Icelandic tax payers are set to bear the heavy burden of recapitalising the government employees' pension fund (LSR). Billions of extra krónur are needed by the fund over the coming decades so it can stand up to its responsibilities. Continue Reading

The Icelandic phone book company has released stickers people can use to remove Egill Einarsson from the cover of the current book after the celebrity was accused of two rapes. Continue Reading

Police are hunting two phony disabled people who got out of their wheelchairs and legged it after being caught shoplifting in a Swedish supermarket. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

Two men have been convicted on terrorism charges in Norway for planning an attack against the Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Continue Reading

A student at a Reykjavík elementary school yesterday went to his school armed with a knife and threatened a teacher and fellow students. Continue Reading

A man working at the Swedish Migration Board is to face disciplinary action after telling an Iraqi couple that their baby looks like Saddam Hussein. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

A number of Danish politicians are calling for harsher penalties for sexual crimes and an end to the legal absurdity that sees paedophiles and rapists given lesser sentences than minor fraudsters. Continue Reading

The freedom of journalists in Iceland went down a little last year compared to the year before, according to the new World Press Freedom Index, which is published annually about press freedom in 180 countries around the world. Continue Reading