Helsinki (Finland)

1952 Olympic Telethon

2012-08-03 00:44:19

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R. Kelly still trapped in closet; Adam Lambert released from jail

2011-12-23 16:35:21

<![CDATA[R. Kelly still trapped in closet; Adam Lambert released from jail]]>

Adam Lambert arrested for bar fight with boyfriend Sauli Koskinen

2011-12-22 16:37:46

<![CDATA[Adam Lambert arrested for bar fight with boyfriend Sauli Koskinen]]>

Russian rights activists lash out at Clinton over Putin comments

2012-03-09 16:38:59

<![CDATA[Russian rights activists lash out at Clinton over Putin comments]]>

Ducks update: Lessons learned from 2007 woes

2011-09-29 21:34:27

<![CDATA[Ducks update: Lessons learned from 2007 woes]]>

Lockups-turned-hotels offer your own private Alcatraz

2010-02-14 00:00:00

If you're a prisoner of love, you and your Valentine may want to escape to a prison hotel and embrace your sentence -- at any time of year. Liberty Hotel, Boston A Champagne check-in, spectacular views of the Charles River and a concierge that lends...

Composer Magnus Lindberg on his friendship with Salonen: 'The kind of collaboration you need"

2010-11-19 16:32:40

Assigned to forge crucial congressional budget deal, Joe Biden instead visits Finland en route to Moldova

2011-03-08 04:35:45

Helsinki, Finland's Modern approach to design

2009-12-02 18:06:37

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Leena Peltonen dies at 57; genetics researcher

2010-03-24 00:00:00

Dr. Leena Peltonen, an unusually prolific genetics researcher whose team discovered mutated genes responsible for 15 inherited diseases and who established the department of human genetics at UCLA, died of cancer March 11 at her home in Finland. She was...

For Esa-Pekka Salonen, it's been 'a tough year'

2009-12-13 00:00:00

Esa-Pekka Salonen always said he wanted to leave the Los Angeles Philharmonic while he was ahead. In April he did, finishing his 17-year run as music director in remarkable fashion. At the end of his last concert, a quiet chord of Stravinsky's "Symphony...

'Brecht at Night'

2009-08-09 00:00:00

Brecht at Night Mati Unt Translated from the Estonian by Eric Dickens Dalkey Archive: 208 pp., $13.95 paper In 1940, Helsinki received an unexpected visitor: Bertolt Brecht. Eventually to be known as the most famous German playwright after Goethe,...

Fall and winter, with long nights and chilly temperatures, may not seem like the best seasons to visit Helsinki, but for design fans it's prime time. The action moves indoors to the Modernist spaces that have made this country famous -- shops, hotels, restaurants -- plus a whole design district.

2012-09-28 08:53:00

Sixty years after the 1952 Games, many venues that hosted the Helsinki Olympics are still in use, including Olympic Stadium.

2012-08-03 15:20:53

Suomenlinna Fortress the second mightiest fort of its kind in Europe after Gibraltar boasts five miles of walls and hundreds of cannon

2011-05-16 14:33:14