Thai students hospitalised after death cap stew
A group of language students from Thailand are recovering in a Swedish hospital after making a home cooked meal with poisonous mushrooms. Despite cons...
Teenage bank robber shot by police
A teenager, suspected of robbing a bank and taking a woman hostage in southern Stockholm, was shot and wounded by police who thought he was carrying e...
Protests over Swedish far-right party election gains
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Stockholm to protest against the election to parliament of 20 far-right party members. The Sweden Dem...
Stripper gets mixed reviews at Left Party meeting
Some members of Sweden’s Left Party were less than amused with the choice of entertainment at a meeting last weekend after a stripper was brought in t...
Sweden has second most competitive economy
Sweden has overtaken the USA and Singapore to claim the number two spot in the ranking of the world’s most competitive economies. The World Economic F...
First terror financing trial kicks off in Norway
A Somali-born Norwegian has pleaded not guilty to sending more than NOK 200,000 (USD 30,000) to the leaders of an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant grou...
Baltic seals steal catch of the day from fishermen
Greedy seals are leaving fishermen in Finland and Sweden with scraps, as they pick the nets clean and scoop the prize catches in the Gulf of Bothnia.
Airline seeks gay couple for cloud-9 wedding
A Scandinavian airline is searching for a gay couple with a head for heights after announcing plans to host the first ever airborne same-sex wedding. ...