Stockholm - Olympic newcomer Charlotte Kalla's win in the 10-kilometre cross-country skirace at the VancouverGames has lifted Swedish spirits. 'Heroic gold' screamed a front page headline in the Tuesday edition of Stockholm daily...
Heat builds at Winter Olympics as long-standing feud between gold medal favourites and hosts comes to the boil Britain's skip David Murdoch, centre, in action against Sweden in Vancouver. Photograph: Lyle Stafford/Reuters...
Due to heavy maritime traffic, the Baltic Sea has become one of the dirtiest seas in the world. It is often that shallow that military patrol boats are supposed to not speed at full throttle in order not to get sucked to...
Swedish tapas sounds like an oxymoron. But blue cheese on crispbread and fried milk are sold at Ikea restaurants in Spain and Portugal and they are coming to flat-pack stores across the world. Canberra-born chef Adam Melonas, 28, developed the tapas range in conjunction...
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors want to question two people in Sweden who they believe orchestrated the theft last month of the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the entrance of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Polish police arrested five local men in...
Lucia with her attendants Annika S. Hipple Today, December 13, is one of the most famous of all Swedish celebrations: St. Lucia Day, a festival of light in the long dark Scandinavian winter. Traditionally the oldest girl in a family rises at dawn on St. Lucia Day - not...
By Bjorn Rundstrom STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Paul Kariya scored two goals to help the St Louis Blues rally from 3-1 down to beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 in their season-opening game in the Globe arena on Friday. The 35-year-old Canadian winger, who was injured for...
Click photo to enlargePolice officers search the area around a stolen helicopter, found in Arninge, north of central Stockholm, Wednesday Sept. 23, 2009. Robbers used a helicopter Wednesday in a spectacular raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, breaking into the building...
FURIOUS debate has erupted in Sweden about a former beauty queen's attack on the country's drive for a genderless society, which she claims has turned men into "nappy-changing" sissies and women into frumps who "neglect their husbands' needs". Comments posted on the...
Wayne Madsen After the Swedishnewspaper Aftonbladet published an expose of the Israeli Defense Forces harvesting the organs from young Palestinians killed by its forces in the West Bank, Israel's propaganda machine, which has its tentacles in the world's largest media...
