A one-year-old baby has become the youngster Stockholm resident to join the queue for one of the city’s most popular retirement homes. Although it is becoming increasingly common for Swedes to secure their old age accommodation in their thirties or forties, the latest applicant for a room at the Blomsterfonden senior assisted living apartments has taken the organisation by surprise.

”We have a grandmother living with us who is very happy and she has placed both her children and her grandchildren in the queue,” spokeswoman Christel Jansson told the tenants’ association magazine, Hem & Hyra...

Residents complained to the police because they were tired of the noise coming from a flat in their block in Reykjavík one recent weekend night.

Icelandic police made their way to the scene expecting to find a rowdy and busy house party in progress, Vísir.is reported. However, according to police records, that did not turn out to be the case: the only occupants of the apartment were a man and a woman. More specifically, newlyweds and the noise was not down to any trouble going on.

The racket was nothing more than an expression of love – and although the police refused to comment...

In a victory for workers, the boss of Finland’s Transport Union (AKT) has been suspended while a police investigation into allegations of bullying and assault is carried out.

The unanimous decision to relieve Timo Räty of his duties until the official investigation is over was made at a meeting last week.

Räty has been heavily criticised in recent weeks for his management of office personnel, some of whom have made allegations of harassment against him. Suspicions have also been raised that the union boss violated workplace safety laws and targeted specific members of staff with psychological

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Herdís Þorgeirsdóttir has decided to submit her candidacy for this June’s election for the President of Iceland.

She declared her intention to run at a press conference at Reykjavík Art Museum yesterday. She is the first woman to stand for President so far for this year’s election – and her decision follows a groundswell of public support for the professor to stand; not least on Facebook.

Herdís is 58 years-old, is a doctor of law, and is a certified lawyer and a political scientist. She was made a professor at Bifröst University in 2004. She is also one of the owners...