GRINDAVIK, Iceland -- Mounds of lava rocks line a narrow ... mid-1970s, when some communities on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula -- in the southwestern ... the clinic gets the seal of approval by Iceland's Ministry of Health as an official ...

... finalists were Miss Venezuela and Miss Domincan RepulbicSome non-traditional countries were represented in the finals such as Iceland, Albania, the Czech Republic and Kosovo. Donald Trump, who owns the pageant, said this year's contestants were the most ...

When Alcoa Inc. prepared to build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland in 2004, the government forced it to hire an expert to assure that none of the country's legendary "hidden people" lived underneath ...

... because a drop in visitors last year has led to discounts this year. Abroad, Budget Travel recommends Mexico, Hungary and Iceland as places where the dollar goes farther than it used to. Destinations getting ready for big events include Berlin, which ...

... opportunity to splurge you just get so much more for your Benjamins. Now, for example, would be the perfect time to buy Iceland and turn it into a summer house. But whom could you tell? And whom would you invite? These days, even the queen of England ...

... in the last three months of 2008, double the U.S. rate. Several Eastern European countries seem about to go the way of Iceland. The risks economic, social, and political of an unchecked global downturn should not be underestimated. The essence of ...

... music at Hendrix. The trio brings a combination of saxophone, viola and piano. The group has performed in places such as Iceland and Slovenia, as well as in the United States. The program includes Music for the Cross Town Trio by Donald Grantham; the ...

... simulated Martian invasion was real. In 1941, the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu ...

... pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, becoming the first woman to make the trip as a passenger. In 1944, the Republic of Iceland was established. In 1957, mob underboss Frank Scalice was shot to death at a produce market in New York. In 1963, the Supreme ...

... aboveground nuclear explosion in central Asia. In 1972, American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. In 1983, 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot ...