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Sweden moves to outlaw forced marriages

National: 24 May 12
Anyone in Sweden who forces someone else to get married against their will can be sent to prison, according to proposed legislation presented Thursday which aims to criminalize forced marriages. READ »

Cheap Norway nappies smuggled via Sweden

Business & Money: 24 May 12
A gang of Lithuanian diaper smugglers is using Sweden as a transit country to ferry cheap nappies bought in Norway for resale at a stiff markup in eastern Europe. READ »

Saunter through Saxony with InterRail: a gateway to central Europe

Travel: 22 May 12
With a history spanning over 1,000 years, the German state of Saxony has transformed over time from medieval duchy, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, kingdom and republic. READ »

Swedish tabloid editor guilty of weapons crimes

National: 18 May 12
The editor-in-chief of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two other journalists with the paper have been convicted of weapons crimes related to a report about how easy it is to buy guns in Malmö in southern Sweden. READ »

Two held for shooting imam in northern Sweden

National: 16 May 12
Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden. READ »

Watch out Johansson, Andersson's on the rise

Society: 13 May 12
Swedes bearing the surname Johansson are in for a tough match if they wish to defend their title as Sweden’s most common surname. After 60 years on the top, the name Andersson is now gaining speed rapidly. READ »

Sweden looking for redemption at Euros

Sport: 13 May 12
At Euro 2012, the Swedish football team is looking to prove that they have returned to form following their failure to reach the 2010 World Cup. READ »

Sweden extends police eavesdropping powers

Science & Technology: 11 May 12
Sweden on Thursday passed a law making it easier for police to conduct wiretaps as well as obtain data about the identities of individual computer users, much to the dismay of privacy advocates. READ »

Scientologists push anti-drug classes in schools

Education: 11 May 12
An group with ties to the Church of Scientology has been selling lectures about drug abuse to Swedish schools that contain significant factual errors, according to an investigation carried out by a Swedish newspaper. READ »

One in ten Swedish teen girls 'forced' into sex

Society: 11 May 12
One in ten female high school students in Sweden has been coerced to take part in some sort of sexual act, according to a new study from Linköping University. READ »

Swedish woman swallows scalpels – dies

Society: 10 May 12
A patient at a Swedish psychiatric ward has died after swallowing two surgical implements while visiting a medical facility in Växjö in central Sweden. READ »

Drunken airline pilot stopped at Arlanda

Business & Money: 10 May 12
A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pilot scheduled to fly a plane out of Sweden on Tuesday afternoon was stopped from leaving after failing a breathalyzer test. READ »

9 untranslatable Swedish words - caught on film

Lifestyle: 9 May 12
The Local put together a list of nine unusual Swedish words that simply don’t exist in English. We even asked a bunch of Swedes to make sure - and filmed their responses… READ »

'Police shamed me’: angry 'bear' attack victim

National: 8 May 12
A Swedish man who claimed to have been mauled by a bear in eastern Sweden over the weekend lashed out at police for calling him a "liar", as some theorize an owl may have carried out the attack. READ »

Rocko the cat found 250 kilometres from home

Society: 4 May 12
A man from southern Sweden was shocked to receive a call from someone who’d found his missing cat Rocko – three weeks after it went missing and 250 kilometres away. READ »

Left Party helped kids 'hit politicians in the face'

Politics: 4 May 12
Sweden's Left Party has come in for criticism for allowing young children to take whacks at the faces of centre-right government ministers at the party's recent May 1st festivities. READ »

'Unlike Sweden, when you call an ambulance in the US, it comes'

Analysis & Opinion: 3 May 12
After her child suffered a serious injury in Sweden and no ambulance was sent, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt was left feeling especially vulnerable. READ »

Swedish woman injured by flying man

Society: 2 May 12
A woman was sent to hospital on Tuesday night after being hit by a flying man at a bar in central Sweden. READ »

Man charged with stabbing 10-year-old girl

National: 27 Apr 12
A 28-year-old Swedish man who stabbed a ten-year-old girl in the throat in Gothenburg in February has been formally charged with attempted murder. READ »

Swedish safari guide held by police in Africa

National: 26 Apr 12
The Swedish head of a safari company in the Central African Republic and ten of his staff have been arrested after 13 miners were found murdered in the northeast of the country, local police said Wednesday. READ »

'Foreign ministry refused to abandon Saudi deal'

Business & Money: 26 Apr 12
The former head of the Swedish Fortifications Agency wanted to stop the cooperation with the Saudi regime as early as 2000, but says she was told no by the Swedish foreign ministry. READ »

'Serbs are like Breivik': Swedish radio host

Society: 25 Apr 12
A well-known Swedish radio host has been suspended for calling Serbs “stupid” and comparing them to Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik during a recent broadcast. READ »

Swedish 'Deep Throat' comes clean over leak

Science & Technology: 25 Apr 12
A former Swedish police chief has broken years of silence over his his role in unleashing one of India's biggest corruption scandals that some speculate has a connection to Olof Palme's assassination. READ »

Google hails Swede who perfected the zipper

Science & Technology: 24 Apr 12
Google has honoured Sweden's contribution to the art of making it easier for people to remove their pants with a zipper-themed "Google doodle" on what would have been Swedish inventor Gideon Sundback's 132nd birthday. READ »

Swedish man wakes up during lung surgery

National: 23 Apr 12
A 22-year-old Swede undergoing surgery for a collapsed lung was shocked to find himself waking up while under the knife and unable to communicate with the surgeons. READ »

'Tortured' US Muslim seeks asylum in Sweden

National: 19 Apr 12
A US citizen who claims he was imprisoned and tortured at the behest the American FBI is seeking political asylum in Sweden. READ »

Minstrels and ministers make bad bedfellows

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Apr 12
Art installation or not, politicians have no business taking part in minstrel shows, argues Carmen Price, an American freelance writer based in Stockholm, in reaction to the 'racist' cake controversy involving Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth. READ »

'We are Sweden's true royal family'

Lifestyle: 19 Apr 12
With Sweden still basking in the royal glow of the birth of Princess Estelle, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson talks to a US academic who claims that his family, and not the “immigrant” Bernadottes, should be on Swedish throne. READ »

Volunteering in English opens donations page

Society: 18 Apr 12
The English Volunteering Project’s virtual doors were thrown open for donations on Monday, with project organizers hoping to raise enough money to see volunteering in Sweden becoming a reality for English speakers. READ »

'I was in survival overdrive': victim

National: 17 Apr 12
On Tuesday it was the 25-year-old kidnapping victim’s turn to tell his version of events in the abduction drama which took place in Uppsala at the end of last year. READ »

Spring snowfalls cause transport turmoil

Science & Technology: 14 Apr 12
Heavy snowfalls in central Sweden have left swathes of the Stockholm area without electricity and caused major problems for public transport and road users on Saturday. READ »

Girlfriend-strangler given 16 years in prison

National: 13 Apr 12
A 52-year-old man in southern Sweden, convicted of murdering his 25-year-old girlfriend, was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison. READ »

Jens Lapidus: Sweden's newest star crime writer

Lifestyle: 13 Apr 12
With an English version of his debut novel finally hitting bookstores, celebrity Swedish defence lawyer and best-selling author Jens Lapidus tells The Local's David Landes why defending criminals beats a full-time career as a writer. READ »

Politician arrested after sex with disabled woman

National: 12 Apr 12
A local politician in northern Sweden, working as a disabled transporation driver, has been arrested after he was caught by police while molesting a disabled woman in his vehicle. READ »

Seven convicted in brutal gang rape case

National: 11 Apr 12
Seven of the eight men charged with the gang rape of a woman at a housing facility for asylum seekers run by the Swedish Migration Board were convicted and sentenced to prison on Wednesday. READ »

Three convicted in killing of teen refugee

National: 10 Apr 12
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for fatally shooting a 16-year-old Afghan asylum seeker in the face at a refugee home in southern Sweden last autumn. Two other men were also jailed for the killing. READ »

Ikea vows to stop spying on French workers

Business & Money: 7 Apr 12
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has admitted to ethical breaches after it was accused of illegally accessing secret police files in France as part of its efforts to screen potential employees. READ »

Swedish TV in Eurovision 'coloured person' outrage

Society: 5 Apr 12
Comments hinting that a dancer should be replaced due to his skin colour in order to boost Sweden’s chances of winning the Eurovision Song Contest recently sparked outrage and left Swedish state broadcaster SVT in crisis. READ »

Volunteering for English speakers hits Sweden

Lifestyle: 5 Apr 12
Volunteering in Sweden has never been easy for non-Swedish speakers, but a new project in Stockholm is hoping to change that by serving as a volunteer hub for expats who speak English, The Local's Oliver Gee discovers. READ »

US woman hoops star convicted of assault

Sport: 4 Apr 12
An American woman basketball player was convicted of assault by a Swedish court on Wednesday for pushing and kicking man on the Baltic island of Gotland in February. READ »

Carers can help alcoholic buy booze: agency

National: 3 Apr 12
Swedish home-help service workers have recently been instructed to assist a disabled man who suffers from alcohol addiction to purchase drink. READ »

20 parrots massacred: 'It was no ferret'

Society: 3 Apr 12
The shocking sight of 20 parrots dead in their cages has left a devastated Swedish breeder wondering how so many of his valuable birds ended up beaten – and apparently bitten – to death. READ »

New internal probe for Swedish 'sex pastor'

Society: 3 Apr 12
A Stockholm-area pastor on probation for having sex with a teen girl in his congregation is to be investigated anew following new accusations that he sexually abused other girls and sent them sexually explicit emails. READ »

Swedes bake up success with online pizza site

Business & Money: 2 Apr 12
Three Swedes have struck online (and pepperoni covered) gold after the online pizza service they created was bought by a German company READ »

Foreign women opt to be 'own boss' in Sweden

Business & Money: 2 Apr 12
Increasing numbers of foreign-born women are taking the plunge into self-employment in Sweden in order to overcome the difficulties of finding a job, new statistic show. READ »

Learning Swedish delays dementia: study

Science & Technology: 30 Mar 12
Ex-pats in Sweden who are putting off language lessons have just been handed another reason to dive in and learn Swedish - speaking a second language keeps dementia symptoms at bay, scientists say. READ »

'Getting sexy' survey: Swedes don't come first

Society: 28 Mar 12
While Swedes' supposed penchant for sex is a recurring theme in popular culture, a recent survey calls into question just how eager Swedes may be to get it on when the lights go off. READ »

Proof of Saudi meeting 'lost' to protect minister

National: 28 Mar 12
An official with a Sweden military agency requested that documents relating to a secret Swedish-Saudi weapons deal not be recorded in order to “protect” defence minister Sten Tolgfors, according to a new report. READ »

Report slams denied ambulance call death

Science & Technology: 27 Mar 12
Health authorities in northern Sweden have come in for scathing critique for the death of 22-year-old Jill Söderberg, whose repeated calls for an ambulance were denied because she was "still talking". READ »

Poison sausage plot targets Sweden's wolves

Society: 27 Mar 12
Poisoned chorizo sausages have been found laid out in the woods around Dalarna, in central Sweden, in what police believe was an attempt to bait and kill wolves in the area. READ »

212 cannabis plants found 'dumped' in lake

Society: 27 Mar 12
A man who was out walking near Asige, southern Sweden, came across an unusual sight in a popular swimming location when he discovered over 200 cannabis plants and gear for indoor cultivation dumped in the lake. READ »

Business Brief: Casas do Barlavento - luxury villas in Portugal

Travel: 26 Mar 12
Do you fancy heading to Portugal's beautiful Algarve? Casas do Barlavento can help find you somewhere to rent for a holiday - or to buy. READ »

Syria 'monitoring' exiles in Sweden: envoy

Politics: 26 Mar 12
Former Syrian ambassador to Sweden, Mohammad Bassam Imadi, has revealed that the Syrian government was spying on Syrian exiles in Sweden during his time in office. READ »

Huge rise in Swedish rape acquittals: study

National: 26 Mar 12
The frequency of rape case acquittals in Sweden has increased dramatically in recent years, new research has shown, and scholars have a theory as to what lay behind the trend. READ »

Woman held after two women found dead

National: 26 Mar 12
One woman is being held by police in northern Sweden after two women were found dead early Saturday morning in a flat in Piteå. READ »

Sweden may be heading for trans fat ban

Science & Technology: 25 Mar 12
Sweden may be moving towards a law limiting industrially produced trans fats in food products, following the lead of several other EU countries. READ »

Malmö mayor in new row with Sweden's Jews

Society: 23 Mar 12
Sweden's Jewish community has railed anew against Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu after comments suggesting the city's Jewish community had been "infiltrated" by Sweden Democrats to foment anti-Muslim sentiments. READ »

'The child I nearly hit could have been my own'

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Mar 12
While experienced expat drivers – especially Americans – may whine about the hassle of getting a Swedish licence, a near miss has convinced US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt that it was worth the trouble. READ »

Infant joins queue for senior flat in Stockholm

National: 20 Mar 12
A one-year-old infant's addition to the queue for one of Stockholm's more popular senior living facilities has taken the trend of Swedes acting early to secure old-age accommodation to new levels. READ »

Man dies after hospital mistakes stroke for drugs

National: 16 Mar 12
A Swedish man who had suffered a stroke later died in hospital after staff mistakenly thought he was on drugs, prompting the family to file a police report. READ »

Swedish cops bash at-work breakfast ban

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. READ »

Ad agency sent 'bloody horse head' in the post

Society: 14 Mar 12
A Swedish retail giant alerted security after discovering a “blood soaked” horse head in the mail, which a Dalarna advertising company claimed was just harmless PR stunt. READ »

Police launch new probe into the Pirate Bay

Science & Technology: 14 Mar 12
After Swedish file-sharing haven the Pirate Bay in February received the blow that the Supreme Court wouldn’t grant them the right to appeal, their newly registered Swedish domain has prompted a new police investigation. READ »

Sexy Volvo, clever Saab, and Swedish massage

Lifestyle: 13 Mar 12
The Local catches up with James May, host of the hit British car show Top Gear, to learn which Swedish cars are driven by yummy mummies, why he opted not to buy Saab for £1 and his stance on the elk-moose debate. READ »

Thief hijacks cop car, steals back own vehicle

National: 13 Mar 12
A suspected petrol thief led police in western Sweden on an unexpected chase after he hijacked a police car before managing to steal back his own vehicle from a police impound lot. READ »

District court 'forgot' child porn crime case

National: 12 Mar 12
A 34-year-old man under suspicion of aggravated child porn offences after police confiscated 13,000 child porn images from his computer was never called to trial, as the court in southern Sweden forgot about him. READ »

Swedish company sent Swastikas to Germany

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. READ »

Vibrating package baffles Swedish postal workers

Society: 9 Mar 12
Another thrilling week in Swedish media, but did you hear the one about the Swedish chef, the biting thief, and the vibrating package that closed down a post office? If not, The Local's News in Brief has all the answers. READ »

Outrage over Sweden's 'secret' Saudi arms plant

National: 7 Mar 12
Tuesday’s revelation that the Swedish government has been involved in a project to aid the building of an arms factory in a dictatorship like Saudi Arabia has caused strong reactions both in Sweden and abroad. READ »

Midday shootout rattles central Stockholm

National: 7 Mar 12
Police in Stockholm exchanged gunfire with a gang of thieves who robbed a jewellery store in central Stockholm on Tuesday afternoon, sending shocked bystanders rushing for cover. READ »

Celebrities in Swedish: YouTube's finest

Lifestyle: 6 Mar 12
Celebrities worldwide have tried getting their tongue around Swedish and The Local has collected a sample of those who were either terribly bad - or surprisingly good. READ »

Man found dead in Gothenburg eatery

National: 6 Mar 12
A man was found dead inside a Gothenburg café on Monday night, yet police, who have launched a murder investigation, are still unaware of the victim's identity. READ »

Boy's call about fatal fire dismissed as 'prank'

National: 5 Mar 12
When 12-year-old Oscar rang the emergency services to alert them of a fire which ended up killing a 5-year-old girl, he was told to stop making prank calls. READ »

Swedish firms rush to cash in on 'Estelle'

Business & Money: 2 Mar 12
Companies around Sweden have taken the opportunity to make a quick buck by using Princess Estelle’s name in their trademark applications. READ »

Google sued by Swedish photo agency

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 12
Swedish picture agency Scanpix is suing search engine giant Google for around 5 million kronor ($753,000) for what the agency claims is unauthorized use of its images. READ »

Ikea used secret French police files: report

National: 29 Feb 12
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has been accused of illegally accessing secret police files in France as part of its efforts to screen potential employees. READ »

Swedish inmates 'awash in drugs, guns and porn'

National: 27 Feb 12
Many of Sweden's most dangerous convicts have access to illicit drugs, guns, and child pornography from inside the walls of psychiatric clinics where they are serving their sentences, newly released documents show. READ »

Family finds drunken man in 3-year-old's bed

Society: 27 Feb 12
A family in Stenungsund, western Sweden, got a disturbing shock when they found a drunk man asleep in their three-year-old’s bed. READ »

Spring on the way to Sweden: expert

Science & Technology: 26 Feb 12
Spring has started arriving to parts of Sweden with startled butterflies and the yearnful cooing of hormonal pigeons, according to experts at the Natural History Museum. READ »

Swede assaulted by US women hoops players

Sport: 25 Feb 12
Two American women basketball players have been remanded in custody by a Swedish court on suspicions of assaulting a man on the streets of Visby on the Baltic island of Gotland last weekend. READ »

Parents charged for 'exorcizing' teen girl

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. READ »

Live Blog: Sweden celebrates new princess

Lifestyle: 24 Feb 12
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to a daughter in the early hours of Thursday morning. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Sweden's first royal birth in more than three decades. READ »

Swede's parked car damaged in elk attack

Society: 24 Feb 12
Princess Victoria delivered in terms of Swedish news this week and therefore many other stories slipped under the radar. Here is a selection of our favourites, from elk attacks to bird-brained intruders. READ »

'Her name is Estelle': King Carl XVI Gustaf

National: 24 Feb 12
Sweden's new princess will be called Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary, announced King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday in Stockholm. READ »

Swedish cannibal blogs from behind bars

Science & Technology: 24 Feb 12
Isakin Jonsson, convicted of murdering and eating his girlfriend in 2011, is blogging from behind bars about his life, new love and the murder. READ »

Bildt 'worried' over WikiLeaks smear plans

Politics: 23 Feb 12
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Thursday he is taking very seriously WikiLeaks' plans to launch a smear campaign against Sweden to stop the potential extradition of founder Julian Assange to the United States. READ »

Sweden braces for family immigration boom

Society: 23 Feb 12
A recent court ruling may mean a 45 percent rise in applications for permanent residency based on family relations, according to predictions from the Swedish Migration Board, with most applicants expected to come from Somalia. READ »

Swedish porn passwords spread on the internet

Science & Technology: 23 Feb 12
Thousands of porn surfers in Sweden may have been exposed after over one million passwords and email addresses from an online porn site have leaked out on the internet. READ »

Patient dies after being hit by hospital door

Science & Technology: 22 Feb 12
A patient exiting a Stockholm-area hospital has died after slamming into an automatic door. READ »

Neighbours wrongly blamed for fatal stabbing

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. READ »

WikiLeaks smear effort to reveal Bildt as US 'spy'

National: 22 Feb 12
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has served as an informant for the United States for decades, according to secret documents to be released by WikiLeaks as part of a smear campaign to halt Sweden's presumed extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. READ »

Wernbloom's heroics put Real Madrid on edge

Sport: 22 Feb 12
Swedish midfielder Pontus Wernbloom had a dream debut with CSKA Moscow in Tuesday's Champions League match as he cracked a last minute score to equalize 1-1 with Spanish giants Real Madrid. READ »

Man admits to stabbing 10-year-old girl

National: 21 Feb 12
A 28-year-old man suspected of stabbing a young girl in the throat in a Gothenburg schoolyard at the beginning of February has confessed to the crime, after being apprehended in another European country. READ »

'Swedes should eat more rabbits': scientist

Science & Technology: 20 Feb 12
Swedes are eating more meat each year and in order to reduce the effect this has on the climate, they ought to change beef or chicken for rabbit meat, according to an expert on agricultural science. READ »

Swedes seek breast milk donors via Facebook

Science & Technology: 20 Feb 12
Swedish health authorities have turned to Facebook in an attempt to find women who are willing to donate breast milk. READ »

Whitney Houston 'chose death': Swedish politician

Society: 20 Feb 12
Whitney Houston was an “awful mother” who “chose drugs and death” and thus doesn’t deserve all the media attention being devoted to her death, a local Swedish politician has argued. READ »

'Inertia' of Swedish model bashed by firms

Business & Money: 19 Feb 12
Swedish companies want to reform the Swedish labour market in order to boost competitiveness, and hope to adopt the euro, according to their representatives. READ »

'Being a stay-at-home mum is easier for expats'

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Feb 12
Although parenthood is never simple, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt finds that being a stay-at-home-mum might be just that bit easier if you're an ex-pat than amid your peers at home. READ »

Swedish doc sews up urethra after C-section

Science & Technology: 17 Feb 12
A Swedish woman has reported a hospital in central Sweden to the country's health authorities after the surgeon sewed up her urethra when stitching her up following a Caesarian-section delivery. READ »

Swedish reporter detained in Syria

National: 16 Feb 12
A Swedish journalist was arrested in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Wednesday afternoon but was released following an interrogation. READ »


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