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Sweden starts 2010 in typically messy fashion

National: 1 Jan 10
The early hours of 2010 were marked by fights, drunkenness, and fires in many parts of Sweden, as a well as traffic accidents and stray rockets. READ »

Swedish hockey fans set to break European record

Sport: 28 Dec 09
More than 31,000 spectators are expected to brave Sweden’s chilly winter temperatures to attend a hockey match in Gothenburg on Monday night, setting a new European record in the process. READ »

Hide-and-seek flash mob invades Swedish Ikea branch

National: 21 Dec 09
Some 150 kids infiltrated Ikea in Karlstad in western Sweden on Friday to play hide-and-seek following a call to arms on Facebook. READ »

Suspected looting of pension fund investment

Business & Money: 16 Dec 09
One of Sweden’s public pension funds has been shaken by a scandal involving the suspected plundering of a company in the fund’s portfolio. The company’s CEO was also in a relationship with the head of the fund. READ »

Dozens arrested in Swedish doping raid

National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement. READ »

Erotica buffs swarm to Swedish vintage porn auction

Society: 6 Dec 09
A collection of more than 4,000 vintage porn magazines will be sold at an auction in Karlstad in western Sweden on Sunday. READ »

Fewer obese children in Sweden: report

Science & Technology: 5 Dec 09
The number of obese and overweight ten-year-olds is higher in Bollnäs, Västerås and Ystad than in Karlstad and Umeå. These were the findings in a comparison between municipal councils that the National Public Health Institute has carried out. READ »

Six airports to be sold in turbulent times

Business & Money: 20 Nov 09
Swedish Airports and Air Navigation Services (LFV) is to sell off six of its airports to municipalities or other local parties in connection with a reorganisation of the company in 2010. READ »

High price put on Facebook head

National: 14 Nov 09
A person from Värmland, western Sweden, contacted police after realising a 20,000 kronor ($2920) reward had been offered in return for their life on the social networking site Facebook. READ »

Johan, 24, suffocated to death by police

National: 6 Oct 09
A 24-year-old man died in Gothenburg died last April as a direct result of injuries sustained at the hands of police officers. But none of the officers involved have been held accountable as prosecutors failed to follow up on the case. READ »

Swedish town ditches 'negro' neighbourhood

National: 24 Sep 09
The city of Karlstad in western Sweden should no longer have a neighbourhood called Negern (‘the negro’), the town council decided on Wednesday. READ »

Train hits 'bloody doll' in unscheduled stop

Society: 18 Jun 09
When the driver of a train traveling through central Sweden saw what he thought might be a bloodied body lying across the tracks, he slammed on the emergency brakes. But it was too late. READ »

Test sites named for Swedish language-learning bonus

Society: 11 Jun 09
Thirteen Swedish municipalities have been chosen to participate in the first phase of a plan to reward newly arrived immigrants who perform well in state-funded language classes. READ »

Outrage over Swedish 'negro' neighbourhood

Society: 5 Jun 09
An association working for Africans' rights has reacted with fury to a decision by a state agency to preserve the name of a neighboorhood called Negern ('the negro') in the western Swedish town of Karlstad. READ »

Immigrants key to new housing law's success

National: 19 May 09
Recent legislative changes intended to allow full apartment ownership in Sweden have not had as popular a response as anticipated, but immigrants could be the answer, said Agneta Ericsson of the National Land Survey of Sweden (Lantmäteriet) on Tuesday. READ »

From midnight sun to electric eels: The Swedish Golf Experience

Lifestyle: 5 May 09
Author and golf enthusiast Gene Oberto bisects the fairways of the nation in this above par guide to the golf courses of Sweden. READ »

Swedish press: file sharing still ahead of the law

National: 18 Apr 09
The Swedish press weighs in on prosecutorial victory yesterday in the Pirate Bay case. Although the guilty verdict was not surprising, they write, the harsh sentencing was. READ »

Färjestad claim Swedish ice hockey gold

Sport: 9 Apr 09
Champagne flowed through the night in Karlstad in western Sweden on Wednesday as local heroes Färjestads BK secured the Swedish ice hockey title with victory over Jönköping team HV71. READ »

Homeless commit crimes to avoid sleeping rough

Society: 15 Mar 09
Many of Sweden's homeless commit crimes during the winter months to avoid sleeping rough, according to media reports. READ »

Man fined over clothing store masturbation

National: 24 Feb 09
A man from Grums in western Sweden has been fined by the authorities for soiling a jacket after masturbating in a Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) store. READ »

'Anti-Semitism on the rise in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden. READ »

Lewd crank calls lead to arrest of Karlstad man

National: 8 Feb 09
A 59-year-old man in Karlstad in western Sweden has been arrested for making more than 300 lewd crank calls to the SOS Alarm emergency calls service. READ »

Psychiatric restraint methods called into question

Science & Technology: 2 Feb 09
Personnel in Sweden’s psychiatric hospitals have been using dangerous methods to restrain unruly patients. READ »

Boys trapped under ice in souped down Volvo

National: 7 Jan 09
Two boys from western Sweden escaped without injury after their Volvo "tractor" sank to the bottom of an ice-covered lake near Karlstad. READ »

Child feared dead in house fire

National: 1 Jan 09
Police fear that a two-year-old boy has died in a fire raging at a house north of Sunne in Värmland. A teenager has been rushed to hospital with burns. READ »

Police hire container to detain drunk skiers

National: 30 Dec 08
Police in Värmland in western Sweden have announced plans to hire a custom-made freight container to house drunk skiers and rowdy youths while they sober up. READ »

Boys blocked from bearing 'girls-only' Lucia crown

National: 12 Dec 08
While generally supportive of equality between the sexes, Swedes still resist tampering with the Lucia holiday tradition which stipulates only girls should bear a candle-lit crown on December 13th. READ »

Disenchanted 29-year-old firebombs police station

Society: 20 Oct 08
A 29-year-old man waited for the police to come and arrest him on Monday morning after he expressed his disillusionment with society by throwing a firebomb at Karlstad police station in western Sweden. READ »

Karlstad woman admits to patricide

National: 21 Sep 08
The daughter to a 65-year-old man found dead in a house in Karlstad on Saturday has admitted that she suffocated her father to death. The woman's motive remained unclear on Sunday morning. READ »

Man arrested following Karlstad killing

National: 18 Sep 08
Police arrested a 34-year-old man on Wednesday night in connection with the murder of a man in shopping centre parking lot in Karlstad in central Sweden earlier in the evening. READ »

Skyways closing Arlanda-based operations

Travel: 28 Aug 08
Swedish budget airline Skyways is planning to shutter its base of operations at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. READ »

Fisherman reels in unsuspecting swimmer

Society: 30 Jul 08
A fisherman made an unlikely catch in Kroppkär Lake near the central Swedish town of Karlstad on Sunday. READ »

Study: good looks doesn't equal higher profits

Society: 17 Jul 08
Having attractive employees doesn’t necessarily add to a company’s bottom line, according to a new study from Karlstad University in central Sweden. READ »

Family outrage at hospital's cadaver confusion

National: 15 Jul 08
A mix-up at a hospital in Karlstad in western Sweden led to relatives holding a burial service for the wrong man. READ »

Outrage over plans for spiritualist summit

Society: 1 Jul 08
Emotions are running high in central Sweden over plans by an organization with ties to a convicted child rapist to hold a key meeting next year near the scene of its member's crimes. READ »

Swedish rally driver admits to driving drunk

Sport: 23 Jun 08
Swedish rally driver Daniel Carlsson, who runs a well-known campaign against drunk driving, is suspected of having driven under the influence. READ »

Man killed in Värmland shooting

National: 9 Jun 08
A man was shot and killed and another wounded by gunfire following a fight in central Grums in Värmland in west central Sweden late on Sunday night. READ »

Swedish Elks travel to Oz

Lifestyle: 26 May 08
Most Swedes will be bemused to learn they have a national Australian Football team. Nic Townsend meets the Swedish Elks before they travel to Melbourne for the International Cup. READ »

Top ten Swedish beaches

Travel: 12 May 08
With summer in the air and the holiday season approaching, Ulrika Österlund pulls on her sunglasses and takes a look at ten of Sweden's best beaches. READ »

Strong poll gains for Sweden Democrats

Politics: 9 May 08
The Swedish population's support for the far-right Sweden Democrats has gained the crucial mass necessary to enter parliament. READ »

Remand centre suicides show no sign of abating

Society: 8 May 08
A man was found hanged in his cell at a remand centre in Karlstad in western Sweden on Thursday morning. READ »

Sweden Democrats call for end to Sami privileges

Politics: 3 May 08
The Sweden Democrats have called for an end to privileges enjoyed by Sami reindeer herders at their annual party congress which began in Karlstad on Friday. READ »

Anti-racist anger at cancelled concert

National: 26 Apr 08
An anti-racist group in Karlstad has reacted angrily to a decision by the council to cancel a planned concert. A Sweden Democrats meeting planned for the same day is given as the reason. READ »

World's fastest internet connection 'used to dry laundry'

Society: 31 Mar 08
What would you do with a 40 gigabit per second internet connection? 75-year-old Sigbritt Löthberg used hers to dry her laundry. READ »

Clean up starts after storm

National: 23 Feb 08
Storms over the southern part of Sweden have left 50,000 households without electricity, 19,000 without telephone and 40 roads blocked. READ »

No debt too small for Swedish state collections agency

National: 14 Feb 08
A woman from Karlstad was surprised recently to receive a 4 kronor fine from the Swedish state collections agency. READ »

Strong profits for Ikea in Sweden

Business & Money: 3 Jan 08
Swedish subsidiary reported a profit of 2.4 billion kronor for the last fiscal year. READ »

Six arrested following samurai sword attack in Karlstad

National: 3 Jan 08
Three victims ended up in the hospital following a scuffle between two families. READ »

Man jailed for attacking snowball throwers

National: 23 Oct 07
A 44-year-old man from Karlstad has been sentenced to eight months in jail after being found guilty of assaulting three children who were throwing snowballs outside his apartment earlier this year. READ »

Three years' detention for Sunne killing

National: 19 Oct 07
An 18-year-old man has been sentenced to three years' secure youth detention for killing a 20-year-old who disappeared last spring in Sunne, 50km north of Karlstad. READ »

'Exploding tyre' kills mechanic

National: 19 Oct 07
A 52-year-old man died in an explosion in a garage in Kärne, north of Karlstad, on Friday morning. It appears that a tyre may have been the cause of his death. READ »

Company reports stolen coffee beans

National: 15 Aug 07
Coffee producer Löfbergs Lila came in for a big surprise when it opened the latest shipment from Uganda. READ »

Refrigerator leak claims second victim

National: 26 Jul 07
A 13-year-old boy who was being treated in hospital in Gothenburg after a gas leak two weeks ago has died. His older sister died two weeks ago. READ »

Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband

Science & Technology: 12 Jul 07
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection. 1,500 simultaneous HDTV channels are now hers for the taking. READ »

Elderly man fends off elk with trekking poles

National: 18 Jun 07
An aggressive elk in western Sweden may have thought it had come upon easy prey when it spotted an elderly man out walking in the forest at the weekend. But the feisty 78-year-old had other ideas. READ »

Police investigate possible honour killing in Karlstad

National: 9 May 07
A 16-year-old girl who fell to her death from the fourth floor of an apartment block in Karlstad may have been the victim of an honour killing. READ »

Man arrested over knife death

National: 5 May 07
A 20-year-old man was found dead early on Saturday morning in an apartment outside Hagfors, 100 kilometres north of Karlstad. A man in his 50s has been arrested. READ »

Scandic backs down over Bible

Society: 3 May 07
Scandic Hotels has backed down after Christians protested at a decision to remove copies of the Bible from its rooms. But bishops might still boycott the chain for offering pornographic films. READ »

Mother detained for harbouring son

National: 3 May 07
Police in western Sweden have taken in the mother of a 23-year-old-man who has admitted responsibility for the deaths of two cyclists. The woman reported the car stolen to save her son. READ »

Hit-and-run driver kills two cyclists

National: 1 May 07
A man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of running over and killing two people in Värmland on Monday evening. The driver then fled the scene of the accident. READ »

Sports digest: Is Evander Holyfield coming to Sweden?

Sport: 16 Apr 07
Promoter says Holyfield will box at Swedish event. Modo win Swedish ice hockey championship. Hammarby weekend winners in Allsvenskan. READ »

Faith healer faces five years in prison for rape

National: 30 Mar 07
The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday to uphold a five year prison sentence for a 60-year-old faith healer convicted of sexually abusing a total of seven women. READ »

Sweden goes Dolly Parton crazy

Society: 16 Mar 07
After an absence of almost thirty years, Dolly Parton is back in Sweden. Back then she was barely made welcome. But this time she has almost earned the status of visiting royalty. READ »

Swedish countryside goes double Dutch

Society: 13 Mar 07
An increasingly number of Dutch people are moving from their crowded homeland to the open spaces of rural Sweden. Swedish regions are fighting to attract what is viewed as a very desirable immigrant group. READ »

Man beats 9-year-old in snow rage attack

National: 26 Feb 07
A snowball fight in Karlstad was brought to an abrupt end when a 43 year old man punched a 9-year-old boy to the ground and kicked him while he was down. READ »

Drunken teacher in hotel room brawl

National: 15 Feb 07
A Swedish teacher got off on the wrong foot at the beginning of a school trip to Auschwitz. A drunken hotel room fight with a Swedish heavy metal band was not on the schedule. READ »

Swedish Romeo charged over serenade

National: 26 Jan 07
A 55-year-old man who tried to woo back his ex-girlfriend by standing outside her window and serenading her is to be prosecuted for harassment. READ »

Faith healer gets five year sentence for rape

National: 28 Dec 06
A 60-year-old-faith healer from western Sweden claimed to channel spirits through an ancient Chinese doctor. Instead he sexually abused his "patients". READ »

Ice causes accidents in southern Sweden

National: 18 Dec 06
Icy conditions caused a number of accidents in southern Sweden on Monday morning, following a sudden turn in the December weather, which had been mild until now. READ »

Tanker grounded on River Göta

National: 11 Nov 06
A tanker containing 2,800 tonnes of diesel was grounded in the River Göta in Trollhättan on Saturday morning. By Saturday evening the ship had bee refloated at moved to the quayside. READ »

Mystery of Sweden's guerilla dog sculptures

National: 2 Nov 06
The theft of a dog sculpture from a Swedish roundabout has sparked a guerilla art movement across the country, with wooden dogs appearing mysteriously at junctions from Stockholm to Skåne. READ »

Bomb threat empties ice hockey arena

Sport: 28 Oct 06
An ice hockey arena in Karlstad, western Sweden, was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after emergency services received a bomb threat. The Löfbergs Lila Arena in Karlstad was cleared just before 6pm. READ »

Singer jailed for drunk driving

National: 24 Oct 06
The frontman of well-known Swedish dance band Sven Ingvars has been sentenced to two months in prison for drunk driving. Sven-Erik Magnusson was 'very drunk' when he was caught, the prosecutor said. READ »

Astoria sells cinemas to SF

Business & Money: 6 Oct 06
Crisis-hit Astoria Cinemas is closing down movie theatres in nine small Swedish towns, while selling a further three cinemas to rival SF Bio. READ »

Malmö casino 'increased gambling addiction'

Society: 2 Oct 06
The opening of a new state-owned casino in Malmö contributed to a doubling in the number of gambling addicts in the city, a new survey will claim. READ »

Drunk Swede threatens Norwegians

National: 11 Sep 06
Three Norwegians driving to Oslo were chased into the woods by a drunken Swede, after he threatened to kill them. The Swede then set fire to the Norwegians' car. READ »

Bailiffs in demands to bereaved children

National: 8 Sep 06
Thousands of bereaved families have received letters from Sweden's official bailiff demanding payment for dead relatives' debts and threatening to seize assets. READ »

Justice minister 'was driving at 130'

Politics: 6 Sep 06
Justice Minister Thomas Bodström's chauffeur drove 40 kilometres per hour over the speed limit to get him to an engagement, it has been reported. READ »

A trip to Swedish foodie heaven

Travel: 30 Jul 06
A weekend at Grythyttan is the perfect way to get to the heart of rural Sweden, while tasting food that could not be sourced more locally. READ »

'Hottest July ever' in southern Sweden

National: 28 Jul 06
This month could be to be the hottest July ever for many parts of southern Sweden. In Lund, the average temperature for the month so far has been 21.3 degrees. READ »

Hell's Angels find protected witness

Society: 21 Jul 06
A restaurateur who was under police protection while waiting to testify against a Hell's Angel member was tracked down at a hotel in Stockholm. READ »

EU gives negative signals over flight tax

National: 6 Jul 06
The European Commission has said it fears that Sweden's proposed flight tax will damage competition in the Swedish flight industry, meaning it the idea could be grounded. READ »

Drunk bus driver suspended

National: 6 Jul 06
A bus driver who was stopped by police in Värmland on Wednesday evening had a blood alcohol level of 1.88 promille - nine times over the Swedish limit. READ »

Öland stabbing: man remanded

National: 21 Jun 06
A man who earlier admitted killing a 62-year old woman on Öland on Sunday has been remanded in custody suspected of murder. The man now refuses to either admit or deny the crime. READ »

Man admits killing stranger in her house

National: 19 Jun 06
A 33-year old man has admitted killing a 60-year old woman in her house on the island of Öland on Sunday. He says he had never met the woman before. READ »

From Flatley to Zappa: Musical May in Stockholm

Lifestyle: 9 May 06
Sweden, and Stockholm in particular, are on a well-trodden path when the world’s top artists hawk their wares around Europe. David Stavrou looks at the delights on offer in May READ »

Tourist offices around Sweden

Travel: 3 May 06
A handy list of Sweden's tourist offices, along with their phone numbers, email addresses and web sites. READ »

Southern Sweden braced for spring floods

National: 27 Mar 06
Most of Sweden is still covered by snow but weather forecasters are predicting a decisive shift during the next few days. And that has led to warnings of spring floods in the south of the country. READ »

Tsunami cost Swedish authorities 315 million kronor

National: 6 Mar 06
The Swedish authorities incurred costs of 315 million kronor last year for the relief effort following the tsunami catastrophe in the Indian Ocean, in which 543 Swedes lost their lives. READ »

Ammunition stolen while truck driver slept

National: 25 Feb 06
Several thousand nine-millimetre cartridges and ammunition of other calibres were stolen from a truck parked by the E6 motorway between Landskrona and Helsingborg at around 3am on Saturday. READ »

Students 'can claim benefits during holidays'

Society: 3 Feb 06
A student in Karlstad has been told by an appeal court that she has the right to claim social benefits during the summer break. 'Now more students will be able to claim' says one student organisation. READ »

Kidnapped gnomes found in snowy forest

National: 20 Jan 06
A dozen garden gnomes which vanished from a number of gardens in western Sweden have been found - gathered around a lighted bonfire beside a small hut. READ »

Teens face mobile stress

Society: 9 Jan 06
Life is tough for the modern always-connected teenager -but mobile phones are causing sleeplessness and concentration problems, say Swedish doctors. READ »

Stepfather held for boy murder

National: 4 Jan 06
A man in Värmland has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his 12-year old stepson. The boy was found dead on 13th December last year. READ »

Airport "terrorist" was pilot

National: 11 Nov 05
An airport in central Sweden was evacuated on Friday after a caller said a suspicious-looking man could have been carrying a bomb. The supposed bomber turned out to be a pilot. READ »

Umeå win women's football cup

Sport: 15 Oct 05
Umeå are champions in Swedish women's football for the fourth time. Victory over Kalmar team Qbik puts them out of reach of their nearest rivals for the crown. READ »

Dylan back in Sweden 40 years on

National: 14 Oct 05
There are few musicians whose names have been connected with the Nobel Literature Prize. But then there is only one Bob Dylan – and he's back in Sweden this week, 40 years after his first visit. READ »

Mass resignations hit government relocations

Politics: 29 Jul 05
It may have seemed like a good idea at the time: plug the economic hole left by regional defence cuts by moving government agencies from Stockholm to the areas worst-affected. Unfortunately, many of the 3,000 staff due to be relocated would rather stay in the capital. READ »

Over half of government's MPs could quit

Politics: 27 Jun 05
In what some are reading as a sign of despondency in Sweden's left-wing parties, fewer than half of Social Democrats say they plan to stand in the 2006 election. And a large majority of MPs in the right-wing parties say they plan to stay on. READ »

Man arrested for Örebro murder

Smörgåsbord: 19 Apr 05
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