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Households looking to cut back on their weekly food shop will be able to access a range of deals that can be used at some of the UK's biggest supermarkets.

Björk has won the award for Best Live Performer at the 2023 Association of Independent Music Awards (AIM). Check out the final nominations below.Announced today (August 24), the Icelandic singer was announced the winner of the publicly-voted award for her ongoing ‘Cornucopia’ tour.She also fought off close competition from Beabadoobee and MUNA, as well as Japanese kawaii-metal girl group Babymetal.The award also comes in light of her 10th and latest studio album, ‘Fossora’, which arrived last September.

Asda has announced a fresh wave of price cuts across more than 400 household staples.

Iceland Boss Richard Walker isn’t happy that he’s not allowed to promote the fact that the retailer has cut the price of their baby formulas. He’s calling for a change to the UK’s advertising laws after his chain reduced the prices of 13 branded formulas by up to 20%.

The UK spends a lower percentage of its GDP on financial support for disabled people and sick workers than any other country in north-west Europe, the SNP has claimed.

Estonia has selected the Sundance prize-winning doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

With Tuesday’s grosses, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie has crossed the $100M (13.74B yen) mark in Japan. In doing so, it becomes Universal’s top title ever there. In local currency, Mario overtakes Top Gun: Maverick as the No. 6 Hollywood film of all time in Japan, and is the No. 1 studio picture since the beginning of the pandemic.

A supermarket has slashed the price of branded baby formula in a bid to help parents with the cost of living.

It’s turning out to be quite a summer for superspies and supercomputers.

Michael Nordine author Few cinematic traditions are more enduring than thinking up new and inventive ways to beat up Nazis. From “Inglourious Basterds” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Dead Snow” and “Sisu,” such projects run the gamut: prestige pictures, blockbusters, low-rent genre fare and everything in between.

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Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens actor Bowen Yang has said that he “almost died” in a production mishap when a horse that he was riding bucked in fear.Yang revealed on his Las Culturistas podcast recently that the incident happened while shooting season three of the sitcom in Iceland.“Actually, [it’s] not fun to be on a horse,” Yang said. “[I’ve] ridden a horse for camera.

Marta Balaga Producer Marianne Slot will continue her successful collaboration with Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, following 2018 “Woman at War” with TV show “The Danish Woman” and upcoming feature film “Normal Men.” “It’s a comedy, as you can imagine. Benedikt Erlingsson and a feminist producer – that’s a good combination,” she laughs, recalling their previous film about an environmental activist going rogue. “’Woman at War’ was so joyful to make.

Bowen Yang is opening up about the time he was almost killed after a drone got too close to a horse he was riding while filming Nora From Queens.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And riding them can be a challenge, as Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang recalled on a recent episode of his Las Culturistas podcast.

Rasmus Hojlund is the name on plenty of Manchester United fans' lips ahead of his impending move to Old Trafford.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag The UK has been experiencing an unusual and un-summer-like bout of rain in recent weeks, leaving many wondering what's causing the dreary weather. BBC weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker sheds light on the culprit - the "jet stream." Normally found over the north Atlantic, near Iceland during summertime, the jet stream has been flowing further south than usual, affecting the UK's weather.Tomasz humorously refers to the jet stream as the "rain and wind superhighway" since it delivers rain and storms when it's close to the UK.The current jet stream is more powerful than normal, resulting in the persistent rain.Tomasz warns that if high temperatures persist over the UK, the jet stream will continue to bring unsettled weather from the Atlantic, while Mediterranean countries bask in scorching heat.

A West Lothian woman is set to embark on a charity 58km trek in Iceland.

Iceland is dropping the price of family favourites to just 1p to help over the school holidays.

Iceland has announced a new offer that will see shoppers get fridge and freezer favourites for as little as a penny for the next 10 days.

There’s a change in Tuesday primetime programming on The CW. The network has pulled travelogue series Down To Earth with Zac Efron and Fantastic Friends after just two episodes. Both series premiered on July 18. Remaining episodes will be available on the CW app and cwtv.com.

Sigur Rós have announced an experimental video series for their album ‘ÁTTA’.The film experiment will feature 10 music videos – one for each track of ‘ÁTTA‘ – all created by different directors with “no rules or boundaries”, according to their website. The first of the 10, ‘8’, was directed by Icelandic artist Rúrí, known for her political and environmental feminist activism.

Laufey has returned with a new single and details of a second studio album – watch ‘Bewitched’, from an album of the same name, below.The new album follows the Icelandic-Chinese artist’s debut LP, ‘Everything I Know About Love’, which came out last year. It is due out on September 8.“‘Bewitched’ is a love song,” she said of the album’s title track.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If you came into the “Barbie” film cold, expecting that if any song was going to get the most play, it might be Aqua’s “Barbie World,” you had a surprise coming. Turns out Barbie is a huge Indigo Girls fan — or, at least like a million women and some men before her, she likes to belt along with the 1989 folk-rock smash “Closer to Fine” in the car. The song pops up three times over the course of the blockbuster film, guaranteeing that there is going to be a huge resurgence in the real world of people singing about going “to see the doctor of philosophy,” even if they’re actually on their way to the beach.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Faroe Islands seem a very unlikely place to hold a music festival. A string of rocky islands located in the North Atlantic between Scotland, Norway and Iceland, it has a population of around 56,000 people and, as any tour guide will tell you, approximately three times as many sheep. The weather and the terrain are wild and unpredictable — last week, as the Northern Hemisphere roasted, it ranged from clear and sunny to cold with driving rain, with temperatures between 50 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The country has a strong music tradition but just a handful of venues and one record label — Tutl (“total”), which, true to its name, releases local music in basically every genre, from classical to hip-hop to death metal, and whose office also holds the Faroes’ one surviving record store.

Viaplay.“There is an Icelandic detective [Ragnar Jónsson] that has been on the force for 30-something years and he had this idea [for ‘Black Sands’] for the longest time,” Hamilton, 32, told The Post. “He wanted to write a TV series revolving around a young male police officer … and we actually met and started talking while I was doing another series and he was training me to handcuff people.“He shared his idea with me and I really liked it and said, ‘Have you ever considered this police officer as a woman?’ He said, ‘No, I haven’t.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Loose Women's Nadia Sawalha has impressed her fans by proudly showing off her 'real body' in a hilarious new video.The former EastEnders star, 58, took to social media to create a funny reel of herself and husband Mark Adderley having a day out at the spa.The TV personality entertained her half a million followers as she pretended to be a social media influencer for the day, forcing her husband Mark to film her posing in different positions. She captioned the video: "For god's sake @mark_adderley just make me look sexy?!!!!! #DOINGITFORTHGRAM #influencerfail." In the upload, the star wore a black and white polka dot bikini as she joked with her husband: "I want them to think it's the Blue Lagoon in Iceland," before flailing around in the pool.

A supermarket has splashed the price of 500 key 'weekly shop' products in a bid to help families through the cost of living crisis.

Bruno Fernandes has not yet reported back for pre-season training at Manchester United due to his post-campaign international commitments.

A deals expert has revealed how to save £62 on your next supermarket shop by using a voucher 'trick' for every major UK store.

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear’s management arm has signed Danish-American actor Elliott Crosset Hove for representation.

While there's money to be saved by shopping around, I think we can all agree there's not a huge difference between the supermarkets right now.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline spoke to Nordic distributor Scanbox about why it made sense to join new European film and TV studio Vuelta Group, which we revealed earlier this morning.

Charna Flam Eva Maria Daniels, producer of independent features “Reality,” “What Maisie Knew” and “Joe Bell,” died on Friday, June 30 in London, after battling cancer. She was 43. Throughout her career, Daniels maintained longstanding partnerships with producer Riva Marke and A24, worked as a producer for The Mill and Company 3 and served as a consultant for the Icelandic Film Fund. “Eva died on the same terms as she lived. She played her cards close to her chest. She didn’t seek recognition when she had success. She didn’t seek pity when she suffered. I will miss her friendship greatly, but mostly I will miss seeing what she would have done next,” wrote director Börkur Sigthorsson on Facebook.

Eva María Daniels, producer on the 2020 Mark Wahlberg-starrer Joe Bell and EP on the recent Sydney Sweeney vehicle Reality from HBO, has died. The news was announced by friend, filmmaker and fellow Icelander Börkur Sigthorsson. She was 43.

Summer is here, which means it’s time to indulge in a sweet, chilly treat to beat the heat: ice cream!