There were 10 finalists in the contests, and nearly 385,000 people voted. The existing flag received 43% of the votes, more ...

Some forward-looking Illinois lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner ...

Readers flooded us with their ideas for a new Washington state flag, as lawmakers briefly had considered redesigning the old ...

The Nordic region is very diverse, but its citizens have many values in common. We hear from two significant Nordic ...

One of the routes Finnish businesses suggests could extend to Copenhagen via Stockholm.

Decades after WWII, unexploded ordnance is leaking toxic chemicals into the Baltic Sea, posing a threat to marine life and ...

Video from the event, shared by a Jewish employee on her Times of Israel blog, showed one of the protest’s 30-40 participants shoving a modified Lebanese flag in her face and telling her ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sea rescuers and wildlife activists in dinghies approach a whale to cut it loose from fishing nets off the ...

Image A meeting of the committee in 1964 that settled on the current design of the Canadian flag.Credit...Cliff Buckman/Library and Archives Canada “English Canadians in particular were divided ...

The protesters demanded that the government resign, while waving national and party flags and chanting "No to the euro" and "Yes to the Bulgarian lev," the country's currency. "I am here to defend ...

For those of you who haven’t been tossing and turning at night, haunted by the vexing embarrassment of our flag’s simplicity, here’s the concern: We’ve stuck with the same design — solid ...