Photographer Alex Máni Guðríðarson, who specializes in photographing birds, had the good fortune at the beginning of the year to spot a gyrfalcon by Hlíðarvatn lake in Selvogur, Southwest Iceland.
Icelander Receives World’s First Transplant of Both Arms and Shoulders Guðmundur Felix Grétarsson, with his wife Sylwia Gretarsson Nowakowska. mbl.is/Hari Vala Hafstað
Morgunblaðið reports. The operation was performed at Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, France.
Guðmundur is an electrician who lost both arms in a work-related accident in Iceland in January of 1998, at the age of 26, in which he received a major electric shock while repairing a high voltage power line. The complicated operation took 14 hours.
According to
20minutes.fr, the first transplant surgery in the world involving both arms was done in Munich, Germany, in 2008. That transplant was below the shoulders. Until yesterday, only one patient in France had received a transplant of both arms. This was in 2017, when a woman underwent transplant surgery below the elbows.
One in Police Custody Following Attack on Students Police at the scene yesterday. mbl.is/Kristinn Magnússon Vala Hafstað
One teenager was remanded in custody yesterday afternoon, following an attack on students in Borgarholtsskóli secondary school, Reykjavík, which left six people injured. (See our report from yesterday here). He will be in police custody until January 21, in interest of the investigation,
mbl.is reports. Students were attacked inside the school with knives and a baseball bat shortly before 1 pm yesterday.
Two other teenagers arrested following the incident have been released, since the Reykjavík District Court did not grant the request of the capital area police that they be remanded in custody.