The Icelandic government has approved suggestions made by a committee on refugee affairs in response to the situation in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover there.

The use of COVID-19 self-tests has been allowed in Iceland.

Pilots and flight crew members of the Icelandic airline Play, which began operation in June, have been offered to take up to a 50 percent reduction in employment ratio in exchange for being offered permanent employment this winter.

COVID-19 vaccination of children aged 12-15 has begun nationwide in Iceland.

Róbert Wessman, chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Alvogen, and Ksenia Shakhmanova got married in France yesterday.

“This is a small victory, but to me, it is an important one.”

The season most cherished by the children of Vestmannaeyjar islands has started.

“[T]he view and this great height is what matters most.”

What surprises Icelandic visitors is hearing that people in the Viking Age probable slept sitting.

An ditch has been dug in Nátthagi valley, near the Fagradalsfjall eruption site, Southwest Iceland.

The song “I Think of Angels,” by beloved Icelandic musician Kristján Kristjánsson, better known as KK, is featured in American director Sean Penn’s new film, Flag Day.

Although oil exploration efforts in the Dreki region, or Dragon Zone, in the North Atlantic, were abandoned in the past decade and did not lead to oil being extracted, the research involved did produce knowledge and data most valuable to Iceland.

Polish runner Przemyslaw Szap­ar recently succeeded in running across Iceland in record time.

An accident occurred in Stuðlagil canyon, East Iceland, yesterday afternoon.

Nineteen-year-old pilot Zara Rutherford will be landing at Reykjavík Airport tomorrow.

Oil is leaking anew from the wreck of British oil tanker El Grillo, lying on the bottom of Seyðisfjörður fjord in the East Fjords of Iceland.

About 140 foreign citizens are in the care of the outpatient clinic of Landspítali National University Hospital – about a third of them vaccinated tourists from Israel

A new vent in the Fagradalsfjall eruption, Southwest Iceland, is taking shape.

Eighty years ago today, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Iceland.

“It went incredibly well and was in fact an ideal evening.”