Reykjavik 1972: Fischer V Spassky - 'The World Chess Championship' and 'The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik'
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Foreign creditors agree to take an 87% stake in Kaupthing Bank's remnants to claw back losses and rebuild Reykjavik's financial sector, less than two months after a similar deal with Glitnir
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/6NPSBB/P9L6Q/4N3CUY/JEY9K/ Financials Wednesday December 02 2009 FT.com - Financials SMX wins approval to start trading The Singapore Mercantile Exchange, Asia's newest commodity derivatives exchange, has been given the go-ahead by regulators...
Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
And we're back... Whitehall 1212 was offline there for most of a fortnight because, well because I took a break from the journalistic day job and went on a circular trip from Westminster to Iceland and all points south. The journey included Pinewood Studios (where I was the voice of a Pictish warrior in a Roman Epic); Glasgow where I helped the city restaurants hold the recession at bay; a musical...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
May 15, 1987: The Soviet Skif-DM launches from Baikonur. (www.buran-energia.com) From Air And Smithsonian: It sounds like something from a James Bond movie: a massive satellite, the largest ever launched, equipped with a powerful laser to take out the American anti-missile shield in advance of a Soviet first strike. It was real, though—or at least the plan was. In fact, when Soviet President...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Torre helps Fischer’s daughter in claim to dad’s estate 11/29/2009 11:11 AM Grandmaster Eugene Torre will accompany Jinky Young, the Filipino daughter of the late chess icon Bobby Fischer, to Iceland on Nov. 30 to follow-up on Young's claim to the estate left by her father. Torre and Young will be traveling with her mother Marilyn and lawyer Sammy Estimo in a bid to get her claim to Fisher’s...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Dubai seems to be teetering on the brink like Iceland was last year. But for the expat emirate, things could be even worse When the University of Chicago professor, Robert Z Aliber , came to Reykjavik in 2007 and saw the many building cranes rising from the tiny and northernmost capital in the world, he immediately saw that the bubble was going to burst . Like most critics of Iceland's economic boom...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Both books are going to California this week. Jane Stanton Hitchcock's Mor tal Friends will go to Rochelle B. from Agoura Hills, and Once Were Cops by Ken Bruen goes to Richard D. from La Mirada. For much of the U.S., it's time to get ready for wintry weather, so I have two books to put you in the mood. Arctic Chill is a Reykjavik thriller by Arnaldur...
Iceland photos and info (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Yesterday,was the International day of the UN, on stopping violence against women. And here , Icelands prime minister,Johanna Sigurdardottir, leads a walk , from the culture house in Reykjavik ,to the seaside. There they watched as the Imagine Peace Light ,was lit as they arrived. The finance minister ,Steingrimur J. Sigfusson , and the vice cahirman of the Independence party ,Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir,...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
810 PMTravelling around Iceland climbing volcanoes waterfalls and glaciers can be tiring and there is a lot to be said for sitting in a bath of sulphur so our final complete day was a much more relaxed affair. We had always planned to end the trip at Icelandlsquos main tourist spot the Blue Lagoon which sits in the lava fields between Reykjavik and the airport via a slight detour gent
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Final Fantasy Heartland (Domino) Releasing: 12 January Owen Pallett's first album since He Poos Clouds in 2006 is a concept album about a farmer named Lewis, who, if you'll notice the track list, takes off his shirt at some point. Pallett has been jumping around the world to record Heartland, spending time in Reykjavik to lay down some tracks and Prague to record the Czech Symphony. He still has a...
A Book A Week (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
These Icelandic mysteries continue to be my favorites. As usual, Arnaldur Indriðason delivers a simple mystery with a straight-forward solution, but it’s the accompanying journey through Iceland’s modern social issues that makes his books so interesting. And of course, Iceland’s issues are Europe’s issues; in this case the impact of immigration on a formerly homogeneous...
Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The 2010 SXSW Music Festival is fast approaching with only about four months to go. The week-long festival is once again retuning to Austin, Texas next year from March 17-21. To get attendees pumped up for next years event organizers have revealed the first couple hundred acts to play the fest. Among the acts announced are The Boxer Rebellion , The View , Riverboat Gamblers , and We Are Scientists...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Day 13 12th October 2009245 PMJust as darkness completely surrounded us and the creatures of the night stared out from the shadows we arrived in Hella. The creatures of the night were actually the same as the creatures of the day mostly creatures that say lsquoBaarsquo or a regional accented equivalent of it. We had originally wanted to keep going and wait until we got to Reykjavik befo
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, November 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:DCGN) today announced that it has received notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market that trading in the company's common stock will be suspended as of November 30, 2009 and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which will remove deCODE's common stock from listing on Nasdaq, unless the...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
SXSW : Aa (Brooklyn NY) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (Osaka JAPAN ) A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY ) Alpha Rev (Austin TX) Amaral (Madrid SPAIN ) And So I Watch You From Afar (Belfast IRELAND ) Apostle of Hustle (Toronto ON) Arms (Brooklyn NY) Ólöf Arnalds (Reykjavik ICELAND ) Art vs Science (Surry Hills NSW ) A Shoreline Dream (Denver CO) Nicole Atkins and The...
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