More online monitoring after Norway attacks
Finnish police have promised to monitor the internet more closely for so-called ‘weak signals’ in the wake of the twin terror attacks in Norway.
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Denmark to review fertiliser laws after Oslo bomb
Denmark’s justice minister has pledged to review the country’s regulations on buying artificial fertiliser, in the hope of preventing terrorist from m...
Ship to Gaza website in ‘cyber attack’
Activists on the Swedish Ship to Gaza have claimed that a cyber attack on their website is the latest attempt to sabotage the aid mission of the Freed...
Minister accuses Danish press of NoW tactics
Denmark’s immigration minister has accused the country’s press of adopting the same dirty tactics as British tabloid News of the World, which closed t...
Assange fights Swedish extradition
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has asked the UK High Court to block an extradition order to Sweden where he faces questioning on sexual assault alle...
Scientists and astronaut in homeopathic ‘suicide attempt’
A group of Swedish scientists, headed by astronaut Christer Funglesang, took a massive overdose of homeopathic sleeping pills in an attempt to discred...
Greenland melts most in 50 years
The ice sheet in Greenland melted more last year than it has done for more than 50 years, according to US government scientists.
School wrong to sack ‘sex maniac’ Facebook head
A Swedish school, which sacked its headmaster for publishing half naked pictures of himself and joining sexually-themed groups on Facebook, has been t...