“Having good command of Icelandic is the key to access to society and a prerequisite for people’s wishes and dreams coming true.”

Live music will be on offer every night of the week at a new restaurant and bar at Laugavegur 18, Reykjavík.

Six persons were transported to the emergency room of Landspítali National University Hospital yesterday afternoon, following an attack on students at Borgarholtsskóli secondary school in Grafarvogur, Reykjavík.

Sky Lagoon geothermal baths, under construction on Kársnes point in Kópavogur, in the capital area, will boast Iceland’s largest sauna.

Starting today, January 13, children born in 2005 or later are required to go into quarantine, along with their parents or guardians, upon arrival in Iceland.

Some restrictions on public gatherings in Iceland were eased today, and the new rules will be in effect through February 16.

The northern lights have put on one evening show after another in recent nights.

Twelve hundred doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the US pharmaceutical company Moderna arrived in Iceland from Belgium early this morning.

Possible changes to a regulation regarding border testing for the coronavirus in Iceland are being examined.

Unsafe ice on lakes and icy mountain slopes caused several accidents over the weekend.

Icelandic officials have not only been engaged in talks with Pfizer, but with other pharmaceutical companies as well regarding a research project which would involve vaccinating about 60 percent of the Icelandic nation.

“This was an unbelievable moment, which I’ll never forget.”

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is spreading fast in Europe and, as a result, there is a phase one alert in Iceland.

There are plans to ease restrictions on public gatherings in Iceland, beginning January 13.

Scientists at deCode Genetics have discovered that monozygotic twins, that is, twins developed from a single fertilized ovum, are not completely identical.

The Icelandic Met Office has issued yellow weather alerts, effective tomorrow, for the following regions: Northeast Iceland, East Iceland, the East Fjords and Southeast Iceland.

Chief Epidemiologis Þórólfur Guðnason has suggested to Minister of Health Svandís Svavarsdóttir that all arriving passengers in Iceland be required to be tested twice for the coronavirus.

Icelanders celebrated the 13th and last day of Christmas last night by shooting fireworks, but other than that, the celebration was very different from usual.

“This was frightening and unacceptable,” Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson tells mbl.is, speaking of the assault yesterday by US President Donald Trump’s supporters on the US Capitol.

Film director Baltasar Kormákur states that his film studio Reykjavík Studios in Gufunes creates new possibilities for film production in Iceland.