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Haga: Sweden's 'royal nursery' preps for a new arrival

Lifestyle: 20 Oct 11
With a massive garden complete with play areas, woods and other parkland, Haga Palace isn’t a bad playground for the upcoming addition to the Swedish royal family, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains. READ »

Malmö braces for Scandinavia's largest shopping mall

Lifestyle: 30 Mar 11
A mall billed as one of Europe’s most spectacular shopping centres is under construction in Malmö, but questions remain as to whether the city can handle the massive expansion in retail space, The Local's Karen Holst discovers. READ »

Swede causes airborne meningitis scare

National: 10 Mar 11
A Swedish woman was at the heart of a meningitis scare aboard a plane which was held in isolation at Copenhagen Kastrup airport on Wednesday after revealing that she may be suffering from the potentially fatal condition. READ »

Swedish politician suspected of war crimes

National: 7 Jan 11
A local Swedish politician has been arrested in Denmark on war crimes suspicions stemming from a fatal shooting at a border control in the Balkans in 1991. READ »

Malmö: A decade with the Öresund bridge

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jun 10
The Öresund bridge celebrates its 10th birthday this week. The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson takes a look at how the link has changed Sweden's third city and its relations to its neighbours. READ »

Airports suffer drop after volcano ash

National: 6 May 10
The number of passengers passing through the 14 airports run by Swedish state company Swedavia fell 25 percent in April, largely due to the Icelandic volcanic eruption. READ »

Flights stay grounded amid hovering ash

National: 17 Apr 10
Aviation authorities expect most Swedish airspace to remain closed on Saturday, with a cloud of volcanic ash settling over vast swathes of the country as the weekend begins. READ »

Fire breaks out onboard SAS plane

National: 13 Mar 10
An SAS plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Malmo airport on Friday evening after a fire broke out in the cabin. READ »

Street grovelling leads to work for jobless Swede

Society: 7 Oct 09
A 21-year-old Swedish man is rejoicing following the unexpected success of a decidedly unorthodox plan to find gainful employment READ »

Obama to 'shut down' Öresund Bridge

National: 30 Sep 09
Even though US president Barack Obama isn't setting foot in Sweden, his planned visit to Copenhagen on Friday is expected to cause headaches for Malmö-area businesses and commuters. READ »

Bill Gates in Sweden for high society wedding

Dating: 22 Nov 08
Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates is in Gothenburg this weekend to attend the wedding of billionaire Charles Simonyi and Swedish socialite Lisa Persdotter. READ »

Scam artist targets English-speaking jobseekers

National: 23 Sep 08
An experienced scam artist has been targeting English speaking jobseekers in Sweden, luring them with promises of non-existent jobs, police say. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius reports. READ »

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. READ »

Civil servant showed up drunk to deportations

National: 20 Mar 08
An employee from Sweden’s Prison and Probation Service showed up to deportation proceedings under the influence of alcohol on several occasions. READ »

SAS reaches settlement over Dash plane problems

Business & Money: 10 Mar 08
SAS has agreed to settle with Bombardier and Goodrich after a string of incidents in the fall of 2007 forced the airline to ground its entire fleet of Dash aircraft. READ »

SAS cancellations continue

National: 30 Oct 07
Scandinavian Airlines cancelled dozens of flights to and from Scandinavia for the second day in a row on Tuesday after permanently removing all Canadian-made Dash 8 Q400 passenger planes from its fleet. READ »

SAS cancels Swedish flights

National: 29 Oct 07
SAS Sweden has cancelled eight flights on Monday following the airline's decision to permanently ground its fleet of Dash Q-400 planes. READ »

SAS grounds Dash Q-400 planes for good

National: 28 Oct 07
SAS has said it is permanently grounding its fleet of Dash Q-400 planes, after a series of accidents. "We need to get rid of these planes. They are damaging SAS and its brand," said the company's president Mats Jansson. READ »

SAS grounds planes again after incident

National: 28 Oct 07
Airline SAS has once again been forced to ground its fleet of Dash 8-Q 400 planes after one of the aircraft was forced to undertake an emergency landing in Copenhagen. READ »

Viking clash: Danes and Swedes battle to be biggest

Lifestyle: 18 Oct 07
When Stockholm's Mayor donned a t-shirt proclaiming the city 'Capital of Scandinavia', the reaction from the neighbours was predictably indignant. Daniel Boman looks at how Stockholm and Copenhagen are battling to prove who's biggest and best. READ »

SAS delays Dash return

National: 12 Oct 07
Airline SAS has delayed until Wednesday the resumption of full services involving its ill-starred fleet of Dash planes. READ »

Sterling fills Ryanair's shoes in Malmö

Business & Money: 4 Oct 07
Danish low-cost airline Sterling is to start five new routes from Malmö, three months after Ryanair announced it was withdrawing from the southern Swedish airport. READ »

SAS demands half a billion kronor compensation

Business & Money: 3 Oct 07
Airline company SAS is demanding half a billion kronor in compensation from plane manufacturer Bombardier following a spate of recent incidents involving the Canadian firm's Dash planes. READ »

Flight chaos set to continue

National: 26 Apr 07
Thousands more passengers travelling through Copenhagen airport will face flight chaos on Thursday after an illegal strike by SAS cabin crew enters its third day. READ »

SAS strike continues into Wednesday

National: 25 Apr 07
At least 100 flights are likely to be cancelled on Wednesday due to a strike by SAS cabin crew at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport. 113 flights were called off on Wednesday, leaving 10,000 people stranded. READ »

Flights cancelled after wildcat SAS strike

National: 24 Apr 07
SAS cabin crew in Denmark have walked out in a wildcat strike, leading to dozens of flight cancellations and delays at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport. Many Swedish travellers are affected by the strike. READ »

'Stay at home' warning after Skåne snow

National: 22 Feb 07
Heavy snow and strong winds have led to a warning to motorists in southern Sweden to stay at home. Some 180 accidents have been reported in Skåne alone over the past 24 hours. READ »

Flight tax 'could be illegal'

National: 18 Mar 06
Sweden's proposed new flight tax could break EU law, according to the Council on Laws. The proposal to make flights to isolated areas exempt could break competition laws, it said. READ »

Ryanair scraps Sweden lines over flight tax

Business & Money: 15 Mar 06
The low-cost airline says some routes from Stockholm Västerås and Malmö Sturup will be closed if the government's proposed 100 kr tax on flights is passed this summer. READ »

SAS hit by wildcat strikes

National: 23 Jan 06
Danish pilots at Scandinavian airline SAS have walked out in unofficial action, leading to 80 flights being cancelled from Copenhagen. The pilots are worried about the restructuring of the company. READ »

Girl sent to wrong country in flight mix-up

National: 27 Dec 05
It's one thing when your suitcase gets sent to the wrong country by your airline. It's another thing altogether when the cargo in question is your nine year old daughter. READ »

Hurricane kills seven in southern Sweden

National: 9 Jan 05

Seven people die, 359,000 households are without electricity and transport is in chaos as the most powerful storm in 35 years strikes southern Sweden: Hurricane Gudrun. READ »

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. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »

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