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• Explore Vatnajökull and Jökulsárlón in Iceland with Glacier Lagoon tour February 6, 2012
  The Iceland travel and tour provider, Bustravel will be offering daily tours to Europe’s biggest glacier, Vatnajökull and the glacier lagoon, Jökulsárlón this summer as part of its services. The Glacier Lagoon Tour is ideal for those wishing to visit and experience some of Iceland’s most impressive sights. The tour provides a day full of […]
• Ocean turbine designer: “Iceland could up its energy production twentyfold” February 6, 2012
  Valdimar Össurarson runs a company called Valorka, which has designed a marine electric turbine by the same name. The generator won first prize at the International Inventors’ Awards 2011. The company hopes its turbine will create a steady and reliable supply of electricity. Valdimar told Vísir.is that he thinks it is worrying how little research […]
• Witnesses calling media before police February 6, 2012
  Witnesses to crimes and accidents in Finland are frequently alerting the media before the police, according to reports. Police want to battle the growing trend of citizens tipping off news outlets in return for rewards, by providing better information services to the media themselves, according to the Keskisuomalainen newspaper. “Citizens often first report […]
• Icelandic public must bail out indebted public sector pension fund February 6, 2012
  Icelandic tax payers are set to bear the heavy burden of recapitalising the government employees’ pension fund (LSR). Billions of extra krónur are needed by the fund over the coming decades so it can stand up to its responsibilities. The general rule in Iceland when pension funds lose money is either that lower pension payments […]
• ‘Skara Cannibal’ and ‘Vampire Woman’ plan to wed February 6, 2012
  Two notorious Swedish murderers plan to marry after meeting and falling in love in a high security psychiatric ward. The ‘Skara Cannibal’, who killed and ate parts of his girlfriend, and the ‘Vampire Woman’, who stabbed a father of four to death, met in Karsuddens psychiatric facility near Katrineholm and found plenty in common after […]