Olivia Rodrigo Turns Heads in Bold Neckline Top

Olivia Rodrigo‘s latest look, a silver top with a bold neckline, is drawing compliments from fans. She opted for the stunning outfit from the Giorgio Armani archives for the 2025 Academy Museum Gala. This appearance from the singer-songwriter...

American who quit US for new life in isolated European country reveals culture shocks - including 'expensive' coffees and housing

An American woman who left New York to settle in one of Europe's most remote nations has shared the highs and lows of life in her new home. Jewells Chambers, 38, originally from Brooklyn, moved to Iceland in 2016 after marrying an Icelander and...

RAKEL’s Debut LP Mixes The Natural With The Unnatural

RAKEL finds her place with a place to be One of the busiest people in the Icelandic music scene, solo artist RAKEL anticipates the release of her debut LP a place to be on October 17. No stranger to the music industry, RAKEL has been an active...

Norman Black explains why Brickman, Martin part of Gilas Pilipinas

MANILA, Philippines — With just a limited time given to prepare Gilas to defend its Southeast Asian Games men’s basketball gold this December in Thailand, coach Norman Black said tapping veteran international players Jason Brickman and Rey Martin...

10 Scariest Non-Horror Movies Ever Made

This article discusses topics on sexual assault and suicide. Everyone agrees that horror is, by default, the scariest genre out there. However, some drama movies are so bleak and disturbing that they can be a lot scarier than most films in the...

ATLAS OCEAN VOYAGES ANNOUNCES NEW 2027 ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS

Expanding the boundaries of expedition cruising with new journeys through the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 15, 2025 -- Atlas Ocean Voyages, the leader in intimate, yacht-style luxury expeditions,...

Laugarás Lagoon Opens, Creating Fifty New Jobs

A brand new lagoon, Laugarás Lagoon, opened yesterday in Laugarás, about an hour and 20 minute drive from Reykjavík. According to Vísir, 50 new jobs have been created at Laugarás Lagoon. The lagoon offers visitors a unique experience where nature,...

News digest: Tulips vs. Tatras

Ahoy, Slovakia watchers. The Dutch just ruffled the Slovak coalition’s feathers, and PM Robert Fico has thoughts on the now-scrapped Trump–Putin summit. Welcome to Today in Slovakia. Article continues after video advertisement Article continues...

Samsung Galaxy XR hands-on: It’s like a cheaper Apple Vision Pro and launches today

Watching the first few minutes of KPop Demon Hunters on Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset, I think Apple’s Vision Pro might be cooked. It’s not because the Galaxy XR — which Samsung formerly teased as Project Moohan — is that much better than the Vision...

Of Monsters and Men create worlds, detail normal life on new record

Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar þórhallsson, lead singers for the band Of Monsters and Men, are no strangers to the weird. And on their most recent release, “All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade,” they embrace their idiosyncrasies to...

Abundant Parent-of-origin Effect eQTL: The Framingham Heart Study

Parent-of-origin effect (POE) is a phenomenon whereby an allele’s effect on a phenotype not only depends on its allelic identity, but also on the parent from whom the allele is inherited (DeChiara et al., 1991; Cockett et al., 1996). POE can be...

Muslims were pagans, according to the Norse sagas

In other European countries, quite a lot of research has been conducted on how Islam and Muslims are portrayed in medieval literature. For the first time, we now have an insight into how Muslims are described in Norse literature. “Creating a...

Review: Anorgasmia

14/10/2025 - Icelandic filmmaker Jon Einarsson Gustafsson’s sophomore feature hurls two lost souls into the vast expanse of Iceland’s volcanic landscape, hoping to draw them closer Edward Hayter and Mathilde Warnier in Anorgasmia The title of...

20 fresh end user domain name sales

A maker of iron supplements, a company that sells cocktail dresses, and an Icelandic biotech company bought domain names. Sedo’s top sales this week were seo.co.uk and seo.uk for $75,000 each. It appears that an investor bought both of these...

‎mr Eazi Set To Take New Career Path Apart From Music 

Nigerian singer, Oluwatosin Ajibade, popularly known as Mr Eazi, has shared that he is towing another path apart from music. The singer, who has been dropping several contents since his marriage to Temi Otedola, was quizzed by a fan on whether he...

All work and no play kills innovation

VOL. 49 | NO. 43 | Friday, October 17, 2025 Driving across waterfall-flecked Iceland in May, two months after finalizing his first acquisition, Adam Tanaka was reaping the rewards of entrepreneurship, surrounded by beauty. And he was absolutely...

Things To Do This Week: Jazz, Opera and Sci-fi Noir

Jazz and autumn are a match made in heaven. That’s why starting the final week of October with a jam night feels right. Other seasonal components include sci-fi/noir films, a thematic pub quiz, and more music. See how your week goes, and let us...

Review: WE ARE WATER: A NORTHEAST CELEBRATION at Merrill Auditorium,

We’ve all needed a bit more water this year to ease the drought. But Yo-Yo Ma and friends sought to address the ways of water in a broader context in a just shy of two-hour performance on October 20th in Portland. “We Are Water: A Northeast...

Trump to Frostadóttir: “We will stand by our commitments”

U.S. President Donald Trump told Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir, in an informal conversation, that the United States would continue to honor its defense commitments to Iceland. Frostadóttir confirmed this in an interview with...

Notes From a Cold Country | Between Great Walls & Glaciers

Provided you keep up with current affairs, you may have read that the President of Iceland, Halla Tómasdóttir, has just paid a visit to China. Given that no Icelandic Head of State has visited the Middle Kingdom in a decade, it’s the sort of news...