Petteri Alinikula, Nokia's Head of Product Sustainability and one of the testers in action on the Baltic Sea. Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is on a mission to find out how to apply solar power technology to cell phone technology. The company started a project in June called Nokia Solar Charging Project which is coming to its conclusion at the end of September. It sent a group of people on the... 

They call themselves the True Finns: down-to-earth, hardworking people who love their country but feel neglected by its political elite. They’re tired of bailing out southern Europeans who lived beyond their means. And wary of Somali, Iraqi and other immigrants who are slowly reshaping the homogenous nation of their forefathers, the tenacious Finns who halted the advance of the mighty Red Army... 

Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside. For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with gizmos that check number plates to make sure insurance and tax are up to date. It also measures the distance between vehicles to spot tailgating and takes pictures of the inside of the car – to make sure you are wearing a seat belt. The... 

Man dressed in black randomly shot at ‘panicked’ people at mall. A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend by slitting her throat from ear to ear on New Years Eve then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before apparently turning his gun on himself, police said. Takkirauta, a Finnish blogger, reports that according to the police... 

Three African-American players from the Lappeenranta-based Finnish American Football League team Rajaritarit are suspected of rape. According to the club, the players have been in police custody since Monday of last week. “The matter came to me as a total surprise. We have made an effort to provide support to our players through the entire process”, explains Rajaritarit chairman Juho Ritala. According... 

Officials say they are learning of an increasing number of cases in which immigrant parents in Finland are forcibly sending teens back to their home countries to de-westernize them. The Finnish Red Cross as well as social welfare offices say that every year dozens of parents who believe their children are becoming too westernized send their offspring back to African, Asian and Middle Eastern states. Leena-Kaisa... 

Almost two months have now passed since that morning, March 9, 2009, around 11:45 am, when US federal agents arrested me – three squad cars – on a country road east of Sarver, Pennsylvania for a “visa violation.” As it quickly became known to me, in fact already during the car ride to the downtown Pittsburgh federal jail and even more so later in questioning, my arrest was politically motivated. The... 

Picture Right: Meet Krisztina Morvai, the sexy blond-haired leader of the Hungarian right-wing. The media attacks against her have been especially vile. Prompting Morvai, who is a lawyer, to threaten media outlets with defamation lawsuits. “Don’t think you can keep doing this forever.” June 4th-7th could go down in history as the rise of the new European right-wing. The European Parliament is... 

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don’t start school until age 7. Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world....