Denmark joins controversial summit on racism
The Danish Foreign Ministry decided to participate in the UN’s Durban II conference on racism at the ambassadorial level which is taking place this we...
Pirate Bay Four found guilty
A Swedish court handed the four men from The Pirate Bay a guilty verdict for being accessories to copyright infringement on Friday. The ruling in the ...
Swedish strippers dodging taxman
Swedish tax authorities are entering the virtual world of the Internet to hunt down webcam strippers whom they accuse of dodging taxes. These work-at-...
Half a million Swedes unemployed by 2010
A new forecast by Sweden’s National Public Employment Agency predicts that more than 500,000 Swedes will be unemployed by 2010. The agency expects the...
Reported honour crimes rise sharply in Denmark
While not culturally common in Scandinavia, honour crimes are a regular occurrence in certain strict societies, including Afghanistan, Iran and Somali...
Swedish parishioners create giant Lego Jesus
The celebration of Easter took on a more youthful look this year at one church in Sweden that built a giant statue of Jesus out of Lego blocks. The im...
Darling “overreacted towards Iceland”
The application of anti-terrorist laws against Iceland at the beginning of the banking crisis last October was unnecessarily harsh; this is the findin...
Swedish Pirates to run in EU elections
In a fascinating challenge to the establishment, the Swedish Pirate Party will be fielding 20 candidates in this summer’s European elections. The cont...