A number of renowned acts, including Mogwai, Davendra Banhart and Slowdive, have been added to this summer’s ATP Iceland line-up. Other acts to be confirmed on the bill for Nick Cave’s favourite festival are Ben Frost, Shellac, Loop and Low. These artistes will join a number of top acts who had already agreed to play […]...
The Norwegian Army is to be utilising the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset system for combat operations using its armoured tanks. As reported by Tujobs.com, the Oculus Rift system, titled Battlefield Management System, will allow the driver to navigate more independently according to the Commander‘s instructions, instead of having to get more detailed driving instructions […]...
Denmark has been listed as the world’s fifth most expensive country to live in, according to data from the World Bank-backed International Comparison Program (ICP). Danes who consider their own country too pricey to live in comfortably and are looking to head to pastures new should avoid heading to Switzerland, fellow Scandinavian country Norway, the […]...
Sweden’s Eurovision entrant Sanna Nielsen has said that she feels no pressure to show flesh in order to gain more votes during the contest. The 29-year-old, who made it to Saturday’s final in Copenhagen after her performance of her song Undo on Tuesday night, was asked by a reporter if she planned to show more […]...
A group of nine Icelandic museum and eco-tourism workers have travelled to the US to look at the economics, science and policy of the non-lethal uses of whales. Earlier this month President Barack Obama’s government issued a memorandum to encourage the North Atlantic nation to come up with ways to take advantage of the economic […]...
Organisers of a new TV show in Norway are asking celebrities to plan their funerals and design their coffins. Public broadcaster NRK show The Coffin, which talks about death, aired for the first time last Monday, with the highlight being rock star Bjarne Brondbo decorating his own coffin. The musician drew a picture of himself […]...
Swedish lingerie chain Lindex has selected five employees to model its underwear for its latest ad campaign. The retailer chose five women from the 45 members of staff who applied to be part of the campaign. Workers from Sweden, Norway, Slovakia and Lithuania were then sent to a studio in London to model the news […]...
Eight out of 10 Swedes think their pension will be insufficient to cover their living expenses during their retirement years, revealed a Gothenburg University study. Low-income earners, women and young Swedes were the most concerned about the Swedish pension system, found researchers from Gothenburg University’s School of Economics. Economist Jeannette Carlsson Hauff said that trust […]...
The biennial Icelandic horse show, Landsmót, has been labeled as a favourite amongst upcoming family activities taking place in Iceland during the summer months. Landsmót is known as the prime event for showcasing the Icelandic Horse breed, featuring various competitions and horse displays suitable for the whole family. The 2014-programme, which is set to take […]...
Producers in the Nordic countries will have access to €52m of funding over the coming five years after Nordisk Film & TV Fund agreed a new deal with its members. The Oslo-based financing group’s new scheme will start in 2015 and run until 2019, meaning a little over €10m will be available each year to […]...
Iceland has set its total allowable mackerel catch quota for this year at 147,547 metric tonnes. The North Atlantic country set its quota unilaterally because it was left out of a three-way deal between Norway, the Faroe Islands and the European Union in March. The EU pulled out of negotiations with Iceland in February because […]...
Copenhagen’s Noma restaurant has reclaimed the honour of being the world’s best restaurant, after having lost the title to El Celler de Can Roca last year. The two Michelin star eatery in the Danish capital, which is located in a quayside warehouse and dishes up Nordic specialities, claimed first position on the World’s 50 Best […]...
Emergency service workers in the Finnish city of Tampere have worked out that over 40 per cent of the patients they treated in a two-month period were under the influence of alcohol. Tampere emergency services physician Antti Kamarainen carried out breathalyser tests on every patient treated by his colleagues in the two-month period and found […]...
The popularity of computer games is on the rise in Denmark, particularly the trend of downloading them online, new figures have shown. Multimedieforeningen has revealed that last year the gaming trade saw an increase of 83 per cent in comparison to 2011, with sales revenue of 1.43bn kroner generated. Analysts have said a large proportion […]...
Swedes with common surnames are opting to change them more than ever before and analysts believe the trend will continue with the introduction of simpler rules. The Swedish Patent and Registration Office (Patent– och registreringsverket) has received a large increase in the number of people who have contacted them to request their new names be […]...
Undercover visits to the busiest McDonald’s branch in Denmark have revealed that the fast food restaurant chain is serving up old food on a regular basis. Metroxpress made the undercover visits to the branch at Central Station, Copenhagen, ten times over a two-month period and discovered that on eight of these visits the burger or […]...
Three llamas were found wandering the streets of central Oslo after managing to escape from a zoo in the Tøyenparken district of the city last Thursday. University of Oslo student Henriette Vintermyr was walking nearby the entrance of the Norderhov Gata park when suddenly she saw the animals running towards her. She explained that they […]...
A UK government report has claimed that if one of Iceland’s “super volcanoes” erupted, it could pose just as big a threat to security as nuclear terrorism. A team of academics and scientists from the British Geological Survey and the Met Office as well as geologists from Edinburgh University warned that one of these volcanoes […]...
Iceland has reacted angrily to a proposal by the mayor of Oslo to stop sending a Christmas tree to Reykjavik, a tradition that has been ongoing for more than 50 years. Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang wrote to Jon Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavik, earlier in April saying that rather than sending a tree, Oslo should […]...
Sweden has seen the number of people applying for university increase for the seventh year in a row. With the deadline for registrations falling last Wednesday, the Swedish Council for Higher Education revealed that a total of 390,000 people had applied for universities, up by 9,500 from last year. With the increased demand for places, […]...