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Iceland Foods bids in, US Republican candidate connected to one

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. Continue Reading

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Danish aid worker freed in US pirate raid

Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: Denmark, navy seals, piracy, pirates, solamia, usa

Dramatic details of an overnight US raid in which two aid workers for the Danish Demining Group were freed from Somali pirates have begun to emerge. Continue Reading

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Icelandic president en route to Antarctica

Posted on 30 January 2012. Tags: Al Gore, antarctica, climate change, climate reality project, Environment, expedition, golbal warming, Iceland, Politics

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of Iceland, and First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff, are currently sailing to Antarctica, according to the President's office near Reykjavík. Al Gore, Nobel laureate and former US Vice President invited them to visit the southernmost continent on the planet. Continue Reading

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Vikings Explore Hudson Bay

Posted on 28 January 2012. Tags: adventure, Canada, hudson bay, research, travel, Vikings

Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into the Arctic from Churchill, Manitoba. Continue Reading

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First TALK series talk at Reykjavik Art Museum tonight, free entry

Posted on 26 January 2012.

Reykjavik Art Museum, Icelandic Art Center and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts TALK it through. The American Embassy in Iceland supports TALK Series. Continue Reading

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File-sharing tycoon arrested in New Zealand

Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: america, dotcom, Finland, megauploads, new zealand, sopa, usa

The Finnish founder of file-sharing site Megaupload has been arrested by US authorities in New Zealand for massive copyright infringement. Continue Reading

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Archetypal foreign visitors to Iceland revealed

Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: Iceland, International, tourism, usa, visit

Although all different types of tourist visit Iceland from all over the world, the country's tourist board has this week published survey results which reveal the most "typical" tourists are an American couple, about 40 years-old, who travel to Iceland, without children, for about ten days. Continue Reading

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Hotel sued for giving room key to ‘pervert’

Posted on 17 January 2012. Tags: assault, Finland, hotel, new york, privacy, sex, starwood, usa

A woman has filed a lawsuit against Starwood Hotels and Resorts after employees at a Finnish property allegedly gave her room key to a drunken stranger. Continue Reading

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Icelandic-directed film Contraband enjoys excellent opening weekend

Posted on 16 January 2012. Tags: baltasar kormákur, cinema, contraband, film, Iceland, usa

Contraband, the new Hollywood movie by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, was this weekend's highest grossing film in the USA, if initial figures are accurate. Continue Reading

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Björk announces ten New York concerts

Posted on 08 January 2012. Tags: Björk, music, new york, usa

The Icelandic singer Björk this weekend announced that she will take her latest show, Biophilia, to New York. Continue Reading

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