by Iceland Review on Saturday Feb 11, 2012 at 15:00
Academy Award winning US actor Denzel Washington has agreed to play the lead in the next movie by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, 2 Guns. Produced by Marc Platt Productions, the film’s budget is USD 80 million (ISK 10 billion, EUR 60 million).
by Iceland Review on Saturday Feb 11, 2012 at 11:00
The ship Börkur NK 122 has caught and carried 1.5 million tons of fish to land since Síldarvinnslan in Neskaupstaður, east Iceland, bought it five years after its making in 1973. No other Icelandic ship boasts such an achievement.
by Iceland Review on Saturday Feb 11, 2012 at 0:00
The second annual winter sports festival Éljagangur (February 9-12) in Akureyri, north Iceland, was formally launched by Mayor Eiríkur Björn Björgvinsson at a ceremony on the town square Ráðhústorg on Thursday.
by Iceland Review on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 17:00
Tickets to a concert by the British rock group Jethro Tull in the concert center Harpa in Reykjavík on June 21 sold out seven minutes after ticket sales opened on February 2. Following the high demand, another concert was scheduled the day after.
by Iceland Review on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 13:30
The culture center Gerðuberg in Reykjavík will celebrate World Children’s Day tomorrow with diverse art workshops for the entire family and entertainment of various kind. Today, Bessastaðastofa, the reception room at the presidential residency Bessastaðir, and the on-site chapel will be open to the public.
by Icenews on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 12:06
A 22 year-old man has admitted to yesterday’s multiple murders in northwest Greenland. The 22 year-old admitted to police that he had deliberately killed three people and tried to kill a further four on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning in the village of Nutaarmiut in northwest Greenland. RÚV reports that the motive for the crime is [...]
by Iceland Review on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 11:00
Somehow the mountains I hike keep shrinking. My last achievement, Húsfell, “Garðabær’s Everest”, is dwarfed by even the smallest of the Himalayas.
by Reykjavík Grapevine on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 10:49
The newly formed party of former Leftist-Green Lilja Mósesdóttir has received considerably high levels of support, a new poll shows.
by Reykjavík Grapevine on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 10:29
A lawyer commenting on the recent decision of the State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland (ÁTVR) to ban the sale of Motörhead shiraz said that there are clearly too many employees at the institution.
by Icenews on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 9:27
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik appeared in court on Monday, demanding his release and a military honour. During a one-minute statement allowed by Oslo District Court Judge Wenche Gjelsten, the right-wing extremists said, “I acted in self-defence for my people, culture, and country. I don’t accept being imprisoned and demand to be freed immediately,” [...]
by Icenews on Saturday Feb 11, 2012 at 11:00
Nearly three million people have viewed the recent footage which may or may not be of Iceland’s mythical Lagarfljóts Worm; which is often dubbed the country’s answer to the Loch Ness Monster. The Worm is one of many in Norse mythology and not directly related to Loch Ness in any way; but the Nessie connotations [...]
by Icenews on Saturday Feb 11, 2012 at 10:18
A member of Denmark’s far-right Dansk Folkeparti (DF) party has apologised after publishing an advert in which the group’s logo resembled a swastika. Anne Nielsen, chairwoman of a DF local association, mistakenly downloaded the doctored logo from the internet to use in an advert for a local Zealand newspaper, Lørdagsavisen Køge. The motif used in [...]
by Reykjavík Grapevine on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 17:12
The Icelander who took the now-famous video of what could be the mythical Lagarfljóts Worm denies he created the footage or altered it in any way.
by Iceland Review on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 15:00
Bergur Elías Ágútssson, mayor of the municipality Norðurþing in northeast Iceland, and Halldór Jóhannsson, spokesperson for the Chinese investor Huang Nubo in Iceland, are on their way to China to discuss investments in the municipality with Huang.
by Icenews on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 12:26
The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, often talks about his official residence, Bessastaðir, as a house for the nation. That is literally true today, when the mansion and church are open to the public. Bessastaðir and its church will be open to the public between 16.00 and 20.00 today as part of the Reykjavík [...]
by Icenews on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 11:42
Denmark’s High Court has upheld a ruling that Copenhagen Police acted illegally when detaining a large group of protesters at the UN COP15 Climate Summit in 2009. The judge agreed that officers contravened the European Human Rights Convention when they rounded up thousands of demonstrators and forced them to sit handcuffed on the pavement in [...]
by Icenews on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 10:55
Iceland’s Snæfellsjökull glacier is currently thinning and retreating so fast that it could completely disappear within a few decades. Icelandic Met Office glaciologist Tómas Jóhannesson says that Snæfellsjökull, along with Iceland’s other smaller glaciers, has been retreating extremely quickly since 2000, because the weather has been unusually warm on average over the last decade, RÚV [...]
by Iceland Review on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 10:30
The legendary Icelandic “lake monster” or “river worm” Lagarfljótsormurinn, which existence may have been proven by footage posted on Icelandic national broadcaster RÚV last week, has caught the attention of US national television channels ABC and NBC.
by Reykjavík Grapevine on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 10:10
Despite what the general public was led to believe a few years ago, it has come to light that Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir does, in fact, have a good command of the English language.
by Iceland Review on Friday Feb 10, 2012 at 7:30
The Icelandic government decided on Tuesday to contribute ISK 90-150 million (USD 735,000-1.2 million, EUR 554,000-924,000) from the state budget to the removal of defective PIP breast implants in all women who have the implants in Iceland, approximately 400.
