Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, The President of Iceland, will be opening the first ever Startup Iceland conference at Ásbrú Enterprise Park Iceland on May 30, 2012. Continue Reading

A Swedish man accused of shooting scores of immigrants in Malmo has begun his trial this week. Continue Reading

Norway’s state-owned Statoil firm has signed a deal with Russian oil giant Rosneft to explore the sea around the Arctic. Continue Reading

A Chechen couple featured in the award-winning Finnish documentary The 3 Rooms of Melancholia has been granted asylum in Finland. Continue Reading

The sentence of the man who attacked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe has been confirmed at 10 years after the case finally ended in Denmark’s highest court. Continue Reading

The Swedish government is to come to the rescue of those plagued by mosquitoes in the summer by bombing the blood thirsty bugs from the air with pesticide. Dalälven in central Sweden is one of the places that will receive the air-bound aid after residents complained that the growing problem is making their summers unbearable. Continue Reading

Cooori has developed a web-based language learning software that utilises artificial intelligence to helps its users learn Japanese faster and more efficiently. Continue Reading

Edvard Munch’s The Scream fetched $119.9 million at auction last week, making it the most expensive piece of art to ever go under the hammer. Continue Reading

On today’s Martha Stewart Show, Martha unveiled her beauty secret to be next generation beauty product BIOEFFECT EGF SERUM.   Continue Reading

Imprisoned Bahraini-Danish activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, has vowed to continue his hunger strike despite the promise of a retrial. Continue Reading