India Eyes $250B Investment From Efta Bloc Amid Tariff Headwinds

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) India is set to unlock a massive wave of foreign investments from Europe's four-nation Efta bloc - Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein - worth up to $250 billion over the next 15 years, under a landmark trade...

Blackburn Rovers boss' honest view on player's future after late transfer interest

Rovers' number nine has fallen down the pecking order after the arrival of Andri Gudjohnsen in the summer transfer window. The Icelandic forward and Yuki Ohashi are better stylistic fits for Ismael's system, which has impacted Gueye's minutes. In...

Cindy Blackman Santana turns up the heat, and Laufey plays it cool

A contrasting pair of crossover queens — the sinewy drummer Cindy Blackman Santana and the sparkly singer-songwriter Laufey — make their way to Philly this week, putting jazz-adjacency in the center spotlight. We’re cool with that. But we also...

The Mystery of What Happened to the Last Female Great Auk Is Finally Solved

In 1844, Jon Brandsson, Sigurdur Isleifsson, and Ketill Ketilsson set out for Eldey Island, off the southwest coast of Iceland. The three hunters were after a particular pair of rare birds: the great auks. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, these...

A Historic Hudson Valley Estate Hits the Market for the First Time Ever at $90 Million

The sound of water tumbling over an 18th-century mill wheel only adds to the bucolic allure of a 2,000-plus-acre horse farm in New York‘s scenic Hudson Valley that just hit the market for an eye-popping $90 million. Known as Mill Farm, the...

Could volcanic rock beneath the seabed store CO

"In this cavity, you can see some white material," says Jan Braly Kihle. On his computer screen, he has zoomed in on a dark rock speckled with black and white. The scent of petroleum still lingers in the black spots. While the white ones contain...

8 Best Open World Games With Great Faction Systems

Factions can play an important role when it comes to creating believable and dynamic open world games. Not only do they immediately create a sense of conflict, which is essential for creating a sense of urgency and purpose in a story, but they...

Astonishing Aphex Twin Improv

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Hooked on Herring: How Denmark’s Fish Got Its Groove Back in Europe

The Icelandic agency Ceedr, in collaboration with TBWA in Copenhagen, recently delivered a marketing campaign promoting Danish herring. The campaign ran in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden, with a particular focus on the German market,...

Family of Magga Stína calls for her immediate release

The family of Margrét Kristín Blöndal, better known as Magga Stína, is urging the Icelandic government to do everything in its power to secure her immediate release, along with the rest of the crew of the so-called Freedom Flotilla. Magga Stína...

The Last Dinner Party on course to secure their second consecutive Number 1 album with From The Pyre

The Last Dinner Party have taken an early lead in this week’s Official Albums Chart race with their second studio release From The Pyre (1). If they can maintain enough momentum to topple Taylor Swift on Friday, it would land the indie five-piece...

New Music Reviews (10/20)

Each week, Music Director Chris Sanley and Associate Music Director Alex Ruder share brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below...

State Of The Art: Energetic And Post-Genre

The unconventional and experimental State of the Art festival entered the scene last year to much excitement; events such as Baroque music performed at AUTO Nightclub, a symposium on Icelandic electronic music, and a concert in an auto repair shop...

Nov. 13: The Whale Museum's Second annual Global Orca Workshop

The Whale Museum will host its second annual Global Orca Workshop on November 13 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM PT. The theme of the workshop is “Understanding orca eco-types around the world: Who are they and what are they facing in today’s changing...

Hawaiian Airlines’ Longest Nonstop Routes With The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner In 2025

Honolulu-based Hawaiian Airlines is the heartbeat of Hawaiian aviation, connecting the state archipelago to the rest of the world. The airline, which is now part of the Alaska Air Group, has proactively been replacing its aging Airbus A330...

Al-Mousawi resigns as Salmiya handball coach

Yaqoub Al-Mousawi KUWAIT CITY, Oct 20: Salmiya’s head coach, Yaqoub Al-Mousawi, officially resigned from his position, marking the second coaching departure in the 2025-26 Kuwaiti Handball Premier League. Al-Mousawi follows Burgan coach Hussein...

Says Directorate of Immigration is violating rights

An Icelandic woman is harshly criticizing the Directorate of Immigration’s decision to deport her husband and impose a two-year re-entry ban. She says the process was confusing, unfair, and in violation of her fundamental rights as an Icelandic...

Europe – In Search of its Moral Triumph

Caught by two Guernicas, which we frivolously call conflicts – one Semitic and the other inter-Slavic – of uncertain ends and its beginnings, and trapped in a cycle of confrontational multispatial despair, the European continent finds itself...

Exploring Nature: Wonderful Waterfalls

I love a good waterfall. And over the years, I have visited some of the best in the world, including the marvelous Victoria Falls. Located in Botswana, Africa, this mighty waterfall is located where the Zambezi River plunges 328 feet into the...

Colin Sheridan: What life in a war-torn country taught me about Irish football 

When yours truly was deployed to the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo as a peacekeeper over 20 years ago, the most striking thing about the landscape wasn’t the remnants of war, but the domes inflated across the countryside.These weren’t...