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

When children in Finland’s capital Helsinki attend school next autumn, some of them will have the chance to study in a language other than their native Finnish. The city of Helsinki has decided to open a first grade school in Kottby (Kapyla) that will teach its classes in Spanish. Read the full story

Finland’s capital Helsinki usually gets its tap water from Lake Paijanne via the world’s longest water supply tunnel. But for the past eight months, the capital has been drinking water from the murky Vantaa River as workers have renovated the Paijanne Water Tunnel. Read the full story