According to TV-station Stöð 2 Evening News, fourteen months ago, the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police had access to documents from Kaupthing Bank in Luxembourg concerning accounts of Baugur-owned companies on the grounds of suspected money laundering.
On Friday afternoon, the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík ordered a Chinese delegation to abruptly end a meeting being held with officials from the Icelandic Ministry of Health.
According to a front page article in today’s Fréttablaðið, recordings for the new Sigur Rós album due out in September, are now complete.
According to a new report from the State Social Security Institute (SSSI) (Tryggingastofnun ríkisins), Icelandic fathers are increasingly taking advantage of their entitlement to paternity leave. 49.5 per cent of those paid from the SSSI Childbirth Fund were fathers, up from 46.3 per cent the previous year. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />
