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Watch an audio slideshow of how traditional Icelandic rhubarb stew is made. Rhubarb is one of the few vegetables that grows effortlessly in Iceland and for that reason it used to be a highly-valued addition to the traditional diet of fish and lamb.
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The Icelandic team in women’s football secured their place in the 2013 European Championship in Women’s Football in Sweden after a 3-2 win against Ukraine in the play-offs at Laugardalsvöllur stadium in Reykjavík last night. A new record in spectators to a women’s game was set: 6,647.
“This is an unbelievably good feeling,” Iceland coach Sigurður Ragnar Eyjólfsson told Fréttablaðið. “We are yielding the results of two years of work and it’s great that so many could take part in it.” Iceland also competed in the European Championship in 2009.
Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir scored the first goal of yesterday’s game in the eighth minute. Four minutes later Katrín Ómarsdóttir scored. Ukraine equalized with goals by Vira Dyatel in the 36th minute and Daryna Apanachenko in the 72nd, uefa.com reports.
With 14 minutes to go, substitute Dagný Brynjarsdóttir secured qualification after just three minutes on the pitch.
Iceland’s win comes on the back of the 3-2 victory against Ukraine in Sevastopol on Saturday.
Iceland will now join Russia, Germany, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and hosts Sweden in the finals next year.
The draw will take place on November 9. The teams will be split into three groups of four. The top three teams will proceed to the knockout phase, uefa.com reports.
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Leader of the Progressive Party, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, who held the mandate to lead coalition talks, presented the government agreement between the Progressive Party and Independence Party to the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the presidential residence Bessastaðir this morning.
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The chairmen of the Independence Party and Progressive Party, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, formally presented the government agreement to the public at a press conference shortly after 11 am this morning.
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The party council of the Independence Party and central committee of the Progressive Party unanimously accepted the government agreement negotiated by their respective chairmen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, yesterday evening.
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Icelandic mountaineer Ingólfur Geir Gissurarson made it up the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest at 8,848 meters, by the South East Ridge at 1 am Icelandic time last night. At 50, he is the fifth and oldest Icelander to make the climb.
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The 2013 April-May issue of Iceland Review & Atlantica has been released. Packed with informative and entertaining stories, highlights include an interview with outgoing Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and the people who know her best, a photo essay of ice caves in Europe’s largest glacier and a colorful feature on life in the West Fjords.
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The 11th Reykjavík Shorts & Docs. Catch it while it lasts!
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Artist couple Nína Ivanova and Ómar Smári Kristinsson explain why they decided to settle in the West Fjords’ capital.
Reykjavík Queer Choir’s annual spring concert takes place on Friday, May 24.
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