Day: June 29, 2005

Morgunblaðið and Iceland State Radio, RÚV, report that the Executive Chairman of FL Group, together with the CEO of investment company Baugur Group, have purchased a 5.3 per cent share of Íslandsbanki for 9.5 billion Icelandic króna.

Film director and actor Clint Eastwood has been issued a license to shoot scenes for his new movie “Flags of Our Fathers” in the area around Krísuvík in southwest Iceland.

US ambassador James Gadsden spoke yesterday at a public meeting held by Varðberg, an Icelandic organization that promotes co-operation between the democracies of West.