Slippery Swedes branded butter bandits
Two Swedish men have been apprehended by Norwegian police after they were caught smuggling butter across the border in the hope of profiting from the ...
Sports pundits announce women’s naked relay
A Swedish sports pundit may be reprimanded after jokingly announcing a women’s naked relay event while thinking he was off air.
Husband in hiding after wife’s ‘antifreeze cocktail’
A Swedish man has gone into hiding in Norway after claiming his wife attempted to poison him on several occasions.
Dad jailed for faking daughter’s mental illness
A father has been jailed in Sweden after keeping his daughter in isolation for years and forcing her to pretend she had a mental illness in order to s...
Debate blows up around hand grenade Christmas baubles
The Swedish Army Museum (Armémuseum) has defended selling hand grenade-shaped baubles as part of its Christmas charity drive.
Hospital staff: abused women to blame
A third of the staff members working in the largest hospital accident and emergency department in Sweden believe women are to blame if they are physic...
Thirsty fireman mistook ammonia for water
Fire chiefs in Gothenburg are unable to explain how one of their men accidentally downed a bottle of ammonia during a routine exercise.
Christmas goat sacrificed already
As is an unofficial Christmas tradition, a 13-metre straw goat has already succumbed to arsonists in an eastern Swedish town.