March 21, 2010
Alexandra
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'Foreign student places under threat': agency
Education: 12 Mar 10
New admissions regulations for Swedish universities set to be introduced in the autumn are likely to mean fewer places available for foreign students and could be in breach of EU law, according to the National Agency for Higher Education.
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Mysterious giant ice balls discovered on Swedish coastline
Society: 5 Jan 10
Bird watchers on the Baltic island of Öland off Sweden’s southeastern coast were puzzled by an unusual natural phenomenon recently when they stumbled across dozens of football-sized balls of ice lying on the shore.
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Sweden hit by wet and wild weather
Science & Technology: 2 Jul 09
A series of isolated, violent thunderstorms wreaked havoc across southern and central Sweden on Wednesday, flooding roads, damaging buildings, and killing three horses.
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Chilliest start to a summer in decades
National: 12 Jun 09
Sweden has witnessed one of the coldest starts to a summer in fifty years, said meteorological agency SMHI on Friday, confirming the strong suspicions of an entire nation.
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Fetishism goes pop culture: Sweden’s latest social trend
Dating: 27 Apr 09
Even in Sweden, a country with traditionally liberal views about sexuality, fetishism has long been considered a taboo subject. But as The Local’s Rami Abdelrahman discovered recently, it appears that fetishism is finding a mainstream foothold in Swedish society.
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Sweden's big freeze set to stay
National: 24 Mar 09
Motorists are being advised to exercise caution as meteorological agency SMHI forecasts that the weather in Sweden will remain bitterly cold for the rest of the working week.
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'Internet rapist' enrolled in computer security class
National: 6 Feb 09
One of Sweden’s most notorious rapists who made contact with his victims over the internet, successfully enrolled in a distance learning course on computer security offered by a Swedish university.
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Swedes hand stolen drawings back to Russia
Society: 28 Jan 09
Five rare watercolour drawings stolen from a St. Petersburg museum in the early 1990s are finally heading back to Russia after turning up at a Stockholm auction house.
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Knutby pastor: 'We have moved on'
National: 11 Jan 09
Five years have now passed since the Pentecostal church pastor Helge Fossmo persuaded his nanny to murder his wife and his lover's husband. Knutby pastor Peter Gembäck claims the village has moved on.
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'Frozen River' wins Stockholm film festival prize
Society: 30 Nov 08
US film "Frozen River" by Courtney Hunt was awarded the 16 pound Bronze Horse by the jury of the Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday.
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'Elk hunting is no child's play'
National: 18 Oct 08
Animal rights campaigners are in uproar over reports that a pre-school in northern Sweden took its children out elk hunting. It was all pretend but campaigners allege that an ulterior motive lay behind the brutal game.
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Campground to Swedish family: 'Your caravan is just too ugly'
Society: 28 Jul 08
A family from Borås received an unlikely explanation for why they were denied access to a camp site in Falkenberg in western Sweden last week: their caravan was just too ugly.
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Copenhagen - the other capital of Scandinavia
Travel: 9 Jun 08
Located just a short train journey from Malmö, Alannah Eames strongly recommends a visit to Copenhagen.
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Knutby sect killing to become movie
National: 26 Jan 08
The Knutby sect murder in 2004 is set to be made into a movie. Pentecostalists have reacted angrily to the plans.
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Four die on icy roads
National: 6 Jan 08
Four people have died as treacherous driving conditions caused a wave of road accidents in Sweden on Saturday. Forecasts indicate that roads will remain icy on Sunday.
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Please can I return this husband?
Dating: 13 Nov 07
Buy a sweater at H&M and you don't expect it to last forever, but it will look good on you for the time being. With the country's high divorce rate, Swedes have a pretty similar attitude to spouses, says Sarah Tarnowski.
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Snow draws in over Sweden
National: 8 Nov 07
Now may be the time to pull some winter woollies out of the wardrobe with snow forecast for much of Sweden on Thursday evening.
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Handbags for men all the rage
Society: 12 Sep 07
Soon everybody will be dancing around their handbags at the local discotheque, as Swedish men rush to the stores to get their hands on the season's hottest accessory.
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Storms bring 1,200 lightning flashes in an hour
National: 17 Jul 07
Severe storms swept across parts of southern Sweden on Tuesday, bringing thunder and lightning and torrential rain. In one area over a thousand lightning flashes were recorded in an hour.
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Sex offender 'Alexandra' has sentence reduced
National: 18 Apr 07
'Alexandra', a 31-year-old man found guilty of sexually assaulting 58 girls, has had his prison sentence reduced from eleven to ten years.
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Knutby nanny allowed out of clinic
National: 18 Dec 06
Sara Svensson murdered Alexandra Fossmo in Knutby in 2004 after receiving text messages she believed to be from God telling her to do it. She is now to be allowed back into the community.
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Knutby nanny seeks release
National: 12 Dec 06
If a court decision on Thursday goes her way, Sara Svensson, 'the nanny' in the Knutby murder drama, will take her first steps away from institutional care. Svensson killed the wife of Knutby pastor Helge Fossmo in 2004.
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A Swedish Christmas 2006
Lifestyle: 22 Nov 06
The decorations are going up, the stores are bracing themselves, and now Sweden's traditional Christmas markets are underway. We've gathered together the best the country has to offer. God Jul!
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Knutby pastor admits murder
National: 31 Aug 06
A belated twist in Sweden's most sensational murder case in years: interviewed in jail, the pastor of Knutby at last admits involvement in the murder of his wife in 2004.
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'Alexandra man' avoided jail sentence in 2002
National: 18 Jul 06
Last week a man known to dozens of girls on youth web sites as 'Alexandra' was sentenced to 11 years prison by a Malmö court for sexually assaulting, raping or harassing 58 girls. But this was not his first time in a Swedish court.
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Eleven years for internet rapist
Society: 14 Jul 06
A 31 year old man was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in prison for 58 assaults against young girls he met through youth web sites under the name 'Alexandra'. At the end of his sentence he will be deported.
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Sweden to investigate Milosevic detention unit
National: 31 Mar 06
Sweden will carry out a probe of a UN detention unit here where former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic died three weeks ago, the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said on Friday.
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Rickardsson and Pärson rule Swedish sport
Sport: 17 Jan 06
Speedway star Tony Rickardsson and downhill skiing sensation Anja Pärson picked up the big prizes at Monday night's Sports Gala - and the reaction was a resounding "about time".
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Sex pest accused blames 'woman'
National: 16 Jan 06
A man accused of posing as 'Alexandra' to persuade teenage girls to send him nude photos and meet for sex, has insisted in court in Malmö that there was a real woman behind the name.
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Knutby pastor demands European hearing
National: 11 Jan 06
The former pastor of Knutby, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his second wife and for the attempted murder of a neighbour in January 2004, is to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Net sex trickster "assaulted 38 girls"
National: 4 Jan 06
The trial of a 30 year old man accused of sexually assaulting 38 girls he met through internet chatrooms has begun. Under various names he built up a database of 150 Swedish girls.
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Man sexually abused "at least sixty girls"
National: 28 Dec 05
An "unbelievably manipulative" man has appeared in court on suspicion of sexually abusing at least 60 girls, the youngest of whom was only twelve. He faces charges of rape, serious sexual abuse of minors and sexual harassment.
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Swedish Iron Age burial ground discovered
Smörgåsbord: 12 Aug 05
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Paedophiles slip through net despite sex laws
National: 20 Jul 05
The number of sex crime cases quadruples as Swedish police clamp down on men using prostitutes. But at the same time, the case of a man who has allegedly had sex with dozens of underage girls he met through internet chat rooms highlights loopholes in the law.
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Malmö man could have lured 100 girls on net
Society: 22 Apr 05
A man is being held in Malmö on suspicion of having lured young girls to have sex with him. Over 100 girls may have sent explicit films or photos to him through Internet chat rooms.
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Supreme Court will not hear Knutby case
National: 5 Jan 05
The life sentence handed down by the Court of Appeal in November to the pastor of Knutby will stand, following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear his appeal.
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Swedish tourists arrive home from earthquake horror
National: 28 Dec 04
"Evacuation planes" have begun bringing Swedes home from the disaster-struck region of Phuket in Thailand. Crisis teams are in place at airports across the country.
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Appeals court upholds Knutby verdict
National: 12 Nov 04
The stories became wilder and the accusations more pointed, but the verdict is the same: life imprisonment for the pastor and psychiatric care for the nanny.
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Curtain falls on Knutby appeals
National: 29 Oct 04
Prosecution and defence make their final appeals as the last days of the Knutby trial throw up the interesting philosophical question: when does religious faith become an insane delusion?
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Zlatan steals the headlines as Sweden march on
Sport: 14 Oct 04
While Sweden's football team chalks up a couple of victories in their World Cup qualifiers, the press are fixated with Zlatan Ibrahimovic - even though he barely played.
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"I was a sex slave"
National: 7 Oct 04
So said both the pastor and the nanny this week - but that's about the only thing they agree on. The Knutby appeals trial continues in Stockholm with a litany of X-rated revelations.
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Knutby: they're back
National: 1 Oct 04
The full cast of 'the Knutby drama', fresh from a sell-out run in Uppsala's district court, transfers to the grander stage of the Svea Appeal Court on Stockholm's Riddarholmen.
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Knutby - all back to court
National: 20 Aug 04
Both the Pastor and the prosecution are appealing against the court's verdict: he wants one less life sentence, they want one more.
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Knutby: It's not over till...
National: 6 Aug 04
The pastor and the nanny are sentenced, bringing the curtain down on the year's most popular tragedy. But wait, what's this? Oh, an appeal.
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Knutby - from tragedy to comedy
National: 24 Jun 04
The trial is taking a four week break but you can't keep a good story down. The mystery buyer of the pastor's house is revealed and his mistress strikes gold while the congregation finally starts singing from the same hymn sheet.
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Knutby - mistress betrays pastor
National: 11 Jun 04
The pastor's lover and his former best pal grab the headlines with some extraordinary claims, and there's good news for the nanny.
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Knutby - programmed to kill
National: 28 May 04
The nanny said she was brainwashed by the pastor - but he said she misinterpreted him. Some misunderstanding. The trial continues.
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Knutby trial opens
National: 21 May 04
Three weeks of media fodder gets underway with the cross-examination of the nanny - we know she did it, but why?
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Knutby goes public
National: 14 May 04
After weeks of leaks surely everything that could be said about Knutby has been said? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Knutby Special
National: 30 Apr 04
Two murders, a bizarre cult, brainwashing, and a woman who claims to be married to Jesus Christ. Welcome to Knutby.
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"Recently I’ve been thinking of how much mental space we could create if we collectively agreed to get rid of stereotypes. All of those small compartments we walk around with in our heads would suddenly be cleared away and we’d feel so much lighter. Just think of all of that space for real new perceptions..." READ »
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