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Sweden

Sweden: Crown Princess Victoria is pregnant with second child

The heir to the Swedish throne, Crown Princess Victoria, and her husband Prince Daniel are expecting their second child. The couple already have

05/09/2015

Culture news

Larssen "Dragon Tattoo" sequel publishing event of the year

The tattooed young hacker Lisbeth Salander is back in the sequel to Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy” but with a twist – a new author – and a

27/08/2015

Sweden

Sweden drops two sexual assault cases against WikiLeaks' Assange

Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped two sexual assault cases against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Five years since two women made the allegations

13/08/2015

Sweden

Sweden to drop sex assault investigations into Wikileaks founder

Swedish prosecutors will this week drop their investigations into three accusations of sexual assault against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who

12/08/2015

Sweden

Deadly knife attack at IKEA store in Sweden

Two people have died and a third is seriously injured after a knife attack at an IKEA store in Sweden. Local police said they had been called to

10/08/2015

Sweden

Two killed, one seriously injured, in Ikea knife attack

10/08/2015

Sweden

Submarine:Swedish Navy say wreck is not 2014 mystery sub

The Swedish navy says it is “quite certain” that a wreck discovered offshore has no connection with an alert over a suspected submarine incursion

28/07/2015

Sweden

Sweden launches inquiry over discovery of suspect Russian sub

28/07/2015

Sport

Volvo Ocean Race: Crews set sail in final leg

The seven-boat fleet of the Volvo Ocean race set sail for the ninth and final leg of the demanding round the world challenge on Tuesday. The crews

16/06/2015

Sweden

[Pictures] Sweden's Prince Carl Philip weds former reality TV star and model

Sweden’s Prince Carl Philip has wed a former reality TV star and model in a lavish ceremony in Stockholm. The 36-year-old tied the knot with Sofia

13/06/2015

Sweden

Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl breaks leg during Sweden concert

Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl has broken his leg after falling off the stage during a concert in Sweden. But the show must gone as they say and

13/06/2015

Sweden

European monarchs arrive for Swedish royal wedding

A royal wedding takes place in Sweden this weekend, as Prince Carl Philip marries former reality TV star Sofia Hellqvist. Ahead of Saturday’s

13/06/2015

Sweden

Sweden's winning Eurovision singer gets 'heroes' welcome

Swedish singer Mans Zelmerlow was given his own ‘heroes’ welcome when he returned to his home town of Lund as winner of Saturday’s Eurovision Song

26/05/2015

Cinema

"A pigeon perched on a branch philosophised about life."

The title is a gateway into the universe of director Roy Andersson and the “the final part of a trilogy about being a human being.” In a succession

22/05/2015

Musica

What is life? Music and science combine in "Interplay" in Stockholm to offer answers

Bridging the gap between music and science: it’s the dream, and the objective, of a young, talented and successful conductor. In Stockholm, where he

16/04/2015

Sweden

Sweden mourns death of prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer

Sweden is mourning the death of one of its most famous literary figures, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer. Members of the Nobel academy

27/03/2015

Sweden

Swedish restaurant shooting likely to be gang-related, say police

Swedish police say they think a shooting at a restaurant, which left two dead, was gang-related. The restaurant, in Gothenberg, is said to have been

20/03/2015

Sweden

Gang crime in Sweden suspected trigger for bar murders

Police in Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg, are not ruling out that gang crime may be behind a deadly shooting at a bar in which at least two

19/03/2015

Sweden

Two dead in Swedish bar shooting

At least two people have been killed and another eight injured after gunmen stormed a bar in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. An eyewitness said

19/03/2015

Sweden

Swedish Red Cross launches retro video game scheme in airports

17/03/2015

Sweden

Man told to pay damages to ex-girlfriend after publishing sex tape

16/03/2015

Sport

Mikaela Shiffrin wins on the slopes of Are

Mikaela Shiffrin won in her usual swashbuckling style in the slalom in Are in Sweden. It means a hat-trick of slalom globes are now within touching

14/03/2015

Sport

Fenninger grabs World Cup overall lead

Austria’s Anna Fenninger kept her composure to clinch a World Cup giant slalom race in Are, Sweden on Friday. The reigning champion in the

13/03/2015

Sweden

Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador from Sweden amid diplomatic row

Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador from Stockholm after Sweden ended a decade old arms deal with Riyadh. It is the latest escalation of

11/03/2015

Sweden

Divers discover wreckage of WW ll bomber off Swedish coast

Divers have found parts of a plane wreck thought to be that of a US B-17 bomber which crashed into the sea off southern Sweden way back in 1944

05/03/2015

Cinema

'Snow Therapy' will test your convictions on the nuclear family

‘Snow Therapy’ is the story of a perfect little Swedish family that has come to the French resort of Les Arcs for a few days skiing. Everything is

27/02/2015