Finland has two national languages, Finnish and Swedish. Most of the approximately 5.5 million inhabitants speak Finnish as their mother tongue, while Swedish is spoken as a first language by just ...

Albert Uderzo, who drew the Asterix comic books, has died at the age of 92. He created the famous stories - about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire - with his friend ...

The French-Belgian comic book series Asterix has been translated in to more than 100 languages A signed original illustration for an early Asterix comic book cover has sold for more than 1.4m ...

But they've been stubbornly resistant to one of France's biggest imports: Asterix. The bite-sized, brawling hero of a series of treasured comic books is as invisible in America as the Eurovision ...

Females in comics The long absence of female characters in Astérix, is a throwback to the comic's early years, in the 1960s-70s, says cartoonist Didier Conrad. "In general, there were hardly any ...

One of the comic book adventures of Asterix has been translated into a rare Swedish dialect -- spoken only by a few thousand in Western Finland -- the project director told AFP. Originally ...