Posted on 02 September 2010. Tags: al Qaeda, manchester, new york, Norway, terrorism, UK
Norwegian police discovered the makings of a bomb lab in an Oslo apartment when arresting a suspected al-Qaida cell last month, according to reports. An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) has revealed that authorities had been tracking the group for a long time after intercepting emails between them and an al-Qaida operative in Pakistan.
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Posted in General, International, MBL, Norway, Politics, Society, United Kingdom, United States
Posted on 02 September 2010. Tags: 787, aviation, Boeing, dreamliner, Iceland, Icelandair, keflavik, keflavik international airport, testing
The new Dreamliner, also known as the Boeing 787, is currently stationed at Iceland's Keflavik International Airport for testing in side winds. This is only the second time the brand new aircraft has left the USA.
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Posted in Business, Environment, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Technology, United Kingdom, United States
Posted on 25 August 2010. Tags: celebrity, divorce, elin nordegren, Sweden, tiger woods, usa
Swedish model Elin Nordegren has divorced Tiger Woods, claiming their marriage was “irretrievably broken” following a string of scandals about the golfer’s infidelity. Nordegren, 30, and Woods, 34, issued a joint statement on Monday confirming that they had ended their six year nuptials.
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Posted in General, MBL, Sports, Sweden, United States
Posted on 25 August 2010. Tags: crime, internet, Julian Assange, police, secrets, Sweden, wikileaks
Prosecutors in Sweden have defended their decision to issue and then withdraw an arrest warrant on rape charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. According to the chief prosecutor, the allegations were dismissed after additional information was received.
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Posted in General, International, MBL, Politics, Sweden, Technology, United States
Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: California, chay lemoine, culture, food, halldor laxness, Iceland, santa barbara
The sixth in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: 'California', in which Chay revisits the state he used to call home and introduces a little bit of Iceland to Sunday brunch. Continue Reading
Posted in Culture, General, Iceland, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Travel, United States
Posted on 18 August 2010. Tags: Iceland Produce, Icelandic Lamb, Whole Foods Market
The U.S. chainstore, Whole Foods Market has recently created a short video about lamb in Iceland entitled, ‘The Tender Story of Icelandic Lamb’.
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Posted in General, Iceland, United States
Posted on 15 August 2010. Tags: beyoncé, destiny's child, e-label, fashion, Iceland
A pair of trousers from the new Dereon autumn collection, which is owned by the singer Beyonce, look a great deal like trousers from Iceland's E-label - a pair of which the musician bought for herself last autumn.
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Posted in Art, Business, General, Iceland, International, MBL, United States
Posted on 12 August 2010. Tags: Afghan documents, Amnesty International, cnn, geoff morrell, Julian Assange, mistake, secret documents, secretary of defence, war in afghanistan, wikileaks
Wikileaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange said that the site will be revealing some fifteen thousand more documents in addition to the documents they published about the war in Afghanistan last month. "We are about half way through reading them" said Assange in a CNN interview.
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Posted in General, Iceland, MBL, Politics, Society, United States
Posted on 11 August 2010. Tags: dragon area, drekkasvæði, gulf of mexico, Iceland, Oil, usa
Katrin Juliusdottir, Iceland's Minister for Industry says that interest in giving out test drill licences for the oil search in Iceland's Dragon Area has decreased following the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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Posted in Business, Energy, Environment, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Politics, Technology, United States
Posted on 09 August 2010. Tags: Afghanistan, censorship, files, internet, wikileaks
Spokesmen from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks say they will publish more classified documents despite orders from the American authorities not to. Wikileaks has been the centre of a great deal of media attention since it published secret American military documents about the war in Afghanistan.
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Posted in General, Iceland, International, MBL, Politics, Technology, United States