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Viru County Court sentenced three people to prison for the abuse and murder of a 15-year-old girl last year. ...

The state, local government, employers and people are not working as a well-oiled machine and this is eating into Estonia's competitiveness, panelists on an ETV program said. ...

The bill, which has received wide praise as well as criticism, regulates financial, inheritance, and care and visitation rights for cohabiting couples, regardless of their sex. ...

Economy Minister Urve Palo is seeking to ban on all loan advertisements directed at consumers on television, radio and Internet with a bill submitted for approval to the ministry’s partners. ...

New company registration in Estonia has remained at a stable 20,000 a year for the last three years, one in three new companies is set up by a woman and one in five founders have previously been in business, a study by a commercial bank reveals.   ...

A political milestone was reached on what Bitcoin supporters hope is the cryptocurrency's path to wide acceptance alongside such innovations as digital signatures and m-parking. ...

Supporters of the decision to appoint the relatively untested Taavi Rõivas as the country's prime minister in late March outnumber detractors, according to a poll in April conducted by market research company Turu-uuringute AS. ...

Tartu Santos, usually found playing in the third tier of Estonian league football, could not upset Estonian league champion FC Levadia in the final of the Evald Tipner Cup, the most important cup in Estonian football, on Saturday, losing 4-0. ...

The Ministry of Education has prepared a bill which would make all school lunches free, not just for primary school students as is currently the case. ...

A new 10 million euro cruise ship dock was opened at the Port of Tallinn on Saturday, welcoming the 330-meter Royal Princess with 3,000 passengers. ...

The conflict in Ukraine is linked to the perceived potential threat against Estonia, social scientist Juhan Kivirähk said in comments on a recently released public opinion poll.   ...

A total of six billion euros of income in 2013 was declared to tax authorities, marking a 5 percent increase despite the number of people declaring an income dropping. ...

With the sun having risen above the yardarm today, Tallinn was at a balmy 24 C**. The Estonian capital at 59 degrees north latitude easily beat out Rome, Valletta and a number of other EU capitals that could manage only 21 C.  ...

The Harju County Court rejected the suit of Tallinn Mayor Edgar Savisaar against the daily Postimees, which published the assessment of the Internal Security Service (ISS) that he is a Russian agent and a security threat. ...

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said the nation will send a rescue team to help Bosnia deal with flooding, while Serbia, also affected, refused assistance. ...

The European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court, has ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by a Spanish lawyer to force Google to drop search results referencing him, a decision that has the Data Protection Inspectorate looking into how a "right to be forgotten"can be implemented in Estonia. ...

The open museum night on Saturday attracted around 75,000 people around Estonia this year - probably a new record, according to the organizers. ...

According to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Education, the lowest average monthly gross salary for a teacher is 712 euros in Vaivara municipality in Ida-Viru County, while the highest average is 1,312 euros in Sauga in Pärnu County. ...

This week, the spotlight in Tallinn was on museums, with Europe's best honored by the European Museum Forum. Writer Orhan Pamuk won the main award for his Museum of Innocence - although he has a novel by the same name, he has also established a real-life museum by that name in Istanbul.   ...

She is part of the Swedish dynasty thrust into the tabloids when her brother's heroin addiction ended in tragedy. In a rare interview, Sigrid Rausing tells how her retreat to an impoverished village changed her life When I meet Sigrid Rausing, she has just returned to London from a short book tour to her native Sweden and is still somewhat in between worlds. The previous evening, she had been the headline...