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14 hrs ago | Helsingin Sanomat

Last week's overdose death leads police to major heroin bust

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.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Europe, Finland, World News

Sat Dec 19, 2009

All About Jazz

Vincent Courtois Quartet in Helsinki, November 9, 2009

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

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News, Yves Robert, Jazz

Thu Dec 17, 2009

Daily Times

Finland Nov consumer prices decline at slower pace

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.

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Related Topix: Finland, World News

Tue Dec 15, 2009

Helsingin Sanomat

Helsinki midwives voice concerns over language issues with increasing number of foreign-born mothers

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

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News

Newsroom Finland

Helsinki provides emergency housing to Kalasatama gypsies

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News

Mon Dec 14, 2009

Helsingin Sanomat

Beating of schoolgirl in Helsinki indicates that teenagers' life is becoming increasingly aggressive

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

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News

Sun Dec 13, 2009

China Daily

Apple fires back at Nokia in patents battle

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Cellphones, Cell Phones, Electronics, iPhone, Finland, World News, Computers

Sat Dec 12, 2009

Inter Press Service

FINLAND: Biodiesel Breakthrough or Environmental Nightmare?

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, Activism, Global Warming, Biofuel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy,

Thu Dec 10, 2009

M2.com

Finnair to open Via Spa at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News,

Buildings

Helsinki Named World Design Capital 2012

" 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.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News, Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design),

Wed Dec 09, 2009

Helsingin Sanomat

Helsinki's greenhouse gas emission targets too meagre?

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News, Alternative Energy, Biomass

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Helsingin Sanomat

The train now arriving...

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.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News,

Helsingin Sanomat

Drug sold as cocaine suspected poisoning death in Helsinki hotel

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

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Related Topix: Drugs, Europe, Finland, World News

MobileMonday

Estonia struts its stuff in Helsinki

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

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News

Mon Dec 07, 2009

ZDNet

The latest greenest data center: Under a Helsinki cathedral

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 ...

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Related Topix: Finland, World News

Sun Dec 06, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

THE 69 EYES: Video Footage Of Helsinki In-Store Acoustic Performance Available

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

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Related Topix: Gothic, The 69 Eyes, Finland, World News, San Francisco Metro

Telegram & Gazette

Mobile phone concert shows iPhone's musical range

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

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Related Topix: iPhone, Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor Metro, Detroit Metro, Finland, World News

Sat Dec 05, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

CODE Frontman Launches 'Mega Therion' Club In Helsinki

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 ...

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Related Topix: Punk, The Code, Finland, World News, Metal, Therion, Celtic Frost

Core77 design blog

Helsinki to be heated by computers

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.

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Related Topix: Finland, World News, Travel, Helsinki, Finland Travel, Finland Travel, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Airport-business.com

Helsinki-Vantaa's 'via Helsinki' strategy

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.

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Related Topix: Finland, World News, Science / Technology, RFID News

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