Swedish ships heading to fight pirates off Somalia
Sweden is set to send three of its naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to help in the international effort to fight the scourge of piracy that has engul...
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Norway to raise toxic Nazi submarine
Norway’s government has decided to raise a Nazi submarine that sank off its shores in the North Sea during World War II because it contains a massive ...
Finland may upgrade missile defence system
Finland’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is looking at ways to upgrade its existing missile defence system, from the present arsenal of Russian Gadflies to...
Denmark and Iceland love social networking
The popular social networking website, Facebook, has revealed that Denmark is the nation with the most users on its site. More than a third of all Dan...
Ericsson to lay off 5,000 despite posting profit
Despite the fact that it posted a surprisingly strong profit in the fourth quarter of 2008, Sweden’s telecom company Ericsson announced it was plannin...
4G broadband coming to Stockholm
A newly signed deal between Ericsson and TeliaSonera means Stockholm’s mobile broadband users will soon be able to surf the Internet using the latest ...
Sweden’s online pirates get state funding
The Pirate Party, the youth branch of Sweden’s file-sharing and copyright reform advocacy group, has been given over a million kroner in state funding...
Aussie toxic waste not wanted in Denmark
The Danish Society for Nature Conservation, a leading environmental group in Denmark, has launched a protest appeal against Australia’s application to...