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Í fangelsi fyrir að kyssast

Breski kaupsýslumaðurinn Ayman Najafi og Charlotte Lewis eiga yfir höfði sér fangelsisvist í Dubai fyrir að kyssast á almannafæri í nóvember síðastliðnum. Það var 38 ára gömul móðir sem tilkynnti kossaflensið eftir að hafa séð parið kyssast á veitingastað við Jumeirah ströndina í Dubai. Lesa meira →...

Jarðskjálfti í Japan upp á 6,6 stig

Jarðskjálfti upp á 6.6 stig á richter varð vart í Japan í dag. Skjálftinn átti upptök sín 250 kílómetra norður af höfuðborg Japans Tókýó. Lesa meira →...

Synir Baltasars orðnir vargar

Leikstjórinn Baltasar Kormákur býr á búgarði í Skafirði ásamt fjölskyldu sinni. Baltasar segir syni sína taka sveitalífinu rosalega vel. „Þeir eru orðnir sveitamenn, bara algjörir sveitavargar,“ segir Baltasar. Lesa meira →...

3D-æðið skellur á

Þrívíddartæknin hefur aldrei náð að festa virkilegar rætur þrátt fyrir aldargamla sögu í heimi kvikmyndagerðar. En vitjunartími þessarar áhugaverðu tækni er loks kominn ef marka má þær breytingar sem nú eru að verða í heimi kvikmynda og sjónvarps. Lesa meira →...

Verður að fræða stjórnmálamenn

Jóhann R. Benediktsson, fyrrverandi sýslumaður á Keflavíkurflugvelli, segir nauðsynlegt að huga að tvennu til að hægt sé að berjast gegn skipulagðri glæpastarfsemi. Í helgarblaði DV er að finna ítarlega úttekt um alþjóðlega glæpastarfsemi. Jóhann segir að það þurfi að hafa einangraða hópa innan lögreglu og tollgæslu til að berjast við...

Fjöldagrafir undir fótboltavelli

Tvær fjöldagrafir fundust á dögunum í austurrísku borginni Graz. Er talið að í gröfunum sé að finna lík að minnsta kosti 70 manna sem myrtir voru af nasistum á tímum seinni heimsstyrjaldarinnar. Grafirnar fundust undir knattspyrnuvelli í borginni sem austurrískir hermenn nota í frítíma sínum. Lesa meira →...

Eyjan

Samtök fjármálafyrirtækja vissu fyrir níu árum að gengistryggðu lánin voru ólögleg

Framkvæmdastjóra Samtaka fjármálafyrirtækja virðist hafa verið fullkunnugt um að gengistrygging íslenskra lána væri brot á lögum - í bréfi sem hann sendi Alþingi fyrir níu árum. Þetta kom fram í fréttum Stöðvar 2 í gær. Eins og kunnugt er ríkir réttaróvissa um lögmæti gengistryggðra lána eftir að héraðsdómur...

Fyrrverandi sýslumaður: Þarf að fræða stjórnmálamenn um alþjóðlega glæpastarfsemi

Jóhann R. Benediktsson, fyrrverandi sýslumaður á Keflavíkurflugvelli, telur að stjórnmálamenn skortir skilning á mikilvægi þess að berjast við alþjóðlega glæpastarfsemi sem geti teygt anga sína til Íslands. Í helgarblaði DV segir  Jóhann þurfa að hafa hópa innan lögreglu og tollgæslu til að berjast við starfsemi af þessu tagi. „Það þarf...

Eyþór Arnalds efstur í prófkjöri sjálfstæðismanna í Árborg

Úrslit úr prófkjöri sjálfstæðismanna í sveitarfélaginu Árborg liggja fyrir. Í efsta sæti varð Eyþór Arnalds, með 512 atkvæði í 1. sæti. Í öðru sæti varð Elfa Dögg Þórðardóttir með 652 atkvæði í 1. – 2. sæti. Í þriðja sæti varð Ari Björn Thorarensen, hlaut 345 í 1.-3. sæti. Í fjórða sæti...

Guðjón Arnar hættir sem formaður Frjálslynda flokksins

Guðjón Arnar Kristjánsson hyggst ekki gefa kost á sér sem formaður Frjálslynda flokksins á landsþingi hans um næstu helgi. Kosið verður í allar trúnaðarstöður flokksins á landsþinginu. Guðjón Arnar hefur verið formaður Fjálslynda flokksins frá 2003, en samkvæmt tilkynningu frá flokknum hefur hann  lýst því yfir að hann gefi ekki kost á...

Skuldarar plataðir? Dæmi um að úrræði bankanna hækki lánin en lækki ekki

Talsmaður  Samtaka lánþega segir að úrræði bankanna í húsnæðislánum séu fölsk loforð og að þau geti stuðlað að hækkun lána í stað þess að lækka þau. Skuldastaða heimila og fyrirtækja var á meðal þess sem rætt var um í Vikulokunum á Rás 1 í morgun. Gestir þáttarins voru  Lára Hanna Einarsdóttir,...

Bubbi Morthens til varnar Baugsfeðgum, Högum og Arion banka: Allt Davíð að kenna

Baugsfeðgar, verslunarkeðjan Hagar og Finnur Sveinbjörnsson bankastjóri hafa eignast bandamann í bloggheimum: Höldum því til Haga að Jón Ásgeir og Jóhannes í Bónus bera ekki ábyrgð á íslenska hruninu. ... [Finnur Sveinbjörnsson] Bankastjóri Arion banka hefur útskýrt  vel þau atriði sem voru þess valdandi að ákveðið var að setja Haga á...

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Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

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UK & World News: Three prison officers stabbed

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Woman porn director to sex up UK polls

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UK - Bernard Matthews praised for treatment of foreign workers

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Greece 'does not want money from EU'

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VB.is

Ríkið gekk of langt með kolefnisgjaldið - IATA setur ofan í við ríkið

 Fjármálaráðuneytið hefur beint þeim tilmælum til þeirra olíufélaga sem selja flugfélögum hér á landi eldsneyti ætlað til utanlandsflugs að innheimta ekki svokallað kolefnisgjald sem fjallað er um í nýsamþykktum lögum um umhverfis- og auðlindaskatta....

Ekki skýrt frá nýjum hluthöfum strax

"Við erum búnir að ganga því máli öllu [hlutafjáraukningunni innsk. blm.], eins og við höfum greint frá áður. Við munum ekki skýra nánar frá því fyrr en þar að kemur," segir Ari Edwald, forstjóri 365 miðla, sem m.a. á Fréttablaðið, Stöð 2 og Bylgjuna....

Stjórnarformaður OR á Útboðsþingi: „Það er ekkert að gerast!"

Það var þungur tónn í verktökum á Útboðsþingi sem Samtök iðnaðarins stóðu fyrir á fimmtudag og ljóst að fátt er  um fína drætti á útboðsmarkaði. Þá er mjög mikil óvissa um fjölmörg fyrirhuguð útboðsverkefni, eins og á vegum Orkuveitu Reykjavíkur vegna fjármögnunarvanda....

EFLA leigir 3.800 fermetra af Reitum

EFLA verkfræðistofa og Reitir fasteignafélag hafa skrifað undir samning um leigu á 3.800 fermetra húsnæði í nýjum skrifstofugörðum Reita að Höfðabakka 9. Viðar Þorkelsson, forstjóri Reita, segir að þetta styrki verulega starfsemina að Höfðabakka....

Nýjung: Veiðir krækling til áframræktunar

Að undanförnu hafa staðið yfir veiðar á kræklingi í Hvalfirði með sérhönnuðum kræklingaplóg. Aflinn er fluttur norður til Hríseyjar þar sem kræklingurinn er ræktaður áfram þar til hann er söluhæfur á Evrópumarkað....

Stjórnarformaður Össurar gagnrýndi ný lög um yfirtökuskyldu

Stjórnarformaður Össurar, Daninn Niels Jacobsen, gagnrýndi ný lög um yfirtökuskyldu á aðalfundi Össurar sem fram fór fyrr í vikunni. Jacobsen, sem stýrir stjórninni í umboði stærsta hluthafans, William Demant Holding þar sem hann er forstóri, sagði ný lög geta skapað vandamál þar sem hlutur félagsins er yfir 30 prósenta......

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Emigrate to Iceland

It's described by the UN as the third best place to live in the world and the vagaries of economics make it more accessible than ever before to visitors and, their inevitable corollary, émigrés....

I am not a criminal, insists billionaire behind Icesave

One of the billionaires behind collapsed internet bank Icesave and its parent Landsbanki has denied being "a criminal" in a dramatic interview about Iceland's banking crash....

Iceland's president demands that Gordon Brown intervenes in payback row

Iceland's president has demanded that Gordon Brown personally agree a reduction in the multi-billion pound bill his country faces to compensate British customers of failed internet bank Icesave....

Icesave deal 'still possible', Iceland's PM says

The Icelandic prime minister said on Friday she still believed an agreement could be reached with the UK and Dutch governments on Icesave compensation, despite the failure of the latest round of talks....

Icesave repayment talks collapse

The Icelandic government said on Thursday that talks with the UK and the Netherlands had broken down after a failure to reach an agreement over compensation following the collapse of Icesave....

In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni

Floundering in a Sea of Dunces and Incompetency

Check this out: On Wednesday I went down to Rotherham Job Centre to sign on as usual on every other Wednesday. This time it was slightly different however. This time I had something to say when they asked 'have your circumstances changed at all?' Yes, I replied, yes they have....

Vorwärts!!

I don't want to bore you more to tears than you already are by these posts. I don't really have much to tell you about this past weekend, unless you want a blow by blow description of the Square Bashing game Ninjasaurus Rex and I had on Sunday, which I...

Kimberworth Chainsaw Massacre

Over on his Dreamland Chronicles blog, Logan Josh was writing about nutters he has met through work, now far from making this a mutual cock sucking session I suggest you read it. As it happens I have also been working for the past week in the company of nutters....

Fore!

I forgot to mention in my last post about Stainforth that we took luncheon at the local cafe. Well, we actually took morning break in the cafe; McCoy and Jackson were too scared by the old battle-axe serving us to go back for Tiffin. They said she was speaking in...

Don't fence me in...

I had a day's work yesterday, it was through His Royal Highness Viscount McCoy. Together with his lordship I was working alongside Rear Admiral 'Action' Jackson. We were working in Stainforth, the arsehole of Doncaster which in itself is the arsehole of South Yorkshire. It's like the shit has...

The Man Who Came In From The Cold

Now I'm back on track, I can tell you what I've been up to this week. The second biggest thing occurred on Wednesday, when I took Sheffield University Archaeology Society up onto a bleak moorland. I arrived ahead of the students and watched as Colin disgorged them from...

Mbl.is - Fréttir

SUF fagnar því að ESB viðræður séu í eðlilegum farvegi

Samband ungra framsóknarmanna fagnar því að umsókn Íslands um aðild að Evrópusambandinu sé í eðlilegum farvegi og áréttar að ESB umsókn og Icesave eru tvö aðskilin mál. Íslensk stjórnvöld megi því alls ekki gefa eftir í Icesve málinu vegna umsóknarinnar....

Líkamsárás á Akranesi

Nóttin var annasöm hjá lögreglunni á Akranesi. Mikið var um ölvun og var einn handtekin fyrir líkamsárás....

Áfram skjálftavirkni undir Eyjafjallajökli

Stöðug smáskjálftavirkni var áfram undir Eyjafjallajökli í nótt og mældust hundruð jarðskjálfta á bilinu 0-2 á richter. Stærsti skjálftinn mældist 2.2, en sú tala var þó enn óstaðfest....

Rooney: Eigum harma að hefna

Wayne Rooney framherji Manchester United segir að United eigi harma að hefna gegn Fulham en liðin mætast á Old Trafford klukkan 13.30 í dag. United endurheimtir toppsætið í deildinni með sigri en liðið er stigi á eftir Chelsea og Arsenal....

Öflugur jarðskjálfti í Japan

Jarðskjálfta, sem mældist 6.6 stig á richter, varð vart í norðurhluta Japan í dag. Ekki þótti þörf á að senda út viðvörun um flóðbylgju að sögn japanskra yfirvalda og ekki er vitað til þess að mannfall hafi orðið....

Ævisagan verði kvikmynduð

Ozzy Osbourne á í viðræðum við kvikmyndaframleiðendur um að koma sjálfsævisögu sinni, I am Ozzy, á hvíta tjaldið. Eiginkona hans, Sharon Osbourne, vill að leikkonan Carey Mulligan, fari með hlutverk sitt í myndinni....

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Thom chooses Björk for NY Fashion Week playlist

Thom Yorke worked with Rag & Bone for five months to compile the perfect soundtrack for their show at the New York Fashion Week. "A lot of bass this season. At the men’s show, we blew out a speaker," says Style designer David Neville.Thom's short but sweet playlist includes:Squarepusher -...

Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969-2010

Lee Alexander McQueen passed away on the 11th of February 2010. ...

UNICEF's Haiti Children's Emergency Appeal from bjork.com: ACT NOW

This is what we have to post today:"As UNICEF is our official charity, we are appealing for people to support UNICEF's Haiti Children's Emergency Appeal. A devastating earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, causing an unfolding humanitarian crisis. Early news reports...

MTVE Top 10 Björk edition

A little celebration is coming up on MTVE on november 21st BJORK: NOV 21All the style and weirdness rolled into this top10 with Bjork who is known fabulously for her artistic flair, her outspokenness and her very special self genre of music. Choose your favorites on this Top10. ...

Moomin and Björk cometh together

The Moomin trolls are back, and this time they are dancing to Björk's flute. Well, we cannot confirm that there will be any actual flutes or dancing involved, BUT! Björk and Sjón have put their creative heads together again and made a -- we know you love these next two...

Voltaic Limited Edition Poster by Cinema Purgatorio

  Cinema Purgatorio hosted at the release of Voltaic special screenings at various cinemas in different locations. A special Poster was made to accomodate these events, - it is the poster as seen here -This poster is now made available by Cinema Purgatorio in a limted print run. If you...

Iceland News

A taste of Iceland in Cambridge

Even though we're ready to give the heave-ho to winter , let's welcome A Taste of Iceland and a week of film, food, music, and nightlife....

Iceland gives a massive No in vote on Icesave

SATURDAY'S ICESAVE referendum was resoundingly rejected by 93.2 per cent of Icelanders, with just 1.8 per cent casting their vote in favour of the current 3.9 billion repayment package....

Swiss Family Company Secures 400 Jobs in Iceland

One of A AV's current projects is the construction of Harpa, the Icelandic Concert and Conference Center....

First Human Trafficking Conviction in Iceland

Village Profile: Akureyri - " Bustling with Life Akureyri promises visitors a lively stay with its many art galleries and museums, outdoor recreation in summer and winter, an awakening of the taste buds at the town's gourmet restaurants and breathtaking views of natural sites around the corner....

Darling: We Have Tried to Be Fair Towards Iceland

From London. Photo by PA ll StefA nsson. According to visir.is , Darling explained it will take many years before the Icesave debt has been fully repaid....

Icelander in Denmark Suspected of Murder

Village Profile: Akureyri - " Bustling with Life Akureyri promises visitors a lively stay with its many art galleries and museums, outdoor recreation in summer and winter, an awakening of the taste buds at the town's gourmet restaurants and breathtaking views of natural sites around the corner....

The Iceland Weather Report

Final stretch for the Future of Hope

Know what I love? A success story! Remember the people who are trying to finish that film called Future of Hope, which shows Iceland’s predicament in a positive light? They launched their project on Kickstarter [what an ingenious website and idea that is!] a couple of months ago, with the goal of...

Oligarchs with hats

Last Saturday I had occasion to visit the supermarket. Hagkaup on Seltjarnarnes, to be exact. As I stood there, picking out oranges, I noticed a rather shifty-looking individual standing opposite me, picking over the apples. He was wearing a big parka and a hat pulled down around his ears, and looked decidedly...

Turnaround in Norway

Somewhat unexpectedly, the Norwegian Foreign Minister announced today that Norway is no longer making the IMF’s review of their aid plan a condition for awarding loans to Iceland. This is reported by RÚV. Norway and all the other Scandinavian countries have, until now, made potential aid to Iceland conditional on the...

Landsvirkjun opens the books

I have previously mentioned in this space that the National Power Company – Landsvirkjun has resolutely refused to reveal the prices that multinational aluminium corporations pay for energy in this country. We know it’s low– but just how low has remained a mystery. This despite the fact that Landsvirkjun is a...

Of human trafficking in the Land of the Nice

Last Monday, March 8, one of the most monumental sentences in Iceland’s history was passed in Reykjanes District Court. Five Lithuanians were found guilty of human trafficking and each sentenced to five years in prison. In October last year, Icelandic police issued a missing person report for a young Lithuanian woman...

Eloquent spammers

Some days the comment spam is better than others. Take this morning, f’rinstance, when I woke up to this gem in my spam filter: Made the dopey call model dusk to not shuffle off this mortal coil out, earlier checking the scrap epoch and survive forcast. !!!! woke up to a bundle...

NYT > Iceland

Voters in Iceland Appear to Reject Repayment Plan

Showing the depth of their rage at bankers and the government, Icelanders overwhelmingly said no to a plan to reimburse customers of a failed Icelandic bank....

E.U. Body Sees Strategic Reasons to Encourage Iceland

Eyeing a new, important gateway to the Arctic, the European Union’s executive body encouraged Iceland’s application to become a member despite disputes over liabilities from a failed Icelandic bank....

Iceland Asks U.S. to Help Ensure International Loans

Iceland wants the U.S. to help ensure that Britain and the Netherlands do not use a dispute over its collapsed banks to hold up international loans....

A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists

The country is weighing legislation offering reporters and publishers aggressive protections for free speech and investigative journalism....

Iceland Leads Environmental Index as U.S. Falls

Some of the largest economies, including the U.S. and China, scored poorly in a new environmental index....

Fight Over Fischer’s Estate Is Taking Shape in Iceland

Bobby Fischer died in January 2008, but his long, strange story is not over....

IceNews - Daily News

Sweden embraces the Cuddle Party

Swedes have always been keen to adopt trends emanating from the United States, and the latest craze to hit Scandinavia is the cuddle party. Established in 2004, the cuddle party has won followers in the US, UK, Australia, the Netherlands and Canada with its hands-on approach. Sweden has now leapt softly...

Iceland Struggles To Keep Up

Iceland currently has 53 football players playing abroad. Not bad for a little country marooned in the North Atlantic Ocean, or is it? An opinion column written by Glenn Dowd Consider the national teams of England, Spain and Italy. Most of the top stars who represent their countries on the international stage...

Finnish court dismisses online spirit sales charges

All charges have been dismissed in the case of a Finnish website that had been accused of improper distribution and importation of alcoholic products from Germany for sale in Finland. The online web sales operation was declared innocent after the Helsinki District Court ruled that it could find no evidence...

Danish government announces GDP stimulus plan

The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has declared that his country will embark on a range of ambitious projects aimed at increasing the national GDP over the next decade. The government stimulus package is hoped to propel Demark into the top ten of the world’s wealthiest nations by 2020. Included...

Audur Capital steps into stock market role

NASDAQ OMX Iceland hf. has confirmed that Audur Capital will be Certified Adviser for First North Iceland. The role of a Certified Adviser is to provide advice and support to companies signed up to First North and while they are being traded on the stock market. Thordur Fridjonsson, President of NASDAQ OMX...

Strong performance from Norwegian Pension Fund

The Government Pension Fund Global, or National Oil Fund, recorded a record annual return for 2009 according to a new report by the Norwegian Central Bank. A return of 25.6 percent was achieved by the fund, roughly equivalent to NOK 613 billion (USD 103 million). This represents a 4.1 percentage point...

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