After meeting with King Abdullah on Sunday, President Tarja Halonen said that she hopes that the European Union and the United States will help in advancing peace talks in the Middle East. The talks ...

President Tarja Halonen and her husband, Pentti Arajärvi, spent the afternoon of Christmas Eve with Helsinki's homeless at an annual Christmas celebration for the poor. Organiser Heikki Hursti says ...

The royal wedding takes place on Saturday in the city’s Storkyrkan church. On Friday, Halonen and Arajärvi are to take part in an official dinner and concert. Halonen and Arajärvi return to Finland on ...

As President Halonen's second and final term in office comes to an end, she has already carried out farewell visits to Estonia and Russia. Her Tuesday trip to Stockholm is the final bi-lateral working ...

At a traditional welcoming ceremony staged by the town, Halonen was presented with a bouquet by 8-year-old Nea Palletvuori. In the evening, the presidential pair attended a concert featuring soprano ...

Halonen is co-chair of the panel, alongside South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Halonen and her husband Pentti Arajärvi will return on Saturday.

It's fun! It's fast! It's Finnish! President Tarja Halonen will be in Duluth later this week as part of FinnFest 2008. In her honor, the News Tribune is sponsoring an online lookalike contest.

Halonen will also visit development cooperation projects organised by Finnish and Namibian non-governmental groups. On the last day of her visit, Halonen will travel to the northern town of Ondangwa.

Tarja," in the balmy, bright summer evening Thursday in Pori, on the southwestern coast of Finland, wrapped in a rare heat wave. Halonen, 59, let her hair down and visibly enjoyed dancing with 70 ...

The redheaded talk show host Conan O’Brien has been promoting President Tarja Halonen’s re-election bid as part of a long-running joke about their supposed physical similarities.

The “Late Night” jokester, who ran a mock ad campaign endorsing the re-election of Finnish president Tarja Halonen — because of her strong resemblance to him, red hair and all — had a face ...