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An unusual trademark row has broken out after a Swedish magazine published an advert showing a sex position named after the Öresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark. READ () »
Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg has said that the economy will grow faster than previously predicted this year and next. Spending increases and tax cuts could follow. READ () »
Lawyer Staffan Edh has resigned from law firm Hamilton in Gothenburg following speculation about his role on the Fly Me affair. READ () »
Stockholm District Court has ruled in favour of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus in their prolonged copyright dispute with dramatist Carl-Johan Seth. READ () »
Sweden and Cuba remain at loggerheads after a war of war of words led to what Carl Bildt has described as a "diplomatic crisis". READ () »
In a statement released to The Local, Ulf Carmesund from Sweden's Christian Social Democrats rejects the charge of anti-Semitism levelled at a musician invited to who spoke at a seminar in Stockholm last weekend. READ () »
European Commissioner and leading Social Democrat Margot Wallström has criticized her own party for its "timid" approach to the EU while in government. READ () »
Three girls from the south east of Sweden had high hopes for international communication when they launched a message in a bottle in 1983. But they didn't make it much further than the neighbours. READ () »
"Cleaning is not something for nice white girls," according to a teacher from Sandviken in eastern Sweden. On Thursday she received a formal warning. READ () »
Sweden's current and former justice ministers have called for an investigation into the number of Swedish passports that have been issued using identical personal identification numbers. READ () »
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