After months of uncertainty, a sudden volcanic eruption overnight in Iceland saw jets of lava shoot into the air as a massive fissure opened in the earth. The authorities have swung into action, with ...

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Stunning footage has shown 100m high lava waves lap up out of an Icelandic ridge following the eruption of a volcano on the island. The dramatic scene can be seen up to 20km away after the skies over ...

Hike name: Iceland's "Golden Circle" — Gullfoss, Geysir and Pingvellir (Golden Falls, geothermal area and National Park), and the Blaa Lonid (Blue Lagoon). Location: About an hour or so northeast of ...

A letter sent by a tourist to a couple in Iceland has managed to arrive at the correct destination, despite the sender drawing a makeshift map instead of using the address. The holidaymaker had ...

11:44, Mon, Sep 24, 2018 Updated: 11:46, Mon, Sep 24, 2018 Reports about an Iceland volcano’s “imminent eruption” have been slammed by scientists. The original story, reported by the Sunday Times, ...

Fischer's troubles began after his Yugoslav rematch with Spassky Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even ...

There are only two reasons I’m ever up at 5 a.m.: If I’m still up from the night before or if I’ve slept 10 hours in the last 72 and there’s a bed in a hostel in a coastal fishing village called ...

More than a thousand years ago, rebel Vikings and other settlers fleeing from Norway settled on a craggy, uninhabited island in the north Atlantic: Iceland. There they built a new world pretty much ...