Category: Europe

Southbound traffic into Helsinki on the Tuusula highway was cut off Friday afternoon following a series of collisions in afternoon snow flurries. The pile-ups occurred about 7 kilometres south of...

President Sauli Niinistö heads to Moscow on Monday for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Issues to be discussed include ties between the two countries as well as between...

Moscow: An Afghan provincial official for women's affairs has applied for political asylum in Finland after visiting the country. Fariba Majid, women's affairs director in the northern province of Balkh,...

Attackers may have gained access to 250,000 accounts on Twitter, the microblogging site said. It's time to change your password…again. The site's security team identified multiple access attempts by unauthorized...

PARIS (AFP) – French police have arrested seven people suspected of procuring Nigerian prostitutes who worked across France, judicial sources said Friday. The five men, including the suspected ringleader, and...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will run for a seat in the Australian Senate during this year’s elections, his organisation announced Wednesday, with his mother saying he would be “awesome” in...

A Swiss court sentenced a mother to life in jail on Tuesday after she confessed to smothering her seven-year-old twins with a pillow and killing a third child — after...

HAIFA, Israel –  A key figure in Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's government called the Holocaust a hoax cooked up by U.S. intelligence operatives and claimed the 6 million Jews who...

Finland supports a European Commission proposal to temporarily withhold supply of carbon permits to fix a glut in the market, while stopping short of backing a permanent withdrawal of allowances....

Formerly known as Sampo Bank in Finland, Danske Bank has announced plans to overhaul its online banking service. The bank will give up using the Java programming language when the...