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Half of Finland’s adult population had less than €5,000 in bank deposits in 2025, with new figures showing large differences in savings between age groups and across the population.

Rain will affect much of Finland this weekend as low-pressure systems move near the country, with strong wind gusts expected in the south before spreading across a wider area on Sunday.

The University of Helsinki has revoked a place at its Faculty of Medicine after finding that the successful applicant cheated during an entrance examination in spring 2026.

Ireland will stay out of the Eurovision Song Contest for a second consecutive year, with public broadcaster RTÉ confirming that it will neither participate in nor broadcast the 2027 competition in Bulgaria.

Sweden’s opposition has won the parliamentary election by 176 seats to 173, according to public broadcaster SVT, prompting Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to submit his resignation on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump has threatened new tariffs on the European Union after Canada welcomed a proposal for closer ties with the bloc, including a new form of associate membership.

At least 20 people, including five children, were killed after a six-storey residential building damaged during the war collapsed in Gaza City on Wednesday, according to Palestinian rescue officials.

Several senior psychiatrists working for Helsinki University Hospital, HUS, have resigned as the organisation prepares changes to the management of psychiatric services in eastern and central Uusimaa, Yle reported on Wednesday.

The European Commission plans to prohibit social media use by children under 13 and restrict personal accounts for those under 15, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Finland’s Centre Party has proposed a restructuring of public administration that would end the current ministry structure, transfer state powers to municipalities and regions and expand the role of wellbeing services counties.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have identified five patterns of brain activity among people diagnosed with depression, finding that patients with the same diagnosis showed differences in communication between brain regions.

Income growth among young adults in Finland has fallen behind older generations, with people under 35 still earning less in real terms than before the 2008 financial crisis, according to a purchasing power review published by STTK on Tuesday.

Helsinki stocks recorded their largest one-day decline of 2026 on Monday, with Nokia losing more than 10 per cent as a global technology sell-off spread to Finland.

Drivers in parts of Finland face a risk of slippery roads on Tuesday morning as overnight temperatures fall towards freezing, before a change in the weather brings widespread rain from Wednesday, according to Foreca.

European leaders meeting in Rovaniemi have backed a stronger EU role in the Arctic, with Finland pressing for joint icebreaker capacity, more investment in northern infrastructure and a coordinated response to Russian pressure in the region.

Finland has joined France’s European nuclear deterrence initiative, expanding defence cooperation with Paris while ruling out the stationing of nuclear weapons on Finnish territory in peacetime.

Sweden’s parliamentary election remained on a knife edge late on Sunday, with the opposition holding a projected one-seat majority over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s governing bloc.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has placed the idea of BRICS nations acting as “pioneers” at the centre of his message to the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, setting out a programme based on innovation, peace, exchanges between civilisations and reform of gl…

A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train about two kilometres from Poland on Sunday during a mass attack on Ukraine that killed at least six people and injured dozens.

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called on leading artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of model development, arguing that safety work is falling behind advances in AI capability.

Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio has rejected trade restrictions on goods from Israeli settlements, putting him at odds with Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen days after Finland joined an international statement supporting such measures.

Saudi Arabia has shut a major oil pipeline after drone attacks originating in Iraq as Houthi forces seized Yemen’s Red Sea coast, putting two routes used for Gulf energy exports under pressure.

Norway’s Princess Astrid has died aged 94, two days after attending the funeral of her younger brother King Harald V, the Norwegian Royal House said on Friday.

Yemen’s Houthi movement has reached Perim Island at the mouth of the Red Sea after seizing the port of Mocha, extending an offensive that has brought its forces to one of the main shipping routes between Asia and Europe.

Finnish regulators have suspended healthcare services at two Plastic Surgery Center companies operating from the same premises in central Helsinki after inspectors found serious risks to patient safety.

Finnish Border Guard officers found six people hidden inside a vehicle that arrived at Helsinki port on a passenger ferry from Tallinn, authorities said on Friday.