Sweden: rise in violent crime cases
Violent crime in Sweden has increased by an average of 39 per cent since the turn of the millennium, according to Swedish crime prevention council BRA...
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Swedish house speaker removes bare breasts painting
The deputy speaker of Riksdag in Sweden has removed a painting featuring a bare-breasted woman from the parliament’s dining room wall.
It’s official: Rudolph’s nose is indeed red
Researchers from Sweden’s University of Lund have put paid to suggestions that Rudolph’s nose may actually be a different colour by saying the animal’...
Drunk Swede hit by train
A 22-year-old man who was hit by a subway train after a night out with friends is “very lucky to be alive”, according to police in Stockholm.
Up to 20,000 attend Swedish anti-racism protest
As many as 20,000 anti-racism protesters took part in a demonstration near Stockholm on Sunday, a week after three people were injured when attacked d...
Sweden PM calls for sex buyers to be jailed
The Swedish prime minister has said that he wants to see the full law applied and people who pay for sex from prostitutes sent to jail.
Cross-dresser and Santa in Stockholm jeweler store robbery
Swedish police were left dumbfounded over the weekend when they learnt that an apparent cross-dresser was able to rob a Stockholm jewellery store whil...
Swedes warned after thief caught stealing Christmas cards
Swedish police have advised people not to send money in Christmas cards as gifts after a man stole a postbox full of cards. Officers approached the ma...