Greenland News

It's an icy land full of improvisational spirit and language meant more for ear than eye.

April Hewey helps her mother June put the finishing touches on The Queen on their front lawn in Greenland for the Bear River Winter Carnival snow sculpture contest.

Danish police in Greenland say three people have been killed and two seriously injured in a shooting incident involving native Inuits.

MACH's Roaming Implementation Service provides the expertise necessary to support TELE Greenland in the rapid expansion of its roaming business February 2nd 2012.

Reuters Diary of Time Changes Around the World; *** DATE AS PER GMT *** SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 FIJI - Clocks go back by one hour to GMT+12 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 BRAZIL - Clocks go back by one hour to GMT-3 in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador and GMT-4 in Campo Grande.

In recent decades, the combined forces of climate warming and short-term variability have forced the massive glaciers that blanket Greenland into retreat, with some scientists worrying that deglaciation could become irreversible.

Fjallabyggd is a skier's dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing.

A referendum approved in November 2008 endorsed the gradual expansion of Greenland's autonomy from Denmark; the Greenland government assumed greater responsibility for local matters on June 21, 2009.

An unemployed Greenlander who suddenly found himself a krone millionaire thanks to a bank error and began giving away the cash was ordered to pay it back by the Danish supreme court.

The Greenlandic horror film Qaqqat Alanngui , directed by Malik Kleist and shot by Icelandic cameraman Freyr LA ndal SA varsson, will premiere in Iceland in BA A3 ParadA s in ReykjavA k on Friday, January 27.

Greenland, the largest island in the world - Australia is considered a continent - and the only territory ever to leave the European Union is located in the North Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the Canadian arctic archipelago.

Air Greenland's announcement of twice-weekly flights between Iqaluit and Nuuk this summer is being greeted with approval by government and tourism officials on both sides of the Davis Strait.

Reuters Diary of Time Changes Around the World; *** DATE AS PER GMT *** SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 FIJI - Clocks go back by one hour to GMT+12 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 BRAZIL - Clocks go back by one hour to GMT-3 in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador and GMT-4 in Campo Grande.