over 3,2oo km from home on England’s east coast.
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Posted in Environment, Greenland, International, MBL, Travel, United Kingdom
Posted on 04 January 2012. Tags: alan davies, BBC, brian blessed, Iceland, qi, sean lock, Stephen Fry, television
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.
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Posted in Culture, General, Iceland, Leisure, MBL, United Kingdom
Posted on 31 December 2011. Tags: arrest, Denmark, interrogation, Iraq, legal, torture, UK
A group of Iraqi civilians are to sue the Danish Army for damages, after new evidence suggests that they were handed over to Iraqi forces following their arrests in south Basra and subsequently tortured.
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Posted in Denmark, General, International, MBL, United Kingdom
Posted on 20 December 2011. Tags: arni pall arnason, au, court, EFTA, Iceland, Icesave, ossur skarphedinsson, Politics
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The Icelandic foreign minister will take control of the country's Icesave defence preparations at the EFTA court; despite loud calls from the opposition to keep the case in the hands of the business and commerce minister.
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Posted in European Union, Holland, Iceland, International, MBL, Politics, United Kingdom
Posted on 20 December 2011. Tags: academic, health, Lifestyle, love, marriage, research
People who have been married for many years live longer than those who are single or divorced, according to a Finnish-British study.
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Posted in Culture, Finland, General, International, MBL, Society, United Kingdom