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Swine flu has been spreading in the Uusimaa region in the south of Finland, says Professor Ville Valtonen , head physician responsible for infectious diseases at the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital District .

I'm currently over in Finland, waiting to travel back after the OUGF Autumn Conference in Helsinki.

Insurance giant Ilmarinen has stepped up its lobbying in order that Helsinki's planned new central library would be placed as a tenant in the city's Main Post Office building, which Ilmarinen owns.

On Friday the 17th we had in Helsinki an event called Honduras in our heart- viva la resistencia ! with a Finnish ALAMES doctor, Timo Partanen, who had just arrived from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, explaining to us abt the situation in the country, before and after the coup d etat, as well as telling about the reactions in the neighbouring countries.

A modest fall of snow covered the southern part of Finland on Wednesday night, bringing a wintry look to the early November landscape.

November 5, 2009: Think, the Norwegian electric vehicle maker, makes its Finland motor show debut this weekend at the Helsinki Electric Motor Show, which runs from Friday to Sunday, 6 - 8 November 2009.

HELSINKI: Finnish-German telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens said on Tuesday that it could reduce its 64,000-strong workforce by seven to nine percent, or by 4,500 to 5,800 jobs, in a cost-cutting drive.

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A trailer for "Our Twilight" , the upcoming debut four-song EP from BARREN EARTH a ' the new Helsinki, Finland-based project featuring members of KREATOR , MOONSORROW , SWALLOW THE SUN and MANNHAI a ' can be viewed below.

Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas departs a shipyard Friday in Finland. The largest passenger vessel ever built - with 2,700 cabins and 2,100 crew members - it is nearly 40 percent larger than the industry's next-biggest ship.

Interior view of the world's biggest cruise vessel, Oasis of the Seas, built by STX Europe's shipyard in Turku, Finland.

Low vitamin D levels in the body may be deadly, according to a new study hinting that adults with lower, versus higher, blood levels of vitamin D may be more likely to die from heart disease or stroke.

With the current recession, hundreds of foreign citizens living in the north and east of Helsinki have applied for income support from the citya s social services department.

The City of Helsinki is budgeting more than EUR 1.5 million in the ongoing school year for special support aimed at preventing a division of the citya s schools into a oegooda and a oebada ones.

A Helsinki auxiliary nurse is to be charged with five murders, Finnish national daily Helsingin Sanomat quoted a prosecutor as saying on Tuesday.

On Sep. 24, a beachgoer near Swansea, Wales reported a piece of military equipment washed up on the shore.

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Nokia's sales shrank by nearly 20 per cent on a 12-month comparison after losing some of its market dominance to Apple and other players.

An unnamed Espoo lay worker was quoted as saying by Finnish national daily Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday that Espoo city council's social services had instructed the deaconess office to tell homeless people to move to Helsinki.

Finland's HardcoreSounds.Net conducted an interview with U.K. metallers BRING ME THE HORIZON when the band played at Nosturi in Helsinki on October 14, 2009.