Day: May 23, 2005

Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir was elected Miss Iceland Friday night at a pageant held at Reykjavík nightclub Broadway.

In a faddish nation, a prevailing endemic of renaming Icelandic companies to include the suffix “Group” had already caught the attention of the oftentimes self-absorbed national psyche.

The main objective of the Social Democratic Alliance according to the platform passed at the national convention held this weekend is to remove the current coalition of Progressive and Independence parties from power.

Iceland failed to qualify for the final round of the Eurovision song contest currently underway in the Ukraine. But Iceland singer Selma Björnsdóttir took the setback in stride.

Municipal authorities of Húsavík (pop. 2,500) and the representatives of US conglomerate Alcoa have reached a common understanding concerning the type of aluminum smelter they consider most feasible to build in Húsavík.

A tense battle for the office of the president of the opposition Social Democrats will come to a close tomorrow at the party’s national convention.