Tokyo has a history of cancelled Olympics – but a different type of war caused it to cancel in 1940
Many Twitter users expressed anger that a US leader had blamed his own country for the rift between the two nations
A new museum will add to the foundation’s growing stable of contemporary art spaces around the world.
Cape Town has been named World Design Capital for 2014, at the International Design Congress in Taipei, but there are dissenting voices back home.
The city is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and its gifted designers — but their work doesn’t come cheap. <em>Norman Miller</em> reports.
Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work on conflict resolution.
As the internet goes mobile and companies such as Apple and Google find cool ways to embrace the trend, mobile market leader Nokia is rewriting its product development rulebook.…
A Finnish library-goer apparently thought ”better late than never” and quietly returned a book on loan for more than 100 years to a library in Vantaa, Finland. The library had…
Nokia on Friday announced a deal to sell handsets worth a total â,¬2-billion to China Postel during 2008, in the company’s largest market. The world’s number one cellphone maker…
Finnish cellphone giant Nokia said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Google to incorporate the Google search engine in its handsets. In a first stage, the United States…
The United Nations’s top emergency relief official said on Monday that as many as 600 000 people had been displaced following violence sparked by Kenya’s disputed elections. ”We…
A hospital patient in Finland found a mouse head among the steamed vegetables on his plate. ”Understandably, he lost his appetite,” said Sakari Kela, chief administrator at the…
A Finnish court ordered Santa Park in the north of the country to pay compensation to three of the underground amusement park’s former elves for replacing them with temporary…
Finns formed long lines outside the country’s rare liquor shops that remained open on Thursday after a strike by employees of state-owned monopoly distributor Alko. The company…
Finland’s gun laws are likely to attract criticism after an 18-year-old gunman shot dead seven children and a school principal on Wednesday. The shooter turned the gun on himself…
When George Linardos was ordered to clear his diary to help dream up new business for Nokia, he imagined six weeks brainstorming on the terrace of a five-star hotel in the…
The world’s largest cellphone maker, Nokia, said on Thursday it will join rivals — including Samsung and Sony Ericsson — to produce a fast flash memory card with high capacity to…
A Finnish court ruled against a 15-year-old student in a libel case on Friday after he posted a clip of his teacher on YouTube, ordering the youth to pay €800 (about R7 900) in…
Finns stayed invincible to keep their world champion titles in male and female sauna sitting, beating Russian, American, German and Turkish competitors on their home ground,…
Low-cut dresses and high-cut skirts, pink glitter drag queens, swarthy Latin singers and lots of big hair: after last year’s unexpected victory by monster-rock group Lordi,…
