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Melodifestivalen draws 3.9 million viewers

Society: 15 Mar 10
A bumper week for public broadcaster SVT saw ratings explode for the finals on consecutive evenings of song competition Melodifestivalen and ever-popular game show På Spåret. READ »

'Jihad Jane' visited Sweden to plan attack

National: 10 Mar 10
The American woman known as "Jihad Jane", charged by US authorities on Tuesday with conspiring to kill Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks, is reported to have paid a visit to Sweden in August. READ »

Sweden claims narrow win in Wales

Sport: 4 Mar 10
Erik Hamrén, Sweden's new national football team trainer, got his tenure off on the right foot with a 0-1 win over Wales at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea on Wednesday. READ »

Blogger profile: Billy Lansdowne

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 10
Billy Lansdowne, former football player and one of Sweden's most popular pundits, speaks to The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson about the state of the game and the launch of his new blog, Billy's Boot Room. READ »

Why deny a princess her fairytale? Republicans and the royal weddings

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 10
With Sweden's royal wedding year now upon us, writer and commoner Allan Burnett hoists the flag for an influential group catering for the anti-monarchy needs of a large and flabbergasted minority. READ »

Spyker boss to Sweden over Saab future

National: 23 Jan 10
Negotiations between General Motors and Dutch luxury car maker Spyker over the future of Saab were believed to have moved to Stockholm on Friday, with media reports stating Spyker CEO Victor Muller paid a visit to the capital. READ »

Murder suspect crashes victims' memorial service

National: 21 Jan 10
A 35-year-old man suspected of a double murder in southwestern Sweden unexpectedly showed up at a memorial service arranged by the family of the victims. READ »

Minister dogged by more wolf hunt criticism

Society: 13 Jan 10
Sweden’s environment minister Andreas Carlgren continued to defend the country’s recent government-sanctioned wolf hunt despite a lack of evidence supporting part of the minister’s justification for the cull. READ »

Woods' womanizing no secret: Swedish golfer

Society: 24 Dec 09
Tiger Wood's extramarital activities were no secret to other golfers, Swedish LPGA star Helen Alfredsson said on Wednesday, claiming she first heard rumours about his infidelities during last summer's British Open. READ »

Swedes keep lapping up juicy Tiger tidbits

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Dec 09
Amid new reports that Elin Nordegren is set to sign a sponsorship deal with the rival of one of golfer husband Tiger Woods’ strongest corporate supporters, Swedes continue to swoon over every new revelation in the ongoing drama. READ »

Space tourism to take off in Kiruna

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. READ »

Erik Grönwall Sweden's new Idol

Society: 12 Dec 09
With his big stage presence and booming rock voice, Erik Grönwall took home the Idol 2009 Final at Stockholm’s Globen arena on Friday night. READ »

Top feminist takes political gamble on Swedish reality TV

Politics: 3 Dec 09
Gudrun Schyman, spokeswoman for the Feminist Initiative (FI) political party, hopes participating in the Let’s Dance reality television show will help her waltz right into the Swedish parliament. READ »

Teacher charged with sex crimes against pupils

National: 20 Nov 09
A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape. READ »

Court upholds conviction for Swedish hockey player's on-ice fight

Sport: 18 Nov 09
A Swedish ice hockey player who was sentenced to two months in prison after fighting with an opposing player has had his conviction upheld upon appeal, but will not have to spend time behind bars. READ »

Pressure mounts on Vattenfall CEO

Business & Money: 13 Nov 09
The Seko union has announced its withdrawal from the board of Swedish state-owned energy firm Vattenfall stating that it no longer has confidence in the company's CEO, Lars G Josefsson. READ »

Vattenfall to sell Swedish power grid: report

Business & Money: 11 Nov 09
Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall wants to sell its Swedish electricity network to bring in funds for investment in nuclear power in Britain. READ »

Napping cat may have killed sleeping infant

National: 10 Nov 09
A sleeping cat is suspected of having inadvertently suffocated a three-month baby to death in northern Sweden. READ »

Violent attacks mar Djurgården win

Sport: 9 Nov 09
Djurgården football club is facing hefty fines after fans attacked players from the opposing team following the Stockholm team’s thrilling Sunday night victory to avoid relegation. READ »

'It's not the fart that kills...'

Lifestyle: 9 Nov 09
As a bilingual video has the internet public in stitches, The Local's Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius catches up with the men behind the merging of comedy and the Swedish language. READ »

Many young Swedes doubt al-Qaida 9/11 guilt

National: 1 Nov 09
Almost one in five Swedes aged under 30 think that George W Bush's US government lay behind the attacks on September 11th 2001, according to a new survey. READ »

Police website falls victim to cyber attack

Society: 29 Oct 09
A number of major Swedish websites were rendered inaccessible on Thursday in what is believed to be a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. READ »

Liberals open to Green support to block far-right

Politics: 23 Oct 09
Liberal party leader Jan Björklund has opened up the possibility of cooperating with the Green party if the far-right Sweden Democrats garnered enough votes to hold the balance of power after the 2010 election. READ »

Sweden Democrat quits over anti-Muslim views

Politics: 22 Oct 09
The head of a local chapter of the far-right Sweden Democrats has quit the party in the wake of an anti-Muslim article published by party leader Jimmie Åkesson. READ »

Another Swede held in Pakistan: report

National: 12 Oct 09
Sweden’s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that an additional Swedish citizen is currently being held in prison in Pakistan following the return home at the weekend of a group of Swedes who had been arrested on terror charges. READ »

Bodström under fire for missed Riksdag votes

Politics: 12 Oct 09
Former Social Democratic justice minister Thomas Bodström has been accused of abandoning his duties as a member of the Riksdag in favour of high paying engagements as a trial attorney. READ »

Suspected sheep slaughter in pizzeria

National: 6 Oct 09
Authorities in central Sweden have shuttered a pizzeria after a witness reported seeing four live sheep being led into the establishment’s basement. Police suspect one of the animals may have been slaughtered. READ »

'Scared straight' TV show slammed

National: 2 Oct 09
A new TV4 reality show featuring youths doing time in an adult prison has been slammed by the Swedish Welfare Board for encouraging criminal careers. READ »

Two helicopter suspects remanded in custody

National: 30 Sep 09
Two men suspected of involvement in last week's daring helicopter heist have been remanded in custody by a Stockholm court. A third man has been released, while the remand hearing for a fourth suspect was postponed until Thursday. READ »

Helicopter heist suspects – who they are

National: 29 Sep 09
A look at the six men currently being held on suspicions of involvement in last week's spectacular helicopter robbery of a Stockholm cash depot. READ »

Documents cast doubt on Swede's spy conviction

National: 28 Sep 09
For the past 25 years the Swedish Security Service has been sitting on documents attesting to the innocence of a man charged in Sweden with espionage in 1983, a new investigation has revealed. READ »

Carolina Gynning: hectic days in the life of one non-blonde

Lifestyle: 21 Sep 09
Swedish celebrity Carolina Gynning takes time out from her career juggling to chat with The Local about taking control over her life and nascent plans to save the planet. READ »

Eritrean beats deportation threat in Swedish lottery win

Society: 6 Sep 09
A 28-year-old Eritrean national living illegally in Sweden collected a 1.2 million kronor ($167,000) lottery prize on national television Saturday morning. READ »

Bird-chasing guards rip palace painting with bamboo sticks

National: 6 Aug 09
Bamboo-wielding guards at the royal palace in Stockholm have damaged a portrait of the first Bernadotte king while in hot pursuit of a renegade jackdaw. READ »

Teen convicted for murder of 86-year-old

National: 3 Aug 09
A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later. READ »

Tax agency rejects Swedes' Michael Jackson naming tribute

Society: 29 Jul 09
A Swedish family’s bid to honour late pop star Michael Jackson by naming their daughter Michael has been scuttled by the country’s tax agency. READ »

Naked horn player named Sweden's Water Fairy of the Year

Society: 21 Jul 09
A nude saxophone player surprised four similarly dressed violinists in northwestern Sweden to claim victory as the year’s best incarnation of a water fairy, a mythical creature from ancient Swedish folklore. READ »

Heavy Baltic rains heading for Sweden

Science & Technology: 8 Jul 09
A powerful low-pressure system currently racing north across the Baltic Sea is expected to sweep over Sweden late on Wednesday night and into Thursday, bringing with it torrential rains and chilly temperatures. READ »

Moderates lose as Green Party gains: poll

Politics: 26 Jun 09
Support for the Moderate Party dropped significantly in June, while Sweden’s Green Party reached heights not seen since the 2006 Riksdag elections, a new poll shows. READ »

Fury over ailing man's botched deportation

National: 4 Jun 09
Swedish migration authorities have come in for scathing criticism following a decision to deport a man so ill with Parkinson’s disease that his home country of Nigeria refused to grant him entry. READ »

'Romario' appeal halted after suspect's flight

National: 27 May 09
Friends and relatives of Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali, who was stabbed to death last autumn near Stockholm, were stunned to learn on Tuesday that the prime suspect in the 23-year-old’s killing had fled the country. READ »

'Military should free Dawit by force'

National: 27 May 09
The head of the Moderate Party’s youth wing has proposed that the military be called in to free Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who has sat in prison in Eritrea for more than seven years. READ »

Convict kills wife while on temporary release

National: 22 May 09
A man in his seventies who was on temporary release court ordered psychiatric care has been arrested after confessing to killing his wife in a suburb north of Stockholm. READ »

Journalist injured in suspected bomb attack

National: 20 May 09
A journalist employed by Sweden’s TV4 was taken to hospital early Wednesday morning following a powerful explosion at the door of her Stockholm apartment. READ »

'Psychotic' art student charged for fake suicide

Society: 13 May 09
Swedish art student Anna Odell has been charged by prosecutors in Stockholm for a faked suicide attempt psychotic break she acted out as a part of a final art project. READ »

'Curfews and police' can curb Rosengård fires

National: 7 May 09
A prominent Liberal Party Riksdag member on Wednesday called for targeted curfews and more police in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood just hours before a communal refuse facility in the area burned to the ground. READ »

Politicians' text messages 'public documents': Swedish court

Science & Technology: 6 May 09
Text messages sent to or from politicians can be considered public documents, a Swedish has ruled. READ »

Naked Swedish crispbread dancers go global

Society: 21 Apr 09
Four young men from Sweden's industrial heartland have taken talent to new levels with a taste-defying video clip that has captured the imagination of a large international audience. READ »

Introducing...Filip and Fredrik

Lifestyle: 16 Apr 09
This pair of zany, youngish guys have made one heckuva splash on Swedish television in the last year, and are now set break more TV barriers with a talk show to be broadcast live in Sweden from New York City. READ »

Glass found in Falun sausage

National: 2 Apr 09
A fragment of glass has been found in a Falun sausage bought from a store in Karlsborg on March 20th. The new alarm comes after further reports of glass found in chicken products. READ »

Swedish strongman takes home Let's Dance title

Society: 28 Mar 09
Swedish strongman Magnus Samuelsson showed that he is as equally adept on the dance floor as he is flipping cars when he won TV4's Let's Dance competition on Friday evening. READ »

Alcohol locks for drunk driving offenders by 2010: minister

Society: 26 Mar 09
Motorists in Sweden convicted of drunken driving or suspected of being alcoholics may be forced to install alcohol locks on their vehicles starting in 2010. READ »

Wedding will 'boost Sweden's monarchy'

Society: 25 Feb 09
As a new poll shows that Swedes believe Daniel Westling is the right choice for Crown Princess Victoria, one of the country’s most respected historians said that a royal wedding can only strengthen Sweden’s monarchy. READ »

Stockholm courts Israel Davis Cup match

Sport: 23 Feb 09
Officials in Stockholm are hoping the capital can replace Malmö as the host of Sweden's forthcoming Davis Cup match against Israel after the southern city ruled that the game should be played behind closed doors. READ »

Nord Stream gift prompts bribery probe

Science & Technology: 19 Feb 09
A Swedish prosecutor is looking into suspicions of bribery and corruption after a college on the island of Gotland received a donation from Nord Stream, which wants to build a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. READ »

Zelmerlöw and H.E.A.T. win Eurovision heat

Society: 15 Feb 09
Idol favourite Måns Zelmerlöw and rockers H.E.A.T. won the second Melodifestivalen heat on Saturday evening. READ »

Gagged man found dead in central Sweden

National: 10 Feb 09
A man was found dead near Töreboda in central Sweden on Tuesday morning. The man was found with his mouth gagged with tape and police suspect foul play. READ »

Arrest in death of woman found in ditch

National: 10 Feb 09
One person has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman found in a snowy ditch in Tibro in central Sweden on Sunday night. READ »

Gangsters threatening shop owners at Stockholm mall

National: 5 Feb 09
Criminal gangs have tried to blackmail shop owners and managers at one of the Stockholm area’s most popular shopping centres, according to employees at the mall. READ »

Sales force told to use 'Swedish' names

Society: 30 Jan 09
Employees with foreign backgrounds working for a telemarketing company in Jönköping in central Sweden claim management encouraged them to change their names in order to increase sales. READ »

Magdalena Graaf rushed to hospital

Society: 28 Jan 09
Glamour model Magdalena Graaf, one of the stars of TV4's Let's Dance, was rushed to hospital with a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday night. READ »

Lottery millionaire suspected of murder

National: 23 Jan 09
A 30-year-old Swedish lottery millionaire has been arrested on suspicion of having shot and killed a man outside a restaurant north of Stockholm in the early hours of Thursday morning. READ »

Let's Dance judge Irving 'in love' with world's strongest man

Society: 17 Jan 09
British choreographer and Let's Dance judge Tony Irving was so taken aback by the gyrations of the world's strongest man, Magnus Samuelsson, in Friday evening's heat that he declared that he was "In looove!..." READ »

Alling sets the pace in Let's Dance premier

Society: 10 Jan 09
Swedish actor and comedian Morgan Alling, with his partner Helena Fransson, claimed top spot in the season premier of pro-celeb dance competition Let's Dance. The "battle of the blondes" meanwhile hotted up. READ »

Let's Dance swings into action

Society: 9 Jan 09
One of Sweden's most popular television shows has its season premiere on Friday evening, with viewers expected to tune in en masse to watch celebrities shake their stuff on Let's Dance. READ »

Police hire protection in Malmö suburb

National: 31 Dec 08
The police have contracted a security firm to help with the surveillance and protection of the police station in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård. Rioting youths and vandals have recently targeted the station. READ »

Swedish farm hit by anthrax outbreak

Science & Technology: 13 Dec 08
A farm in the vicinity of Varberg in western Sweden has been hit by an outbreak of anthrax. Thirteen cattle have so far died from the disease which has not been seen in Sweden since 1981 and is harmful to humans. READ »

Maltese heartthrob sings home Swedish Idol prize

Society: 13 Dec 08
Sweden's Idol 2008 talent show came to a screeching climax on Friday night and left Kevin Borg, a young crooner from Malta who has only lived in Sweden for a year, clutching the champagne. READ »

Poll: Social Democrats at lowest level since election

Politics: 22 Nov 08
The Social Democrats continue to lose voter support, a new opinion poll from Novus has shown. Support for the party has declined by 3.6 percentage points in a month to 37.2 percent. READ »

Post Office CEO to work for no pay

National: 22 Nov 08
Lars G Nordström, President and CEO of the Swedish post office (Posten), has announced that he will forgo his salary in the face of stern media criticism accusing him of being greedy. READ »

Introducing... Katrin Zytomierska

Lifestyle: 11 Nov 08
Meet Katrin Zytomierska, the outspoken television personality who spent most of last month insulting people and getting her name all over the front pages. READ »

Chevy Chase to guest star in Swedish sitcom

Society: 7 Nov 08
American comedy legend Chevy Chase will arrive in Sweden this weekend to appear as a guest star on a Swedish television sitcom. READ »

Alternative medicine 'a dangerous scam'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 08
The field of complementary and alternative medicine is misguided at best and may even be dangerous, agues Joel Jansson. READ »

Police solve six percent of Sweden's crimes

National: 3 Nov 08
Nearly 95 percent of violent crimes and robberies committed in Sweden go unsolved, and an individual police officer solves an average of three crimes per year, according to a recent analysis. READ »

Options abound for watching US elections in Sweden

Society: 28 Oct 08
With only a week to go before the US presidential election, Americans living Sweden, political junkies, as well as the merely curious are already making plans for how and where they plan to watch the historic vote. READ »

Sahlin condemns youth league over roses for poison attack offer

National: 27 Sep 08
The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) has offered roses to those responsible for poisoning members of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Party leader Mona Sahlin described the offer as "terrible." READ »

Arboga autopsy photos on The Pirate Bay

National: 5 Sep 08
File sharing site The Pirate Bay is under fire for not reacting after autopsy pictures of the two toddlers murdered in Arboga last spring were uploaded onto site. READ »

Teachers upset over Prime Minister's Pink Floyd tribute

Politics: 28 Aug 08
One of Sweden's largest teachers unions has expressed its dismay at Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's decision to burst into song at the Polar Music Prize ceremony in Stockholm on Wednesday. Members of Pink Floyd sat in the crowd as Reinfeldt sang 'We don't need no education'. READ »