Bjarni Benediktsson, the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, says that it would have been completely unrealistic to try to chase the price in the government’s subsequent offer of shares in Íslandsbanki to 122 ISK per share.

The board of directors of the Blue Lagoon has made a decision to begin preparing for the registration of the company on the Nasdaq Iceland Main Market. The listing is planned for next year, andLandsbanki and Fossar Investment Bank have been hired ...

Some fans of the children’s book author and actor David Walliams were not happy campers when they did not get their books signed on Saturday after having waited in a long line in front of the bookstore Penninn-Eymundsson at Smáralind mall. The ...

A total of 5,575 shoeboxes were collected in the project “Christmas in a shoebox” which is a project of the Christian YMCA associations in Iceland called KFUM and KFUK. This year there have never been as many boxes collected for the project in...

The actress Jodie Foster is staying in Reykjavík these days and weeks. She is in the middle of shooting the HBO TV show True Detective, the fourth season here in Iceland. In the show Foster is the leading lady.

The average waiting time for common surgeries is increasing for the best part of the year, according to the Office of Directorate of Health. It is reported on the website of the office that the waiting times exceed what would be considered accepta...

Two men suspected of planning to commit terrorist acts in Iceland this fall were remanded in custody yester, until November 24. According to Sveinn Andri Sveinsson, the defense lawyer for one of the men, they have both appealed the custody order t...

The national unemployment rate was 2.8% last month and had not changed from the previous month. The Directorate of Labor now predicts that the unemployment rate will not change much in November, and will bein the range between 2.8% and 3.1%.

The Icelandic singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir will be among the musicians at the Metaverse virtual music festival, which is now held for the secondtime. The music festival will take place in the virtual world of Decentraland, in Metaverse, from Nov...

Sveinn Andri Sveinsson, the defense lawyer for one of the men suspected of planning a terrorist attack, says that the criteria for keeping the men in custody has changed due to the outcome of their psychiatric evaluation. The custody based on the...

The downtown area of Reykjavík has been developing into an area of restaurants, bars, clubs and hotels as is often the case with growing cities. The party scene can be a bit of an issue for the hotels in the area, as well as the residents.

The Icelandic Met Office is currently conducting experiments with an incoming sound-meter that can detect avalanches when they fall. The meter can detect low frequency sound waves that follow avalanches and are outside of the human hearing range.

Run in the Dark takes place tomorrow, November 9th at 8 PM in Elliðaárdalur in Reykjavík, when the darkness of winter is coming. The founder of the run is the Irish outdoors enthusiast and adventurer Mark Pollock, who is blind and has suffered ...

There will be a lot going on in Harpa conference center when the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders starts today. This is the fifth time the conference is held here in Iceland but behind the project is the government of Iceland as well as m...

The celebrated slow food chef Gísli Matthías­ from Slippurinn in the Westman Islands will be hosting a pop-up at the Bryggjan in Ak­ureyri, where he will be showcasing the best of Slippurinn to locals in the north.

“To have an election like this against the chairman of the Independence Party is a very positive message. I’m very proud of that and proud of my supporters,” Guðlaugur Þór Þór Þórðarson told mbl.is reporter when the results came out ...

Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, got 59 percent of the votes for the leading position in the Independence Party whereas his challenger, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, the Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate, g...

“I started photographing birds seriously in 1999. I had always been interested in birds, but it had been laying dormant for quite some time. But at that time the interest just resurfaced and there was no turning back. When you spend hours and ho...

A lot of people made their way downtown Reykjavík last night in order to attend the first day of the Iceland Airwaves music Festival, which is held this weekend.

The final touches are being made in a brand new store for the Icelandic company 66°North, which will open at Regent Street in London at the end of November.