In the glow of blue spotlights, Laiti rapped while a crowd of more than 300 listened, some of them singing along and dancing.

It was well past midnight when Mihkku Laiti took to the stage at an open-air music festival in Utsjoki, a Finnish village ...

Enter Mardy and Sky, a mother-daughter team of Karelian bear dogs. Late last month, the two big, fluffy, black-and-white dogs ...