The collapse of the last major nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia has raised fresh concerns about a new nuclear arms race.

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction.

Carved into the bedrock deep below Helsinki is a series of underground bunkers where the entire city’s population can shelter in the event of an attack. Annabel Grossman explores this vast network and ...

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 ...

Known as the blind daughter in Finnish mythology, Loviatar is the goddess of death and disease. Born from the union of Tuoni, the god of death, and his underworld queen Tuonetar, Loviatar is discussed ...

The Finnish prime minister has apologised to Asian nations amid a growing controversy over the "slanted eyes" scandal which saw members of parliament post derogatory images. The controversy started ...

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Every FEW years, some novel (or supposedly timeworn) Nordic concept comes along to seize the imaginations of Europe’s forward-thinking and trendy. Some are practical: think Alfred Nobel’s dynamite, ...

Finnish people living in Helsinki — a capital set at 60 degrees north, on a peninsula surrounded by Baltic waters — don’t simply brave the elements. Instead, they revel in cold plunges, rejoice in the ...

Create a wordlist from the Finnish Wikipedia dump for use in sanity checking whether words are already known in Wikipedia. The wordlist will be used for sanity checking to determine if a word is ...

The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Smart, data-driven city planning helped. Zero. That is the number of people killed in traffic accidents in Helsinki, Finland, ...

Helsinki just went a whole year—between July 2024 and July 2025—without a single traffic death. Compare that to Washington, D.C., a city with roughly the same population of close to 700,000: In D.C., ...