Iceland News

Yesterday night ,i went for a drive to enjoy a beautiful sunset here in Reykjavik.

The New Saints' young guns will be looking to make their presence felt on the European stage when they open their campaign against Icelandic side Fram Reykjavik tonight .

Recently, whales have often been spotted in Skjalfandafloi Bay. Large whales, such as humpback and blue whale, are the most prominent.

For the past year, we've been giving away free round trip plane tickets to Iceland, courtesy of our sponsor, Icelandair .

A cruise ship carrying 848 passengers from Iceland is being detained in New York Harbor after a routine safety inspection detected a small hole in its hull.

Washington, June 24 : Women who experience migraines with aura during midlife are at increased risk of developing brain lesions in later life, says a new study.

From SkagafjA rdur. View of Drangey island. Photo by PA ll StefA nsson. The NA staff members notified the North West Iceland Nature Center.

Middle-aged women who had migraine headaches with aura had a higher prevalence of brain lesions when they were older, compared to individuals without similar types of headaches, according to a study in the June 24 issue of JAMA.

I recently visited Iceland with a group of 25 folks and, near the end of the tour, our guide asked each of us to list five favorite things about the trip.

Whale hunters in Iceland have brought in their first big catches of the season -- two 35-ton, 65-ft.-long fin whales, the AFP news agency said on Friday.

June 08 18:00 Indian director K.S. Ravikumar has chosen Iceland as the location for some of the love and action scenes in his new movie Adhavan starring Tamil superstars Suriya and Nayanthara.

As the climate warms and the sun ceases to set, the summer solstice that marks the experience of playing golf in Iceland is special and worth the visit.

GETTING THERE Icelandair flies direct from New York, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Seattle to Keflavik International Airport, about an hour's bus ride from Reykjavik, Iceland's capital.

In better times, Nina Bjork, one of Iceland's fashion glitterati, would be busy styling photo shoots for the island's top design houses.

The Washington Post described her music as possessing "such timeless virtues as lyricism and grace elegantly bridges soul-searching passages with uncluttered swing." On her latest CD, "Songs from Iceland" she confirms that assessment by re-imagining 5 Icelandic folk-songs for jazz quartet, adding new perspective to Time Out New York's statement ...

This is the story of how, after a series of failed attempts, Freyr and I gradually became friends.

Visiting Iceland Icecaps and glaciers, spouting geysers and steaming solfataras, volcanoes, raging rivers and magnificent waterfalls, a bevy of birds, cavorting whales offshore and much more are on your Iceland itinerary.

Gyrfalcon & ptarmigan, Brunnich's guillemots & puffins, the haunting cry of the great northern diver, busy waders in summer plumage, diving gannets & the worlds most varied duck breeding grounds.

While every other Icelander seems to have a grill tucked away somewhere, up until recently, I couldn't have cared less if we owned a barbecue or not.

Britain has secured agreement from the Icelandic authorities to repay the A 2.3 billion paid out by the Government in compensation to UK depositors in the failed Icesave bank, the Treasury said.