14. júní 2022 „There are very few cases where perpetr­ators actually take responsi­bility. In the instances that I can recall, in the current MeToo-movem­ent, it has usu­ally been done quite clumsily. For example, it has not been done in consultation with the victims and people have not taken full responsi­bility,“ says Gabríela Bryndís Ernu­dóttir, psychologist and chairwoman for the activist organization Líf án...

14. júní 2022 In November 1981, a Swedish powerlifter claimed that there had been a flood of drugs at the World Championship in powerlifting in Calcutta. Iceland had two repres­enta­ti­ves at the tournament: Skúli Ósk­ars­son and Jón Páll Sig­mars­son. The Swedish competitor was arre­sted upon arri­val at the Arlanda air­port in Stockholm, after hav­ing been stopped in customs, where over one thousand „ana­bole-ster­oider“-pills...

13. júní 2022 According to the website of the Directorate of Health, the third case of Mon­keypox has been diagnosed in Iceland, last Saturday, June 11th. The pati­ent is a male, liv­ing in the Reykja­vík metropolitan area. According to the announcement, the pati­ent does not have serious symptoms and is quarantined in his own home. Just as is the case with the two...

10. júní 2022 „It is transmitted during sexual acts between people of all gend­ers. It just so happ­ens to mostly have been diagnosed in men recently, and the source is in certain places in Europe where sex is liberal,“ says Þórólfur Guðnason, Chief Epidem­i­olog­ist for Iceland, reg­ar­ding the Monkey Pox, during last night’s news on Channel 2. Two men have been diagnosed with...

9. júní 2022 The Icelandic coastguard has now completed their work of stopp­ing an oil spill from El Grillo in Seyð­is­fjörður. A fence will then be set up this sum­mer, but the fence is intended to catch oil that could leak out as weather beg­ins to warm. It was the crew of the patrol ship Freyja together with the divers of the Coast...

2. júní 2022 „A group of people are now stand­ing outside a hospi­tal ward at Land­spít­ali, plann­ing to drag the child out of there aga­inst its will with by means necessary. They are going to deli­ver the child to its father, whom it fears and has repeatedly refu­sed any communication with. The Child Protective Services in Reykja­vík, The District Commissioner of Greater Reykja­vík...

1. júní 2022 Hrannar Fossberg Við­ars­son was today sentenced by the Court of Appeal to serve the rest of the sentence he received in the District Court in Reykja­vík, in 2018. He received parole the year after. DV orig­inally reported on this. Hrannar was a suspect in a shooting in Graf­ar­holt, Reykja­vík in the middle of the night, on Thursday February 10th of...

27. maí 2022 Recently, the search and rescue team Ingunn and the rescue squad Tintron were called out in the middle of the day for a boat that had lost engine power in the middle of Þing­valla­vatn lake. Sunn­lenska orig­inally reported on this. Luckily, there was not much dan­ger. As many people are aware of, Þing­valla­vatn lake can be quite unpredictable and circumstances...

25. maí 2022 „We would like to express our gratitude for the endless amount of beauti­ful messa­ges; we are still on cloud nine, and it still has not quite yet sunk in that we actually won the award,“ says Inga Hen­rik­sen, one of the creators of Liljaapp, an app that received the Women Innovators Incubator award last night. The app is meant to...

24. maí 2022 „This change ena­bles us to deli­ver Cocoa Puffs back to Iceland, so the nation may once again enjoy this immen­sely popular cereal with less sugar and fat, and more prot­ein.“ This is part of a newly rel­e­a­sed announcement from Nathan & Olsen, General Mills’ distri­bu­tor in Iceland. The much-adored cereal Cocoa Puffs disapp­eared from Iceland’s shelfs in the beg­inn­ing of...

23. maí 2022 „In this specific case, the police is never the one choosing the indi­vi­dual to inter­fere with,“ said Iceland’s Chief of Police at an open meeting in Parli­ament. The meeting was held to discuss police officer’s education on multiculturalism and prejudice. The main rea­son for it being held now was an incident that occurred last April, when a 16 year old...

5. maí 2022 The American tel­evision news show 60 Minutes recently publ­is­hed a seg­ment on Iceland’s Eurovision craze. A crew and an anchor from this big­gest news show in the world came to Iceland last March to observe „Söngvakeppnin“, the country’s prelimin­ary competition before the main Eurovision Song Contest in Europe. „Eurovision is a tra­vell­ing circus with a huge tent and you just...