Deal on bin Laden evidence in WikiLeaks case
Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who sent more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks said Tuesday they have reached a ...

UK budget airline to test ash cloud detector
A U.K. budget airline will create an artificial volcanic ash cloud over Europe this summer to test ash detection technology. The experiment aims to ...

Pirate Party has electoral breakthrough in Iceland
Iceland, a nation of seafarers, has been stormed by pirates. They won't be forming the government, but online freedom advocates the Pirate Party were ...

Iceland returns center-right parties to power
In a dramatic about-face, Icelandic voters have returned to power the center-right parties that led the national economy to collapse five years ago.

Iceland opposition poised to win general election
Five years after Iceland's economic collapse, early returns signaled that austerity-weary voters are favoring the return of a center-right, ...
WikiLeaks claims victory in Iceland court case
WikiLeaks said Wednesday it has secured a victory in Iceland's Supreme Court against the financial blockade imposed by Visa and MasterCard on ...
New app helps Icelanders avoid accidental incest
You meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin? In Iceland, a ...

China and Iceland sign free trade agreement
China and Iceland signed a free trade agreement Monday, offering hope to the small North Atlantic country for its recession-battered economy and ...
Icelandic police issue civil warning after quakes
Icelandic police say seismic activity near the Hekla volcano has prompted them to declare an "uncertainty phase" — the lowest level of civil warning.
Helmet video examined in deadly US skydiver crash
Authorities on Monday were looking at footage from a helmet camera worn by an Icelandic skydiving instructor who died with a student in a jump at a U.
Skydive site owner: Men didn't deploy parachutes
Two skydivers from Iceland who died during weekend jumps at a popular southwest Florida camp did not deploy their main parachutes, the co-owner of the ...

A look at Cyprus' move to seize bank deposits
Lawmakers in Cyprus are still scrambling for a way to raise €5.8 billion ($7.5 billion) to help pay for an international bailout of the country's ...

A look at Cyprus' decision to tax depositors
People with bank accounts in Cyprus were shocked Saturday to learn that as part of an agreement reached with international creditors the government ...

Researchers: We may have found a fabled sunstone
A rough, whitish block recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck may be a sunstone, the fabled crystal believed by some to have helped Vikings and other ...
Taco Bell, Icelandic pies drawn into meat scandal
Taco Bell is the latest restaurant chain to acknowledge that its food has been adulterated with horse meat, yanking a variety of ground beef products ...
Iceland's plan to ban Internet porn sparks uproar
In the age of instant information, globe-spanning viral videos and the World Wide Web, can a thoroughly wired country become a porn-free zone? ...

Kennedy Center opens Nordic Cool cultural festival
For the next month, the Kennedy Center will glow each night with blue light and shimmers of green, depicting the northern lights and signaling what ...

Snorkeling in wintry Iceland: Frigid but inspiring
The air above the Silfra rift was freezing and the water in it was only a couple degrees higher, just warm enough to be liquid. Going under was a ...
Iceland shipping company adds Maine to route
An Icelandic shipping company has agreed to establish container freight operations in Portland in a move that will link Maine's largest city to ...

Bacon enthusiasts converge in US for festival
Thousands converged Saturday on the world's largest bacon showcase, a festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. Some people wore Viking ...

Iceland investigating mass herring deaths
Researchers in Iceland are blaming low oxygen levels in a shallow fjord for the deaths of tens of thousands of tons of herring. Masses of dead herring ...
Minister: Iceland refused to help FBI on WikiLeaks
Iceland's interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country's police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ...

Icelandic girl wins right to use her given name
A 15-year-old Icelandic girl has been granted the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother, despite the opposition of authorities and ...