Police in Finland’s capital have issued advice about ‘Facebook crime’, as complaints about online pranksters are keeping cops busy. Hannu Kortelainen, of the Helsinki police, has revealed that gripes about the popular social networking site come flooding into the station on a daily basis. Read the full story

A bust of former Icelandic president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, which was on display in Kivinokka in Helsinki, has disappeared. Read the full story

A Helsinki couple has been fined by the District Court for allowing their baby son to be circumcised. Read the full story

A branch of Holiday Inn was the unintended termination point for four runaway train carriages Monday morning, as they careered through the buffer stop at Helsinki’s Central railway station before slamming into the hotel. Read the full story

Helsinki has been awarded the title of World Design Capital for 2012 at the World Design Congress held in Singapore last week. The Finnish capital beat out competition from the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven. Read the full story

The City of Helsinki Board has voted 8-6 in favour of introducing congestion charges for the Finnish capital. The decision was made after the proposal had earlier been rejected twice, with a heated – if short – debate preceding the announcement. Read the full story

Helsinki has found a novel solution to the age-old problem of urban rabbits. They will soon be on the menu for the city zoo’s vultures, wolverines and lions. Read the full story

Finland’s brief but glorious summer is the jazz festival season in this Nordic nation. Many music fans will be surprised to learn that Finland has a thriving jazz music scene, and a number of festivals with impressive line-ups are scheduled at cities throughout the country. Read the full story

Finland is debating whether it needs a sixth nuclear power plant, and several firms are vying to win the contract to build it. The Finnish utility company Fortum Corp is the latest to apply for permission to build the new nuclear reactor, which would sit on the nation’s southern coast near Helsinki. Read the full story

Finnish Railways (VR) announced last week that it will be upgrading its existing rail link between the capital Helsinki and Russia’s St Petersburg. The new high-speed service, which is named Allegro, will begin operations in 2010. Read the full story