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Kevin De Bruyne meiddist í leiknum gegn Swansea
Pep Guardiola, knattspyrnustjóri Manchester City, staðfesti í viðtali við fölmiðla eftir sigurinn gegn Swansea í dag að Kevin De Bruyne, leikmaður liðsins, myndi fara til sérfræðings strax á morgun og að hann væri líklegast meiddur eftir að hafa haltrað af velli í dag.
Conor McGregor after training in Iceland: “No, I´m retired. Fuck interviews”
Pétur Marinó Jónsson, writer at MMA Fréttir, asked McGregor for a word after training tonight.
Full interview: Icelandic PM Sigmundur Davíð will not resign
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister of Iceland, talked to Icelandic Channel 2 News today about his involvement in the Panama Papers scandal.
Vísir and Iceland Magazine join forces
Vísir and Iceland Magazine are proud to announce that they have launched a joint venture to better serve English speaking readers.
Aukin þjónusta við enskumælandi lesendur Vísis
Vísir og Iceland Magazine hafa hafið samstarf við að þjónusta enskumælandi lesendur, hvort sem er þá sem búsettir eru hér á landi eða ferðalangar á leiðinni til Íslands.
Jón Gnarr: My Opinion - Playfulness
I really want to talk about playfulness, the importance of playing, alone or with others, at something that gives you joy and happiness.
Seven former bankers receive sentences in Iceland
Former bosses of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing were convicted today for market manipulation in the months leading up to the bank's collapse in the Reykjavik district court.
Search underway for British tourist missing in Iceland
Benjamin Stokes' rental car was found at Þingvellir this morning.
Rapper blames Bam Margera for backstage brawl: “Every word this guy says is bullshit”
Egill “Tiny” Thorarensen challenges Margera to release a full video of their fight last weekend.
Bam Margera files charges against popular rappers in Iceland
Two Icelandic rappers seen punching a 'Jackass' crew member at Icelandic music festival.
Bam Margera brawl caught on tape
In the video Bam Margera can be seen receiving three punches to the head, including one from an Icelandic rapper, before falling to the ground.
Famous Jackass beaten up by well known Icelandic artists
Bam Margera, musician and member of the Jackass crew, got into a brawl at the Secret Solstice music festival in Iceland tonight around 11 pm local time.
My opinion: Jón Gnarr - Tattoo
The use of tattoo has grown a lot in Iceland during the last decades. Earlier, people had to go abroad to get a tattoo. It was mostly sailors who sported this kind of treasure, usually on the upper arm. The tattoos were usually connected to seafaring, one way or another. And Iceland. Some even got a tattoo of some lady and had the name of their girlfriend written below. But the sailor theme was most common, an anchor, waves and such things.
Live from Iceland: Ministers explain their plan for lifting of capital controls
The Icelandic government has called for a media conference at noon explaining their plans on winding down of capital controls.
“He told me I'd never be able to walk again”
"I have to admit that it is extremely difficult to get up after an accident like the one I suffered. To learn to walk wearing splints, the balance and everything. Nobody does that.”
My Opinion: Jón Gnarr - Many People Are Becoming Pretty Crazy
Iceland has big problems. We face complicated tasks; currency restrictions, health care, purchasing power and poverty, housing problems, and then there is the whole financial system.
Serious allegations made against prime minister in blackmail scheme
Two Icelandic women, sisters and known journalists, were arrested last week after an unsuccessful attempt to blackmail the Icelandic prime minister.
Apartment under siege by Icelandic police for six hours turns out to be empty
Reports of gunshots in an apartment building still an unsolved mystery.
Iceland Siege: Police surround a gunman
The Icelandic police force has evacuated an apartment building in Hlidarhjalli, Kopavogur. An inhabitant is believed to have fired a shotgun from his apartment building around 3 pm local time today.
Journalists and sisters arrested on suspicion of trying to blackmail the Icelandic prime minister
The Icelandic police arrested two women last Friday under the suspicion that they tried to blackmail millions of ISK out of the prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.
Unbelievable goal scored in Iceland this weekend
Scottish professional Steven Lennon will remember his hat-trick in the Icelandic premier league this weekend for a long time.
My Opinion: Jón Gnarr - Icelandic Meat Soup
Nationalism seems to be on the rise in Iceland today. People talk much about the so-called national culture, and cite history.
Former Icelandic Prime Minister Ásgrímsson dies
Iceland's former prime and foreign minister Halldór Ásgrímsson has died at the age of 67.
Reality TV live from Iceland: 24 hours of sheep giving birth!
Today you have the chance to watch a new kind of reality TV when the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RÚV,
Inga Leads a Revolution in the Fashion World
Alda Women in a 8 page spread in Glamour Iceland
My Opinion: No Man Is an Island, and Neither is Iceland
Sometimes Icelanders have been honored in other countries by something being named after us, our country, places in Iceland, or even famous Icelanders.
The Pirate Party the biggest in Iceland by far
The latest national polls in Iceland show an unprecedented 30,1 per cent support for The Icelandic Pirate Party.
On a mission to save long lost messages from members of the U.S. Air Force
"This has a great significance for them“
Tourism in Iceland to suffer as ten thousand workers go on strike
Ten thousand workers in Iceland go on strike at noon tomorrow. Severe effect is expected on all tourism, fish industry, meat processing and more lines of work.
My Opinion: Jón Gnarr - To Be Yourself
For the last few weeks I have been working hard at finishing the third, and last, volume of my trilogy of youth memoirs.
