Posted on 07 February 2012. Tags: culture, france, heritage, history, Iceland, renovation
Virðing hf. has, in partnership with other investors, completed a contract for the renovation of historic buildings in Fáskrúðsfjörður; the east Iceland village with strong ties to France.
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Posted in Business, Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, MBL, Travel
Posted on 07 February 2012. Tags: drugs, employment, Finland, jobs, testing
More Finnish employees are being tested for drug use than ever before, according to a new report.
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Posted in Business, Culture, Finland, Lifestyle, MBL, Society, Technology
Posted on 07 February 2012. Tags: culture, Iceland, lagarfljots worm, loch ness, myth
A video was recorded this weekend of what may or may not be the legendary Lagarfljóts Worm -- Iceland's answer to the Loch Ness Monster.
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Posted in Culture, General, Iceland, MBL
Posted on 06 February 2012. Tags: crime, Finland, media, online, police, press
Witnesses to crimes and accidents in Finland are frequently alerting the media before the police, according to reports.
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Posted in Culture, Finland, MBL, Technology
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Hotel in Downtown Reykjavik, Hotel in Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Festival, Reykjavik Hotel, Summer events in Reykjavik
Hotel Odinsve, a popular
hotel in downtown Reykjavik, is preparing to accommodate a vast amount of visitors in Iceland for this year’s cultural summer events, including the Reykjavik Art Festival, and the National Day of Iceland.
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Posted in Art, Business, Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, Travel
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: anders behring breivik, art, Denmark, manifesto, Norway, play, sensitivity, theatre
A Copenhagen theatre company has courted controversy after penning a play based on the convictions of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
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Posted in Art, Culture, Denmark, MBL, Norway
Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: africa, deaf, Iceland, internet, Norway, sign language, signwiki, technology
Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland's education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs.
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Posted in Culture, Iceland, International, MBL, Society, Technology
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.
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Posted in Business, Canada, Culture, Education, Energy, Environment, General, Iceland, International, Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Technology, Travel, United States
Posted on 30 January 2012. Tags: class, money, stockholm, Sweden, tour, tourism, wealth
Residents of a wealthy Stockholm suburb have complained to the police about a tour agency’s plan to run ‘high-society safaris’ in their neighbourhood.
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Posted in Business, Culture, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Society, Sweden, Travel
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.
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Posted in Canada, Culture, Education, Environment, Greenland, Iceland, MBL, Travel, United States