Sweden has awarded its Order of the Polar Star to Sanna Marin, Pekka Haavisto and Petri Hakkarainen for their roles in ...

The medals were a gesture of "immense gratitude" for the recipients' efforts in conjunction with Sweden joining Nato, ...

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The Finnish government will raise the compensation paid to egg donors, while also increasing support for women experiencing miscarriage or fear of childbirth, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health ...

Click on the highlighted links to read the entire reviews. Violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Photo by Bård Gundersen. Pekka Kuusisto performed Bryce Dessner's Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

A Finnish real estate company is planning to build a large data centre in southeastern Finland that will mainly serve social media platform TikTok. Hussain Sajwan made his billions in real estate, ...

The Espoo-based company Steady Energy is to build a pilot version of a nuclear plant in Helsinki to produce district heating for the city. Construction work, costing 15-20 million euros, is scheduled ...

New figures from Statistics Finland show that Finns are expected to live longer than ever before. The preliminary estimate of life expectancy for newborns was 79.6 years for boys and 84.8 years for ...

Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) suspects a former municipal politician from Lahti, Simon Ekpa, of serious crimes. Following a preliminary investigation, the NBI said it suspects Ekpa ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony are scheduled to release four new spatial audio recordings via the Apple Music Classical app in the coming months. Recordings include Sibelius's ...

Demand for ground beef increased across Finland in the first part of this year, which in turn has led to a temporary shortage of other ground meats. "At the same time, there have been challenges in ...

Until relatively recently, Finland's relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was fraught with anxiety and disappointment. Since Finland started competing at ESC in the early 1960s, it has ...