How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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Arsenal sign goalkeeper Alex Rúnarsson from Dijon on four-year deal – Iceland international expected to deputise for first-choice goalkeeper Bernd Leno
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CBS Studios has struck a global first-look deal for an adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson's best-selling Nordic noir book The Darkness
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Euronews travelled to Iceland to see how researchers are hunting down viruses – and exploring their potential uses as part of a project called Virus-X
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At Iceland's Blue Lagoon you can swim in power plant wastewater – here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm
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Silfra, in Þingvellir National Park in Iceland, is a crack in the earth where you can snorkel or dive between the continents – well, sort of
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Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?
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An Icelandic ritual for wellbeing – when Iceland reopened its public swimming pools, the nation was so delighted that queues formed outside pools at midnight
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Iceland floats idea of LGBTQ business certificate – guidelines for companies on how to foster diversity and make the labor market welcoming for all kinds of people
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An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar
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You've been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to let your frustrations out – record your scream and we'll release it in Iceland
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The Football Association of Iceland released its new crest – to describe it as the most metal thing you've ever seen does it an injustice
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Iceland heads to polls to elect next president – while the post is largely symbolic, the president has the power to appoint governments and veto laws
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Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month
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Welcome to Laufskálarétt – the autumn ritual of wild horse herding in Iceland's Kolbeinsdalur Valley
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Iceland topped the annual Global Peace Index, which found the world to be less peaceful than it was in 2019
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Independent people - Iceland's approach to the coronavirus
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The nine-woman feminist rap group Daughters of Reykjavik was mocked online and in Iceland's news media – so they're taking their message elsewhere
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Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid contact-tracing app—and it hasn’t helped much
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Iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1,000 years – it's given the country an advantage into understanding the genetic makeup of coronavirus
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Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
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Iceland wins EU trademark battle against United Kingdom-based supermarket chain
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Iceland's forestry service has come up with a novel way to overcome the sense of isolation many people suffer because of Covid-19 – hug the trees
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The animated history of Iceland
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Awakening volcanic region in Iceland could cause disruption for centuries – Reykjanes peninsula's last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
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Icelandic farming union has been surprised by the enthusiastic response to its appeal for volunteers to help sick farmers out during the Covid-19 outbreak
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Iceland employs detective work, testing and quarantine in coronavirus fight
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Iceland's Daði Freyr Pétursson says he will not return for Eurovision 2021 selection as a singer
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Iceland's large-scale testing strategy includes people who don’t have any symptoms
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Iceland: 330 cases, quarantine for all returning Icelanders
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Icelandic prime minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir wants to introduce a well-being economy – GDP becomes merely one of thirty-nine indicators of national progress
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England have been drawn to face Iceland, Denmark and Belgium in the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League
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Daði & Gagnamagnið win Iceland's Söngvakeppnin 2020 with 'Think About Things'
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Hatari feat. Bashar Murad - Klefi / Samed (Chamber / Steadfast)
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Over 100 immigrants from 20+ countries are taking part in a program that will help them develop, set up, and operate a food truck specialising in food from their home countries
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Icelanders celebrate Bolludagur – the cream-filled buns are generally made of choux pastry and topped with a chocolate or caramel glaze
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The lessons a buoyant Finland can take from Iceland's Euro 2016 success
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LGBTQ activists in Iceland are protesting the planned deportation of a transgender teen and his family who fled Iran last February
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KFOR and Iceland sign technical agreement on lower airspace – an important step in the process to establish all of the necessary conditions for the opening of new aviation routes
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Hildur Guðnadóttir becomes first woman to win Best Original Score – Icelandic composer also won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her work on 'Joker'
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Cod Wars – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats (29th January 1976)
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Mt. Þorbjörn, Reykjanes – Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption
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An attempt to name a child after the Devil has won no sympathy from Iceland's official naming committee
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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In 2017, Iceland had the lowest number of prisoners per inhabitants (39 per 100,000) among European countries, according to Eurostat
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David Gunnlaugsson – Iceland's melting glaciers are nothing to panic about
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Icelandic broadcaster RÚV has presented the 10 artists and their songs that have been selected to take part in the national selection Söngvakeppnin 2020
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Two Chinese nationals in their early 20s have been found dead at the site of a 1973 plane crash in southern Iceland
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Iceland's Tourism Revolution
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Langjökull – Thirty-nine tourists got stuck for hours in a blizzard at an Icelandic glacier, but are now safe
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