Uusimaa, Finland News

This year's festival opens with The House of Branching Love An annual festival of Finnish cinema returns to the city for the 20th time this weekend, presenting the best Finnish movies of the season.

The first attempt to detonate a wartime naval mine at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland to make way to the planned Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany has failed.

There Corporation, a spin-off from Nokia, has joined the Z-Wave Alliance and is focussing on pushing the development and market launch of the smart meter, smart grid and smart home solutions that are based on ThereGate " formerly known as Nokia Home Control Center .

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 23 Nov 2009 MSc Vaino Virtanen has developed a method for analysing snoring sounds by using a PC with a microphone connection and a wireless microphone.

Mine clearance began on Sunday in the Gulf of Finland, 30 kilometers south of Helsinki, where the Nord Stream pipeline will be laid.

In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements were made during three Austral summers to study the optical properties of the Antarctic system and to produce radiation information for additional modeling studies.

MSc Vaino Virtanen has developed a method for analysing snoring sounds by using a PC with a microphone connection and a wireless microphone.

Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.

Mikko Paatero, Finland's national police commissioner, was quoted as saying by national daily Helsingin Sanomat on Thursday that the supreme police command would look into the Security Police's actions over a Finnish citizen deported from Sweden.

TOPICS: History KEYWORDS: milhist ; realtime ; worldwarii First session: September 1, 2009.

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2009. There are 44 days left in the year.

Finnair pilots went on strike a minute past midnight on Monday, grounding most of the Finnish flag carrier's fleet.

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The 16-country eurozone has officially joined the United States and Japan out of recession, after figures showed its economy grew by 0.4 percent in the third quarter from the previous three-month period.

Handset sales saw sharp drops earlier in the year as consumers around the world cut back on spending in the economic downturn Tarmo Virki HELSINKI, FINLAND: The fall in the handset market stopped in the third quarter, helped by clearing of inventories of unsold phones and booming sales on the so-called grey market in countries like China, research ...

Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 - 20:00 PST In collaboration with Eira Hospital in Helsinki, Global Health Partner has started up obesity treatment operations and the first bariatric surgery procedure has now been performed.

Finnair PLC said Wednesday it has appointed Mika Vehvilainen, the chief operating officer of Nokia Siemens Networks, as president and CEO to replace Jukka Hienonen, who announced his resignation in August in "crisis conditions." Vehvilainen will take up the position on Feb.

Helsinki was bombed from the air quite extensively in the Winter War of 1939-40 and again in the Continuation War of 1941-44, particularly in the later phase of the Continuation War, when the Soviet Union launched a number of massive raids in February of 1944.

Cruise tours to Finland, Sweden and Estonia will start leaving from the new terminals on Vasilyevsky Island for the first time at the end of this year.

The fire that completely destroyed a Neste filling station in Helsinki's Oulunkyla district on Saturday more than likely originated from the ceiling of the building.