U.S. chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, shown in 1971, a year before he won the world's most famous chess match, fled to Iceland in 2005 to avoid prosecution in the U.S. He remained there until his death in 2008. /AP hide caption
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in March 2005 as he left Japan for Iceland, where he lived out his final years. Yuriko Nakao /Reuters /Landov hide caption
Iceland's government is drafting plans to ban pornography online and in print. Supporters say it's an attempt to shield children. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Lack of oxygen probably caused this mass herring die-off on Feb. 3 in an Icelandic fjord. Brynjar Gauti/AP hide caption
Enough already with the krona? Jesse Garrison/Flickr hide caption
The 5,000 krona note, featuring Ragnheiaur Jonsdottir Jesse Garrison/Flickr hide caption
Rihanna did not have the song of the summer. Courtesy Universal hide caption
A bird's eye view on the flight from Iceland to Greenland. Philip Reeves/NPR hide caption
A rebel militiaman weeps after his brother was critically wounded on March 8, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption