3 Jun 2024The actor and presidential candidate, Jón Gnarr, no longer has his hair, as it was shaved yesterday. His son, Jón Gnarr jr., a new student from MS, shaved his dad’s hair from at their home in the western part of Reykjavík yesterday.
31 May 2024Kristján Helgi Þráinsson, deputy director of the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police, says the police do what they need to do to solve problems that can arise during protests. He says the protests went too far and that one police officer had to go to the emergency room.
24 May 2024Almost one-third of Icelanders buy clothes online. Furthermore, Icelanders buy four times more clothes at foreign online stores than at Icelandic clothing stores.
18 May 2024Presidential candidate Arnar Þór Jónsson has appealed to the Icelandic Journalists’ Union ethics committee for the cartoonist Hallur Baldursson’s caricature that was published in visir.is. This is because the cartoonist puts Arnar in an outfit that refers to Nazi uniforms.
11 May 2024The Icelandic men’s national team in handball will be among the participants at the World Cup in Croatia, Denmark and Norway at the beginning of next year.
11 May 2024“Often, the interests of the local economy and the local community have been put above their own. People go above and beyond every day to work and to survive themselves in the chaos that comes with unprepared migration. Every effort is made to minimise the damage to the children. That’s the hardest part.”
9 May 2024Three children have been born without professional involvement in Iceland so far this year, and there were six in the last year according to mbl.is, but the number could be higher as there are examples of parents choosing not to register their children in the system and thus there are no records of their existence.
5 May 2024Zak Nelson and his fiancé Elliot Griffiths from the UK were just off on a long-awaited trip in Iceland when an accident occurred. A car crossed the wrong side of the road and hit the couple’s car, causing Elliot to suffer serious injuries and required operations for internal injuries. Zak, who escaped much better, sat down with a reporter and told his story.
3 May 2024A special effort could be made to put in place incentives for individuals and companies to install solar panels, as has been done in many of our neighboring countries.
30 Apr 2024Volcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson says that it seems that activity in the volcano at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row has increased overnight and there are signs that the inflation in Svartsengi has stopped.
29 Apr 2024According to a poll conducted by the Icelandic Centre for Social Research, Prósenta, there is a strong changing movement among the top-ranking runners for president, and this can be seen in the results of other polling firms, such as Maskína and Gallup.
27 Apr 2024The police in Suðurnes are asking people not to go on foot to the volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row. This is stated in the police’s Facebook post last night.
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