Fridrik Olafsson, a chess grandmaster who helped make his native Iceland a bastion of the game, in part by defeating four world champions, including Bobby Fischer, the dominant American player, died on Friday in Reykjavík, the country’s capital. He was 90. The death, in a hospital, was announced by the International Chess Federation, the game’s…
Iceland’s Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, Asthildur Loa Thorsdottir, has resigned from her position after admitting to a past relationship with a 15-year-old boy she mentored three decades ago. In an interview with Icelandic news outlet Visir, the 58-year-old politician revealed that she had started the relationship when she was a 22-year-old counsellor at…
Satellite image: X @NASAEarth Nasa has captured red-hot lava flowing from Iceland’s recent volcanic eruption in stunning satellite images. The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 pictured the shot on November 24, showing lava pouring from a 1.8 mile-long fissure in the Sundhnukur crater series on the Reykjanes peninsula.This eruption, which began on November 20,…