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  • Iceland volcano could erupt: Katla explained

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    13 Oct 2011 | 10:02 am
    Geologists have warned that a volcano in Iceland, Katla, could cause more chaos than last year's eruption.

  • Pictured: breathtaking Northern Lights shining across Britain

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    24 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am
    Stargazers were given an extraordinary treat after the beautiful Northern Lights made a rare appearance across parts of Britain.

  • ICELAND: Recovering Dubiously From the Crash

    Iceland News
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:25 am
    REYKJAVIK, Jan 28, 2012 - Three years ago, thousands of Icelanders were standing outside IcelandA's parliament building chanting "incompetent government" in an attempt to bring down the conservative government that had been seen as responsible for the collapse of the countryA's banking system.

  • Recovering Dubiously From the Crash - Inter Press Service

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    28 Jan 2012 | 3:26 am
    Recovering Dubiously From the CrashInter Press ServiceREYKJAVIK, Jan 28, 2012 (IPS) - Three years ago, thousands of Icelanders were standing outside Iceland's parliament building chanting "incompetent government" in an attempt to bring down the conservative government that had been seen as responsible for

  • Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

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    Alex
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:33 am
    Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there. There has long been a question mark over whether or not the southern Greenlandic climate was warm enough in Viking times to grow grain for beer, mead, gruel and bread. Now Danish archaeologists have found remains of burnt barley in a dunghill from the time when Erik the Red and other Icelanders moved to Greenland. The find is the first evidence of corn cultivation in southern Greenland a thousand years ago. According to…
 
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  • Recovering Dubiously From the Crash - Inter Press Service

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:26 am
    Recovering Dubiously From the CrashInter Press ServiceREYKJAVIK, Jan 28, 2012 (IPS) - Three years ago, thousands of Icelanders were standing outside Iceland's parliament building chanting "incompetent government" in an attempt to bring down the conservative government that had been seen as responsible for

  • Whale of a tale moving, humorous - Winnipeg Free Press

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:18 am
    Whale of a tale moving, humorousWinnipeg Free PressIn the engaging, richly layered new novel by Iceland's Sjón (born Sigurjón Birgir Sigur�sson in 1962), Palmason is known as "the Learned" in a time when many of his superstitious contemporaries in 17th-century Iceland are distrustful of science.

  • Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival brings the music of Iceland to ... - CBC.ca

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:10 am
    Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival brings the music of Iceland to CBC.caThe focus is on the north this year, specifically Iceland, with a number of composers and performing ensembles hailing from the land of fire and ice. Now in its 21st year, the festival once again welcomes some international composers, including Kaija and more »

  • First Icelandic Chess Day Celebrated - IcelandReview

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    IcelandReviewFirst Icelandic Chess Day CelebratedIcelandReviewThe first annual Icelandic Chess Day was celebrated around the country for the first time on Thursday. It is held in honor of Iceland's first grand master Friðrik Ólafsson, who celebrated his 77th birthday on January 26. Friðrik is considered to have

  • Ross Noble goes frozen lake riding in Iceland - The Guardian

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:03 pm
    The GuardianRoss Noble goes frozen lake riding in IcelandThe GuardianOn paper, Iceland in January might not be everybody's first choice of holiday. There are some obvious things to put you off. Freezing temperatures, very limited daylight hours and the occasional smell of egg wafting up from the many sulphurous pools
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  • Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

    Alex
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:33 am
    Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there. There has long been a question mark over whether or not the southern Greenlandic climate was warm enough in Viking times to grow grain for beer, mead, gruel and bread. Now Danish archaeologists have found remains of burnt barley in a dunghill from the time when Erik the Red and other Icelanders moved to Greenland. The find is the first evidence of corn cultivation in southern Greenland a thousand years ago. According to…

  • Cairn teams up with Statoil in Greenland

    Alfonso
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:40 am
    Cairn Energy is to team up with Norwegian group Statoil in their quest to look for oil off the coast of Greenland. A deal has been signed for Statoil to acquire a 30.6 percent stake in one of the British explorer’s Greenland licenses, showing interest in the Arctic remains strong despite recent high-profile failures. “The exact financial terms of the agreement are confidential,” Cairn said, according to a Reuters report. It added, however, that the Norwegian company would be paying some of the past and future exploration costs and a bonus on signing the deal. Cairn has spent USD…

  • Vikings Explore Hudson Bay

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    28 Jan 2012 | 3:19 am
    Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into the Arctic from Churchill, Manitoba. Jóhann Straumfjord Sigurdson and David Collette, whose ancestral grandmother was Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, the mother of Snorri, the first European child born in North America, will sail from Canada to Iceland along a route that was old before Christopher Columbus was born. “We’ve named the expedition Fara Heim”, said Jóhann Sigurdson. “In Old Norse, “að fara heim” means “to go home”.

  • Press freedom still highest in Finland, Iceland drops

    Alex
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:33 am
    The freedom of journalists in Iceland went down a little last year compared to the year before, according to the new World Press Freedom Index, which is published annually about press freedom in 180 countries around the world. The list is compiled each year by a committee of around 130 broadcast and press journalists. In 2010 Iceland was ranked second, after Finland — but this year the country has fallen to sixth on the list. It shares the position with Luxembourg. No explanation has been given for Iceland’s slight fall; but court cases against journalists last year are likely…

  • India to intervene in ‘cultural’ child custody case

    A. Rienstra
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:52 am
    The Indian embassy is attempting to secure the return of two toddlers, who their parents say were taken away from them in Norway due to “cultural differences”. The Indian children, aged one and three, were put in foster care last May because Norway’s Child Welfare group deemed that their parents were not taking “adequate responsibility”. The couple, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, say they are “devastated” and that the decision was based on cultural differences such as sleeping in the same bed as the children and feeding them when they cry rather than at set meal times. Anurup…
 
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  • New Exhibit at Living Art Museum

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    The exhibition “Teikn” (“Sign”) with works by Myriam Bat-Yosef and Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir opens at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík today. Bat-Yosef’s and Jóhanna’s works are brought together because of the similar thread that can be detected in their practice despite their age difference.

  • Fashion Exhibition Opens at National Museum

    28 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    The exhibition “Tízka – kjólar og korselett” curated by Icelandic fashion designer Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, opens at the National Museum of Iceland today and is meant to shed a light on the trends of the 20th century.

  • First Icelandic Chess Day Celebrated

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The first annual Icelandic Chess Day was celebrated around the country for the first time on Thursday. It is held in honor of Iceland’s first grand master Friðrik Ólafsson, who celebrated his 77th birthday on January 26.

  • Icelandic Film Either Way Nominated for the Dragon

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Icelandic film Á annan veg (Either Way) is one of eight films nominated for this year’s Dragon, the Nordic countries’ most important film award.

  • Assault in Suðurnes, Man Threatens Search and Rescue

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    A man was arrested after attacking three men with a bludgeon in the street last night in Reykjanesbær in the Suðurnes region in southwest Iceland. The victims were treated by the Suðurnes Health Institution.
 
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  • Sigtryggur Baldursson á línunni

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    28 Jan 2012 | 4:10 am
    Tónlistarmaðurinn og allra handa músíkmógúllinn Sigtryggur Baldursson gerði víðreist á síðasta ári í ýmiss konar skilningi. Ekki nóg með að hann stýrði hinum farsælu þáttum Hljómskálinn á RÚV (sem framhald verður á í ár) heldur var hann gerður að framkvæmdastjóra ÚTÓN, Útflutningsstofu íslenskrar tónlistar.

  • Ester: Eyjamenn sakna þess að fara í Höllina

    Mbl.is
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    Ester Óskarsdóttir, leikstjórnandi ÍBV, hefur blómstrað í N1-deildinni í handknattleik í vetur og var valin í úrvalslið umferða 1-9.

  • Birna Berg á sjúkralistanum út árið

    Mbl.is
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Birna Berg Haraldsdóttir, skyttan efnilega hjá Fram, var valin í lið umferða 1-9 í N1-deild kvenna í handknattleik. Er það sárabót fyrir Birnu sem sleit á dögunum krossband í hné og verður frá handknattleiksiðkun út þetta ár ef að líkum lætur.

  • Guðrún: Erum með ungt og skemmtilegt lið

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    27 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir leikmaður Hauka á von á skemmtilegum leik þegar liðið mætir Njarðvík á útivelli í undanúrslitum Powerade-bikarsins í körfuknattleik en dregið var í dag.

  • Fólk snýr sér við til að horfa

    Mbl.is
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    Snjórinn er ekki öllum til ama en Dóra Ásgeirsdóttir nýtir tækifærið til að þjálfa hundana sína og lætur þá draga sig á gönguskíðum á milli staða. Hundarnir hafa gaman að því að draga eigandann og fara lengst um 10 km í einu.
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  • Bíll brann á Salavegi

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:25 am
    Tilkynnt var um eld í fólksbíl á Salavegi í Kópavogi nú fyrir stundu. Að sögn slökkviliðsins á höfuðborgarsvæðinu er bíllinn brunninn til kaldra kola. Ekki er ljóst á þessari stundu hver orsök eldsins var. Þá var slökkvilið kallað út vegna heitavatnsleka í húsi á Vesturgötu í Reykjavík.

  • Grannt fylgst með stöðunni

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am
    Lítið snjóflóð féll í nótt í gili fyrir ofan svæðið sem rýmt var í Skutulsfirði í gær en ekki hafa sést fleiri snjóflóð úr hlíðum eftir nóttina að sögn Hörpu Grímsdóttur á snjóflóðavakt Veðurstofunnar. Hættustigi var aflétt norðanverðum Vestfjörðum í morgun en grannt er fylgst með stöðu mála áfram.

  • Flutti tvo tonn af vistum

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:06 am
    Ómannað rússneskt geimfar hefur tengst alþjóðlegu geimstöðinni en það flutti vistir til geimfara sem eru um borð í stöðinni. Vel gekk að tengjast geimstöðinni.

  • Grikkir gefi ekki eftir stjórn

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:04 am
    Grikkir ætla ekki að gefa eftir stjórn á fjármálum sínum til Evrópusambandsins en Þjóðverjar hafa lagt til að það verði gert að skilyrði fyrir öðrum björgunarpakka fyrir þá. AFP-fréttastofan hefur þetta eftir heimildarmönnum úr grísku ríkisstjórninni.

  • Landsdómsmálið fleygur íhaldsins

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:01 am
    Látum ekki íhaldið reka fleyg í okkar raðir. Tilgangurinn er auðvitað sá að kalla fram kosningar sem fyrst og koma í veg fyrir að grundvallaratriðin í stefnu okkar jafnaðarmanna verði að veruleika og þeir geti þar ráðið ferðinni í þágu sinna sérhagsmuna, sagði Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir um landsdómsmálið á flokkstjórnarfundi Samfylkingarinnar.
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  • Ferdinand fékk byssukúlu í pósti

    Ritstjórn DV
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am
    Anton Ferdinand, varnarmaður og liðsfélagi Heiðars Helgusonar hjá QPR, fékk byssukúlu senda með pósti fyrir leik liðsins gegn Chelsea í ensku bikarkeppninni í dag. Öryggisgæsla fyrir leikinn var hert og þurftu áhorfendur að gangast undir ítarlega öryggisleit áður en þeim var hleypt inn á leikvanginn. Lesa meira →

  • Mannfyrirlitning, heift og forheimskun í skrifum Davíðs

    Ritstjórn DV
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:25 am
    Páll Magnússon útvarpsstjóri segir skrif Davíðs Oddssonar, ritstjóra Morgunblaðsins, í garð starfsmanna RÚV fela í sér svo mikla mannfyrirlitningu, forheimskun og heift að undrun sætir. Páll svarar forsætisráðherranum og seðlabankastjóranum fyrrverandi fullum hálsi í aðsendri grein í Morgunblaðinu í dag þar sem hann segir meðal annars að þótt Davíð „...skrifi sig blóðlausan og rænulausan getur hann aldrei skrifað sig út úr þessum tveimur hlutverkum í harmleiknum mikla.“ Lesa meira →

  • Logos lét umdeilda afrekaskrá sína hverfa

    Valgeir Örn Ragnarsson
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Lögmannsstofan Logos hefur fjarlægt af vefsíðu sinni afrekaskrá um ráðgjöf sem stofan veitti mörgum af stærstu og umdeildustu fyrirtækjum landsins fyrir hrun í ýmsum viðskiptasnúningum. Lesa meira →

  • Jóhanna: Tilraun íhaldsins til að reka fleyg í okkar raðir

    Atli Þór Fanndal
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:40 am
    Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir varaði flokkstjórnarfulltrúa Samfylkingarinnar gegn því að ala á úlfúð og deilum innan flokksins. Hún sagði þingsályktunartillögu Bjarna Benediktssonar, formans Sjálfstæðisflokksins um að fallið verði frá landsdómsákæru á hendur Geir H. Haarde, fyrrverandi forsætisráðherra til þess gerða að reka fleyg á milli félaga og kjúfa ríkisstjórnina. Þetta sagði Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir á flokkstjórnarundi Samfylkingarinnar sem nú fer fram á Hótel Hilton Lesa meira →

  • Upphitun fyrir stórleik Liverpool og Man Utd

    Ritstjórn DV
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:26 am
    Í hádeginu í dag mætast stórliðin Liverpool og Manchester United í fjórðu umferð ensku bikarkeppninnar. Þetta er fyrsta viðureign liðanna síðan Luis Suarez, framherji Liverpool, var dæmdur í 8 leikja bann fyrir að vera með kynþáttaníð í garð Patrice Evra varnarmanns United í október síðastliðnum. Lesa meira →
 
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  • Listin selst á ný

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Listaverk Jóhannesar S. Kjarvals hafa selst langmest á íslenskum listaverkamarkaði frá árinu 1985. Velta með verk Kjarvals á árunum 1985 til 2011 nam rúmlega 370 milljónum króna. Alls voru 1.144 verk eftir hann boðin upp, samkvæmt úttekt Jóhanns Ágústs Hansen, listmuna- sala og viðskiptafræðings.

  • Ætlar frosthörkum í efnahagslífinu ekki að linna?

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:44 am
    Þeir eru til, sem binda vonir við það, að á hinni árlegu ráðstefnu hins hnattræna auðvalds í Davos í Sviss kunni menn að stilla saman strengi sína, finna lausnir á efnahagsvanda heimsbyggðarinnar og taka saman höndum um að ráða bug á honum. Ef menn geta það ekki þar, hvar þá?

  • Höfuðstöðvar Baugs fyrir rúma milljón

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    Fyrrverandi höfuðstöðvar Baugs við Túngötu eru til leigu hjá fasteignasölunni og leigumiðluninni Stakfelli. Húsið er búið að vera á skrá í um mánuð.

  • Ríkishræsnin

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:49 am
    Týr skemmtir sér oft yfir tvískinnungi ríkisins. Fjallað er sérstaklega um samfélagslega ábyrgð áfengissala ríkisins, ÁTVR, í lögum sem samþykkt voru í fyrra. Þar segir að ÁTVR skuli starfa með samfélagslega ábyrgð að leiðarljósi. „Hjá ÁTVR er verið að selja vöru sem getur verið mjög skaðleg fyrir neytandann og samfélagið,“ segir í greinargerðinni.

  • Pelosi mun panta kassa af kampavíni

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:37 am
    Mikil spenna í bandarískum stjórnmálum þessa stundina. Forkosningar repúblíkana eru haldnar í Florída á þriðjudag en ekki er víst að þá ráðist hver verður forsetaframbjóðandi flokksins.
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  • Got Milk?

    26 Jan 2012 | 7:18 am
    As I mentioned in the last post I went along to see War Horse with He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named as he made his way to York from D***** we had the following text conversation:Him: Dear alex, i should be getting to york about ten past one. Shall i come to yours for lunch, or do you want to meet in town? Lots of love, ****Me: Dear ****, I'm sorry to tell you I'm in Basingstoke today. So your journey is wasted. I hope you die. Lots of love Alex.Me: Actually, i didn't check cinema times, did you?Him: Yes, there's a show at 4pm. So you're not in Basingstoke? Was that some kind of fucking joke? Did you…

  • Who's Horse? (In a Northumbrian accent) Why, It's War Horse!

    23 Jan 2012 | 3:32 pm
    Von He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named rocked up his white stallion on Sunday afternoon to deliver my monthly thrashing and to drag me to see War Horse, the film he's been raving about all year. He hates horses and war, so this was the perfect film for him. I wanted to see it as well, because I'm SUCH A MASSIVE FAN OF THE BOOK, YOU KNOW, THAT BOOK THAT IS FOR CHILDREN. CHILDREN, NOT 37 YEAR OLD MEN.Read an adult book, you slack jawed cunt...I actually wanted to see it because Dr David Kenyon and TV's Andy Robertshaw had done the military advising on the film and Andy appeared as an extra. It became a…

  • Bible Basher

    20 Jan 2012 | 3:02 pm
    The Education(!) Secretary Michael Gove wanted to implement a move to ship out thousands of King James Bibles to British schools to a tune of £377,000 at the taxpayers cost. Probably as part of the ongoing Tory Crusade against the Infidel amongst us (for Infidel read: Muslim, Jew, Sikh, the unemployed, anyone that doesn't earn over 50k a year, students, etc, etc). Thankfully the Government has seen sense and his plans have run aground (probably in the yacht he wanted to buy for the Queen the other week...). But my friend, let's call him Mr GB, wrote an email of disgust to Gove in light of…

  • The Autist

    18 Jan 2012 | 11:43 am
    I went to see The Artist with Sam last night. It's a silent movie, so here's a silent…

  • An Ecstasy of Fumbling

    13 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm
    Yes, what did YOU do at the weekend? I bet you spent your weekend on your fat can shovelling jelly babies into your gaping maw. I bet you lay like a sloth ensconced on your sofa drooling at the latest idiots to parade across the screen in X Factor. I, on the other hand, spent last weekend in a replica First World War trench dressed in the Service Dress of a Great War soldier.Now, I have made my opinion on re-enactors quite clear at this stage, I think, and you could level the accusation that I spent the weekend re-enacting, but this was certainly NOT re-enactment. Re-enactment involves a…
 
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