FARC release Swedish man after two years
Eric Roland Larsson, a 69 year-old Swede who had been working and living in Colombia when he was kidnapped nearly two years ago by FARC rebels has fin...
Renaissance painting pilfered from Norwegian church
A group of thieves broke into a church in southern Norway and stole a Renaissance painting estimated to be worth USD 2.8 million. The painting’s absen...
Copenhagen in midst of gang war
A simmering conflict between rival gangs in the Danish capital of Copenhagen has slowly boiled over into a street war. In three different incidents wi...
Finland refuses to extradite Rwandan man
A Rwandan Baptist preacher accused of genocide during the country’s brutal 1994 civil war will not be extradited from Finland because it is feared he ...
Swedish serial drunk driver caught (again)
The Local newspaper has reported that a man from the town of Boras in western Sweden has been arrested for unlawful drunk driving. But what makes this...
Danish freighter pays ransom to Somali pirates
After being held captive by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden for 68 days, the Danish freighter CEC Future and its entire crew have been safely relea...
Attacks against Swedish Jews on the rise
In the wake of the ongoing conflict involving Israel and Hamas militants operating from the Gaza Strip, Sweden has been experiencing a rash of anti-Se...
Major Nordic drug smuggling ring busted
Police in Norway and Sweden worked together to bust a major international smuggling ring that they had been tracking since the summer of 2007. Codenam...