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 ...
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Sweden to get Europe’s biggest wind farm?
Plans have been set in motion for Europe’s largest wind farm to be built in Sweden after approval was given by the Norrbotten county administrative bo...
Swedish strippers dodging taxman
Swedish tax authorities are entering the virtual world of the Internet to hunt down webcam strippers whom they accuse of dodging taxes. These work-at-...
Finland wants to cap EU membership fees
Finland has come out and voiced its suggestions for EU member states in a recent Report on Finland’s EU Policy that was submitted by its government la...
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...
Reported honour crimes rise sharply in Denmark
While not culturally common in Scandinavia, honour crimes are a regular occurrence in certain strict societies, including Afghanistan, Iran and Somali...
Legal downloads skyrocket in Sweden after new law
Sales of music through the Internet and mobile phones in Sweden have increased by an unprecedented 100 percent in the few days since the new Swedish a...
A letter from an IceNews reader
We received an email this week from a reader angry at his former employers for not transferring him to a new branch because his Icelandic is not deeme...