February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Apartment":
National: 11 Feb 12
A Swedish man was keeping 73 cats and two dogs in one small apartment, animal protection officers discovered to their horror. Urine, faeces and fur balls covered the apartment's floors, and several of the animals were inbred.
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National: 6 Feb 12
A 10-year-old girl had her throat slashed with a knife outside a school in Gothenburg in western Sweden on Monday morning, according to police.
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National: 6 Feb 12
A suspected case of arson in a Gothenburg student housing complex has claimed the life of one and made some 70 people homeless as the re-igniting fire has left the entire building unstable, according to emergency services.
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Science & Technology: 6 Feb 12
A power outage at a district heating plant in northern Sweden cut off heat to nearly all of Sollefteå's 8,000 residents on Sunday night as temperatures dropped below minus 25 degrees Celsius.
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National: 1 Feb 12
Police in southern Sweden are looking into the disappearance of a 26-year-old Indian graduate student from the Blekinge Institute of Technology who was last seen leaving his apartment on Thursday night last week.
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Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
Christian Democrat party official Patric Rylander has found himself in stormy weather after calling for an ”underclass-safari” on his Facebook page, in response to a recent tour of swanky Stockholm suburb Saltsjöbaden.
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National: 30 Jan 12
A mother, a father and their 25-year-old son, charged with trafficking after allegedly having "purchased" a 14-year-old in Serbia to serve as the mentally disabled son's wife, were freed by a Swedish court on Monday.
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Society: 30 Jan 12
A woman who allegedly threw a small dog from the balcony of an apartment at the tail end of a party in Gothenburg in western Sweden was arrested on Sunday morning.
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National: 29 Jan 12
The Swedish police are loosening their rules on tear gas use, and will in future be permitted to use tear gas when operating in large crowds, such as at protests or football games.
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Society: 26 Jan 12
Per Odeltorp, better known as Stig Vig, front man of Dag Vag and one of Sweden’s best known musicians, died on Sunday, aged 63.
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Analysis & Opinion: 24 Jan 12
While Swedes may have a reputation of being somewhat shy and reserved, that doesn't mean it's impossible to become friends with your Swedish neighbours, writes US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt.
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Education: 24 Jan 12
As students in Lund get ready to compete for a chance to live in Sweden’s ‘coziest’ dwelling, the housing commission claim the bijoux cottages are simply ‘too small’.
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National: 23 Jan 12
Recently departed Social Democrat head Håkan Juholt said his inability to quickly put together a solid staff was one of his three biggest regrets from his ten-month tenure as head of the party.
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National: 22 Jan 12
A 28-year-old man who stood for the Green Party at the 2010 election, has been charged, along with his 26-year-old girlfriend, for trying to murder his parents-in-law by setting alight to their apartment.
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Sport: 20 Jan 12
Former Swedish tennis ace Mats Wilander has left the Australian hospital where he was being treated for injuries sustained after a fall while in the country, his company said on Friday.
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Business & Money: 17 Jan 12
Apartment prices in Sweden plummeted 11 percent in December, ending a year marked by flat or declining real estate prices across the country, according to new statistics.
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Sport: 17 Jan 12
Swedish tennis legend Mats Wilander was hospitalized in Australia at the weekend after a fall left him with a lacerated kidney.
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National: 16 Jan 12
A 38-year-old Norwegian woman and her 9-month-old baby were found dead on Monday in an apartment in Arboga in central Sweden. It remains unclear if they died due to an accident or foul play.
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National: 12 Jan 12
A 26-year-old police officer from western Sweden has been charged with raping a female colleague at a party in Gothenburg last summer.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A couple in northern Sweden who were watching a violent movie at home on Monday were surprised when police turned up in response to reports of gunfire and screams emanating from the apartment.
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National: 7 Jan 12
The third suspect in the Uppsala kidnapping case has been remanded into custody on suspicion of abducting the 25-year-old Uppsala student who went missing on December 28th.
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National: 5 Jan 12
Seven men in central Sweden have been charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault after having abducted and tortured a man, burning him with an iron and hitting him with computer cables.
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National: 4 Jan 12
The 25-year-old man who went missing from his Uppsala flat on December 28th has been found alive in Umeå, in the north of Sweden, according to police.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Yet another man has been gunned down on the streets of Malmö, making him the fifth in just over a month to be shot dead in Sweden's third largest city.
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Lifestyle: 30 Dec 11
Contributor Julie Lindahl catches up with Paavo Turtiainen, a Manhattan-based chef and events planner featured in a new film detailing how Swedish screen legend Ingrid Bergman helped launch his extraordinary career.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 11
The number of houses and apartments for sale in Sweden is nearing record highs, according to a Swedish real estate listing service.
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National: 29 Dec 11
Four men were charged on Thursday in connection with Sweden's “biggest-ever” cocaine bust that netted drugs worth an estimated 145 million kronor ($21 million).
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National: 26 Dec 11
A 26-year-old man was found dead in an apartment in Central Uppsala, north of Stockholm, on Monday morning. According to police, the man was murdered and the body shows signs extensive injuries.
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National: 25 Dec 11
Murders, break-ins and accidents made it a busy Christmas holiday weekend for the police and emergency services across Sweden this year.
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National: 23 Dec 11
A 16-year-old-boy was shot by police in Gothenburg early Friday morning after the vehicle the teen was driving hit an officer in what police believe was a deliberate attempt to run the officer over.
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National: 20 Dec 11
A mother, a father and their 25-year-old son were charged with trafficking on Tuesday after having "purchased" a 14-year-old girl in Serbia and brought her to Sweden to serve as the mentally handicapped son's wife.
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Society: 15 Dec 11
Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's official residence, Sagerska Huset in Stockholm, which he was forced to leave due to extensive renovations in April, is now ready for the family to move back.
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Society: 14 Dec 11
Sara Svensson, the nanny convicted of killing the wife of a pastor with whom she was having an affair, in the village of Knutby, eastern Sweden, in 2004, has been ordered released from institutional psychiatric care.
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National: 11 Dec 11
With advent, Lucia and Christmas, Swedish firefighters are kept busy during the month of December, with 12 percent of all recorded fires caused by candles left unattended.
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National: 9 Dec 11
A woman from Sweden claims to have lost her rental property after the contract was already signed and keys had been exchanged, following pressure from the other tenants to not let a member of the Roma people live in the building.
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Business & Money: 8 Dec 11
Fresh figures from the Association of Swedish Real Estate Agents show that 54 percent believe that houses prices will fall in the near future.
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Lifestyle: 8 Dec 11
Looking for tips for how to give your home some Swedish Christmas flare? Interior design blogger Niki Brantmark provides a few ideas to help turn your home into a cutting edge Swedish winter wonderland.
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National: 7 Dec 11
Seven men have so far been arrested on suspicion of gang raping a 29-year-old mother of two in Eksjö, in the south of Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Dec 11
After spending last winter in rural Sweden recording the Hollywood version of "The girl with the dragon tattoo", director David Fincher was left baffled as to how Swedes survive the cold, dark months. The Local has found out how.
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Business & Money: 29 Nov 11
A flat described as "Stockholm's smallest" is up for sale for 1.2 million kronor ($174,000) and despite its modest 12 square metre size, there is no shortage of interest.
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Society: 22 Nov 11
A high-ranking local politician from western Sweden, currently facing charges for buying sex, was found to have made thousands of visits to numerous pornographic websites from his office computer.
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Society: 17 Nov 11
A police officer with the narcotics unit of the Gothenburg police is facing drugs charges after his girlfriend turned him in when she became annoyed that the cocaine-snorting cop tried to phone a prostitute.
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Business & Money: 15 Nov 11
Healthcare provider Carema, recently ditched by the City of Stockholm after a series of revelations of neglect, has denied reports that staff left a dementia patient to die alone in front of a television.
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National: 12 Nov 11
A government agency slams emergency services operator SOS Alarm for severe flaws in their judgements of ambulance call-outs, claiming that mistakes may have led to deaths, injuries and increased risk.
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Business & Money: 10 Nov 11
Nordea CEO Christian Clausen has responded to criticism of the bank's purchase of a 22.5 million kronor ($3.4 million) flat for him in Stockholm, as finance minister Anders Borg encouraged outraged customers to change banks.
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National: 9 Nov 11
A 14-year-old girl who was held as a sex-slave by a mentally ill man has been freed by Swedish police who suspect she was sold by her father in Belgrade before being trafficked to Sweden.
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Society: 6 Nov 11
The All Saints holiday weekend brought trouble throughout Sweden, with a notable spike in drunkenness, fights and other assaults in the north of the country.
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Business & Money: 4 Nov 11
The board chair of Swedish bank Nordea has defended the bank's purchase a 22.5 million kronor ($3.4 million) flat in Stockholm for Danish CEO Christian Clausen by arguing that "people actually need to live".
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National: 31 Oct 11
Four guys out shoe shopping on a Sunday afternoon suddenly found themselves detained and whisked to the edge of town by police, mistaking them for a gang of criminal football hooligans.
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Politics: 29 Oct 11
After a number of cases of patients being denied care, sometimes with lethal outcomes, Sweden’s public healthcare system is set to be audited.
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National: 24 Oct 11
A woman turned up at a hospital in southern Sweden on Friday with a paper bag containing a dead newborn baby.
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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.
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Politics: 15 Oct 11
Centre Party MP Erik A Eriksson has also spent years pocketing an oversized rental payment from the Riksdag for his rent costs, totalling 250,000 kronor ($37,500).
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Politics: 14 Oct 11
Prosecutors said Friday they were dropping an investigation into improper reimbursements claimed by Håkan Juholt as the Social Democrats' executive committee announced it still had confidence in the embattled party leader.
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Politics: 14 Oct 11
The Social Democrats' powerful executive committee will meet at 9am on Friday, for what has been described as "judgement day" for embattled leader Håkan Juholt.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 11
A Chinese chef who collapsed from exhaustion on the streets of Gothenburg after being forced to work under 'slave-like' conditions has received a large indemnity after a Swedish union intervened on his behalf.
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Politics: 11 Oct 11
Under-fire Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt has come under further scrutiny over his expenses after revelations that he declined to repay some of a Riksdag travel grant despite having cut short a trip to Belarus in 2006.
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Politics: 8 Oct 11
Social democratic leader Håkan Juholt has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, amounting to a total of roughly 160,000 kronor ($23,500).
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Business & Money: 4 Oct 11
The number of tenant-owner occupied apartments in Sweden is over 50 percent higher this year in comparison with last year, according to new figures published on Tuesday.
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Society: 27 Sep 11
Having lost her husband and most of her friends, 96-year-old Eva Bergdahl from Karlskrona in southern Sweden has decided to pack up and move to Thailand, explaining that her "apartment has become awfully quiet".
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Lifestyle: 22 Sep 11
In the first of a new series to help The Local's readers discover more of what Stockholm has to offer, contributor Gwen Ramsey offers some tips on where people who lack a traditional office can open up their laptops and get something done.
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National: 21 Sep 11
A 53-year-old man who stabbed his 7-year-old son to death in Umeå, in northern Sweden, was convicted on Wednesday to 18 years in prison for murder and unlawful coercion.
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National: 19 Sep 11
A man has been detained on suspicion of murdering his wife, after she was found dead in a ditch in northern Stockholm on Sunday morning.
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National: 18 Sep 11
A series of shots ricocheted around an apartment Saturday night in Malmö, southern Sweden. Although no one was injured, police suspect attempted murder.
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Society: 16 Sep 11
A Swedish man is set to be evicted from his rental apartment in Gothenburg in western Sweden after complaints from neighbours about his incessant laughter.
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Business & Money: 14 Sep 11
The last three months show a distinct slowdown on the Swedish housing market, according to Sweden’s real estate statistics website Mäklarstatistik.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact.
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National: 7 Sep 11
The distraught mother of a 22-year-old Swedish woman who died after being denied an ambulance because she was “still talking” has reported the incident to health authorities in a desperate search for answers.
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National: 6 Sep 11
A man who is suspected of trying to rape a 21-year-old woman in an apartment in Malmö over the weekend was left nursing a partially severed tongue as his would-be victim fought back.
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National: 2 Sep 11
The 37-year-old man who claimed he accidentally killed a 17-year-old girl during a sex act "that went too far” was given a longer sentence by the Swedish Appeals Court on Friday.
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Society: 1 Sep 11
A 23-year-old man from central Sweden who thought he was being attacked by aliens from outer space has been charged for firing several live rounds from his apartment window.
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Politics: 30 Aug 11
A Sweden Democrat local politician was targeted in an arson attack at her home in Södermanland south of Stockholm on Monday evening.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Aug 11
UK native Suhail Din sparked a heated debate among The Local's readers with his reflections on why Swedes refused to talk to him and his family during a visit to Stockholm. Contributor Ruben Brunsveld examines why.
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Society: 28 Aug 11
Two neighbours in northern Sweden were horrified to find their apartments crawling with maggots because the person living next door had died and the undiscovered body had been rotting for two and half weeks.
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Lifestyle: 26 Aug 11
With the autumn term in full-swing and students primed to take a break from the books, The Local's Karen Holst takes a look at how 'nations' shape Sweden's college social scene.
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National: 26 Aug 11
Stockholm police have identified a large number of sex-buyers following the arrests of six men on suspicion of trafficking and pimping charges in a case involving at least 20 Lithuanian women.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 Aug 11
Sweden's housing minister is wrong to single out students as the solution to help alleviate pressure in Stockholm's housing market, argue Young Moderates Veronica de Jonge and Edvin Alam.
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National: 22 Aug 11
A 53-year-old man suspected of stabbing his 7-year-old son to death in July was formally charged with the boy's murder on Monday in Umeå in northern Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 16 Aug 11
If you thought that Swedes' excellent English excused you from learning Swedish, think again. But learning Swedish needn't be daunting, with courses offering total immersion by staying in the teacher's home.
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Society: 16 Aug 11
An elderly Swedish woman was given quite a scare on Monday morning when she discovered a 3-metre-long boa constrictor lying on her second-floor balcony.
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Business & Money: 16 Aug 11
Flat prices fell by 6 percent in Sweden and house prices by 2 percent in July compared to the previous month, according to new statistics.
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National: 15 Aug 11
The man charged with beating a 54-year-old Swedish schoolteacher to death in April was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday, with his two accomplices receiving shorter prison terms.
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Science & Technology: 15 Aug 11
Heavy rains that caused flooding in parts of western Sweden on Sunday are expected to continue on Monday, prompting a warning from Swedish meteorological agency SMHI.
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National: 12 Aug 11
The continuing financial uncertainty looks set to have a bearing on what is traditionally one of the busiest weekends of the year for real estate agents in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 10 Aug 11
A Swedish tenant has been fined over 30,000 kronor ($4,660) for carrying out shoddy and unfinished painting work and for choosing the wrong shade of green for his bedroom.
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National: 8 Aug 11
The Supreme Court of Sweden (Högsta Domstolen) will not re-open the Högsby honour killing case, the court announced on Monday.
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Education: 8 Aug 11
Flat-hunting students in Sweden have been swindled into forking out cash for accommodation that doesn't exist, causing one housing site to issue a warning to its users.
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National: 8 Aug 11
Five men barged into a flat in the Rosengård suburb of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, early on Monday morning kidnapping one man after incapacitating two others. The man was later found in a car outside Jönköping.
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Society: 5 Aug 11
Rather than send an ambulance to respond to a call from an injured woman in Borlänge in central Sweden, emergency services operator SOS Alarm elected to call on an elderly couple living nearby to check on her instead.
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Society: 5 Aug 11
A 31-year-old Swedish man whose attempt to build a homemade nuclear reactor made headlines across the globe this week, has said he launched the experiment “just for fun”.
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Education: 4 Aug 11
With record-high enrollment at many Swedish universities this year, the lack of student housing is greater than ever as students look for a place to live at the start of the fall 2011 term.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Aug 11
With no end in sight to the shortage of student housing in Stockholm, foreign students should be on the lookout for scam artists hoping to capitalise on their desperation, contributor Anita Badejo discovers.
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Science & Technology: 2 Aug 11
Swedish police have detained a 31-year-old man in Ängelholm in western Sweden after he sought advice on the legality of building a nuclear reactor in his home.
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National: 2 Aug 11
A 25-year-old man from the Gothenburg area was stabbed to death in the Thai tourist resort of Phuket on Monday. Two Swedish citizens have been arrested by Thai police in connection with the crime.
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National: 30 Jul 11
A security guard in western Sweden avoided major injury after receiving a dangerous hit in the eye from a laser beam fired by a 10-year-old boy.
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Society: 29 Jul 11
Police raided the apartment of a woman in Gävle in eastern Sweden after being tipped off that she was caring for a wild hedgehog in violation of the country's hunting laws.
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National: 24 Jul 11
Falling housing prices in Sweden, coupled with a shrinking turnover on the housing market and rising interest rates are increasing the risk of a possible housing bubble, according to an opinion piece in Swedish media by a leading Social Democrat.
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Business & Money: 14 Jul 11
Apartment prices in Sweden have fallen for the third month running, new statistics for June show, while realtors are reluctant to call the drop a lasting trend.
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National: 12 Jul 11
The 53-year-old man suspected of murdering his 7-year-old son in Umeå in northern Sweden on Sunday has been remanded into custody.
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National: 12 Jul 11
Hundreds of cats being kept in a small apartment, lame horses kept unwatered and battered and bruised pooches - the number of pet-owners losing their right to keep animals on the grounds of abuse is increasing steadily in Sweden.
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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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