Finland News

Finnish transport officials say a near-empty passenger train has crashed into a hotel by Helsinki's main railway station, causing damage but no injuries.

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Prime Minister Hashim Thaci sent a message of condolences on Thursday to his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen, expressing his deep sorrow over the murder of five people by a man of Kosovo Albanian origin earlier in the day.

Fireworks exploded over Sydney's famous bridge and the Eiffel Tower prepared for its own colored-light spectacle as the world celebrated a New Year that many hope will be more prosperous and peaceful than 2009.

HELSINKI : Finland is in mourning after a jealous ex-lover shot dead his former girlfriend and four of her work colleagues in the latest armed rampage which has reignited debate on the country's gun controls.

A man has gunned down at least five people at a shopping centre in the Finnish city of Espoo near Helsinki.

A gunman went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend and four workers at a shopping mall near Helsinki, police said.

Shots have been fired at a shopping centre in the town of Espoo, near the capital of Finland, Helsinki.

Revellers across the globe began to ring in the New Year on Thursday, but a Bali terror warning and a deadly shooting in Finland stoked security jitters already aroused by a failed US bomb plot.

Michigan-based Finlandia University has taken over sponsorship of the semiannual academic publication the "Journal of Finnish Studies." Finlandia says the first issue produced at the Hancock school has 10 peer-reviewed articles by scholars from America and Finland.

Helsinki - A Finnish nurse was charged on Wednesday with murdering five of her elderly patients with lethal drug overdoses, and of trying to kill six others.

Nokia has stepped up its legal battle with Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of violating the Finnish mobile phone company's patent rights with virtually all its products.

Finnish Railways said Tuesday it had cancelled three trains over a four-hour train driver walkout in Tampere.

Monday, December 28, 2009 A file photo of Matti Nykanen Police in Finland have arrested Matti Nykanen , a four-time Olympic gold medalist ski jumper, on suspicion of attempted murder.

Finnish politicians on on Saturday voiced their disappointment over the failure to hammer out a binding emissions reduction target at the Copenhagen climate conference that ended at the weekend, with Matti Vanhanen , the prime minister, saying that the European Union's approach to climate talks needed to change given that it appeared that no ...

The Finnish Council for Mass Media , a self-regulatory body, said Tuesday it had named Risto Uimonen its chairman.

After years of millions of Christian speculating where Santa's workshop is, the rumors have finally been confirmed by the EU.

Finally arrived in Ivalo, north of the Arctic Circle. Even though the sun isn't actually up, it is still fairly light during mid-day. Hard to actually show it with cameras.

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen announced Wednesday he will not stand for re-election as chairman of the Centre Party at the party's conference next June, according to a report by the Centre Party daily, Suomenmaa.

A young man dressed in nothing but underpants stole a police car in Lahti in southern Finland early on Tuesday.

A major blizzard that started late on Sunday afternoon, coupled with some strong winds, disrupted traffic in Southern Finland.