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National: 21 May 13
Two Swedish teenage girls were officially charged with defamation on Tuesday for their involvement in the "slut-shaming" Instagram account that saw enraged teens in Gothenburg lay siege to two high schools last year.
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Society: 18 May 13
Panic broke out at a Gothenburg school on Friday evening as one man was wounded in a shooting which could be linked to a violent robbery that took place in the area on the same day.
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National: 18 May 13
A 15-year-old girl has admitted to setting up the Instagram account that caused hundreds of teenagers to riot in Gothenburg last year, but her 16-year-old friend has denied involvement.
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National: 3 May 13
A Swedish teenager arrested on Thursday on suspicions of killing nine pet cats in western Sweden has admitted to police in Gothenburg that he is responsible for the crimes.
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Politics: 1 May 13
Another cat has been found dead in Gothenburg, leading police to intensify their hunt for a suspected serial cat killer.
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Science & Technology: 24 Apr 13
Kebab vendors in Malmö were shocked to learn there was as much as 18 percent pork in the meat they were selling.
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Society: 21 Apr 13
Suspicions are growing that an animal torturer is at large in Gothenburg as a sixth cat was found dead on Sunday in an area plagued by a spate of brutal cat killings.
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Society: 13 Apr 13
Some 300 people are expected to gather in Högsbo in Gothenburg to register their disgust after a slew of gory cat deaths in the area.
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Society: 1 Apr 13
An Abba reunion concert scheduled at an Uppsala airfield, Malmö neighbourhoods to be renamed after Eurovision stars and lasagnes found in horse feed were among Sweden's April Fools' Day hoax stories on Monday.
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Science & Technology: 30 Mar 13
A former police officer has been cleared of sexual molestation after explaining to the court that claims of having masturbated in front of a woman were unfounded and in fact he was just attempting to deal with a troublesome itch.
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National: 19 Mar 13
In an apparent protest against Gothenburg's new congestion charges, local residents have sabotaged eleven of the city's toll-booth cameras in what is suspected to be a paintball attack.
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National: 10 Mar 13
Several hundred litres of oil leaked out of a commuter train in Lerum outside Gothenburg after it drove over a garbage bin that police suspect could have been deliberately placed on the tracks.
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Society: 9 Mar 13
An 82-year-old man got a proper scrub after getting stuck in an automatic car wash at his son's petrol station in Växjö, south Sweden.
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Society: 27 Feb 13
A faked obituary about a 35-year-old woman in western Sweden has left her family in shock, and caused the paper to ramp up its rules about confirming deaths before they publish further obituaries.
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National: 19 Feb 13
A 45-year-old man wanted in connection with the 2011 killing of a gang leader in Malmö tried to turn himself in on Monday, only to be told that the local police station was closed.
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Politics: 17 Feb 13
The Green Party reclaimed its spot as third largest parliamentary party in the latest opinion poll by Sifo, while the Centre and Christian Democrat parties both came in below the threshold for parliamentary seats.
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Society: 17 Feb 13
A 19-year-old boy was found dead in his room at the juvenile detention centre at Fagared youth facility near Gothenburg on Saturday.
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Science & Technology: 27 Jan 13
A wolf was spotted in several locations around central Gothenburg on Saturday, with attempts to track the elusive animal proving unsuccessful.
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Society: 24 Jan 13
A small-town shopkeeper's folksy Facebook greeting to newly-arrived Syrian refugees kicked off a big-time media frenzy that continues to reverberate, making Bo Oskarsson of Kaxås our pick for Swede of the Week.
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National: 22 Jan 13
Sweden is set to split two siblings from their younger sister as they are deported to Serbia along with their mother who left them in such a state of neglect that child services intervened in 2009.
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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
The new year's day introduction of a congestion charge has deterred one in five drivers from taking a spin in central Gothenburg.
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Politics: 11 Jan 13
A local chapter of the beleaguered Centre Party has penned an op-ed warning that Sweden will be "overrun by illiterate clans” if the party adopts a proposal on opening the borders, angering MP Frederick Federley and other top officials.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jan 13
A Lego collector in southern Sweden has been compensated by Swedish Customs after his Star Wars spaceship package was opened by customs officials, drastically devaluing the collectors item.
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National: 8 Jan 13
The CEO of Ryanair visited Gothenburg on Tuesday, announcing the budget airline had plans for domestic flights in Sweden in the offing, while also denying SAS's claims they lie about take-off weights.
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Society: 8 Jan 13
A documentary film maker on a mission to identify the workers in the iconic Lunch Atop a Skyscraper image says a Swedish family's claim to recognizing two of the men perched on a beam could be plausible.
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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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Politics: 3 Jan 13
An outspoken local Sweden Democrat politician who previously argued “negro” is not a racist term, has generated headlines again by calling for a law to cap the fertility rate of Muslims around the world.
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National: 1 Jan 13
The Swedish Supreme Court has become more lenient when sentencing drug dealers, a trend that worries police who say it endangers their counter-narcotics work.
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National: 29 Dec 12
Seven police detention centre staff are suspected of criminal conduct after several detainees, including a woman recently convicted for keeping bones in her flat, complained of mistreatment.
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Society: 22 Dec 12
With 28 million Christmas cards sent this year, for Swedes the traditional handwritten greeting is not a thing of the past.
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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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Education: 19 Dec 12
Fears of renewed violence have prompted a second Gothenburg school to remain closed on Wednesday, the day after police clashed with a mob of angry teens upset over a slanderous Instagram account outing young girls and boys as 'sluts'.
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Society: 19 Dec 12
A 17-year-old girl suspected of starting an Instagram account filled with sexist and racist claims about local teens has told police in Gothenburg she had nothing to do with account that led students to riot in the city's streets on Tuesday.
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National: 17 Dec 12
A 37-year-old Swedish woman with an admitted obsession with skeletons has been convicted of disturbing the peace of the dead by the Gothenburg District Court.
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Society: 17 Dec 12
A 37-year-old Swedish woman awaiting a court verdict on charges she used human bones as sex toys has admitted in an interview that she is an "odd bird", but denied having a "sexual interest" in necrophilia.
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Politics: 16 Dec 12
A new poll puts the far-right party at a record 10 percent, with an increase in support among older voters and voters in north-central Sweden.
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Society: 14 Dec 12
A radio station in northern Sweden caused traffic chaos on Friday morning after it announced that a petrol station would be giving out free fuel for one hour.
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National: 5 Dec 12
Police urged drivers to refrain from unnecessary travel on Wednesday as delays continued to plague Stockholm's major airports after heavy snowfall shows no sign of abating.
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National: 30 Nov 12
A fire forced more than one hundred people from their homes late Thursday night as they risked being engulfed by the smoke from burning tires in the Bergsjön area of southern city Gothenburg.
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National: 24 Nov 12
A body found floating in the Göta Älv in central Gothenburg on Saturday morning has been identified as a man reported missing after a night in a nearby pub in October.
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National: 15 Nov 12
Police raided a refugee housing facility in western Sweden on Thursday, hauling in seven people suspected of having ties to a Russian criminal network.
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National: 11 Nov 12
A 17-year-old boy has reported that he was raped by several men near a churchyard in central Växjö in southern Sweden on Friday night.
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National: 10 Nov 12
The 24-year-old man arrested on Friday on suspicion of having kidnapped a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Gothenburg has confessed.
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Travel: 6 Nov 12
Travel guide Lonely Planet has hailed Sweden’s Gothenburg as the second best place in the world to visit for value of money, touting the city's "glitzy main drag", "edgy art" and charming neighbourhoods.
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Society: 5 Nov 12
A bus driver in western Sweden was forced to intervene when a love-sick couple were discovered to be having full intercourse on a Gothenburg bus early on Sunday morning.
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National: 1 Nov 12
Police arrested three suspects after a fight erupted outside of the emergency ward at the Gothenburg Sahlgrenska hospital in western Sweden late on Wednesday night.
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Sport: 31 Oct 12
A 19-year-old man from southern Sweden has been charged with assault after he allegedly jumped on and kicked another player who was lying down on the pitch during a game.
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Sport: 31 Oct 12
Fifteen football hooligans were sentenced to prison by a Swedish court on Tuesday for their role in a pre-match brawl in Gothenburg in 2011.
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Society: 23 Oct 12
A Swedish couple were saved by their dogs when a fire ravaged through a large country manor in southern Sweden on Sunday night, completely destroying parts of the building.
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National: 22 Oct 12
A man who went missing on Thursday was found dead in the trunk of a vehicle by a volunteer search team in western Sweden on Sunday.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 12
A 53-year-old Swedish woman has reported that she awoke twice during the course of an operation to remove her uterus.
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Politics: 18 Oct 12
An active member of the Social Democrats has been arrested after sending threatening and sexually themed letters to several women, including celebrity bloggers, and signing them in the name a Moderate politician from Gothenburg.
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Society: 17 Oct 12
Some twenty disabled protesters staged a wheelchair sit-in on a Gothenburg tram on Tuesday, in protest against the difficulty for disabled passengers to use public transport in the area.
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National: 13 Oct 12
Russian security services have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of the attempted murder of an imam in northern Sweden in February.
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Science & Technology: 5 Oct 12
A baby with heart problems was infected with Hepatitis C on Thursday after a blood transfusion in a Gothenburg hospital.
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Society: 29 Sep 12
A 19-year-old woman who was arrested in Sweden for being under the influence of drugs has been acquitted by a Swedish court after the woman claimed she had taken the drugs while in Denmark.
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Society: 28 Sep 12
An inebriated Norwegian man, napping in the back of his car, was shocked to find himself dumped in Gothenburg by two female car thieves some hours later.
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Science & Technology: 26 Sep 12
A Gothenburg hospital has been reported to Swedish health authorities after a seriously ill patient was forced to wait eight hours in the emergency ward, only to then suffer a stroke and die.
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Society: 24 Sep 12
Sweden’s lobster fishing season kicked off on Monday morning with eager fishermen taking to the seas early in the hopes of snagging themselves a traditional Swedish delicacy.
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Society: 19 Sep 12
An assistant nurse has been reported after forcing a roll of tape into the mouth of a patient with dementia at a Carema-run nursing home in southern Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 14 Sep 12
A Swedish soldier who filmed his colleagues at work in a restricted area and then posted the footage on Facebook is now facing charges of crimes against national security and a potential dismissal from the Armed Forces.
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National: 7 Sep 12
Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing has dismissed reports that his dead wife had information regarding the unsolved 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, according to a Swedish author and Palme murder expert.
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National: 6 Sep 12
A Gothenburg woman is being held on murder suspicions after police found parts of a human skeleton in her apartment on Wednesday while responding to a call that she had been firing a weapon from her window.
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Business & Money: 5 Sep 12
Eager to save money, Norwegian shoppers are streaming over the border in record numbers to avoid hefty domestic prices by instead stocking up on groceries in Sweden, new figures show.
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Society: 28 Aug 12
An 80-year-old man was left lying in bed for a week with a broken neck at a care home in western Sweden after his care assistants failed to notice that anything was amiss.
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Politics: 26 Aug 12
The Social Democrats have dropped heavily in the latest voters’ poll, falling by 4.5 percentage units to 34.3 percent, as voters chose the Left Party instead.
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Society: 24 Aug 12
School children in western Sweden playing outdoors had to be taken to hospital on Thursday afternoon after being attacked by a swarm of wasps in a wooded area near their school.
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Society: 22 Aug 12
A man from western Sweden, found driving around on a moped in only his underwear, has been detained by police who suspect he may have been inebriated.
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Science & Technology: 22 Aug 12
Nearly 50 percent of Swedish teenagers think that cancer is contagious and only one percent knew that it's possible to vaccinate against cervical cancer, according to a new study.
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Society: 21 Aug 12
Three five-year-old children were tested for disease in western Sweden after they were found playing with syringes they had uncovered in their pre-school bin on Monday morning.
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National: 16 Aug 12
Officers in a police patrol car in southern Sweden were surprised to encounter a golf cart with a drunk man at the wheel, his grumpy old father beside him and a passenger standing at the back, waving.
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Society: 13 Aug 12
An axe-wielding man seen roaming the streets of northern Sweden on Saturday was reported to the police by worried residents, before it was discovered he was simply taking part in a children’s treasure hunt.
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National: 7 Aug 12
A man impersonating a police officer has escaped with a gold necklace after a botched car theft saw him dragged from the scene of the crime by a suspicious female motorist.
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Society: 26 Jul 12
A man reported to be in his 60s is suspected of animal cruelty after having been caught red-handed having sex with a tied up sheep in a field in southern Sweden.
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Business & Money: 26 Jul 12
A steady stream of keen young Swedes over the border has made it more difficult for young people in Norway to get part-time or summer jobs, according to a new study.
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National: 23 Jul 12
Seven men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated robbery and weapons crimes after a truck driver was beaten and robbed of 450 litres of diesel fuel at a rest area north of Gothenburg, in western Sweden.
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Society: 23 Jul 12
A man attending a party in rural Jämtland in northern Sweden on Saturday was given a fright after getting lost in the woods and coming face to face with a hungry bear.
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Society: 23 Jul 12
A man in western Sweden was surprised to find a postcard addressed to his deceased father amongst his morning mail, before realizing that the card had been sent by his sister some 50 years ago.
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National: 20 Jul 12
A 42-year-old man who was arrested trying to stow his wife's lifeless body into a van has admitted to causing her death, but claims the killing wasn't murder.
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Business & Money: 19 Jul 12
A strawberry vendor in western Sweden was given a baseball bat as a means of protecting herself, prompting unions to cry foul about sub-standard working conditions for street-side fruit sellers.
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Society: 18 Jul 12
The makers of Jack Daniel's are suing a popular Gothenburg bar over a logo that they claim is too close for comfort to that of the popular Tennessee whiskey.
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National: 13 Jul 12
A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for murdering his daughter's ex-boyfriend in a frenzied knife attack at a restaurant in Gothenburg in March.
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Business & Money: 12 Jul 12
A woman on trial for blackmailing a doctor after their love-affair turned sour has been acquitted by a Swedish court due to a lack of evidence.
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Society: 11 Jul 12
Three men were jailed Tuesday after they savagely attacked a man involved in a cannabis scam where ordinary grass was sold instead of marijuana.
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Science & Technology: 9 Jul 12
An ex-Volvo engineer in Sweden who recently tried to change the battery on his iPhone got a shock and lost a tooth after the popular Apple smartphone exploded and caught fire.
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National: 5 Jul 12
A man was found shot dead in a residential area of Gothenburg shortly before 1am on Thursday morning following reports of gunfire.
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Business & Money: 25 Jun 12
Police have made a public appeal to Gothenburg residents about a group of 30-40 beggars believed to be committing repeated thefts in the metropolitan area in western Sweden.
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National: 22 Jun 12
A 35-year-old Swedish man who is currently serving prison time for sexual offences against children has been charged with new offences involving children as young as one.
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Society: 21 Jun 12
A woman from western Sweden is facing a hefty fine after she tried to get a free lift home by telling police she had just committed a murder.
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Society: 20 Jun 12
A freak encounter with a deer featuring a bizarre, cactus-like growth on its head left a Gothenburg man gobsmacked on Monday as he went to fetch his morning paper.
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Society: 18 Jun 12
A 37-year-old man who crashed his car in a ditch in central Sweden on early Saturday morning has refused to leave his vehicle, causing passing drivers to believe they had seen a corpse in a stranded car.
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Society: 16 Jun 12
Two men in their twenties were injured on Friday after stealing a moped and crashing it straight through an apartment window.
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Society: 12 Jun 12
A gynaecologist in Gothenburg has been convicted for sexually molesting two patients, one of whom was given a hands-on demonstration of techniques to help other women reach sexual climax.
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National: 4 Jun 12
Four men from Sweden were convicted by a Danish court on Monday for plotting a terror attack on the Jyllands-Posten daily in Copenhagen in December 2010 that was meant to "kill as many as possible".
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Science & Technology: 2 Jun 12
Three tornadoes swept by the coast of Halland, in south-western Sweden, on Saturday morning. The sight was “powerful but scary”, according to one surprised eye-witness.
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Science & Technology: 1 Jun 12
A new Swedish study shows that all Swedes who developed narcolepsy from the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix received the vaccine from 12 of the 35 batches, despite the claim by the responsible agency that no such connection exists.
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Society: 31 May 12
A joke between two teens in Gothenburg, western Sweden, went out of hand when a taunt from one against the other’s mother made the boy see red.
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Society: 27 May 12
A 61-year-old man has awoken from a coma over two months after he was attacked by a gang of teenage boys in Gothenburg.
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