Iceland’s Minister of Finance Steingrimur J. Sigfusson says he is satisfied with the outcome of last weekend’s meeting with Moody’s in Washington DC.
A statement from Moody’s explains the decision saying that it has now come to light that Britain and the Netherlands will get paid out from the estate of the
Sumardagurinn Fyrsti is what Icelanders call the first Thursday after the 18th April each year; and that means today is the first day of summer. Snow be damned!
Spring in Iceland has done its all-too-usual trick this year of appearing in early to mid April and then running and hiding again towards the end of the month as “summer”
Unemployment is a more serious problem among the young, with 15.9 percent of 16-24 year-olds on the job market unemployed. The figure is 6.2 percent among 24-54 year-olds and 6.7 among the 55-74 age group. The figures cover those looking for work and do not cover people
Birkir Jon Jonsson, the Progressive Party deputy chairman, says the newspaper cartoon crossed all reasonable boundaries. The deputy chairman continued, saying that the unkind portrayal of Siv Fridleifsdottir was also undeserved.
The cartoonist has apologised; but Jonsson is also calling on Morgunbladid to do the same. Otherwise, he says, a new line has been drawn on the acceptable media treatment of politics.
Morgunbladid editor, David Oddsson, would not
The notice, which was deemed by onlookers not to be an April Fool's joke despite being posted on 1st April, gave a detailed history of the stone which lent credibility to its authenticity. It also, however, gave the impression that
In the vote yesterday 30 MPs voted to support the bill, 14 against and 19 MPs did not vote. 13 of the votes against were from Independence Party members and the 14th was the Progressive Party’s Vigdis Hauksdottir.
The new law seeks to protect children from obscene content and to ensure freedom of speech. To uphold its goals a new media committee will be created to mediate between the media, the public and government.
The bill has honourable intentions, but it is still proving controversial — not
“One of the friends ran in, but found both of them dead. When she tried to revive her friend, she received an electric shock,” a family friend told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
The deaths, which took place in southern Thailand in the beach resort of Krabi, have been confirmed by
The University of Iceland is commemorating the occasion with a scientific symposium on the eruption in the Askja building. The programme starts at 17.00 and is open to all.
As previously reported on IceNews, a permanent museum and exhibition dedicated to the eruption will open tomorrow on a farm at the base of the glacier with the fun-to-pronounce name.
Although the Eyjafjallajokull eruption has been officially declared
The carcass washed ashore in good condition on 2nd April, according to Gisli Vikingsson, cetacean specialist. It is likely the dolphin died relatively nearby, given its condition.
The bottlenose dolphin is a rare visitor to the North Atlantic, although it is common in tropical areas. Since regular whale and dolphin counts began around Iceland in 1987, the bottlenose has only been spotted three times for certain, DV reports.
The Icelandic Marine Research Institute has frozen the dolphin carcass and will
