Icelanders read or listen to an average of 2,4 books per month and almost one third of the population reads pages of a book every day or more often, according to the results of a survey on the nation's attitude to reading

A 40% rise in applications from students outside Europe to study at local universities may be linked to videos circulating on social media claiming that they can study in Iceland for free and relocate with families; processing is heavily delayed

Journalist Eyrún Magnúsdóttir and author Auður Jónsdóttir will launch a new media outlet, Gímaldið: the name describes a large hall with high ceilings, chosen because the channel will welcome many voices and report on various aspects of complex issues

A man involved in what is thought to be Iceland’s first bank robbery walked into a police station and confessed to the crime, police posted on Facebook; the robbery took place in 1975 and was relatively small in scale compared to later bank robberies

Björg Eva Erlendsdóttir, MD of Icelandic Environment Association, says national energy company is setting a dangerous precedent by moving on with Hvammsvirkjun power plant project without necessary permits, nor community consensus