Mountain climber Carina Räihä reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early hours on Monday. She is the first Finnish woman to scale the world’s highest peak. The successful attempt by the 43 year-old Räihä to the summit of Everest began...

President Tarja Halonen is concerned that the global economic and financial crisis is threatening UN targets for development in the world’s poorer societies. Speaking Tuesday at a Presidential Forum discussion session, Halonen also noted that...

Serious delays are being seen on the nation’s main railway line after a derailment in Helsinki. Nine tracks into the capital’s main station were out of service Tuesday morning. Delays were being seen in both local traffic in the Helsinki...

Russian Agency for Health and Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) has not granted a license to the Finnish branch of Nestle international company to deliver infant food to the Russian market, the Moscow

Migration Minister Astrid Thors says she’ll have a list of the possible repercussions of amending Finland’s law on residence permits by mid-May. Thors met with parliamentary group representatives on Wednesday to discuss changing the...

David Beckham vowed to get fit again after surgery to repair his ruptured achilles tendon. His spirits were lifted by the arrival of wife Victoria in Finland and words of support from the football world. The England midfielder, 34, was operated on by...

Human rights group Amnesty has slammed the Nordic countries—especially Finland—for failing to combat sexual violence. Amnesty says the Nordics have gaps in their legal systems, making it complicated to sufficiently prosecute and punish sex...

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen wants to strengthen relations between the alliance and non-member “partnership countries” such as Finland and Sweden, and to increase the political significance of these relations. “I am currently...

People with records of sexual abuse of children are still managing to slip into jobs where they are in proximity of children. Current Finnish legislation has been found to contain gaps, which prevent a job applicant’s criminal record from coming to...

Finland is ready to transport thirty truckloads of euro coins to Estonia once the country adopts the single currency at the beginning of next year, it has been revealed. The cash and security department of the Estonian Central Bank predicted that the...