The rise of the Icelandic krona is affecting the tourist industry
The ever more expensive Icelandic currency, the krona (IKR) is resulting in higher prices for tourists and has already started to harm the tourist ind...
Cairn to keep Greenland and look elsewhere
Cairn Energy has vowed to continue drilling for oil off Greenland, but says it will try to rebalance the risk by acquiring new, safer assets elsewhere...
Silk underwear to protect privates’ privates
Danish soldiers serving in Afghanistan have a new weapon in the fight against the Taliban – silk underwear.
Iceland Foods sales process extended
The much discussed auction for the British discount supermarket chain Iceland Foods has been lengthened as two private equity funds who submitted bids...
Iceland Foods bids in, US Republican candidate connected to one
Offers on the British supermarket chain Iceland Foods are close to the value which the resolution committee of failed Icelandic bank Old Landsbanki ha...
70th anniversary of British soldiers’ rescue in Iceland
This weekend marked 70 years since residents of the Veturhús farm near Eskifjörður, east Iceland, saved the lives of over 40 British soldiers.
Lost seal pup to be flown home
An electronically tagged seal pup with a terrible sense of direction is to be flown back to Greenland after washing up over 3,2oo km from home on Engl...
Iraqi ‘torture victims’ to sue Denmark
A group of Iraqi civilians are to sue the Danish Army for damages, after new evidence suggests that they were handed over to Iraqi forces following th...