Teen sent to juvenile detention centre after pre-robbery ‘selfie’
A teenage girl from Halmstad has been sent to a juvenile detention centre after police used a photo she took of herself brandishing a knife before rob...
Immigrants get most new work in Sweden
Swedish residents born abroad have taken around 70 per cent of all jobs created in the Scandinavian country since 2006, according to recent statistics...
Many Finns to cut Christmas spending
As many as one in five Finns plans to spend less on Christmas presents for their loved ones than they did last year, according to a survey conducted b...
First fatal police shooting in Iceland leaves gunman dead
Police in Iceland announced they shot a gunman dead yesterday in the country’s first police killing. While the tragic event may be relatively co...
Copenhagen students demonstrate at university
Students at Copenhagen University demonstrated on Wednesday in protest at plans to make them finish courses more quickly. The university had planned t...
No ban on circumcision in Norway
In a letter to the Simon Wiesenthal Center sent last week, Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende gave his assurances that circumcision will not be b...
Foreigners worst off in Sweden for unemployment
Of all the EU countries, Sweden is the worst to be in if you are foreigner entitled to stay but still seeking a job. It has the highest gap of unemplo...
Young Finnish pupils to learn programming?
A Finnish minister says the government is mulling the idea of introducing computer programming to the syllabus of primary schools in the country. Alex...