Iceland News

Click on the picture to watch this audio slideshow on how to prepare Icelandic saltfiskur , dried and salted fish, which used to be Iceland's most valuable export product.

Icelandair, Iceland's most popular air company, have launched a Northern Lights package deal for those who wish to view the wonders of the Aurora Borealis this winter.

FOR 16 students and their two teachers from Longridge Towers School, a recent trip to the volcanic landscape of Iceland brought their geography text books to life.

After a year of soul-searching over the financial crisis that floored Iceland's economy, Icelanders are apparently yearning for the return of old-fashioned qualities like honesty.

Harnessing geothermal energy in Iceland. Photo by PA ll StefA nsson. Beaty said he had thought his company was given rather negative coverage last summer because of its investment in HS Energy, Morgunbladid reports.

Images by: Rich Smith & Matt Newby Iceland Airwaves Festival :: 10.14.09 a ' 10.18.09 :: Reykjavik, Iceland DJ at Blue Lagoon :: Iceland Airwaves 2009 In the light of our global economic meltdown, it cannot go unnoticed that Iceland has, prior to this year's Iceland Airwaves Festival , taken some of its hardest knocks since the infamous Cod Wars of ...

Icelandic hot springs: Public opinion is not so hot on joining the EU any more LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.11.2009 @ 21:12 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Iceland this week appointed its chief EU accession negotiator, but the country's application application is already hitting the buffers domestically and Brussels fears that the Arctic nation may "pull a ...

The rooms feature so-plump-your-head-rolls-off pillows, cumulus-puffy duvets and sheets more Swiss chammy than Egyptian cotton enlarge Reykjavik 101.

Armann Thorvaldsson recalls the 'slap in the face' shock when he heard the FSA had seized his bank.

Icelanders flooded the three branches of the US fast-food restaurant in Reykjavik several hours before the outlets shut for the last time over the weekend.

Reykjavik - Noisy crowds, long queues, and traffic jams plunged McDonald's restaurants in Iceland into a state of siege on Saturday, as the chain served its final burgers on the island.

Covenant College alumna Elizabeth Tubergen '08 was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Student Scholarship to Iceland.

Iceland may not be a great place for McDonald's, which is closing shop tomorrow because of prohibitively high import costs, but it's apparently a paradise for women.

Foreigners often comment on how strong Icelandic women are. Most of them think we've been shaped by the harsh nature but that's not the case.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland Iceland has become the land of the $6 Big Mac, and that's just too much.

Reykjavik, with its endless summer daylight, long winter nights, glaciers, waterfalls and geysers, is a photographer's paradise and a great holiday destination.

Mark Wahlberg has become one of the busiest actors in the business, and now he's going to be even busier.

Despite enduring a financial crash that nearly bankrupted the nation, musicians at Icleand's Airwaves festival seem to be surviving the slump unscathed Crash landing ... For a Minor Reflection surive the fall of Iceland's financial institutions Iceland is nothing like you would imagine, and last weekend's Airwaves festival in ReykjavA k dispelled ...

Things looked pretty bleak in Iceland a year or so ago. Declaring national bankruptcy is never high on a country's list of priorities.

The Serious Fraud Office has identified one area of potential criminality relating to the UK operations of Landsbanki and three at Kaupthing, after investigators travelled to Reykjavik to gather information on the Icelandic banks.