February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Kiruna":
Science & Technology: 11 Feb 12
A rocket carrying newly drawn blood is to be sent into space from the Esrange space centre in Kiruna, in the far north of Sweden.
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National: 5 Feb 12
The plunging mercury has put a stop to rail services to the far north of Sweden on Sunday with rail operator SJ explaining that it was just too cold to guarantee safety.
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Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
Some face time with Sweden's mighty elk led best selling children’s book author Jan Brett to choose the 'King of the Forest' rather than sleigh-pulling reindeer to star alongside a family of trolls in her latest Christmas-themed book, The Local's Joel Linde discovers.
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Science & Technology: 24 Nov 11
The unseasonably high temperatures across much of Sweden have left much of the country free of snow and has put autumn 2011 on track to be one of the warmest ever recorded in Sweden.
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Travel: 23 Nov 11
While Sweden seems to be at its most captivating during the warm summer months of June to August, here’s an insider tip — the country is just as beautiful during the height of winter. Here are 10 reasons to visit Sweden during winter.
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National: 18 Nov 11
Two Swedish men were rescued on Thursday after being stuck for five days on the top of Mount Kebnekajse, Sweden's highest peak, as poor weather had previously made a rescue operation impossible.
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Science & Technology: 9 Nov 11
According to meteorologists, the month of November has so far seen the least snow in over a hundred years in Sweden, in stark contrast to last year's late autumn blizzards.
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Science & Technology: 7 Oct 11
The season's first winter storm walloped northern Sweden on Thursday night, dumping more than 10 centimetres of thick, wet snow, snarling traffic and prompting warnings from police.
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Travel: 27 Sep 11
A journey by dogsled through a pristine white landscape to the incredible ICEHOTEL. Double rooms and suites constructed entirely of ice. An ice lobby, a chamber of ice pillars and the famous Icebar. And then come the Northern Lights...
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National: 14 Aug 11
Two men in their twenties were seriously injured in a climbing accident on Sweden's highest peak, Kebnekaise, early Sunday morning.
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Business & Money: 2 Aug 11
The mineral rich regions of Sweden's far north have long been mined for their natural resources, one firm is now hoping that diamonds can be added to the list.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jul 11
Swedish scientists were forced to halt a groundbreaking project Thursday to test the impact of stars when a balloon carrying an X-ray telescope began leaking helium.
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Travel: 27 Jun 11
While Sweden is perhaps better known for its archipelagos and lakes, the country's rivers can also serve up summer fun to thrill seekers and nature lovers alike, The Local’s Karen Holst discovers.
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Education: 26 Jun 11
All Swedish teachers will soon have a professional certificate. But this new requirement is posing difficulties. Students may have to switch teachers, be taught from a distance, or even see their school shut down.
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Science & Technology: 5 Apr 11
Temperatures across Sweden are set to top 10 degrees Celsius all week, with highs of around 15 over the weekend in southern parts, as long-suffering Swedes welcome in the spring.
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National: 24 Mar 11
Radioactivity from Japan’s earthquake-hit nuclear power plants has reached Sweden, but the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority says the levels recorded do not pose any danger to people or the environment.
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Politics: 16 Mar 11
The Swedish Alliance coalition government has lost the right to sell off stakes in a slew of state-owned companies after a parliament decision on Wednesday afternoon, suffering its most high profile setback since regaining power.
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Travel: 17 Feb 11
Looking for ways to celebrate, rather than bemoan, Sweden's long-lasting winter chill? Check out the Ice Festival in Uppsala, where contributor Oliver Gee learns about the many ways that frozen water can make winter fun.
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Travel: 11 Feb 11
With Sweden digging out from another wave of winter weather, The Local's Geoff Mortimore provides a run down of Swedish ski areas, where new snow brings fists raised in glee, rather than anger.
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Society: 13 Jan 11
Sweden's television and radio licence fee system may appear confusing to new arrivals to the country, especially to those who come from countries that collect revenue for public broadcasting through taxation.
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National: 27 Jul 10
Two Finnish citizens, a 28-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, died on Tuesday in an accident on Storglaciären in Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest mountain in the north, according to police.
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Business & Money: 7 Jul 10
Mobile operators 3 and Tele2 have the best coverage for mobile broadband in Sweden, according to a new test by monthly magazine Mobil.
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National: 27 Jun 10
A man and a woman in their fifties were seriously injured on Saturday evening when they were struck by lightning near Kiruna in the far north of Sweden.
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Business & Money: 11 Jun 10
Employment rates between local- and foreign-born workers differ by more than 30 percentage points in some areas of Sweden, according to a report from Statistics Sweden.
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National: 18 May 10
Two people have been killed after a lift crashed down a shaft at a mine in Malmberget in northern Sweden on Tuesday.
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National: 1 May 10
Police across Sweden were kept fully occupied on Friday as cells filed up amid traditional Walpurgis Night excesses.
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Lifestyle: 21 Apr 10
Macho men, monotony, mosquitoes: Englishman Alec Forss heard all the clichés trotted out as he made known his plans to move to northern Sweden. But nothing could deter him from plunging headlong into the vast wilderness beyond the Arctic circle.
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National: 19 Apr 10
Scandinavian airline SAS has confirmed that almost all its flights would remain grounded on Monday except for flights from the US and a few from Norway.
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National: 18 Apr 10
Swedish aviation authorities have reopened a corridor of airspace in the far north of the country, enabling a private US jet plane to land at Kiruna airport.
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National: 16 Apr 10
Swedish authorities have begun reopening airspace in the north of the country although widespread disruption persists with Stockholm's main Arlanda airport unlikely to open until Saturday morning at the earliest.
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Education: 15 Apr 10
A school in northern Sweden has been criticised by education authorites for holding prayer and psalm readings during classes after children from a conservative Lutheran offshoot joined the school.
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National: 18 Feb 10
A Malmö man has become the first Swede to sign up to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space adventure after he shelled out 1.4 million kronor to fly to the frontier of space.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Jan 10
Adjusting to life in the far north of Sweden can be tough at the best of times, but coming as a refugee presents an extra set of challenges. Malin Nyberg speaks to two women who are more than happy to adapt.
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Science & Technology: 12 Dec 09
If all goes to plan, billionaire Richard Branson’s spaceships will take off with tourists on board in 2012 – from Kiruna in the far north of Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 1 Dec 09
The Year in Sweden - December: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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National: 24 Sep 09
A nurse at an eldercare home in Norrbotten in northern Sweden was left with burns to her left hand as residual traces of an alcohol-based hand disinfectant set alight while pushing a trolley.
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Society: 19 Sep 09
Winter has not yet fallen upon Sweden but Kiruna council is getting prepared and proposing the right for residents to drive their snowmobiles in the city.
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Politics: 18 Sep 09
Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin has been criticized for partying with celebrities in Majorca instead of staying at home to campaign in the run-up for the church elections on September 20th.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jul 09
The Year in Sweden - July: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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Travel: 29 Jun 09
Desperately seeking Sweden: Christine Demsteader ponders a few literary journeys as she prepares for an epic trip around the country she has come to call home. She invites The Local’s readers to join her en route.
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National: 18 Jun 09
Sweden's appeals court has upheld a sentence of life imprisonment for Toni Alldén, the 51-year-old who has confessed to killing 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall outside Gällivare in northern Sweden.
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Society: 1 Apr 09
A catchy hit inspired by a lovestruck Tokyo girl’s new life in Malmö has soared to the top of the charts in Japan, as a wave of Swedish influences washes over the country's musical landscape.
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Travel: 30 Mar 09
Sponsored article: Lying 200 kilometres above the Arctic Circle, Riksgränsen is Sweden's most northerly resort and a nature lover's delight.
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National: 30 Mar 09
Police in northern Sweden remain baffled over a couple found dead beside their snowmobile on Sunday on a lake outside of Kiruna.
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National: 21 Mar 09
Police and other emergency vehicles regularly exceed speed limits on Sweden's roads. Many are caught on camera.
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National: 19 Mar 09
A 51-year-old man from northern Sweden has been convicted of murdering 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall outside Gällivare in September of last year.
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Business & Money: 18 Mar 09
Potential space tourists eager to blast off from northern Sweden will soon be able to purchase tickets at the country’s Ice Hotel for launches set to start in 2012.
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Politics: 2 Mar 09
One of Sweden’s largest manufacturing sector unions said on Monday that its members are willing to allow employers to cut wages in order to avoid more layoffs.
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Lifestyle: 13 Feb 09
Far from the idyllic image of lone herders skiing after their reindeer, indigenous Samis in Sweden's far north today use snowmobiles and other vehicles, giving rise to an animal welfare campaign as far away as Britain, writes AFP's Nina Larson.
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Lifestyle: 5 Feb 09
As miners continue to chip away at the chunk of iron sitting directly beneath Kiruna in northern Sweden, the AFP’s Nina Larson examines the challenges that come with relocating an entire town.
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Science & Technology: 11 Nov 08
Vibrating tools can increase the risk of a heart attack by 30 percent, according to a new Swedish study.
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National: 20 Oct 08
During questioning by police on Monday, the 50-year-old man suspected of having murdered Carolin Stenvall confessed to killing the 29-year-old woman.
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National: 19 Oct 08
The 50-year-old man held on suspicion of murdering 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall in northern Sweden will face a remand hearing on Sunday. He continues to deny the murder and Stenvall's body remains undiscovered.
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National: 18 Oct 08
The prosecutor confirmed on Saturday that blood belonging to 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall, has been found in a car owned by the 50-year-old man held on suspicion of her murder.
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National: 22 Sep 08
Police are expanding their search for 29-year-old Carolin Stenvall, who disappeared more than a week ago in Norrbotten in northern Sweden.
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National: 15 May 08
Armed Forces Supreme Commander Håkan Syrén fears that proposed cuts to the military will diminish its capacity to defend Sweden's borders.
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Travel: 14 May 08
From hikes across mountains with Sami reindeer herders to tours of Europe's only civilian space centre, northern Sweden offers new experiences for adventurous travellers.
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Business & Money: 24 Mar 08
Two Sami villages in northern Sweden have been denied compensation for time spent on planning for the relocation of Kiruna.
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National: 22 Mar 08
Despite the advent of spring Good Friday night was the coldest of the winter in Sweden.
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National: 9 Mar 08
Eurovision queen Carola Häggkvist was knocked out of Sweden's Melodifestival in Kiruna. Hard rockers Nordman and Sibel (middle) took the second chance road to Globen.
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Society: 2 Mar 08
Hot favourites Charlotte Perelli (left) and Linda Bengtzing (right) won the final Melodifestivalen heat on Saturday evening.
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National: 24 Feb 08
Hotly-tipped Bodies Without Organs (back) won the third heat of the Melodifestivalen in Linköping on Saturday. They will be joined by outsider Frida (front) in the final in Globen.
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National: 17 Feb 08
Eurovision queen, Carola Häggkvist, missed out on a place in the final of Sweden's Melodifestivalen on Saturday.
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Science & Technology: 8 Feb 08
Live fish are to be strapped into a rocket in northern Sweden next week before being blasted into outer space.
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National: 3 Feb 08
One person has died after a collapse in a mine in Kiruna, northern Sweden. The collapse is believed to have been caused by an earth tremor.
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National: 3 Feb 08
One person is feared dead after a collapse in a mine in Kiruna, northern Sweden. The collapse is believed to have been caused by an earth tremor.
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Society: 28 Jan 08
Women's shelters in southern Sweden have expressed dismay over a band's plan to symbolically burn a witch during the country's Eurovision heats.
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Business & Money: 15 Jan 08
The Swedish Space Corporation has formally taken control of the Sirius 4 satellite, which will provide broadband to much of Europe and South Africa.
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National: 23 Oct 07
With voting well underway for Sweden's new city-based edition of popular board game Monopoly, Stockholm is in serious risk of becoming a relatively undesirable address.
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National: 10 Aug 07
Anyone who headed south to find the Swedish summer sun this year was heading in the wrong direction. The sunniest places in Sweden in June and July were all in the north of the country.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jul 07
Mysterious aircraft, crop circles and extra-terrestrial beings - it's just another paranormal day in the life of UFO-Sweden.
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Travel: 4 Jul 07
Is there any truth to the rumour that Sweden’s northern wilderness is populated by thumb-sized mosquitoes and contact-seeking bears? Alec Forss separates the facts from the spin while trekking the peaks of the Polar region.
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National: 9 May 07
The miners' union in northern Sweden has called a halt to wildcat strikes that broke out earlier this week. Mining company LKAB has said it is prepared to sit down with the miners at the negotiating table.
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Society: 8 May 07
Miners at Sweden's state-owned mining company LKAB broke out in wildcat strikes on Monday in protest at a wage deal. The miners were still striking on Tuesday morning.
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National: 7 Apr 07
A 20-year-old woman died early on Saturday after being involved in a snowmobile accident north of Pajala. It took two hours for help to arrive from the nearest hospital.
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National: 30 Mar 07
SAS is to start regular winter flights between London and Kiruna, in the far north of Sweden. 5,000 British tourists are expected to use the twice-weekly service.
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National: 14 Mar 07
A couple visiting the far north of Sweden were disappointed to find that the hotel room that they had been promised was in fact one of five sheds in the hostelry's restaurant.
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National: 20 Feb 07
In the last couple of days parents and girlfriends have picked up the phone to hear that players from the AIK Hockey team in Härnösand have died. The players, very much alive, are furious.
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Society: 26 Jan 07
Virgin galactic and Spaceport Sweden have signed an agreement paving the way for passenger flights from Kiruna to space from 2012.
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National: 9 Jan 07
Kiruna's entire town centre is to be moved four kilometres to the northwest to make way for iron ore mining.
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Politics: 26 Dec 06
He has not paid his television licence fee for fourteen years, something he admits was "careless", but now Moderate Party secretary Per Schlingmann has settled his debt. Now he waits to see whether the police will get involved.
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National: 7 Dec 06
In a photo designed to mimic their hockey-playing male peers, a group of girls from a school in Kiruna posed topless on the ice rink. "Sexist", says school. "Discrimination", say students.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Dec 06
Space may be big, but there's no room for bureaucrats and intergovernmental agencies, argues Waldemar Ingdahl, director of the free market think tank Eudoxa in Stockholm.
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National: 12 Oct 06
Sweden's television licensing authority will decide on Thursday whether to report three government ministers to the police for not paying their TV charges.
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National: 13 Jul 06
People who own computers that can receive television programmes may soon be forced to pay a TV licence fee - even if they never use their computers to watch Swedish television.
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National: 11 Jul 06
A Turkish asylum seeker family ended an 11 hour standoff in migration board offices in Kiruna on Monday night, after a man had earlier poured gasoline over himself and threatened to light a match.
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Smörgåsbord: 10 Jul 06
A couple from Turkey seeking asylum in Sweden threatened to set themselves on fire in the Board of Migration's offices in Kiruna on Monday. After all-day negotiations they gave themselves up.
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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.
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Travel: 4 May 06
Sweden could soon be offering the ultimate package holiday, with a night at the Ice Hotel followed by a trip into orbit on Virgin's new spacecraft. All for a cool 200,000 dollars.
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Travel: 3 May 06
A handy list of Sweden's tourist offices, along with their phone numbers, email addresses and web sites.
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National: 24 Oct 05
Venus Express, the European spacecraft which should have been blasting off this week, has had its launch delayed. But when it finally launches, it will be taking plenty of Swedish kit with it.
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National: 15 Oct 05
Sweden's foreign minister Laila Freivalds signs an agreement with the US ambassador which breathes new life into cooperation between the Swedish National Space Board and NASA.
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Society: 7 Oct 05
Sweden's feminist and left parties are pushing for a six hour work day. But one of the pioneers of the policy, Kiruna council, is scrapping it after 16 years saying that it does not improve workers' health.
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National: 4 Aug 05
The target is to cut road deaths in Sweden to more or less zero. Ambitious, perhaps, but 700 new speed cameras on a wireless network will help.
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National: 27 Apr 05
After a career of almost 50 years, the Skylark rocket is due to make its final voyage from the Esrange launch base in the north of Sweden.
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Politics: 6 Oct 04
He blocked an apology to victims of Stalin's camps, and still proudly calls himself a commmunist. So is Lars Ohly fit to lead the Left Party?
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Smörgåsbord: 3 Sep 04
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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 »
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 »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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