SVT economics commentator Alexander Norén spoke with Curto Millet and also asked whether the stock market is heading towards an AI bubble.

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The rain is expected to affect areas around Oulu and Koillismaa most. It will move southeast during the evening and night, shifting the focus of the rainfall elsewhere.

By Monday afternoon, the rain will have retreated to southern and eastern Finland. Skies are expected to clear in much of the north, while the sun may appear through the clouds along parts of the west coast. Rainy weather will continue in the south and east.

Snow showers are forecast to move across the north on Tuesday night, heading southeast. On Tuesday, skies are expected to clear widely in the west and north, while rain and sleet are forecast near the eastern border.

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Police found heavily intoxicated and unconscious young people inside, and vomit covered the floors, said Ville Niskanen, a police commissioner overseeing operations. About 300 young people were queuing outside, many of them having waited for up to three hours.

Access in and out of the hall was badly blocked. An ambulance called to the scene also struggled to reach it because of the crowd, Niskanen said.

Ilta-Sanomat reported that tickets were sold through Kide App and that the event had an age limit of 17.

Niskanen described the night across the Helsinki metropolitan region as exceptionally busy, with police handling many calls, including assaults and disturbances.

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The latest measurements show continued ground uplift and magma accumulation at Svartsengi, a trend that has been ongoing for about a year. Páll said the measurements do not indicate when or how the next event will occur, but he considers it likely that another eruption would be larger and give less warning.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office’s risk assessment continues to identify one more eruption as the most likely scenario, and the latest deformation readings have not changed that assessment. Páll said magma pressure in the system is increasing each day and must be taken into account in preparedness planning.

He urged continued caution in Grindavík, particularly during unsettled weather. In poor conditions, monitoring instruments may be less sensitive to earthquakes and other ground movements, potentially shortening the warning before an eruption.

Páll said experience from other volcanic activity, especially the Krafla Fires of 1975 to 1984, suggests that warning signs can become weaker and less distinct as a series of eruptions and magma intrusions continues, even as eruptions grow larger. He said this could also happen during the current activity, but stressed that many scenarios remain possible.

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The Þristasjóður, a fund that currently owns the plane, will be wound up, transferring ownership and responsibility to the museum. The aircraft is considered an important part of Iceland’s aviation history and has significant value for display and preservation.

The DC-3 arrived in Iceland in 1943 for the US Army at Keflavík Airport and was initially used for various military transport duties. Flugfélag Íslands bought it in 1946 and named it Gljáfaxi. The airline used it for decades on domestic routes, including flights to remote locations, and for flights to Greenland, where it often landed on snowfields with skis fitted beneath its wheels.

In 1972, Flugfélag Íslands gave the aircraft to the State Soil Conservation Service. It was renamed Páll Sveinsson after a former soil conservation director. The plane was used to spread seed and fertilizer from airfields around Iceland, helping distribute more than 36,000 tonnes by 2006, when its work in soil conservation ended.

“Military flying, passenger services, fertilizer flights and display flying are now behind it. The DC-3 has not flown for seven years and has essentially become a museum piece on the ground. As such, it needs professional and permanent preservation,” Environment Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson said at the signing. He was involved in the matter in his capacity as minister responsible for soil conservation.

“The DC-3 is now in safe hands under the declaration that has been signed,” said Steinunn María Sveinsdóttir, director of the Iceland Aviation Museum. She said the aircraft is kept in good conditions at the museum, where displays and information tell its story. The museum expects to welcome nearly 15,000 visitors this year.

Hannes Thorarensen, an aircraft mechanic, and Karl Hjartarson, a retired police officer, are among the aircraft’s dedicated supporters. They care for the plane and regularly travel north to start its engines and keep them turning. Whether it can be made airworthy again remains to be seen, Steinunn María said.

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Hjördís Líney Aðalsteinsdóttir, who completed an MSc in human resource management and work psychology, spoke on behalf of the graduates. She said the university had given her opportunities that others had not been willing to offer.

“Education can open doors that are not necessarily open to you in the social environment you are born into,” she said.

University rector Ragnhildur Helgadóttir spoke about balancing different elements of higher education, including critical thinking, collaboration skills and preparation for working life. She said that balance was continually being reviewed and that developments in artificial intelligence had affected the discussion.

“We are seeing much less impatience with parts of degree programmes that focus on critical thinking and collaboration skills than we did just two years ago,” Helgadóttir said.

Sigríður Thorlacius and Guðmundur Óskar provided music, and Ásthildur Gunnarsdóttir, the university’s director of communications, hosted the ceremony.

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The café had been operating since 2016. A notice on its website says: “Arna ice cream and coffee bar has closed. We sincerely thank our guests for being with us.”

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Jónsdóttir said about 120 people are waiting for back surgery at Orkuhúsið, although the company has operating rooms and staff available. She said some patients need urgent treatment and that delays could cause permanent harm.

The contracted number of operations was reached at the end of May. Icelandic Health Insurance wanted Orkuhúsið to spread the procedures over 12 months, but Jónsdóttir said the company could not justify making patients wait when it was able to treat them.

Long-term agreements made in 2025 provide for about 170 back operations a year by private providers, subject to funding. Orkuhúsið had initially been authorised to carry out just over 100 operations this year. Jónsdóttir said demand could be 350 to 400 procedures annually to prevent a waiting list from forming.

The 120 people on Orkuhúsið’s list have already been assessed by a doctor. Others may still be waiting for an assessment, so the total need is not yet clear, she said.

Orkuhúsið began performing back operations before it had an agreement with Icelandic Health Insurance, in cooperation with doctors at Landspítali hospital. Jónsdóttir said the doctors had sought help because they could not meet demand, citing limited access to operating rooms and staff shortages.

When the contracted number of operations was used up, Orkuhúsið decided to offer patients the option of paying for surgery themselves. Jónsdóttir said the company informed Icelandic Health Insurance of its decision.

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Residents in the neighbourhood also shared a map showing which homes were taking part. More than 40 per cent of homes on the streets of Núpalind, Kópalind and Laugalind participated, while many houses on other streets were also covered in Halloween decorations.

An mbl.is photographer visited Núpalind, where residents offered sweets to anyone brave enough to say “trick or treat”. Some children took candy from a clown, and entire families dressed up, including as the Lorax, the protector of trees.

Halloween decorations, pumpkin lanterns and ghost sounds were also reported in neighbourhoods around the country.

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The series, Everyone Loves Rasmus, follows Wallbridge through a four-month hidden-camera experiment. Friends, acquaintances and celebrities led him to believe he was working towards his dream of making a feature film. Critics have described the programme as bullying an adult on television.

TV 2 programme director Dorthe Thirstrup apologised to Wallbridge and the other participants in a statement. Pinborg said the broadcaster had addressed the criticism and Wallbridge’s feelings, but not what he considered the central issue: the programme itself and the idea behind it. He said he had yet to see TV 2 acknowledge that it had made serious mistakes.

TV 2 declined to give an interview about its announcement. Pinborg said the broadcaster should have appeared publicly to defend its work. He also criticised what he described as TV 2’s recurring difficulties arranging interviews when faced with challenging questions.

Ekstra Bladet editor-in-chief Simon Bendtsen called the affair a “gigantic media scandal” in a post on X and said it should have consequences at TV 2. However, the broadcaster’s content director, Ulla Pors, said she continued to have confidence in Thirstrup and backed her decision to withdraw the series.

TV presenter Anna Lin, one of the programme’s early critics, had called it “psychological terror” and said she was glad it had been removed. Comedian Torben Chris said only Wallbridge could judge whether the decision was right, because it would not give him back the four months he had spent believing he was pursuing his dream while caring for his new family. Chris added that getting Wallbridge’s approval after filming did not make the deception acceptable.

Culture Minister Zenia Stampe also welcomed the withdrawal. She said she hoped TV 2 would help Wallbridge move on from what she called an offensive psychological experiment and heed his request not to do it again.

Wallbridge did not agree to an interview. His manager, Jakob Riis, said in a written response that they appreciated the programmes had been taken down.

TV 2’s account of the format says 149 of Wallbridge’s friends and acquaintances, along with a number of well-known people, took part in the hoax. Everyone except Wallbridge knew the premise. After filming, he was given the opportunity to decide whether the series would be made public.

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