A shooting incident in the early hours of Tuesday morning outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Porvoo has claimed two lives. One person was seriously wounded. The injured survivor of the shooting was rushed to hospital in Helsinki and was reported...

The Nordic and Baltic countries are proposing a civilian rapid-reaction force be sent to southern Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has left well over 100 people dead. Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb proposed the mission at Monday’s...

Over the past five years, the Oulu Refugee Reception Centre has worked with at least 14 children who have fallen victim to human traffickers. Authorities believe the victims represent just the tip of the iceberg. ”The number is quite low compared to...

Corporal punishment is still practiced in Finland and Denmark even though it is illegal, according to a study in the two countries. Corporal punishment was banned in Finland in 1984 and in 1997 in Denmark. Researchers say violence by parents is...

All sixteen of the flamingos housed at Helsinki’s Korkeasaari Zoo were found dead on Friday morning. According to Helsinki police, zoo officials reported that the birds had been found badly mauled near their enclosure during the early morning...

The Finns have a problem: the Finnish hate speech law practically prevents any dialogue on the Muslim imported issues: Muslim female genital mutilation, crime committed by Muslims, - rapes, robberies, etc, Muslim honor violence, Muslim terrorism,...

The campaign to deliver national climate change bills across Europe has received a further boost after both Finland and Hungary edged forward with plans to develop legislation loosely modelled on the UK Climate Change Act. Over recent months Friends of...