Swedish knew about secret CIA terror plane
When Sweden’s government was led by ex-Prime Minister Goran Persson, it was apparently aware that the United States was using the country as a transit...
Suburban Stockholm gets an erotic garden
Swedish erotica aficionado, Jorma Toivonen, has long held the dream of opening a sex museum in Stockholm but municipal councils have other views. Clai...
Pirate Bay Four found guilty
A Swedish court handed the four men from The Pirate Bay a guilty verdict for being accessories to copyright infringement on Friday. The ruling in the ...
Half a million Swedes unemployed by 2010
A new forecast by Sweden’s National Public Employment Agency predicts that more than 500,000 Swedes will be unemployed by 2010. The agency expects the...
Swedish parishioners create giant Lego Jesus
The celebration of Easter took on a more youthful look this year at one church in Sweden that built a giant statue of Jesus out of Lego blocks. The im...
Denmark’s Prime Minister gets NATO top spot
After weeks of speculation from the public and deflection from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s Prime Minister finally announced he was in fact intere...
A ski hill for Copenhagen?
Copenhagen’s City Council has put its support behind a plan to convert part of Amager into a comprehensive recreation site. The development is expecte...
Norwegian tanker captured by Somali pirates
In the most recent incident of piracy in the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast, pirates boarded and captured a Norwegian tanker, giving more credence ...