The government wants to slash income support given to underage asylum seekers, reports the regional newspaper Ilkka. Officials suspect that children have been sending their parents money that is intended to cover their own basic needs. Currently,...

The “World Sauna Championships” in the Finnish city of Heinola came to a tragic end on Saturday evening when one of the finalists, a Russian man, died in the end stages of the competition. He was competing against a Finnish man who was...

Marketta Kokkonen, Espoo’s retiring mayor, and Olavi Louko, the head of the council’s technical and environmental services, were on Tuesday charged with bribery and misconduct over a total of 17 trips abroad and within Finland in...

Finland’s Evangelical Lutheran Church has chosen a woman to head the diocese of Helsinki who will be the country’s first female bishop. Irja Askola defeated her closest rival in a final round of voting, 591 to 567, on Thursday. She will...

Finland consciously broke the laws of war during the continuation war of 1941 to 1944, according to a history study published on Thursday. In his book Vakoojakoulu (spy school), Mikko Porvali claims that selected Soviet prisoners of war were dressed in...

Finnish men under the age of 60 are more likely to die prematurely than most other European men. The higher-than-average death rate is on par with Albanian men, and twice as high as the rate for Finnish women, reports the medical journal Lancet.

A new Payment Services Act, which took effect on May 1, is aimed at expediting cross-border payments within Europe. As a result, most Finnish bank account numbers will become four digits longer after a transition period. The law is based on the...

More people in Finland are turning to fertility treatments to have children. Two years ago, the number of people receiving treatments grew 5.6 percent. According to preliminary information, the number rose 0.5 percent last year. In 2008, over 8,200 in...

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen says the government will not grant permits to all three applicants to build new nuclear reactors. He rejected the notion that they should all be approved and then let the market decide which of them should be built and...

The decision to stop routine vaccinations of babies against tuberculosis has led to a surge in lymph node infections. The cases of infection with the largely harmless nontuberculous mycobacteria have caused worry among parents, because they give a...