Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde announced on Monday the resignation of his government in the wake of the country’s dire economic crisis.

Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17 aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The…

When the European Union banned exports of fish from Lake Victoria during the 1990s, it highlighted the difficulty African countries can have with European health and safety…

An alternative beauty pageant to be held in a remote Icelandic town will reward contestants’ wrinkles, saggy breasts and other bodily imperfections and hopes to challenge Western…

Polar lights offer a grandiose spectacle especially when observed from a 37-degrees-Celsius thermal bath at air temperatures of below zero. Iceland’s Blue Lagoon has no…

Iceland was embroiled in a political crisis on Monday as the country’s president appeared poised to veto a media law proposed by the government, a first in the Icelandic…

Environmentalists and the tourist industry on Thursday criticised Iceland’s decision to resume limited whaling, saying it was unnecessary and could hurt the country’s booming…

A day after the US and Russia agreed to a landmark cut in nuclear warheads, Nato foreign ministers met to seal an accord with Moscow to bury Cold War enmity and formalise new…