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 06 February 2012. Tags: crime, love, murder, prison, romance, Sweden, wedding bells
Two notorious Swedish murderers plan to marry after meeting and falling in love in a high security psychiatric ward.
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Posted in General, Lifestyle, MBL, Sweden, 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 30 January 2012. Tags: cosmetics, france, Iceland, Sif Cosmetics, skincare, television
A morning television programme in France this weekend broadcast a section on an Icelandic brand of skincare drops, leading to an instant rush on the product.
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Posted in Business, Iceland, International, Lifestyle, Marketing and Consulting, MBL
Posted on 27 January 2012. Tags: children, culture, custody, India, Norway, Politics
The Indian embassy is attempting to secure the return of two toddlers, who their parents say were taken away from them in Norway due to “cultural differences”.
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Posted in Culture, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Norway, Politics
Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: Iceland Live, Iceland Webcam, New Years Eve, New Years Eve in Iceland, Reykjavik Webcam
The live
New Year’s Eve webcam feed overlooking the skyline of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík was a great success, pulling in over 200,000 viewers worldwide.
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Posted in General, Iceland, Lifestyle, Society
Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: breasts, Lifestyle, medical, rights, transgender, transsexual
An advocacy group in Sweden has called for national guidelines on issuing breast implants to transgender women, claiming they can save countless lives.
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Posted in Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Sweden
Posted on 23 January 2012. Tags: animals, cats, court, cruelty, hoarding, Sweden
A Swedish couple have been convicted of animal cruelty after 53 cats, at least half of which were said to be neglected, were found in their Stockholm house.
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Posted in General, Lifestyle, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 18 January 2012. Tags: consumers, egils, food, Iceland, Iceland Industrial Salt, Iceland Road Salt, Iceland Salt, industry, safety, salt
Following a story published by IceNews and other Icelandic news channels regarding industrial salt being used in commercial food production, a number of international media channels have misinterpreted and distributed false information.
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Posted in General, Iceland, Lifestyle, MBL, Society