World Cup next door: Finnish fans enjoy summer feast of football
While Finland isn’t known as a top football country, Finnish soccer fans have plenty of cause for excitement as the 2018 World Cup plays out in neighbouring Russia.
Helsinki rocks both Pride and heavy metal fest on same weekend
Two annual traditions happen at the same time in the Finnish capital in late June or early July: Helsinki Pride, with its rainbow-coloured parade, and Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, where the dominant colour is black. See our slideshow.
Finland is making the most of artificial intelligence
Finns are tapping into the vast opportunities provided by artificial intelligence (AI). Sooner or later, intelligent machines will think, learn and react like human beings.
How Finland found a road to reconciliation after the Civil War of 1918
A little more than a century ago, the newly independent nation of Finland experienced a short but brutal civil war. Though the conflict left deep scars, a culture of working together helped former enemies reconcile and allowed the country to progress relatively quickly in its nation-building process.
With more heavy metal bands per capita than anywhere else in the known universe, Finland is at the heart of the tight-knit global metal community. We see how they determine which Finnish city gets the title of Capital of Metal. We also talk with the Finnish university researcher behind the annual Modern Heavy Metal Conference.
Emerging jazz generation: Finnish teen duo demands attention
The phrase “young generation of Finnish jazz,” with all its promise and expectations, forms a fitting but incomplete description of Milo & Moses, a duo of musicians who were born in 2001.
