Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson stated at a press conference in Oslo yesterday morning that the Icelandic government has repeatedly asked for information from U.S. authorities as to whether spying or phone tapping has taken place on their behalf in Iceland but is yet to receive a reply.
Seventeen Albanians who were seeking asylum in Iceland were sent away from the country by airplane on Monday night. The plane was operating on behalf of Frontex, the European Union agency for external border security.
Tickets to the Iceland vs. Croatia World Cup 2014 playoff in Reykjavík on November 15 bought in an unusually high number by the same individual have been made void after some people were found to have put them up for resale on the internet.
An exhibition of photographs of the band Sugarcubes, of which Björk was a member, in concert in 1988 by Jóhann Águst Hansen opens at Mokka kaffi in Reykjavík at 5 pm today.
Die Interessengruppe, die in Skálholt, dem ehemaligen geistlichen Zentrum Islands im Süden der Insel, eine mittelalterliche Kirche hatte errichten wollen, hat den Kirchenrat darüber informiert, dass sie ihre Pläne nicht weiter verfolgen will.
Die Polizei musste einschreiten, als am vergangenen Samstag in Flatey á Mýrum und Heinabergsaurar bei Höfn im Hornafjörður in Südwestisland einen 500 Meter langen Teil eines Zauns niedergerissen, um zu verhindern, dass sich Rentiere darin verfangen.
Die Anzahl der HIV Neuinfektionen in Island ist beträchtlich gesunken. In diesem Jahr haben sich nur drei Menschen mit dem Virus angesteckt, im vergangenen Jahr waren es noch 20 gewesen.
An agreement on keeping Reykjavík Domestic Airport in its current location in Vatnsmýri in central Reykjavík until 2022 was signed by representatives of the Government of Iceland and City of Reykjavík on Saturday.
When the employees of contactor ÍAV arrived to work in the Gálgahraun lava field yesterday morning, where they’re constructing a controversial road connecting Garðabær and Álftanes outside Reykjavík, they noticed that their machines had been meddled with.
The late October afternoon light kisses the Brúarfoss waterfall.