Roughly 6,200 people in Iceland currently live in severe poverty, ruv.is reports. The Ministry of Social Affairs’s Welfare Watch has proposed an increase in child benefits of ISK 4 billion (USD 30 million, EUR 26.5 million) per year and define the minimum support limit.
Iceland Airwaves announced today the first batch of artists to perform at this year’s festival, November 4-8.
In Island gelten keine speziellen Regeln für den Gebrauch von Flugdrohnen. Der Fernerkennungsspezialist des isländischen Wetterdienstes, Richard Yeo, sieht Anlass zur Schaffung einer entsprechenden Regelung.
Former Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr says he will finally get to change his name now that he has moved to the United States, visir.is reports. As reported, Jón Gnarr has been trying to get his legal name changed from Jón Gunnar Kristinsson to Jón Gnarr, which he has gone by since he was a child.
Vergleichbare Querschnittsmessungen am Lavafeld der Holuhraun vom 30. Dezember und 21. Januar zeigen, dass sich das Lavafeld in den drei Wochen signifikant verdichtet hat. Sein Volumen beträgt jetzt fast 1,4 km3.
Friðrik Ólafsson, Iceland’s first grandmaster in chess, was given the title Honorary Citizen of Reykjavík at a ceremony in Höfði yesterday. Friðrik, who celebrated his 80th birthday on January 26, was made an honorary member of FIDE (the World Chess Federation) at the same occasion.
Das Festival für zeitgenössische Musik „Myrkir Músíkdagar“ eröffnet heute in der Reykjavíker Konzerthalle Harpa seine Pforten. Im Jahr 1980 war es von isländischen Komponisten gegründet worden, Die Tageszeitung Times bezeichnete das Festival als „heisse Adresse in einem kulturellen Zentrum“.
Representatives of U.S. television network ABC have contacted the Icelandic Civil Protection Department requesting permission to broadcast the news program Good Morning America live from the Holuhraun eruption site next week.
Farmers in the scarcely-populated Árneshreppur in the northeastern West Fjords had to resort to unusual sheep roundup measures while fetching leftover sheep from the wilderness late last month, including skiing with one sheep in a toboggan in tow.
The contemporary music festival Dark Music Days opens in Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík today. Established by the Society of Icelandic Composers in 1980, the festival has been described by the Times as “ever-diversifying… a hot ticket in a cultural hotspot.”
