Tag: Tokyo
Live: Ukrainas Zelenskij uppmanar EU igen att skicka jetplan, missiler
Ukrainas president Volodymyr Zelensky bad de europeiska ledarna på torsdagen om fler vapen och varnade för att “förseningar” med att skicka stridsflygplan och långdistansmissiler kan förlänga kriget, sade en EU-tjänsteman. Följ vår liveblogg för den senaste utvecklingen om kriget i Ukraina. Alla tider är Paris-tid (GMT+1). 18:10: Ukraina hävdar att ryska styrkor drog sig tillbaka […]
Finavia’s summer 2023 flight list: Almost 150 direct flights around the world
Finnair increases flights to more than 50 European destinations and opens a new route to Bodø in Norway. Norwegian flies to 17 destinations in Europe, including Malaga and Alicante in Spain, Nice in France and Dubrovnik in Croatia. Ryanair flies to several destinations in Europe. Finnair is also increasing flights to Asia and the United […]
Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate for poetic fiction, dies
Tokyo – Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan’s post-war occupation and from parenting a disabled son, has died. He was 88. Oe, who was also an outspoken anti-nuclear and peace activist, died on March 3, his publisher, Kodansha Ltd., said in a statement on Monday. […]
Copenhagen the world’s sixth best city for studying abroad – survey
Copenhagen is the world’s sixth best city for studying abroad, according to a new report study conducted by Helpful Professoran online resource for higher education. The survey assessed a number of factors, including the quality and number of universities, the number of international students, the cost of living and perceived levels of freedom, safety and […]
Sweden’s Duplantis breaks his own pole vault world record
ANKARA – Tokyo 2020 Olympic men’s pole vault champion Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke his own world record with a jump of 6.22 meters (20.4 feet) in the All Star Perche in France over the weekend. “Mondo Duplantis cleared 6.22 meters to add a centimeter to his own pole vault world record at the All Star […]
What is the Richter scale and which areas are more prone to earthquakes?
Many people do not realize that the Richter scale is logarithmic in nature. This means that each integer increment on the Richter scale represents a tenfold increase in the earthquake’s amplitude, or the size of its seismic waves, so a magnitude 7 Richter earthquake is 10 times stronger than a magnitude 6. It’s worth noting […]
Copenhagen will host the 3×3 basketball EC
Get ready to see some serious hoops in Copenhagen! The Danish capital has been selected to host the 2025 FIBA 3×3 Euros, the biggest international basketball competition that followed in the wake of the 2024 Olympic Games. The tenth edition of the event will be held at Rådhuspladsen, where around 1,200 fans will be able […]
Boxing boss wants dangerous Russian ban lifted
IBA President Umar Kremlev says Russians must be allowed to compete at international events The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should withdraw its recommendation to ban Russian athletes and keep politics out of the sport, according to International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev. The Russian official released one statement on the IBA website on Wednesday […]
Finnair balances its route network, shrinks the fleet as part of a strategic reassessment
Topi MannerFinnair’s CEO said that the airline must create significant additional savings to restore profitability to pre-pandemic levels. The airline has implemented cost savings of around 200 million euros in the past 30 months. “We need savings of the same size,” he comment For Helsingin Sanomat. “We are talking about an ambitious goal because we […]
Germany beats France to set up Women’s European Championship 2022 final against England
LONDON, July 27 (Xinhua) — Alexandra Popp’s brace lifted Germany 2-1 over France to reach the Women’s Euro 2022 final in Milton Keynes on Wednesday. The two teams started the game cautiously until the 22nd minute when Popp tested the French goalkeeper with a free kick. It was again Popp who broke the deadlock in […]
Finland may face a new wave of coronavirus infections before autumn
Lasse LehtonenThe director of HUS’s Diagnostic Center tweeted yesterday that 42.2 percent of the laboratory tests analyzed at the center came back positive in the first week of July. Up to 88 percent of those were caused by either BA.5 or BA.4, both of which are highly contagious and have caused spikes around the world. […]
Copenhagen goes green faster than most
Cleaner air and more trees are neededCopenhagen scored 112 for its air quality level – only Stockholm and Abu Dhabi performed worse in the top 25. And only 15.70 percent of the city’s land is covered by forest, which only did better than Dublin (11.40 percent) and Amsterdam (11) in the top 15. The good […]
We are number one! Copenhagen rated the world’s most habitable city
An honored mayorZurich finished second on the list, followed by Lisbon, Helsinki and Stockholm. Tokyo, Vienna, Sydney, Vancouver and Taipei rounded out the top 10. Other notables in the top 25 included Berlin (13), Amsterdam (14), Paris (17), Melbourne (19) and Oslo (23). “The ranking is a slap in the face for Copenhagen, which has […]
Neeraj Chopra breaks his own national record with 89.30 m javelin throw, bags silver medal
New Delhi [India]June 15 (ANI): India’s Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra set a new national record and finished with a silver medal with a throw of 89.30 meters at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland, which improved his own previous national record of 88.07 meters which he had takes place in Patiala in March last […]
Neeraj Chopra will return to the field for the first time after the Tokyo Olympics
Turku [Finland]June 13 (ANI): Tokyo Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra is ready for his long-awaited return to competitive play at the Paavo Nurmi Games 2022, which will be held here at the Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Turku, Finland on Tuesday. The Indian javelin superstar has not competed since he won his historic gold medal in Tokyo […]
Local Round-Up: Copenhagen is approaching the legalization of cannabis
A bill on the legalization of cannabis in Copenhagen will soon be considered at City Hall with the support of two of the capital’s best supported parties: the Social Democrats, led by Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, and the Liberal Party. If it is approved, Pusher Street in Christiania will allegedly be moved to the Town […]
Finnair is reducing summer flights to Japan and increasingly focusing on Western markets
The ban on flights imposed by Russia at the end of February on airlines in 36 countries, including Finland, will remain in force until the end of May, but Finnair is preparing for a long extension. The effects of the ban have been taken into account in both the company’s summer and winter schedules, he […]
Guest opinion: Time to stop closing doors for transgender athletes and instead open our minds
Many people ask “Do transgender women belong in sports?” Honestly, if it was only up to me, this question would not even be asked. A transgender woman is a woman and deserves a place in women’s sports like any other woman or girl. That is my opinion. More than musclesI see you come up with […]
Astronomers have discovered the farthest galaxy ever
The team suggests two ideas: HD1 could form stars with amazing speed and possibly even Population III stars, the first stars in the universe not yet observed. Alternatively, HD1 may contain a supermassive black hole that is about 100 million times the mass of our sun. “Answering questions about the nature of a source so […]
On Screens: Cracking the Coda of the Oscars: Paper only seems to beat Rock
A young man with a heart of gold, untapped talent and responsibility: she always puts others first. Hardly Oscar-winning material. At the very least, one could imagine the core performance to be amazing. Miss Daisy needed a black driver, and Rose a very large ship. But the closest are deaf: for her talent and literally. […]
The Finnish Olympic Committee is investigating a third case of harassment
The third case of suspected sexual harassment by a member of the Finnish Olympic Committee has been raised, the committee announced on Tuesday. The latest case concerns a male committee employee accused of harassing a female colleague at an Olympic team preparation camp before the 2022 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The matter will be referred to […]
Nordic by nature – Scandinavia knows how the outdoors works
As fascinating as the Scandinavian nature is, so diverse is the Northern European outdoor scene. Over 70 outdoor brands from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are united under the Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) umbrella. At OutDoor by ISPO from June 12 to 14 in Munich, you can discover many Scandinavian brands as exhibitors, when […]
Finnair is starting temporary termination negotiations with its personnel
The Finnish national airline Finnair has announced that it will start negotiations with personnel representatives to lay off the flight crew for a maximum of 90 days. In a press release issued on Thursday, the company said that the closure of Russian airspace would cause significant changes to Finnair’s traffic. "The need for additional monthly […]
The Danish Football Association regrets Qatar investments
More on the way? Højer said that the shares in question make up just 0.1 percent of the association’s portfolio of DKK 219 million. According to radio station 24syv, DBU held shares in several large banks in Qatar as well as bonds in the state-owned energy company Qatar Energy. The media revealed that the DBU […]
Something serious is not true in Kamila Valieva’s doping case
The news that Kamila Valieva has tested positive for a banned substance raises more questions than answers On the way to the Winter Olympics, Kamila Valieva would have been forgiven for thinking that the biggest opposition she faced in Beijing would be from her rivals on the ice. Completely dominant throughout the season, Valieva looked […]
American Shiffrin is shaken by ‘Letdown’ of 2 exits in 2 Olympic races
The first question asked to Mikaela Shiffrin when she met reporters after her second quick exit from an alpine ski race at the Beijing Games was short, simple and straightforward: What happened? The complicated, well-thought-out answers that followed involved a small analysis of her actual performance on skis – which lasted a full five seconds […]
Studies show how Mars lost its ocean
Researchers at the University of Tokyo re-created the conditions expected in the core of Mars billions of years ago and found that the behavior of the molten metal present was likely to cause a short magnetic field that was to be lost. Whether it’s from the scientific literature or the fact that we can see […]
Current anti-COVID pills work well against Omicron, antibodies are less effective: Research
However, laboratory tests also showed that the available antibody treatments – typically intravenously in hospitals – are significantly less effective against omicron than against previous variants of the virus. Some antibodies have completely lost their ability to neutralize omicron at realistic doses. If the ability of antiviral drugs to fight omicron is confirmed in human […]
* NEW * Fukushima nuclear disaster
It is March 11, 2011 when Japan is hit by one of the world’s strongest earthquakes. In the multimillion-dollar city of Tokyo, windows are smashed and roads are destroyed. The earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter scale lasts for over five minutes. Half an hour later, a ten meter high wave pulls […]
Friday’s newspapers: Healthcare capacity, THL – ministry division and sports awards
Helsingin Sanomat has shaking asks why Finland seems to be running out of health care capacity at an earlier stage in the Covid epidemic than in other European countries. The magazine points out that health care executives launched an alarm in the early fall and includes a chart showing that the load on hospitals for […]
Copenhagen ranked among the best cities to have a baby
Banzai to Japan, buh to USA Nationally, Japan probably performed best in the index with five cities in the top 13. The United States, meanwhile, struggled with four cities in the bottom six. Reykjavik topped the rankings, followed by Kyoto, Tallinn, Helsinki and Fukuoka, while Oslo, Copenhagen, Chiba, Tokyo and Seoul topped the top 10. […]
