New Icelandic myths
Iceland's Tories, the Independence Party, apparently had good reason to feel satisfied with the last year as they announced a new debt relief plan.
Having presided over Iceland's spectacular financial collapse in 2008, they were returned to office in May.
Despite only receiving a slight increase in their vote, and being forced into coalition with the liberal Progressive Party, they won the finance ministry for their leader Bjarni Benediktsson.