The Vegas Golden Knights were without five players from the Olympic gold medal-game Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Kings in the NHLโs return from a three-week break.
The victory by the U.S. men's hockey team over the heavily favored Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics is widely regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo rewrites Winter Olympics history with a perfect sweep in menโs cross-country skiing.
Nathan MacKinnon scored the go-ahead goal with 35.2 seconds left to help Canada survive another scare at the Olympics, rallying to beat Finland 3-2 in the semifinals and advance to the menโs gold-medal game.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance sat with influencer and boxer Jake Paul as they watched the U.S. womenโs hockey team ease to a 5-0 win over Finland at the Winter Olympics.
It was game on for Finland and Switzerland in the womenโs hockey tournament at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday after both nations had to deal with a stomach virus affecting players.
Finland womenโs hockey teamโs preliminary round-opening game against Canada on Thursday has been postponed due to a stomach virus depleting Finlandโs roster.
Penn State hockey star Gavin McKenna has been charged with felony assault for allegedly breaking a manโs jaw and knocking out a tooth in an altercation last weekend.
With highly prized prospect Gavin McKenna as the centerpiece, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the league has selected the Buffalo Sabres to host its annual draft in June.
Tomas Poletin scored on a deflection off his skate with 1:14 left and Czechia beat Canada 6-4 on Sunday night to advance to face Sweden in the first all-European world junior hockey final since 2016.
Arttu Valola scored at 2:11 of overtime and Finland stunned the two-time defending champion United States 4-3 on Friday night in the world junior hockey quarterfinals.
President Alexander Stubb of Finland told The Associated Press that a ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before spring.
Germany plans to send more than $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine amid concerns about dwindling Western support.
Luka Donฤiฤโs 39 points were not enough for Slovenia as it lost 99-91 to Germany in a thrilling EuroBasket quarterfinal.
Elias Valtonen has scored eight points in the final two minutes to help Finland stun Serbia and Nikola Jokic 92-86 in the round of 16 at the EuroBasket tournament.
In a story published Aug. 29, 2025, about Finland's air force still flying swastikas on some unit flags, The Associated Press erroneously spelled the name of a University of Helsinki professor quoted in the story.
Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska.
The Moomins, Finlandโs most famous literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year.
Norway winger Caroline Graham Hansen showed why she was second in the Ballon dโOr vote last year to her superstar Barcelona teammate Aitana Bonmatรญ.
England left the field to boos after a 3-1 loss to Senegal in a friendly which marked the first defeat of Thomas Tuchelโs tenure as coach.
Nick Olesen scored with 49 seconds left and Denmark stunned Canada 2-1 at the ice hockey world championship to advance to the semifinals.
Thereโs one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna.
Estonian naval ships are taking part in stepped-up patrols in the Baltic Sea by NATO countries after undersea power and communications cables have been damaged in recent months.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the military alliance will step up patrols in the Baltic Sea area as Finnish investigators work to establish whether a ship linked to Russia sabotaged undersea cables there this week.
Finnish police say authorities detained a ship linked to neighboring Russia as they investigate whether it damaged a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables.
Finlandโs prime minister says authorities are investigating an interruption in a power cable under the Baltic Sea between his country and Estonia.
People in Finland have been left unsettled by expansionist neighbor Russia and inspired by its recent accession to NATO, are increasingly taking national self-defense into their own hands.
Finnish advocacy group Oikeutta Elaimille, or Justice for Animals, and Humane Society International have released images taken from an โundercover investigationโ at three fur farms in western Finland in late October to highlight the behind-the-scenes realities of the trade.
Police in Finland have detained five suspects over their alleged involvement in separatist violence in southeastern Nigeria.
While a vast majority of the 1,312 NHL games through June will take place in North America, the spotlight this season is on international play.
Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 123-mile border it shares with Russia, a move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland.
Germanyโs first hobby horsing championship will gallop through Frankfurt this weekend, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.
The United States, Canada and Finland will work together to build up their icebreaker fleets as they look to bolster their defenses in the Arctic, where Russia is increasingly active.
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATOโs military spending guideline by 2030.
Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists have spread across Europe as some call for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza.
An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which itโs hoped that technology can ease the workload in a sector that traditionally prides itself on manual work.
Poland's prosecutors say that a Polish man has been arrested on allegations of being ready to assist an alleged plot by Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Sweden has formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality and centuries of broader non-alignment.
NHL players are returning to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade.
Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has won the first round of Finlandโs presidential election and will face runner-up ex-Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month.
The International Ice Hockey Federation has barred Israel from competing in its world championship events citing security concerns.
As countries at the COP28 climate talks are wrangling over deadlines for lowering their carbon dioxide emissions, a Danish-led group of countries has decided to set the ultimate goal: to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than they emit.
Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova has dominated the first womenโs World Cup slalom of the season by clearly winning both runs.
Finlandโs president says damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by โexternal activity.โ.
Finland is joining its three Baltic neighbors in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory, a joint move in line with a recent interpretation of the European Unionโs sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine.
Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are considering joining the U.S. National Guardโs security partnership program in a further expansion of U.S. military ties across Europe after Russiaโs invasion of Ukraine.
President Joe Biden says he and other NATO leaders showed the world this week that the military alliance remains โmore united than ever."
Turkey's president has signaled once again that his country is not ready to ratify Swedenโs membership in NATO.
President Joe Biden will host Swedenโs prime minister at the White House on Wednesday in a show of solidarity as the United States presses for the Nordic nationโs entry into NATO.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms.
Yes, itโs brutally cold there โ temperatures can fall to as low as minus-40 degrees in the winter โ but it can be a paradise if you enjoy the northern lights.
Samuel Blais scored two goals to rally Canada to a 5-2 victory over Germany in the final of the ice hockey world championship.
The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finlandโs long border with Russia - primarily meant to curb illegal migration - has broken ground near the southeastern town of Imatra less than two weeks after the Nordic country joined NATO as the 31st member of the military alliance.
Finland has joined the NATO military alliance, dealing a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a historic realignment of Europe's post-Cold War security landscape triggered by Moscowโs invasion of Ukraine.
Finnish voters have given a boost to conservative parties in a weekend election, depriving the popular left-wing Prime Minister Sanna Marin of another term as the country prepares to make its historic entry into NATO in the coming days.
Finlandโs main conservative party has claimed victory in a parliamentary election in an extremely tight three-way race where right-wing populists took second place, leaving popular Prime Minister Sanna Marinโs Social Democratic Party third, dashing her hopes for reelection.
Turkeyโs parliament has ratified Finlandโs application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle to the Nordic countryโs long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.
Hungaryโs parliament has approved Finlandโs bid to join NATO, ending months of delays and bringing the Nordic country one step closer to becoming a full member of the Western military alliance.
Hungary's foreign minister says the Westโs steady criticism of his country on democratic and cultural issues makes the right-wing government reluctant to offer support on practical matters, specifically NATOโs buildup against Russia.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will move forward with ratifying Finlandโs NATO application, paving the way for the country to join the military bloc ahead of Sweden.
Turkey's president has reaffirmed that Turkey wonโt allow Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as it permits protests desecrating Islamโs holy book.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is confident that Finland and Sweden will be approved soon for membership in NATO despite ratification delays in allies Turkey and Hungary.
Finlandโs prime minister says she was convinced that there is a โwide supportโ within the Parliament to build a fence on the Nordic countryโs border with Russia as proposed by the Finnish border guard officials.
