"It's naturally a huge honor to jump with this group. It's like getting the chance to do group gymnastics with Simon Biles and the entire US national team, Nadia Comăneci and ten other world champions between them, and then some amateurs like me."

The pianist Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson has been nominated for a Grammy award for the first time.

Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Universities, Industry, and Innovation, yesterday presented the Icelandic government's first action plan for artificial intelligence until the year 2026.

About 300 people gathered at a meeting to discuss the plans for the densification of settlements in Grafarvogur and the proposed Sundabraut Road. Residents are not happy with the proposed development.

"It's just anticipation," says Eyþór Arnalds, former leader of the Independence Party and musician, who will perform at the Icelandic music festival Iceland Airwaves tomorrow, Saturday.

The Ministry of Finance and Economy expects that the total income of the Treasury will be about 20.7 billion ISK less next year than was assumed when the budget proposal for the year 2025 was submitted. Total expenditures, however, fall by 3.1 billion from the bill's estimate in a reassessment presented by the ministry to the Alþingi's government budget committee.

Doctors have again approved strike action with a decisive majority, but voting on strike action in November, December, and January ended today at 4 pm.

There will be no travel weather in the Westfjords and the North after noon today, but bad weather is forecast due to strong winds and stormy weather in the Westfjords. Due to the weather, Orange and yellow warnings are in effect across the country today.

The teachers' protest meeting that took place in Háskólbíó this afternoon was packed.

Iceland’s Prime Minister, Bjarni Benediktsson, has congratulated the American presidential candidate Donald Trump on his victory, as everything points to Trump winning the presidential elections that took place in the United States last night.

Parents of children in preschools where teacher strikes are currently ongoing, most of them from the Preschool Drafnarsteinn in Vesturbær but also from Seltjarnarnes’s Preschool, protested the strike action of the Icelandic Teachers' Union in Reykjavík City Hall today. The parents that mbl.is spoke to find it unfair that their children are the only ones on indefinite strike, but there is a strike at four kindergartens in the country as a whole, including one in Reykjavík.

"In these small communities, if something happens, everyone just shows up and lends a hand," says Jónas Þór Viðarsson, a musician who, together with his colleague Arnþór Þórsteinsson, plans to hold a Christmas concert in support of Sigrún Björg Aðalgeirsdóttir, who had, along with her infant son, in a traffic accident in Kelduhverfi in Öxarfjörður last month.

"We have seen this happen before, sometimes before an eruption, so this has happened before," says Steinunn Helgadóttir, a natural hazard expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, about the series of small earthquakes that occurred between Mt Sýlingarfell and Mt Stóra-Skógfell late Sunday night and Monday morning.

The on-call shift of Civil Protection and Emergency Management met with the Icelandic Meteorological Agency before the decision was made not to launch the entire system following the suspicion that a magma run had begun at Sundhnúkagígar crater row.

The man who fell into Tungufljót River near Geysir yesterday was Icelandic. He was traveling there with two other men.

A man who fell into Tungufljót River near Geysir today has died. He was in his thirties. The police in Suðurland reported the fatal accident.

The beginning of the lifelong friendship of the hiking group “Fet fyrir fet” (Step by Step) was in the Scout organization (WAGGS). The walking group was founded in 1988, but the friends met much earlier, in childhood. For 35 years, the group has been walking together one Sunday a month, but in addition, there have been longer trips in the summer, both here at home and abroad. A journalist went to the home of the couple Pálína Sigurbergsdóttir and Stefán Kjartansson to hear more about this unique group of friends, and Margrét Elísabet Jónsdóttir, Arnlaugur Guðmundsson, and Halldór S. Magnússon were also there to tell stories.

A group of Icelandic and Nepali female mountaineers climbed the Lobuche (6119 m) peak in the Himalayas in Nepal. The group reached the summit of Lobuche East at 7 Friday morning.

Support for the Independence Party and the Liberal Reform Party increases by more than 3 percentage points, and the Social Democratic Alliance is still the largest party in the country according to Gallup's new national pulse survey.

After the latest update, it is now possible to speak in Icelandic with ChatGPT and receive an answer in Icelandic.

The detention of a man in connection with the death of a woman in her sixties in Breiðholt last week has been extended until November 28 on the basis of public interest.

The Icelandic U17 team won N-Macedonia yesterday.

The Suðurnes police chief strongly advises against people going to the mountains Þorbjörn, Hagafell, or other nearby mountains in the vicinity of the town of Grindavík. He says the open areas in the town's vicinity are vast and have not been inspected separately, and there are open cracks at Nesvegur Road and Hópsnes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging the West to increase defense support for his country and to drop the condition that Western weapons systems may not be used against military forces on Russian territory.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office’s new risk assessment due to the accumulation of magma in Svartsengi reckons with an increased probability of a magma run and there could even be an eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula at the end of November.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the Icelandic people and wished them peace when he addressed the media with Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson at Thingvellir yesterday.

At six o'clock this morning, rescue teams on the northern side of the West fjords were called out because of a fishing boat that had run aground in Súgandafjörður.

Father and son Ólafur Þór Ólafsson and Júlíus Viggó Ólafsson are both on the candidate list for the upcoming parliamentary elections, but for their respective parties and in their respective constituencies.

Volodymyr Zelensky's motorcade is now on its way to Thingvellir after the president went down to the center of Reykjavík directly after he arrived in the country. Helicopters fly with the convoy, as well as police blocking the road so that traffic for the convoy is clear.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, is coming to Iceland tomorrow.

There are indications that there is a considerable decline in the number of common species of waders and shore birds in the South og Iceland. If the trend of recent years continues, these birds could become extremely rare in the countryside in the coming decades.

Support for the Independence Party has stopped increasing like last week and now stands at only 13.3%. Then the Left-Green Movement does not seem to succeed in rising from the bottom and the party this week is measured at 2.4% support.

A man in his 40s was taken into police custody yesterday due to an investigation into the death of his mother in an apartment building in Breiðholt in Reykjavík on Wednesday night.

Úlfar Lúðvíksson, police chief in Suðurnes, says that the traffic into Grindavík after barrier-free access to the town was opened on Monday was not that much.

A strong northwesterly wind with snow or sleet is forecast in the northern part of the country today. Driving can be bad on mountain roads to the north and visibility can be very low, according to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office.