7 Nov 2016Iceland tops the Nordic table in the use of addictive painkillers, stimulants, sleeping pills, tranquilisers, sedatives and anticonvulsants, it has emerged.
13 Oct 2016Having long languished towards the bottom of the FIFA world rankings, Iceland have risen 91 places in just five short years – and overtaken all of their larger Nordic neighbours.
27 Sep 2016Icelandic children rank second in a new study on physical fitness conducted by the University of North Dakota and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
12 Sep 2016Transferring domestic flights from Reykjavik City Airport to Keflavík International Airport could be beneficial to both tourists and locals, say Nordic tourism leaders.
30 Aug 2016Hit Icelandic film Þrestir (Sparrows), directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, has been chosen as Iceland’s entry to the 2016 Nordic Council Film Prize.
19 Aug 2016The MS Norrøna, the ferry linking Iceland to Denmark and the Faroe Islands, left the East Iceland port of Seyðisfjörður on the penultimate voyage of the 2016 summer season.
17 Aug 2016Icelandic low-cost airline WOW air has announced that it will be moving its Stockholm service from Västerås Airport (VST) to the Swedish capital’s main international airport at Arlanda.
16 Aug 2016A large stock of minke whales previously dwelling off the shores of Iceland may now have been located near the Norwegian island of Jan Mayen.
10 Aug 2016A second man has been arrested in connected with the murder of an Icelandic man, who was stabbed and beaten to death in the Swedish capital of Stockholm last month.
