The father of the bride was on fire during the wedding ceremony.

The annual number of cruise ships visiting Iceland has increased fast in recent years – from 284 in 2014 to 725 in 2018.

Among the 30,000 documents released by WikiLeaks this week on the dubious operation of Samherji, a leading Icelandic company in the fishing industry, in Namibia, is an email from another Icelandic fishing company, Síldarvinnslan in Neskaupstaður, asking Samherji directors for advice on how to deceive Greenlanders in order to obtain fishing rights and goodwill.

A prototype for a large drone, designed and made in Iceland, intended for herding reindeer in Greenland, is ready to fly.

Information published by WikiLeaks Tuesday night, suggesting dubious business practices in Namibia by Samherji, one of the leading companies in the Icelandic fishing industry, has shocked the Icelandic nation.

A crew of four men was rescued late last night off the coast of Súgandafjörður fjord, the West Fjords, after their boat had stranded

Companies owned by Samherji are reported to have paid hundreds of millions of Icelandic krónur in bribes to obtain access to Namibia’s fishing quotas.

According to the whistleblower Jóhannes Stefánsson, Kristján Þór Júlíusson, who now serves as Iceland’s minister of fisheries, briefly met three men in 2014, when he was minister of health, who, in exchange for bribes, were working on providing the Icelandic company Samherji fishing quotas in Namibia.

Companies owned by Samherji are reported to have paid hundreds of millions of Icelandic krónur in bribes to obtain access to Namibia’s fishing quotas.

WikiLeaks has published more than 30,000 documents from whistleblower Jóhannes Stefánsson, former managing director of operations in Namibia for Samherji, one of the leading companies in the Icelandic fish industry.

Samherji, a leading seafood company in Iceland with numerous operations abroad, has hired an international law firm to assist in the investigation of its operations in Africa.

A Chinese man in his thirties is lucky to be alive after being caught in a wave on Reynisfjara beach, South Iceland, yesterday.

The 700 manuscripts, written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, that used to be part of the collection of Icelandic manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663-1730), are to remain at the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

The new Icelandic airline Play plans to expand its fleet of aircraft considerably, come this spring.

Klifbrekkufossar waterfalls are among the treasures of East Iceland.

Due to a hot water main being connected, the Laugardalslaug swimming pool in Reykjavík is closed today.

Tuula Hyvärinen, a Finnish woman, survived two plane crashes in Iceland in a single day.

A new website, sealife.is, offers a vast collection of pictures of marine life in Icelandic waters.

A new report by OECD on preventable diseases, Health at a Glance, reveals that among OECD countries, Iceland and Mexico are the countries where the rate of those who smoke is the lowest.

Rescue efforts are underway off the coast of Northeast Iceland, where a boat stranded earlier this morning.

The Icelandic Met Office has issued a yellow alert for a large part of Iceland.

Close to 40 books by Icelandic authors have recently been or are about to be published in English.

The Iceland Airwaves music festival formally opened yesterday.

Racist propaganda has been distributed at the University of Iceland.

The Icelandic Seal Center in Hvammstangi, Northwest Iceland, received first price in the category Intangible Heritage at the Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism Awards.

Three men were narrowly rescued from a sinking fishing boat in Breiðafjörður fjord, off the coast of West Iceland, yesterday.

The decision of the Directorate of Immigration to deport a 26-year-old Albanian woman, almost 36 weeks pregnant, from Iceland early yesterday morning has met with heavy criticism.

Roads, sidewalks and bike trails in and around Reykjavík are very icy this morning, so please be extra cautious during the morning commute.

“Papaya produced in Iceland” may sound like an oxymoron.

The Icelandic low cost airline taking shape, so far dubbed WAB, will be called Play.

A landslide occurred over the weekend in Ketubjörg cliffs on the Skagi peninsula in Northwest Iceland, sending thousands of tons of soil into the ocean.

New findings reveal that the air in the Hvalfjarðargöng tunnel, West Iceland, is quite polluted.

At the end of September, the population of Iceland was 362,860 – 186,220 men and 176,640 women.

The term “late bloomer” may have acquired a new meaning.

Fritz Már Jörgensson, Keflavík Church minister, has just published his fifth crime novel.