Arctic Region News

Iceland's president has said he is not ready to sign legislation that would allow the UK and Holland to be repaid the 3.3bn lost when the island's banks collapsed.

A Kosovan-born gunman shot dead four people in a Finnish shopping mall on Thursday and killed his ex-girlfriend in an apartment before killing himself in Finland's third shooting spree in as many years.

Iceland's parliament has agreed to pay back 3.8 billion lost by British and Dutch savers when its banking system collapsed, in a move that is likely to boost the country's bid to join the European Union.

A stak is working on several projects in Norway, building a preschool in Greenland's capital Nuuk and constructing a service building for cruise ships in Falmouth in Jamaica.

On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, February 2 through June 6, 2010, "Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim" brings together bodies of work by three contemporary photographers that recently entered the Museum's collection.

A Lufthansa flight en route from Frankfurt to Detroit with about 200 passengers made an emergency landing in Iceland on Saturday after it was found to be carrying luggage whose owner had not boarded the plane.

Artists have an uncanny ability to convert the ugly works of man into images of great beauty.

Icelanda s parliament may reject a foreign depositor bill for a second time in a move that would sour relations with the U.K. and Netherlands and that Fitch Ratings has signaled will weaken the sovereigna s credit grade.

White Christmases are expected in this small capital in the frigid North Atlantic, but the streets are bare this year, with no snowflakes in the immediate forecast.

I have attended half a dozen Christmas parties in Iceland and the same things always strike me as particularly "Icelandic" each time.

A mission from the International Monetary Fund , headed by Mark Flanagan, visited Reykjavik during December 1-14 to undertake discussions for the second review under the US$2.1 billion Stand-By Arrangement, approved on November 19, 2008 .

In this Aug. 16, 2005, photo, an iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle.

The Serious Fraud Office has confirmed it is launching a criminal probe into failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing.

HAMPSHIRE is on the brink of being plunged into freezing Arctic weather conditions which will bring snow to the county.

New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference.

HAMPSHIRE could be set for snow in the run up to Christmas as a cold snap pushes temperatures to -5 degrees.

Melting glaciers in Greenland contribute to rising sea levels. While the experts are talking about climate change at the international conference in Copenhagen this week, the people of two widely separated places are living it, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips .

High Arctic revelation Summer in Greenland overturns all expectations, illusions of northern waters By KARIN COPE and MARIKE FINLAY-de MONCHY SUNDAY SPECIAL Sun.

The cod war turned to violence yesterday when the Icelandic gunboat Thor opened fire on British fishery support vessels and was herself badly damaged in collision with the ocean-going tug Lloydsman.

Thursday, the blazing cold, wind and snow set the stage for Iceland's president to talk locally about sustainability and climate change.