Helsinki, Finland News

Last week's death of a man from a drug overdose in a Helsinki hotel has led to an exceptionally large seizure of heroin by the Helsinki police.

Vincent Courtois likens himself to an off-road, all-terrain vehicle: he takes his music to places where other cellists are reluctant to go.

HELSINKI: The Statistics Finland announced that the consumer price index or CPI dropped 0.9% year-on-year in November, compared to the 1.5% fall in the previous month.

Midwives in the Helsinki area have voiced their concerns over the situation of those women in labour who are unversed in languages.

As temperatures hovered at about -15 degrees Celsius in the Finnish capital, Helsinki city council said Monday it would provide emergency housing to a handful of Romanian gypsies camped in caravans near the Kalasatama underground station.

The Helsinki Police Department are investigating a severe beating case in the Viikki district of the Finnish capital.

Nokia started deliveries, on November 10, 2009, of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world's top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.

As Finnish energy major Neste Oil scales up production of its 'green' diesel NExBTL, environmental activists fear that more land will go under palm oil plantations at the expense of Southeast Asia's threatened rainforests.

Finnish airline Finnair announced today that on Friday it is opening a new generation Via Spa in connection with the Via Lounge at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

" Helsinki will be the World Design Capital of the year 2012. The designation was recently announced by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009 in Singapore.

Early next year the Helsinki City Council faces its own "Copenhagen conference". The council is supposed to decide how the city will fulfil the climate goals that it has set for itself.

Waking up in the wrong city is normally the prerogative only of bridegrooms-to-be after a stag party has gone slightly astray, but it proved to be a reality on Monday morning for around a dozen passengers on the overnight sleeper-train from Rovaniemi to Helsinki.

The death of a man in a Helsinki hotel has been blamed on a very dangerous drug that was sold as cocaine.

Some Finns have for years lamented the lost leadership of Finnish mobile development.

Reuters is reporting about a novel dual-purpose data center that is being built under the Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland: instead of spending millions to cool a data center being created under the building for IT firm Academica plans to channel the heat created by the servers directly into the heating network for the district, where it ...

Video footage of THE 69 EYES ' December 2, 2009 acoustic performance at Elisa Shopit in Helsinki, Finland can be viewed below.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The iPhone's potential as a musical instrument is on display at the University of Michigan this week.

British singer Kvohst has issued the following update: "I have a new heavy metal/rock club night starting in Helsinki, Finland, next Thursday! I called it Mega Therion which means Great Beast, in homage to Crowley himself, the language of the Greeks, and, of course, the mighty CELTIC FROST album of the same name! "It will be a regular event every ...

Cloud computing requires massive data centers, and the rows upon rows of computers burn lots of electricity, generate massive amounts of heat--and then require yet more electricity to power cooling systems.

The opening of the - via Helsinki Spa and Wellness Centre' in December will mark the final phase opening of the long-haul area in Helsinki's Terminal 2 extension.