D-Day depended on more than soldiers, ships, and aircraft. It also depended on James Stagg, Allied meteorologists, and secret ...

Singer-songwriter Laufey Lin Jonsdottir, who is half-Icelandic and half-Chinese, gives her first concert on the Chinese mainland on Sept 26 in Beijing.[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Classical music ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his latest mission to assuage nervous U.S. allies in Europe about the Trump administration’s intentions with NATO. Rubio will attend a NATO foreign ...

Bulgarian singer Dara’s dance anthem “Bangaranga” won the Eurovision Song Contest held on Saturday in Vienna, her country’s ...

The UK’s Eurovision entry Look Mum No Computer has finished last in the song contest’s 2026 grand final with just one point, as Bulgaria celebrated the country’s first ever win. It is the fourth ...

Australian superstar Delta Goodrem has progressed through to the grand final of Eurovision after a showstopping performance on Thursday evening in Vienna, Austria. Goodrem delivered one of the night’s ...

As someone who was born and raised in New York City, I'd always been drawn to the idea of exploring other parts of the world. But when I took a trip to Iceland nearly 20 years ago, I had no idea how ...

The Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is one of the world’s most engrossing live performers of classical piano music right now. Dazzling yet nuanced, he visited the Bay Area twice last year: to ...

As the Arctic's climate and ecology rapidly change, two researchers are calling for a paradigm shift in insect monitoring. Reading time 3 minutes Until recently, Iceland was considered the last Arctic ...

Location, location, location: If the destinations featured on big and small screens are any indication, these are the ultimate trips to put on your bucket list. By Julie Pham From the “White Lotus ...

GRINDAVIK, Iceland — As a swarm of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions began to rip through southwestern Iceland in late 2023, a firefighter named Helgi Hjorleifsson jumped into action. Lava was ...