The top bishop in Finland's Lutheran Evangelical Church publicly apologised for the way that the church had supported wider Finnish society in discriminating against LGBT individuals.

Because it's Friday: Here is video of a man hanging around with a bunch of giant brown bears—feeding them, bathing them, making them a snowman with edible facial features. At one point, he splits a bunch of grapes with a couple of these enormous wild animals.

Welp, that sure didn't take long. There is already a petition circulating to stop the Finnish postal service, Itella, from issuing the overtly homoerotic stamps of Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland.

The new stamps from the Finland postal service are gay. Like really gay. Like overtly gay. And that's the point. The new stamps feature artwork from Tom of Finland, an artist known for the in-your-face homoeroticism of his illustrations.

The Cancer society of Finland has devised a fun slash sick way of showing the effects smoking has on the human body, using flaxen-haired models and a photo slider for "before" and "after" examples.

If you give birth in Finland, you're in luck! Along with your new bundle of joy, the government gives you a maternity box filled with clothes, sheets, toys, and a mattress. The mattress can be kept in the box and used as a baby-sized baby bed — so smart and so cost effective! Basically, a trip to a birthing center is…

A Finnish court has acquitted a doctor charged with malpractice and sexual abuse after he sucked a 20-year-old patient's nipple. She had complained of fluid discharge, and he said she consented to what was described as "an old midwives' trick."

[Buedelsdorf, Germany; June 8. Image via AP]

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Four people were killed today when a gunman opened fire in the Espoo, Finland shopping mall where his ex-girlfriend worked. Later she was found dead in her apartment and after a manhunt, the shooter killed himself.

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Last week, Julia Galvin travelled from Ireland to Finland to find a "husband" to carry her over a 253-meter track to win her weight (120 kg or 264 pounds) in beer. The contest Galvin competed in was an international affair held on July 4 said to stem from a 19th century legend in which a notorious thief, Ronkainen the…

A Finnish artist named Mimosa Pale has created a giant vulva-shaped (and incredibly detailed) pedicab in protest of a world she thinks is too 'man-parts-centric.' Pale invites others to ride within the satiny folds of the vagina-cocoon and we imagine it probably makes for some great photo-ops from gawking tourists…

That's it: We're moving to Finland. A bill is being proposed in their parliament to add an extra week to the already government-guaranteed 25 days of vacation a year plus 10 days of government holidays. The extra week is to be used for "love vacations" to reduce the divorce rate and to get the Finns to bond with their…