The two finalists of a sauna endurance competition in Finland, one of which was killed and another who is still in hospital, were allowed to take part without doctors’ certificates, according to reports. Terhi Makiniemi, deputy chief of staff at the City of Heinola – where the Sauna World Championships were held early this month – told newspaper Ita-Hame that all contestants submitted medical certificates except the two finalists. Read the full story

Three people have been arrested in Finland on suspicion of trafficking an extremely strong narcotic that has killed two people in Kuopio. Police in North Savo have seized a quantity of fentanyl, which is dozens of times stronger than heroine, and last week claimed the lives of two young adults in the central Finnish city. Read the full story

One man has died and another was hospitalised after just six minutes enduring temperatures of 110°C in the finals of the World Sauna Championships in Heinola, Finland. The annual event came to a tragic end in the Finnish city on Saturday, when a Russian man passed away in the final stages of the competition. Read the full story

A Swedish woman has been issued with a death certificate after a doctor confused her data with that of her deceased husband. The 98-year-old from Trollhattan, western Sweden, reported the doctor after she discovered her name had mistakenly been put on the document. Read the full story

(updated and corrected 14.06) A man seriously burned last night in an explosion at Elkem’s Grundartangi ferro silicone plant by Hvalfjordur fjord in Iceland, died this morning in a Reykjavik hospital. Read the full story

Some death certificates are taking more than a year to be released in Finland due to a shortage of forensic doctors. Although the law demands that official documents should be available within three months of a death, a lack of practitioners trained to perform autopsies in the country has left next of kin, the police and insurance companies waiting for months on end. Read the full story

Three people have died and a further 36 were injured in a tractor bus accident off Mando Island in Denmark. Rescue services from both Denmark and Germany took part in the rescue operations in the Danish Wadden Sea on Friday. Read the full story

It has not yet been decided when the body of chess grand master Bobby Fischer will be exhumed; but the Supreme Court of Iceland ruled this week that it will happen. Read the full story

Two Norwegians have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after being found guilty of espionage and murder. Soldiers Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland were convicted of killing their driver and trying to murder a witness to the crime last year. Read the full story

Jyri Jaakola, the well-known Finnish human rights activist, has been killed by gunmen in the southern Mexican district of Oaxaca. Read the full story