Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic box office hit Touch marks the fifth time that the filmmaker has been chosen as the country’s representative in the International Feature Oscar category, but it also reps ...

Mounted high on the wall in Elín Hall’s Reykjavík kitchen is a pair of white horns, picked up from a Red Cross thrift store in the city. They’re a nod to her grandfather, who once shot a reindeer by ...

Women in Iceland could vote, get an education and run for public office by the 1970s. But they were still hugely ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Steindor Erlingsson feels like the least popular man in Iceland. The 36-year-old science historian has just published a book debunking the newest national notion, that Icelanders ...

According to a new study, people living in Iceland are exceptionally creative because of societal and cultural norms that foster the trait.. Creativity is hard to measure. But after just two days in ...

Iceland, the smattering of fans were chanting Sunday morning in heavy Nordic accents, as the Icelandic handball team put the finishing touches on its 31-25 win over Argentina in the opening game of ...

Play Airlines Pilot Una Gísladóttir shares what it's like to view — and capture pictures of — the northern lights from 35,000 feet in the air Play Airlines First Officer Una Gisladottir Una ...

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, ...

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. Jewells Chambers doesn't look like a typical Icelander. In a ...

The couple swapped vows mid-air on a sentimental flight Courtesy of PLAY Airlines This Valentine's Day, one couple is taking their love to new heights. On a special Valentine's Day flight from Iceland ...