Finland Politics News

Herman Van Rompuy, who was just appointed the first permanent President of the European Council, paid a quick visit to Helsinki, Finland on Wednesday at the invitation of Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.     During their meeting, Van Rompuy and Vanhanen...

Setting out the party's priorities for schools in England, Michael Gove pledged to make exams and the curriculum more robust and rigorous. He vowed to raise teaching standards and refuse to fund teacher training for students without at least a...

Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, Thursday reported a worse-than-expected third-quarter net loss as it booked hefty one-off charges and impairments on Nokia Siemens Networks, but raised its outlook for mobile device industry volumes in 2009.

Professor Bruce Neal, chair of the Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health, has accused the fast food chain of recklessness and undermining the broader industry's effort to cut salt from their menu offerings. "A number of fast...

Comr. Ari Rahman said police were working with the immigration office to immediately deport the foreign activists to their countries of origin. He identified the activists as Agnaldo (Brazil), Petteri (Finland), Laura (Germany), Jesus and Pablo (Spain), Roda (Philippines), and...

When the World Cup resumes next week in Levi, Finland, French slalom specialist Jean-Baptiste Grange expects to resume the form and smooth rhythm that won him the season title last year by a comfortable 87 points over Ivica Kostelic of...

When that day arrives the world will have a few more superlatives: never before has there been a cruise ship as large and as expensive to build as the Oasis. Right now construction and fitting out of the $1.4 billion...

Sports equipment maker Amer Sports Corp., whose brands include Atomic, Salomon and Wilson, said Thursday that third-quarter net profit fell 12 percent mainly because of weak sales in North America. Net profit of euro28.8 million ($42.6 million) compared with euro33...

That was 10 years ago, when he joined the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study with the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, one of 27 institutions participating in the research. After taking a daily pill for almost three...