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A Westcountry artist has been chosen for a residency in Shanghai by a selection panel including the Hollywood actor George Clooney. The artist, whose birth-name is Cathy Lapka but is now known as Kitty Von-Sometime, will take up the residency at the Swat
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Il y a un mois, je vais lire le blog de Pénélope Baguieu et je tombe sur ses billets sur l’Islande. Je me dis “Wouahou, ça a l’air canon ce pays” et je l’ajoute à ma (longue) liste de voyages à faire. Le lendemain, un mail arrive dans ma boite aux lettre
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Gunnar Bjornsson of Reykjavik uses 3D glasses to view a Panasonic television with built-in 2D to 3D conversion during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 12, 2012. CES, the world's largest consumer... View Photo »
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Iceland’s property sales fell 8.6 percent last week as the fallout of the island’s 2008 banking crisis lingers. There were 96 homes and commercial properties sold in the week through Feb. 16, compared with 105 sales a week earlier, according to an e-mail
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“The lesson to be learned from Iceland’s crisis is that if other countries think it’s necessary to write down debts, they should look at how successful the 110 percent agreement was here,” said Thorolfur Matthiasson, an economics professor at the Univers
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Taxpayers in Wiltshire have received another slice of the millions they lost when Icelandic banks collapsed in 2008. Finance chiefs at Trowbridge’s County Hall updated council bosses and said that a total of £6.127 million of the £9 million which the cou
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Palestine Foreign Minister Riad Malki (L) addresses as Iceland's Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson (R) looks on during a ceremony in which Iceland become the first western european country to recognise Palestine as an independent state in Reykjavik,... View Photo »
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A cyclist passes an Icelandic national flag hanging in a popular shopping street in Reykjavik, Iceland. A cyclist passes an Icelandic national flag hanging in a popular shopping street in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photographer: Paul Taggart/Bloomberg Icelander
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You have a three-day weekend coming up and you want to get away for a little shopping and nightlife, or maybe just a change of scenery. You consider Portland, Vancouver, B.C. , even Vegas ... but you're starting to tire of the same destinations. So how ab
About Reykjavik
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Reykjavík (help·info) (IPA: [ˈreiːcaˌviːk]) is the capital of Iceland, its largest city, and the world's most northern national capital (its latitude being 64°08' N, not far from the Arctic Circle). It receives only four hours of daylight per day in the depth of winter, and during the summer the nights are almost as bright as the days. The city... Full Article
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Palestine Foreign Minister Riad Malki (L) addresses as Iceland's Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson (R) looks on during a ceremony in which Iceland become the first western european country to recognise Palestine as an independent state in Reykjavik, December 15, 2011.
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Ash is seen creeping into the town of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Reykjavik, early morning May 22, 2011. Iceland's most active volcano erupted on Saturday, hurling a plume of ash and smoke far into the sky, which aviation officials were closely monitoring after another volcano shut European...
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22: Mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland, Jon Gnarr visits the Tribeca Film Festival 2011 portrait studio on April 22, 2011 in New York City.
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Icelandic actor, comedian and mayor of Reykjavik, Jon Gnarr poses with Best Party leader, Heida Helgadottir (C) and director Gaukur Ulfarsson (R) in New York, April 21, 2011. In Iceland's capital, Gnarr's political parody soon snowballed into a serious mayoral bid with his wacky,...
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Icelandic actor, comedian and mayor of Reykjavik, Jon Gnarr poses in New York, April 21, 2011. In Iceland's capital, Gnarr's political parody soon snowballed into a serious mayoral bid with his wacky, well-intended jokes catching on with a public fed up with politics and corporate...
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Icelandic actor, comedian and mayor of Reykjavik, Jon Gnarr poses in New York, April 21, 2011. Free trips to Disneyland, more polar bears at the zoo and promises not to work with anyone who hasn't watched the TV series "The Wire" aren't the usual hallmarks of a successful political...
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Iceland's Birkir Mar Saevarsson (L) challenges Cyprus' Nektarios Alexandrou during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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Iceland's national soccer team players pose for a group picture against Cyprus before their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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Hallgrimur Jonasson (L) of Iceland and Ioannis Okkas of Cyprus react after they collide during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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Janos Demetriou (22) of Cyprus reacts after he missed as Kristjan Orn Siguroosson (L) and Eggert Gunnbor Jonsson of Iceland lie on the ground during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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Birkir Bjarnason (15) of Iceland challenges Nektarios Alexandrou (19) and Andreas Avraam (20) of Cyprus during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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Kolbeinn Sigborsson (L) of Iceland challenges goalkeeper Antonis Giorgallides of Cyprus during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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Eggert Gunnbor Jonsson (L) of Iceland challenges Dimitris Christofi of Cyprus during their Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Reykjavik September 6, 2011.
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In this July 28, 2011 photo, University of Iceland Ph.D. candidate Iwona Galeczka conducts indoor experiments simulating the CarbFix test planned to begin in September, in Reykjavik, Iceland. CarbFix scientists, at a nearby geothermal plant, will separate carbon dioxide from a volcanic...
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In this July 28, 2011 photo, geologist Sigurdur Reynir Gislason, the CarbFix experiment's chief scientist, holds examples of basalt rock, left, and limestone in his office at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland. At a nearby geothermal plant, CarbFix scientists will separate...
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In this July 28, 2011, photo a complex of pipes, ducts and valves connects to giant turbines inside Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland. Scientists in the CarbFix experiment will separate carbon dioxide from the steam in this volcanic field and pump it...
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This July 28, 2011, photo shows part of one of four giant turbines inside Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, fed by steam from the surrounding volcanic field, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Scientists in the CarbFix experiment will separate carbon dioxide from Hellisheidi's...
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FOR SPANISH STORY CLIMA-AGUA CARBONATADA - FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, Bergur Sigfusson, the CarbFix experiment's technical manager, checks a valve at a test well at Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland. CarbFix's scientists will separate carbon...
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In this July 28, 2011 photo, Bergur Sigfusson, the CarbFix experiment's technical manager, inspects a test well at Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland. CarbFix's scientists will separate carbon dioxide from the volcanic field's steam and pump it underground...
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FOR SPANISH STORY CLIMA-AGUA CARBONATADA - FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, giant ducts carry superheated steam from within a volcanic field to the turbines at Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland. Scientists in the CarbFix experiment will separate...
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In this July 28, 2011 photo, giant ducts carry superheated steam from within a volcanic field to the turbines at Reykjavik Energy's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland. Scientists in the CarbFix experiment will separate carbon dioxide from the steam and pump it underground to...
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Tourists relax in one of the Blue Lagoon mineral pools near Reykjavik May 29, 2011.
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A member of the rescue team helps to clean the ash off the houses and grass around the town of Kirgjubaejarklaustr 260 km (162 miles) from Reykjavik, Iceland Wedesday May 25 2011 after the Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday. The cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland that had...
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A man shovels ash from his garden in the town of Kirgjubaejarklaustr 260 km (162 miles) from Reykjavik, Iceland Wedesday May 25 2011 after the Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday. The cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland that had forced airport closures in northern Germany blew...
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A Swiss tourist stands on highway one, just outside the ash fallout zone in Reykjavik May 22, 2011. Iceland's most active volcano erupted on Saturday, hurling a plume of ash and smoke far into the sky, which aviation officials were closely monitoring after another volcano shut European...
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Palestine Foreign Minister Riad Malki (L) addresses as Iceland's Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson (R) looks on during a ceremony in which Iceland become the first western european country to recognise Palestine as an independent state in Reykjavik, December 15, 2011.
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