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Warns against reckless driving

4 Aug 2017 Every year, the first weekend of August sees Reykjavík empty out for festivals and other festivities around the country. Accordingly, it is usually the most traffic-heavy weekend of the year and accidents are common.

Plenty of activities for kids on Sunday at the Kátt á Klambra festival.

A children's festival in one of Reykjavik's largest parks on Sunday

29 Jul 2017 Children's festival Kátt á Klambra takes place for the second time this year at Klambratún near the city centre in Reykjavik. This year the focus is on creativity and social interaction.

Public outrage as Nigerian asylum seekers are to be deported

26 Jul 2017 "Im a dead man if I go back to Nigeria, but this isn't about me, it's about my daughter. I want her to have a chance of a better life," says Sunday Iserian, a Nigerian asylum seeker speaking to mbl.is. After nearly two years of waiting in Iceland, their application has been rejected by the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration.

Trip to Iceland led to a trip to the ER

23 Jul 2017 Take it from The Real Housewives of Orange County; you do not want to spend the night in an Icelandic ER.

„Oh, is Iceland an island? “

23 Jul 2017 Tour guides in Iceland have been sharing hilarious questions from tourists in a thread on a Facebook group.

Search goes on in tricky conditions

20 Jul 2017 Search for the man who fell down Gullfoss waterfall yesterday is still ongoing but for the 60 remaining from the search and rescue teams, Hvítá river is proving hard to deal with.

Divers, drones and helicopters search by Gullfoss

19 Jul 2017 More than one hundred members of the Icelandic Search and Rescue are taking part in the search for a man who fell down Gullfoss waterfall around 5 p.m. today.

Kolbrún Benediktsdóttir, deputy district attorney, outside the courtroom today.

Bombarded with calls from the media

18 Jul 2017 Crew members of the Greenlandic trawler Polar Nanoq continue to testify in court on the actions of defendant, Thomas Möller Olsen, during the hours surrounding the death of Birna Brjánsdóttir in January.

Polar Nanoq's crew members waiting outside the courtroom today.

Turned off the internet and lied about an engine malfunction

18 Jul 2017 Crew members of the Greenlandic trawler Polar Nanoq continue to testify in court on the actions of defendant, Thomas Möller Olsen, during the hours surrounding the death of Birna Brjánsdóttir in January.

Landmannalaugar is one end of Laugavegur hiking path

Tourists on Icelandic highlands ill-prepared as a rite of passage

10 Jul 2017 According Páll Guðmundsson of the Iceland Touring Association, most tourists hiking in the Icelandic highlands are well prepared, but there are always a few that are not. He mentions a couple with their one year old child which got very cold and wet last year, and were ordered to return to the lowland.