Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
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The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
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Finland defence minister to take two months' paternity leave amid NATO bid – Antti Kaikkonen says 'children are only little for a moment'
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That time when my skin changed color: A Spaniard in the USA
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Metros with the most unoccupied homes in America
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Denmark's controversial family policy sees many Danish parents fleeing to nearby countries, especially to the German border city of Flensburg
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Netflix alters corporate culture memo to stress the importance of artistic freedom
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Caring for the vulnerable opens gateways to our richest, deepest brain states
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Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules
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British politician says female ‘Doctor Who’ leads to young men committing crime
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Nearly 3% of US workforce quit their jobs in August
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Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
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These people who work from home have a secret: They have two jobs
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A man filed an HR complaint against his cat while working from home — and it rings so true
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Racist graffiti, 'plantation' jokes and 100 potential lawsuits: Ex-workers say Tesla is still racist
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NYC snow days: Dismay as school snow days cancelled
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School almost 'eliminates bullying' with break-time ban on games
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Swedish carmaker Volvo will offer a generous paid parental leave scheme to its 40,000 employees globally
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Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
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Thousands apply to be a Finn for ninety days – Americans, Canadians and Britons among those lured by campaign to attract foreign tech workers
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Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand
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Austrian village of 'Fucking' decides to change its name
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Husband of Wanda, everyone's Grandmother, died of Covid (old news)
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Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world
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Christmas in danger as Santa's Lapland home feels pandemic chill – flocks of tourists who usually start to make merry in Rovaniemi at this time of year cannot enter the country
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Here’s what one week of online school is like for my seven- and five-year-old kids, explained in a comic
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The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed
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An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar
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Check in but never leave: Taiwan offers fake flights for travel-starved tourists
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A group of Copenhagen residents sued the Danish government Wednesday over legislation that authorized dismantling neighborhoods designated as ghettos
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Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website
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173 years on, Irish donors thank Native Americans
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Iceland's forestry service has come up with a novel way to overcome the sense of isolation many people suffer because of Covid-19 – hug the trees
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Sales of sex toys in Denmark have more than doubled after Danes were told to stay at home to limit the spread of the coronavirus
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April is canceled
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Icelandic farming union has been surprised by the enthusiastic response to its appeal for volunteers to help sick farmers out during the Covid-19 outbreak
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Reasoning with regret
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Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the third year in a row, maintaining the Nordic grip on the World Happiness Report's top spots
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Workers at Pacific Grove Hotel on leave without pay due to virus quarantine
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Mass monkey brawl highlights coronavirus effect on Thailand tourism
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New data from Sweden challenges the idea that parents of autistic children refrain from having more children, a practice known as reproductive stoppage
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Finland's woman-led center-left government plans to nearly double the length of paternity leave to give new fathers the same amount of paid time off work as new mothers
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Canada’s international hair freezing competition
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An attempt to name a child after the Devil has won no sympathy from Iceland's official naming committee
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In 2017, Iceland had the lowest number of prisoners per inhabitants (thirty-nine per 100,000) among European countries, according to Eurostat
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The state of gender equality across the EU – Sweden had the highest score of any country in 2019
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To solve the problem of a dwindling population, one small Finnish municipality took a big step – pay its citizens to have babies
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‘I am not my husband's handbag’ – Iceland's first lady, Eliza Reid speaks out about her incredibly weird job
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Bike riding courses offer Finland's immigrants new freedom
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Indonesia moving to ban sex outside marriage
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