Helsinki is turning to drones and artificial intelligence to help tackle one of the city's trickiest challenges - keeping traffic moving smoothly
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The first ever World Tramdriver Championships
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How Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave – traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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Tiny co-living spaces are popping up across New York. Local communities see them as ‘harbingers of gentrification’.
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
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Cathedral-like health centre in Copenhagen aims to boost wellbeing – designed by architecture studio Dorte Mandrup for the historic Nørrebro district
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Final stage of Vuelta a España abandoned after pro-Palestinian protesters entered the course – Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard has been declared the winner
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Commentary: prepare to say a frond farewell to Los Angeles’ palm trees
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The genius plan to make Amsterdam car centric
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Norwegian startup Aviant has established the Nordic region's first food delivery service by drone, starting on the Swedish island of Värmdö
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Finns trying to enjoy beaches and parks during their all-too-brief summers have been vexed by legions of geese and their droppings – the smelly mess has resisted even the most innovative solutions
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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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Entire church to be transported across Kiruna in Sweden – landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms
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The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Data-driven city planning helped.
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In an industry dominated by male creative directors, a quiet shift is taking place in Copenhagen, where women are not only leading fashion labels but redefining what success looks like
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Sweden forced to deal with 747 that used to be a hotel it doesn't want
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Debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic”
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Foreign couples flock to Denmark to get married. Copenhagen wants to save room for locals.
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Sweden's secret to wellbeing? Known as koloniträdgårdar, tiny urban gardens provide city dwellers access to nature, fresh produce and community.
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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League
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Buildings in Berlin are weird
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In Tokyo for a couple of days, inviting recommendations
My wife and I are in Tokyo for a couple of days, before moving on to Kyoto. We have a few restaurants booked already, and have a friend or two in the city who will show us around, but I wanted to...
My wife and I are in Tokyo for a couple of days, before moving on to Kyoto. We have a few restaurants booked already, and have a friend or two in the city who will show us around, but I wanted to solicit some recommendations from people here too. We are staying in Ginza area but happy to walk/use metro to explore other parts of the city.
Any recommendations for good shopping or good food? I’m interested in vintage/second hand clothes, kitchen equipment, etc but honestly open to any suggestions of things to check out!
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Well, I’m back stateside now, and I want to avoid bumping this thread too much by going through and thanking people, but I found all of these comments really useful! We ended up having a great time and ate some great food, most of the time by popping in places that looked good when walking by. Did some nice shopping as well (I managed to pick up my dream watch from a small store in Omote-sando!) Thanks everyone for the great recommendations, it was useful to get my bearings, and now I just can’t wait to go back.
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Finland's deep affinity with nature is blossoming in its restaurants, where a new generation of chefs are fusing local wild produce with more exotic flavours
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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New train route to link Prague, Berlin and Copenhagen from 2026 in another boost for European travel
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and sponge parks
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The best-designed town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world) - Houten
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Gothenburg's experience with congestion pricing has been notably less triumphant – a cautionary tale about tolling downtown drivers
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Sweden and Denmark's Öresund bridge turns 25 – while Copenhagen's fortunes grow alongside rise in commuters, benefits for Malmö are proving less obvious
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Meeting client requirements of a 200-year design life for the Kruunuvuori Bridge in Finland demanded ingenuity in structural engineering and material choices
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Tens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists
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1940s New York City streetview
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Copenhagen emerged as The Economist's Most Livable City for 2025 – Western Europe scores dropped with a rise in terrorism threats, riots, crime and anti-Semitic attacks
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Lost gardens of New York City
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The world’s most-visited museum shuts down, in response to mass tourism
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Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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The Grenfell Tower fire: London’s high-rise scandal
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The densest city in the world had a strange secret
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How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
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Denmark's largest energy community is now under construction, featuring more than 30,000 sqm of solar rooftops with a total capacity of about 4 MW
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Inside Denmark's super-efficient S-tog rail system
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters
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The root of happiness isn't considered to lie in extravagance or materialism in Helsinki. Here, it's about things that are both smaller and more profound.
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E-bikes make your city smaller
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Living among volcanoes is nothing new in Iceland – but as a new eruptive era begins, the Reykjavík region is honing defenses and rethinking development
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Huge power cut causes chaos in Spain and Portugal as Madrid mayor warns people to stay put
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Finland is home to some of the most prolific caffeine drinkers in the world, and now Helsinki is positioning itself as a new brew capital
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Why does Athens look so quirky?
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Norway's capital is known for its green policies and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Why does the city still struggle with air pollution?
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