School allows gum to aid learning
A Swedish school has endorsed teachers’ pet peeve – chewing gum – in class in the belief that the activity of chewing enhances learning.
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Service station pays out for Roma discrimination
The owner of a Swedish petrol station has been ordered to compensate a Roma woman after an employee asked her to pay for her petrol in advance.
Swine flu narcolepsy children to get payout
Youngsters who contracted narcolepsy in Finland after being inoculated against swine flu are to be compensated by the medical council.
Baby killing mum could get four months
A Finnish mother who killed her three-month-old baby may only have to serve four months in prison if the case is ruled to be infanticide.
Peeping Tom politician admits being gay
A former right-wing politician, accused of secretly filming boys in his shower, has admitted he is homosexual for the first time.
Swede wins Nobel Prize for Literature
A Swedish poet, who suffered a stroke more than 20 years ago, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 80.
Family traumatised by macabre Utoya find
Oslo police have apologised to a family which stumbled across some remains of their daughter after being invited to Utoya Island as part of a grieving...
Mower madness leads to assault rap
A 60-year-old Swedish man has been found guilty of assaulting the driver of a ride-on lawnmower which he claimed was making the local horses “hysteric...