Toward the end of last year, my husband and I were having dinner with another couple. We spontaneously decided to make 2024 our "Year of Countries." To do so, we made no elaborate plans. We simply ...

Gone are the days when collapsing on the couch with no pants and a bottle of red would be considered slovenly or antisocial. The Finish Promotion Board has reassuring news for couch potatoes ...

The love metalers of HIM are known for their dreamy sounds and darkly romantic lyrics. Even when frontman Ville Valo lets out a curse or two onstage or says he has to take a wiz, it comes off as ...

On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union declared war on Finland. The odds, you could say, were against the Nordic country. Only independent for 22 years, it had a total population of 4 million people.

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In 2016, nearly 35,000 people came to live in Finland from around the world, according to data from Statistics Finland. Many of them will be looking to learn the Finnish language -- with varying ...

For most of my childhood I had trouble learning things: I couldn’t read or write until the third grade, ride a bike until fourth grade, or swim until fifth grade. Winter sports, which are huge in ...