March 8, 2005

Today is international V day for women’s rights, and on this occasion, Eve Ensler, the author of the Vagina Monologues is in Iceland.

While Bobby Fischer’s lawyers have received a special passport from Icelandic officials, Japanese officials claim they are no closer to releasing the former chess master.

The town council of the Westman Islands agreed at a meeting yesterday to orgainse a conference on Surtsey Island in cooperation with the Ministry for the Environment.

A thirty-three year old man serving time at Litla-Hraun prison in south Iceland committed suicide this weekend.