2008 Polar Music Prize honours Pink Floyd
British rock legends Pink Floyd and American soprano Renee Fleming were honoured at this year’s Polar Music Prize in Stockholm. The musicians received...
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German found guilty on Sweden murder charges
Christine Schurrer, a German national, was found guilty in a Swedish court of murdering two Swedish infants and critically injuring their mother durin...
Sweden’s trains going green
Sweden has unveiled a new high-speed train that will reduce energy use by 30 per cent over its existing trains. The Grona Taget (Green Train), which c...
Malmo gang violence flares up again
A recent spate of gang violence has flared up again in the southern Swedish town of Malmo when a grenade exploded in an apartment block. The grenade, ...
Palestinian refugees relocating to Scandinavia
The United Nations refugee agency has announced it will relocate some of Iraq’s most desperate refugees to Sweden and Iceland under an agreement made ...
Huge weapons bust made near Stockholm
Police in Sweden have arrested six men and charged them with illegal possession of weapons, seizing an exceptionally large cache of explosives and wea...
Trial begins for woman accused of beating toddlers to death
A woman’s trial over the deaths of two toddlers in March 2008 has begun in the Koping district court near Stockholm. The 32 year-old German woman, who...
Golf legend Sorenstam’s Swedish finale spoiled by Amy Yang
In her final golfing tournament on home soil, Annika Sorenstam didn’t get the storybook ending to an illustrious career that she had hoped for, accord...