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24-Hour Room Service: CenterHotel Thingholt, Reykjavik, Iceland
The rooms feature so-plump-your-head-rolls-off pillows, cumulus-puffy duvets and sheets more Swiss chammy than Egyptian cotton enlarge Reykjavik 101.
Friday interview: Author of an Icelandic saga that went from rock stars to ruin
Armann Thorvaldsson recalls the 'slap in the face' shock when he heard the FSA had seized his bank.
Icelanders queue up for last Big Mac
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 Graduate Receives Fulbright Award To Make Art In Iceland
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.
Iceland's First World Music Festival Coming Up
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.
Currency Collapse Drives McDonalda s Out Of Iceland
REYKJAVIK, Iceland Iceland has become the land of the $6 Big Mac, and that's just too much.
Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, with its endless summer daylight, long winter nights, glaciers, waterfalls and geysers, is a photographer's paradise and a great holiday destination.
Mark Wahblerg Signs On To Icelandic Thriller
Mark Wahlberg has become one of the busiest actors in the business, and now he's going to be even busier.
How are Iceland's bands coping with economic meltdown?
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 ...
Iceland to Save All Computer Servers (and the World)?
Things looked pretty bleak in Iceland a year or so ago. Declaring national bankruptcy is never high on a country's list of priorities.
SFO finds potential criminal activity during Iceland bank probes
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.
Iceland looks to serve the world
Since the financial crisis, Iceland has been forced to retreat back from high octane bubble living to nature.
A year on, Iceland's vilifi...
Comment about "A year on, Iceland's vilified bankers keep their distance" Phone Name Comment 0 Friday, 16th October 2009 A year on, Iceland's vilified bankers keep their distance Svanborg Sigmarsdottir, Reuters Protesters in Reykjavik throw rocks during protests against the Icelandic government's handling of the economy last January.
Icelandic translation of Dan Brown novel stolen
REYKJAVIK, Iceland a " Police are looking for someone who might be reading the Icelandic translation of Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol .A burglar who broke into the offices of the Bjartur publishing house on Tuesday got away with the first proof copy of the translation.'Possibly the burglar gave up on his English copy of the long novel and ...
Bafana Bafana need to put things right when they face Iceland in a friendly international in Reykjavik on Tuesday night.
The interiors of the 101 Hotel combine clean, modernist design, rustic comfort, art deco accents and contemporary art.
Chess genius Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland
Bobby Fischer, who became America's first and only world chess champion after defeating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 64.
Wahlberg in Icelandic thriller
Mark Wahlberg is taking a global tour. The actor has come on board to star in Reykjavik -Rotterdam, a remake of an Icelandic thriller submitted by thatcountry as its official selection for this year's foreign language Oscar.
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