Vancouver is the 8th most 'liveable' city in the world, according to international rankings put out by London-based Monocle magazine. Montreal was the only other Canadian city to make the cut, coming in at 16....
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Scandinavian eyes will be on the Men's Javelin qualifying rounds tomorrow (Thursday 21st August 2008, Final: Friday 23rd August 2008, times below), when World Champion Finland's Tero Pitkämäki squares up to...
American Airports may be handling large number of passengers everyday and may be one of busiest airport but they haven't got any ranking in the best airport survey. Hong Kong's swanky airport has been adjudged as the...
The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare (MLL) have today drawn attention to the ever-increasing isolation of the Finnish child. "Parents seem to neglect their children more and more. Even very small children...
It has been revealed that Sri Lankan protestors have turned out in force in Helsinki to protest against ongoing civil unrest in the country. " Sri Lankans in Finland stage protest demonstration...
Oddly, a slew of indie bands have contributed material to a new travel guide. I'm guessing it will probably garner the usual ruckus from the indie sellout police, but I bet it'd be interesting. Who wouldn't want to know where Thurston Moore changes his dollars into...
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" HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services. Plazes (http://www.plazes.com/) provides location-aware services that people...
"Helsinki, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Winwap Technologies Oy announced today that Neonode Inc, a world leading company specialized in optical finger based touch screen technology, will include Winwap Technologies Oy's WinWAP Browser in its uniquely designed touch...
"Coachella Festival Added on Apr 27, 2008 Ladies and Gentleman, we're floating in space. INDIO, CA - APRIL 24: A general view of the campgrounds are seen during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival held at the Empire Polo Field on April 24, 2008 in Indio, California."
A group of Finnish scientists have observed that music helped victims of stroke recover faster than those who did not listen to music. I wonder what the affects of music are on the brain for those who listen to music...
That's what some species of fish do anyway.Parental cannibalism in nature may be an attempt to hurry up the child-rearing process, according to new research.Perhaps children living at home into their twenties...
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Brave new world alert: a Finnish man had his upper jaw replaced by a new jaw grown from his own stem cells and incubated in his abdomen for nine months.Somewhere in America a big dog barked."Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a...
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"The author of the best-selling Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, has blocked the Finnish version of her latest book from being printed on local paper because it lacks the ecological FSC certification, her Finnish...
London (ANTARA News) - Kylie Minogue on Wednesday announced a new
European concert tour, opening in Paris just days before her 40th
birthday next May and ending in London more than two months later.
"I am putting together a show that is going to be a new and...
"Orascom Telecom subsidiary in Bangladesh will use Comptel software to improve fulfillment processes for mobile services Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, announced today that mobile operator...