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Education: 23 May 13
The government and its main opposition have agreed to new rules governing performance requirements and profits at publicly funded, privately managed free schools.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 May 13
Following three nights of violence that left cars smouldering in several Stockholm suburbs, The Local travelled to the north-western district of Husby where the disturbances began to see how the riots have affected local residents.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 May 13
Internet policy experts gather in Stockholm this week to grapple with online data protection and surveillance issues that everyone who surfs the web should care about, reports technologist Stefan Geens.
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Business & Money: 17 May 13
A Swedish man is facing a five-million kronor ($750,000) add-on to his tax bill after the authorities took a proper look at his account on the professional networking site LinkedIn.
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National: 16 May 13
One of the two Swedish women who accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes has turned to her personal blog to talk about the ordeal for what is believed to be the first time.
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National: 7 May 13
Police in central Sweden made an unusual discovery on Monday evening when they found two large rubbish bags containing a recently stolen sceptre and crown used in the sixteenth-century funeral of Sweden's King Johan III.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 13
Swedes are turning away from file-sharing sites like The Pirate Bay in favour of "safer" illegal streaming sites for new movies and TV shows, with experts claiming that Swedes would pay for content if a better solution was available.
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Education: 24 Apr 13
An English-language school in Lund described as "the only choice for international kids" has been threatened with a fine of 400,000 kronor ($60,568) for ignoring the Swedish curriculum despite warnings in 2008.
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Society: 24 Apr 13
Gävle district court convicted a 41-year-old man of unlawful threats on Wednesday after he told a Swedish journalist he deserved a "terrible death" for writing an article about a mosque in Stockholm.
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National: 19 Apr 13
The International English School in Uppsala is awaiting a reply from the Swedish School Inspectorate after being forced to defend its "tough love" teaching against an anonymous accusation that it was breaking the law.
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National: 10 Apr 13
Prosecutors in Gothenburg have decided to file criminal charges against two teen girls believed to be behind a "slut-shaming" account on Instagram that caused local teenagers to riot last year.
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Education: 18 Mar 13
Students in Sweden, especially foreign students, can be left struggling when looking for extra work to support their studies. For this week's JobTalk, we find out why it's a problem and how it can be tackled.
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National: 6 Mar 13
The Swedish police are close to wrapping up their investigation into the "slut-shaming" account on Instagram that caused Gothenburg teenagers to riot last year.
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National: 26 Feb 13
Arson investigations have been launched into three fires that broke out near Stockholm in the early hours of Monday morning in three separate locations, all of which house organizations that sympathize with the regime in Eritrea.
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National: 23 Feb 13
Customs officers in Skåne, south Sweden, are deliberately slowing down their work in protest against a shrinking workforce, leading to a drop in drug seizures as fewer cars are stopped.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 13
As the Swedish media examines the climate of hatred towards women in the public eye, editor and author Åsa Linderborg recounts what happened when her newspaper Aftonbladet decided to blow the lid on Sweden’s far-right websites. (WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE).
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Science & Technology: 18 Jan 13
A Gothenburg minor is suspected of aggravated defamation after new evidence emerged in the Instagram slut-shaming incident from December, which saw hundreds of students take to the streets in protest.
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National: 17 Jan 13
As sightseers flocked to the train that remains lodged inside a Stockholm house after a cleaning lady crashed it on Tuesday, officials have backed down and admitted the incident may indeed have been an accident.
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Society: 15 Jan 13
A 43-year-old Swedish woman looking for romance ended up filing a complaint against the dating site eDarling to Sweden’s Consumer Agency after her love-seeking endeavours fell flat.
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Education: 7 Jan 13
Local education officials in Sweden are moonlighting for an Apple-supported project which promotes the company's products in Swedish schools, leading to concerns the extra gig presents a conflict of interests.
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National: 7 Jan 13
Members of a family in western Sweden have claimed their migrant worker father is one of the men seated on a steel beam and having lunch high above the skyscrapers in the iconic picture from 1930s New York City.
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National: 4 Jan 13
Police in Gothenburg have shifted their investigation from the 17-year-old girl who was believed to be behind December’s Instagram riot after linking an IP address to a new suspect.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jan 13
Staff shortages and limited work areas have contributed to Malmö Hospital overflowing with patients, with employees declaring the situation a “catastrophe”.
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Science & Technology: 21 Dec 12
In a landmark anti-piracy ruling, Sweden’s Supreme Court said on Friday that broadband provider ePhone must share information about a customer who put audio books online and made them available for illegal downloading.
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National: 19 Dec 12
The Instagram sex rumour riots spilled into its second day on Wednesday with Gothenburg police intervening when teenagers set off fireworks in the hundred-strong crowd gathered outside a local school.
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Science & Technology: 19 Dec 12
After discovering his daughter's photo had been uploaded in the "slut shaming" Instagram assault on Gothenburg teenagers, Kenneth Thilly has been left reeling by the faceless bullying.
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Society: 19 Dec 12
After the iconic Gävle Christmas goat was torched by unidentified vandals last week, a photo appeared online of four ankles bearing burning goat tattoos. Police are now hot on the case.
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Science & Technology: 18 Dec 12
Swedish high school students outraged over sexual rumours circulating on Instagram about girls and boys in the Gothenburg area barricaded a school in protest and turned violent when police intervened, resulting in 27 arrests.
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Science & Technology: 29 Nov 12
The gentle snowfall that graced Stockholm this week is just the prelude to the upcoming freeze, as forecasters predict plummeting temperatures over the weekend.
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Politics: 26 Nov 12
An online integration campaign by Sweden’s Green Party has been marred by "racists" who uploaded images of criminals with foreign backgrounds, including one picture of Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab.
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Science & Technology: 23 Nov 12
A cyber attack on a Swedish hospital has been reported to the police, with the hackers claiming to be pro-Julian Assange members of the hacktivist network Anonymous.
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National: 21 Nov 12
A Stockholm school is mourning and family friends are searching for answers in the wake of an apparent murder-suicide that has shocked the upscale district of Östermalm.
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National: 18 Nov 12
An anonymous man has offered a 25,000 kronor ($4,000) reward for anyone who helps police arrest the teenagers who attacked an 87-year-old woman in Helsingborg.
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Business & Money: 5 Nov 12
Former Volvo Cars CEO Stefan Jacoby, who left his post after two years due to ill health, will not be leaving empty handed. According to company policy he is entitled to some 8 million kronor ($1.2 million) in severance pay.
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Politics: 2 Nov 12
Swedish security service Säpo has launched at least one intelligence probe into suspicions that Syrian intelligence agents are spying on Syrian nationals in Sweden.
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Society: 23 Oct 12
A hunter made a macabre find in the forest on an island off the east coast of Sweden at the weekend, stumbling across several life-sized wooden sculptures depicting tied-up naked women.
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National: 19 Oct 12
The Parken Zoo animal park in central Sweden has suspended its head zookeeper for misleading statements about the killing of endangered animals at the zoo in a widening scandal that has prompted a response from the authorities.
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Science & Technology: 19 Oct 12
Swedes are embracing the worldwide trend of changing the names on their network routers to send angry messages to their neighbours, anonymously airing their complaints about noisy sex, internet "thieves" and loud music.
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Business & Money: 19 Oct 12
Volvo Cars board member Håkan Samuelsson, who previously served as chairman of German truckmaker MAN, has been named the new Volvo CEO, taking over from current head Stefan Jacoby who suffered a stroke in September.
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Politics: 10 Oct 12
In the wake of several cyber attacks targeting Swedish government websites, Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has called for a toughening of criminal penalties for hacking and other attacks against computer systems.
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Business & Money: 5 Oct 12
The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, the time at which hacktivist network Anonymous warned it would launch a cyber attack against Swedish state interests.
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National: 4 Oct 12
After a DDOS attack on the Swedish Riksbank late on Wednesday night, a spokesperson claiming ties to hacktivist network Anonymous promised the “biggest” attack so far to take place on Friday.
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Business & Money: 3 Oct 12
Hacktivist network Anonymous followed through on threats to direct a cyber attack against Sweden’s Riksbank on Wednesday night in retaliation for Monday's raid on PRQ - previous hosts to The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks. Many other sites were also hit.
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Science & Technology: 3 Oct 12
Computer hackers claiming to be from the Anonymous network took over the website of Sweden's health board on Tuesday night, leaving a profane message for anyone who visited the site. A site related to Sweden's courts was also hit.
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Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Sweden should prepare for further cyber attacks in retaliation for Monday's raid against web hosting company PRQ – previous hosts to The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks – hacktivist network Anonymous has warned.
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National: 10 Sep 12
Relatives of two Swedish journalists jailed in Ethiopia after being convicted of supporting terrorism remained sceptical over reports the two will be pardoned ahead of a Monday afternoon press conference called by the Ethiopian justice ministry.
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Society: 5 Sep 12
A Swedish church has found itself in the centre of a mystery after English relatives of a gunned down World War II airman realized that an anonymous well-wisher had been planting flowers at the grave since 1943.
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Science & Technology: 4 Sep 12
Monday’s attack on official websites in Sweden was not a full scale cyber-attack, according to experts, who say it may be a test run for a much bigger onslaught in the future.
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National: 3 Sep 12
A number of official websites in Sweden were rendered inaccessible on Monday, in what some have claimed to be a cyber-attack by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Business & Money: 20 Aug 12
Police have found a discarded safe in southern Sweden in what may prove to be the vital clue and motive behind the brutal double murder of an elderly farming couple in south western Sweden last year.
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National: 16 Jul 12
A journalist who posted pictures of "pro-free speech" teddy bears like those dropped by Swedes in Belarus in early July has been arrested by the country's security services as organizers of the stunt released more video footage of the flight.
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Society: 7 Jul 12
The daughter of an elderly man suffering from dementia has reported his geriatric home for maltreatment upon learning that he was forced to pull out all his teeth due to poor dental hygiene and had un-clipped nails growing into his skin.
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Society: 5 Jul 12
A daredevil motorcyclist known as the “Ghostrider” has spoken out about his latest video in which he reaches speeds of nearly 300 kilometres as he dodges traffic on a road in northern Sweden.
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National: 4 Jul 12
A Swedish PR agency claims to have parachuted hundreds of pro-free speech teddy bears on the Belarusian capital of Minsk early Wednesday morning in a show of support for the country's pro-democracy movement.
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Business & Money: 21 Jun 12
Foreign strawberries are being repackaged and passed off as Swedish, causing outrage among growers and authorities to send samples to Germany for analysis.
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Business & Money: 19 Jun 12
Swedish supermarkets regularly re-label old food and put it back on store shelves, fooling their unsuspecting customers, with sometimes serious consequences, according to a report by a Swedish newspaper.
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Science & Technology: 30 May 12
A Swedish doctor with HIV who was convicted for having unprotected sex should be allowed to keep practicing, hospital management has argued, prompting a group of employees to slam the move as "unethical".
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National: 24 May 12
Sweden Democrat party leader Jimmie Åkesson received a death threat from a Swedish rapper through Twitter, prompting to the political party leader to report the matter to police.
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National: 23 May 12
Former students of prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg have shared tales of "Lord of the Flies" bullying including forced oral sex and eating manure amid a battle over the school's refusal to acknowledge certain claims.
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National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack.
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Society: 9 May 12
A rock-and-roll museum is planned for Stockholm for the hundreds of Swedish music acts that have influenced the country’s music industry over the last nine decades.
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Science & Technology: 1 May 12
Swedes have become more inclined to surf the internet anonymously, in order to protect themselves from online surveillance, a new study shows.
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National: 30 Apr 12
A high-speed car crash late on Saturday night claimed the lives of two Swedish women from separate cars, in what witnesses have described may have been the result of a street race.
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Politics: 6 Apr 12
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt took to Twitter on Thursday to snipe at a journalist who claimed the controversial Moderate Party veteran planned to step down before the 2014 elections.
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Politics: 21 Mar 12
Sweden's parliament voted in favour of the controversial EU data retention directive following a spirited debate on Wednesday, as some internet providers touted new measures to protect their customers' privacy.
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National: 21 Mar 12
The Swedish government approved a tour by a delegation from Saudi Arabia to a top secret military facility outside of Stockholm after the Armed Forces initially rejected the visit.
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Society: 15 Mar 12
Plans to put a stop to the cherished tradition of eating casual breakfasts at the police station in Västmanland County, central Sweden, has hungry officers up in arms at the prospect of having munch their morning meals on their own time.
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Society: 10 Mar 12
A Swedish paper manufacturer made an unpleasant discovery recently, when they found that someone had been drawing swastikas on the company's paper rolls - later exported to a major client in Germany.
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National: 24 Feb 12
The father and step-mother of a 14-year-old girl from western Sweden were charged on Friday with repeatedly beating and burning the girl "for being a witch”, according to the prosecutor.
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National: 22 Feb 12
A woman from Malmö in Sweden was shocked to find that her parents had been named on a public internet forum as both the victim and offender in a fatal knife attack, even though neither was involved in the murder at all.
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Politics: 10 Feb 12
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt harbours hope that the two Swedish reporters jailed for terror crimes in Ethiopia will be pardoned by the regime.
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National: 8 Feb 12
A 15-year-old girl, taken into custody by social services last week, was removed on Sunday from her foster home by four armed men, one of which was her father.
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Business & Money: 7 Feb 12
The Swedish National Police Board has called for new international laws to catch hackers on the internet, after US internet service providers refused to divulge information on the weekend's attack on government websites.
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Science & Technology: 4 Feb 12
The "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on the websites of the Swedish government on Saturday as part of protests against anti-piracy regulations.
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National: 31 Jan 12
Pigeon owners in southern Sweden were met with a gruesome sight when they found their pet birds decapitated and apparently eaten by a mystery intruder.
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National: 30 Jan 12
A mother, a father and their 25-year-old son, charged with trafficking after allegedly having "purchased" a 14-year-old in Serbia to serve as the mentally disabled son's wife, were freed by a Swedish court on Monday.
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Society: 28 Jan 12
Exorcism was the motivation for repeated attacks against a 14 year-old girl from western Sweden who was regularly beaten and burned by her father and stepmother, who wanted to rid the girl of “evil spirits”, prosecutors allege.
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Politics: 26 Jan 12
Stefan Löfven, current chair of Sweden’s IF Metall trade union, is set to take over as interim head of the Social Democrats, according to Swedish media reports, which were subsequently confirmed by his mother.
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Society: 20 Jan 12
Police hunting for a bunny burglar believed to have pinched 11 pet rabbits since the New Year in Säffle in northern Sweden have found their first suspect – a fox, but residents remain unconvinced the culprit has four legs.
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Business & Money: 19 Jan 12
After Sweden's Wednesday night lotto draw, one lucky winner took home the grand slam of 134 million kronor ($19.6 million). Despite the ticket being bought in a small town, the owner is still unidentified.
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National: 16 Jan 12
A man carrying a Swedish passport who was arrested on terror suspicions in Thailand last week was indicted on Monday after leading police to a massive stash of bomb-making materials. The Swedish foreign ministry is still working to ascertain the identity of the man.
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National: 15 Jan 12
The father of the 10 year-old boy, reportedly abandoned outside an Uppsala sporting hall for playing floorball badly, has spoken to the media for the first time, denying the incident ever occurred.
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Lifestyle: 12 Jan 12
An underground Swedish band with a suggestive name has launched a technological treasure hunt through which fans can discover their new song by finding computer memory sticks hidden in public places around the world.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 12
Access to Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay was ordered blocked on Wednesday for clients of two internet service providers (ISPs) in the Netherlands following a ruling by a Dutch court citing copyright concerns.
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Business & Money: 27 Dec 11
Dozens of Swedes, including staff at government agencies and telecoms giant Ericsson, had their personal data exposed after a breach at US-based security company, reportedly carried out by activist hacking group Anonymous.
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Society: 14 Dec 11
Sara Svensson, the nanny convicted of killing the wife of a pastor with whom she was having an affair, in the village of Knutby, eastern Sweden, in 2004, has been ordered released from institutional psychiatric care.
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Society: 13 Dec 11
A Swedish artist recently named as head of “the world’s first international sex school” in Austria has admitted the project was an elaborate hoax.
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Society: 2 Dec 11
A Swedish woman who was viciously attacked by her pet cat in southern Stockholm has been reported by an anonymous animal sympathizer, claiming that stabbing the cat to death was unnecessary.
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Society: 30 Nov 11
Controversial Swedish artist and former presenter of erotic TV, Ylva-Maria Thompson, is to teach Austrian couples about sexual relations, according to a report.
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National: 25 Nov 11
Security at Stockholm's Arlanda airport has been slammed after a number of fake bombs planted to test security checkpoints went undetected by staff.
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Education: 24 Nov 11
All of Sweden's national boarding schools will be investigated by the Schools Inspectorate after reports of systematic bullying and violence among students.
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Business & Money: 18 Nov 11
Sweden's social insurance agency is demanding that a man, convicted of selling alcohol from the back of his van, pay back the full sickness benefits he received during the time he was running his bootleg operation.
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National: 11 Nov 11
Employees at the scandal-stricken care provider Carema's nursing homes in Sweden are instructed to weigh pensioners' diapers to assess if they are full or could be used longer, according to staff.
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Science & Technology: 11 Nov 11
Swedish sperm donors are more stable, mature and have better social skills than the average Swedish man, according to a new study.
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National: 6 Nov 11
Swedish health care provider Carema has received another blow as a "secret" bonus program for managers was revealed just days after staff told how high-savings initiatives have led to neglect of the elderly in their care.
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Society: 4 Nov 11
Customs officers acting on a tip about a case of alleged drug smuggling in southern Sweden were surprised to discover a stinking diaper full of baby poo instead of illegal drugs.
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Society: 1 Nov 11
The Swedish branch of a Scandinavian lingerie chain is under fire after making employees wear name tags displaying both their bust circumferences and cup sizes.
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National: 26 Oct 11
The Swedish military has been hit by a smuggling scandal stemming from the Air Force's just completed mission in Libya.
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Politics: 23 Sep 11
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has denied speculation that he intends to resign his post before the general election in 2014, and pave the way for current finance minister Anders Borg to take over.
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Politics: 14 Sep 11
As Denmark prepares to go to the polls on September 15th, Katherine Dunn explores the contentious election issue of immigration policy and exposes the effects it has had on Sweden's third city Malmö.
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