Sauli Niinistö has been elected Finland’s 12th president, with the landslide win by the National Coalition Party marking an end to 30 years of the Social Democrats’ rein. Read the full story

More Finnish employees are being tested for drug use than ever before, according to a new report. Read the full story

Witnesses to crimes and accidents in Finland are frequently alerting the media before the police, according to reports. Read the full story

The freedom of journalists in Iceland went down a little last year compared to the year before, according to the new World Press Freedom Index, which is published annually about press freedom in 180 countries around the world. Read the full story

The Finnish founder of file-sharing site Megaupload has been arrested by US authorities in New Zealand for massive copyright infringement. Read the full story

The National Coalition Party has won a first-round victory in the Finnish presidential elections. With a massive 37 percent of the vote, the country’s former finance minister Sauli Niinistö will now face off against Green League candidate Pekka Haavisto (18.8 percent) in the second round on 5th February. Read the full story

The Finnish Interior Ministry is to investigate a spate of family killings after a father murdered his wife and their two children before burning down their Helsinki apartment last week. Read the full story

Three nurses who accidentally fed a corrosive cleaning product to hospitalised children, have begun a criminal trial in Finland. Read the full story

A woman has filed a lawsuit against Starwood Hotels and Resorts after employees at a Finnish property allegedly gave her room key to a drunken stranger. Read the full story

A new proposal has moved the Finnish capital closer to hosting a new Guggenheim museum for architecture and design. Read the full story