There are calls for the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to clarify what agreement, if any, has been made in relation to a review of a Brexit backstop.

The FTSE 100 has been knocked after oil prices slumped during Donald Trump's historic meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Finland.

You'll be holding back the tears when watching this Finnish woman rescue a baby dolphin on a beach in Louth after it got stranded.

Finland has said the Nordic country's trailblazing basic income experiment is going ahead as planned.

Finnish police have arrested two more suspects over last week's stabbings that killed two people and wounded eight in the south-western city of Turku.

Two people have been killed and six others were injured in a stabbing incident in the western Finnish city of Turku, police said.

Finland’s consumers are more optimistic today than when Nokia dominated the mobile phone world.

A Finnish court has sentenced a former Helsinki narcotics police chief to 10 years in prison for running a drugs ring while in office - a rare case of corruption among the country's civil servants.

A British woman has reportedly been stabbed to death in Lapland.

Update: 1pm The victims of the gun attack in a town in south-eastern Finland have been identified as the chairperson of the Imatra Town Council and two local journalists.

Irish rallying enjoyed one of its greatest days yesterday as Dungannon’s Kris Meeke and his Killarney co-driver Paul Nagle in the Abu Dhabi Total WRT-run Citroen DS3 WRC Paul Nagle won Rally Finland, round eight of the World Rally Championship.

Ponsse of Finland have won the 2015 Swedish Steel Prize for their new generation of harvester, the Scorpion, which departed from traditional designs by concentrating on the operator’s needs.

Lazio midfielder Antonio Candreva scored a first-half penalty and created a second goal.

Finland’s Huhtamaki Oyj is on the hunt for acquisitions — possibly even a large-scale deal — as the world’s biggest listed food-packaging company seeks to expand in new countries and build on profitable North American operations.

Irish prospector Karelian Diamonds is eyeing the prospect of developing its first commercial diamond mine in Finland after acquiring a mining permit from local player A&G Mining for €150,000.

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Children under the age of two, who are given asthma medication, are apparently more likely to have stunted growth.

A millionaire former telecoms executive touted as a technocrat capable of rescuing Finland from economic slump won yesterday’s parliamentary election, polls showed late last night, but he may need support of a Euro-sceptic populist party to form a coalition.

Finland is voting to determine which coalition can lead the country out of a three-year recession.

Two full barrel rolls on a snowy road? Just keep on racing.

“I fully respect those who oppose it but it must be, and it will be, played.”

A sauna does more than build up a sweat. It can be a lifesaver, research says. Middle-aged men who take frequent saunas are less likely to die from heart conditions than those who do not, scientists have found.