Due to the bad economy here in Iceland , McDonalds, is closing down next saturday .According to the CEO of McDonalds in Iceland, this is because that the Icelandic currency is low, and they have to import...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama ,came to Iceland last night.His Holiness will be in Iceland for a few days.Today ,His Holiness and the Icelandic Bishop of the state church,will be together at Hallgrimskirkja ( kirkja =...
The Unions had postponed the pay increase,that was agreed in the last pay negotiations.For people at the fish factory HB Grandi,the increase ,that they postponed,was around 13.000 krona.But the company owners...
Protests and confrontation in Iceland's capital Reykjavik escalated today when riots police and demonstrators clashed in the early hours of the morning. As a result two police officers were seriously injured and...
The small Scandanavian country, blessed with abundant natural resources and enjoying one of the highest living standards in the world is hardly the kind of place one associates with economic catastrophe and riots....
Today at around 13:30 ,one of the TV news channels hold every year ,on the last day ,a tv brodcast ,live,where they talk about the year with political party chairmens. But today ,the hotel,wich is located near the...
Today ,the 1st december 2008 - Iceland celebrated it 90th annivercary of Self Rule from Denmark.
We got independence in 1944.
People went to Arnarholl ,the hill between the govermnet house and the Central...
Next saturday - another protest is planned - at 15:00 hours - GMT.Probably there will be many people there .And on monday ,december 1. another protest .last saturday a girl tried to stop protesters from throwing...
Few thousand people gathered yesterday in front of the Icelandic Parliement building ,to protest. They where demanding that the goverment resign and the Icelandic Central bank ,change the men that control it.More...
Iceland in bankruptcy Will other countries, receiving rescue money from IMF, like Hungary, end up with the same 20% for credit? No shop owner can operate to buy goods on 20% base. The booming construction...
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In June, the International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC) held its international conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. In October, the Icelandic economy collapsed, the three largest banks were nationalized, and tens of thousands of Icelanders found themselves unable...
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Chancellor Alastair Darling has today approved a £100m loan package from the Bank of England to the Icelandic bank Landsbanki in an attempt to help the struggling bank honour its commitment to offer prompt...
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THE Kaupthing, Iceland's largest bank, yesterday injected by a massive bail-out by the Icelandic government spearheaded by Geir Haarde was today forced by the British regulatory authorities to have the Kaupthing...
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Heima is a musical documentary featuring the music of Sigur Rós, an enchanting group from Iceland whose sounds are loaded with beautiful Icelandic vocals and pure crystalline melodies. One can't help but...
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Chess," Bobby Fischer once said, "is life." It was the chess master's tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game. Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a teenage grandmaster and — before age 30...