Lighthouse keeper J.A. Eckerman was the last person to see World War II Soviet submarine S-2 before it sank in January 1940 between Sweden and Finland.
Finnish prosecutors will file genocide charges against a Rwandan man in the killings of 15 people during Rwanda's ethnic cleansing bloodbath in 1994, authorities said Monday.
A shooting rampage by a 17-year-old former student that has left at least 10 dead at a school in Winnenden, Germany is the latest in a series of attacks in education institutions. Here some of the major incidents.
Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. You meet people on the road you'd never meet otherwise. Traveling rearranges your cultural furniture; challenging truths you assumed were self-evident and God-given. By traveling, you learn not only about the people and places you visit -- you learn about yourself.
Bomb threats and a flurry of menacing mobile phone messages sparked panic Thursday among students in Finland, as fears grew that copycat attacks would follow the nation's second school massacre in 10 months
A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to bring him in for questioning opened fire Tuesday at his trade school in western Finland, killing nine people before shooting himself in the head
Lighthouse keeper J.A. Eckerman was the last person to see World War II Soviet submarine S-2 before it sank in January 1940 between Sweden and Finland.
Finnish prosecutors will file genocide charges against a Rwandan man in the killings of 15 people during Rwanda's ethnic cleansing bloodbath in 1994, authorities said Monday.
A shooting rampage by a 17-year-old former student that has left at least 10 dead at a school in Winnenden, Germany is the latest in a series of attacks in education institutions. Here some of the major incidents.
Travel can make you a poet. Travel can be spiritual. You meet people on the road you'd never meet otherwise. Traveling rearranges your cultural furniture; challenging truths you assumed were self-evident and God-given. By traveling, you learn not only about the people and places you visit -- you learn about yourself.
Bomb threats and a flurry of menacing mobile phone messages sparked panic Thursday among students in Finland, as fears grew that copycat attacks would follow the nation's second school massacre in 10 months
A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to bring him in for questioning opened fire Tuesday at his trade school in western Finland, killing nine people before shooting himself in the head
A Pennsylvania teen jailed on suspicion of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his old school exchanged e-mail with the disturbed student who killed eight people in a similar shooting in Finland, the boy's lawyer said Monday.
Flags in Finland were flying at half-staff Thursday and government workers observed three minutes of silence a day after a teenager opened fire at his high school, killing eight people before fatally turning the gun on himself.
Global mobile phone use will top 3.25 billion - equivalent to around half the world's population - in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa, a survey said on Wednesday.
Three Finnish men, detained over the weekend by Tehran for allegedly straying into Irainian waters during a fishing trip in the Persian Gulf, have been released, a Finland foreign ministry official says.
MYTISHCHI, Russia (Reuters) -- Jaroslav Bednar scored with 68 seconds remaining to overcome a furious U.S. rally and give the Czech Republic a 4-3 win and top spot in Group B at the ice hockey world championship on Tuesday.
Finland's parliament voted in favor of the European Union's stalled constitution on Friday, clearing the way for formal ratification which the government wants as soon as possible.
Separatist rebels and the Indonesian government have reached a tentative peace agreement after five straight days of talks in Helsinki, Finland, according to a spokesman for GAM (Free Aceh Movement).
On a recent spring evening near the coast in Helsinki, Vesku Paananen spent hour after hour sending text messages to his television. It's lonely on the dark side of the 60th parallel, but Paananen ...
I recently listened in as the head of the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group complained on a local radio talk show that the tech industry needs less taxation and more investment in education to com...
The Recording industry is hoping to enlist millions of new distributors--its listeners. EMI and Sony are considering services that blend file sharing with viral marketing. Called super-distribution...
Peace talks between Indonesian officials and exiled Aceh rebels will begin in Finland on Thursday after December's devastating tsunami seems to have brought the two sides back to the negotiating table.
Remember when Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report used pantomime to flip the "pages" of a holographic image? That dream interface—one that responds to human gestures—could show up in handheld...
Upbeat earnings forecasts from a pair of heavyweight companies gave a boost to stocks early Thursday, giving investors confidence about the quarterly reporting period, which is about to begin.
It's certainly awkward when your boss walks by naked as a jaybird at the gym. Do you wave? Give a cool nod? Where do you look? Now imagine this: You, your boss, and a whole bunch of your colleagues...
As president of Nokia, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Ala-Pietila steers a telecom giant whose largest market is the U.S., whose fastest-growing market is China, and whose cellular phones are man...
In the global market for software that fends off viruses and hackers, Risto Siilasmaa is an upstart--small fry. In his home of Finland, the CEO of security software maker F-Secure is something else...
On a hill in Tallinn, Estonia, with a steady rain falling, an American entrepreneur gazes out over a vast expanse of grass to a massive, Soviet-built band shell below. To anyone driving past on the...
"Brazil is the country of the future and always will be"--that line is at least 80 years old, which just shows how true it is. The real country of the future, it now seems clear, is Finland, the mo...
Q. My wife and I are divorcing. Originally, I planned to buy my wife's share of the house for $300,000 and continue living there with our daughter. (We purchased the house for $200,000 but it's now...
If you dropped into the lunchroom of any European company these days, you'd hear, in a weird, deja vu kind of way, the sort of talk common in America about two decades ago. Mixed with stock market ...
FROM THE HOT WAR of the 1940s through all the Cold War years, the three Baltic states have remained almost a fixation in certain quarters of what we used to call the free world. In Western Europe a...
Before we retreated from Vietnam, suffered through the 1970s oil shock and got used to walking past homeless people on our city streets, John Wayne reigned as the archetypal American -- riding high...
Scrambling to save a sagging year, the travel industry is breathing hard and promoting heavily -- perks, packages, deep discounts, ''twofers'' -- the works. And jittery travelers, put off by worrie...
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