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Swedes arrested in major European drug bust

National: 12 Jan 12
Europol said Thursday it has busted a major synthetic drugs-making network following the confiscation in Sweden of large amounts of amphetamine, resulting in the arrest of nine suspects in four countries. READ »

Abdulwahab 'called Iraq' before Stockholm bomb

National: 17 Nov 11
Taimour Abdulwahab called a mobile telephone in Iraq the same day that he blew himself up in Stockholm, and received 60,000 kronor ($8,800) from backers in Scotland, according to British prosecutors. READ »

Mass faintings at H&M factory in Cambodia

Business & Money: 28 Oct 11
Over 200 Cambodian workers fainted this week in a factory which manufacturers clothes for Swedish fashion giant H&M. READ »

H&M buckles after Greenpeace 'detox' dressdown

Business & Money: 20 Sep 11
Swedish fashion giant H&M has committed to phasing out the use of all hazardous chemicals in making their clothes following a Greenpeace campaign urging them to "detox" their production. READ »

Sweden failing to protect Baltic Sea: WWF

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 11
Sweden must improve its preservation of biodiversity in the Baltic, and decrease use of hazardous fertilisers, according to a WWF report published Wednesday. READ »

Alfa Laval wins big with brewery deal

Business & Money: 4 Jul 11
Alfa Laval, the Swedish heating giant, snapped up a major deal with a South American beer brewery, an order valued at 135 million kronor ($21 million). READ »

Beer cans, not butts targeted by new litter law

Society: 22 Jun 11
Throwing a beer can anywhere but in the trash is set to become a costly affair in Sweden after a new law to combat litterbugs comes into effect in July. Cigarette butts, however, are exempt. READ »

'Danish Marmite ban, be damned': British ex-pat

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Jun 11
The news that Denmark has recently banned Marmite caused widespread panic among British ex-pats there, leaving UK native and Marmite lover Tim Harvey wondering whether the decision may have even more far-reaching consequences. READ »

UN warns Sweden over record ozone layer loss

Science & Technology: 5 Apr 11
Swedes are being warned against rushing to catch the spring sun, as the depletion of the ozone layer has reached unprecedented levels with the whole of Scandinavia in the risk zone. READ »

Foreign firms look to locate in Stockholm

Society: 21 Nov 10
An increasing number of foreign companies are deciding to locate their regional headquarters in Stockholm, according to a recent study. READ »

Chemistry Nobel shared by three scientists

Science & Technology: 6 Oct 10
Three scientists, Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on palladium catalysed cross-coupling. READ »

Vattenfall plant tests CO2-scrubbing algae

Science & Technology: 22 Jul 10
Swedish energy group Vattenfall announced on Thursday that has launched a major pilot project using algae to absorb greenhouse gas emissions from a coal-fired power plant in eastern Germany. READ »

Swedish exports back in the black

Business & Money: 2 Jun 10
Exports of goods from Sweden increased by 7.6 percent by volume in the first quarter, in comparison with the first quarter of 2009; imports climbed by 8.2 percent, new statistics show. READ »

Green Swedish fashion takes Berlin

Lifestyle: 20 Jan 10
Four Swedish eco designers are taking part in the Berlin Fashion Week to take a stand against the overuse of nature’s resources, writes Anna Maria Bernitz of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Pesticides found in organic tea

National: 5 Nov 09
Green herb teas are habitually marketed as offering additional health benefits. But eight of ten popular brands contain chemicals that can be hazardous to health, according to a new analysis. READ »

Vattenfall mulls new Swedish nuke plants

Business & Money: 30 Oct 09
Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall on Friday unveiled plans which could result in the construction of a new nuclear power station. READ »

Swedish town overrun by mosquitoes

Society: 10 Jul 09
Residents of the sleepy farming district of Österfärnebo in eastern Sweden blame a bureaucratic miscue for bringing plague-like swarms of mosquitoes to their village. READ »

Swedish exports drop 20 percent

Business & Money: 8 Jun 09
Swedish exports declined by 21.4 percent in volume during the first quarter of 2009, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden. READ »

Breast milk less toxic: study

Science & Technology: 7 Jun 09
Levels of PCBs and other toxic substances that babies consume via breast milk have declined considerably since the middle of the 1990s, a new Swedish study has shown. READ »

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt: putting food on the EU agenda

Analysis & Opinion: 25 May 09
With a five-year-old son who's allergic to peanuts, EU election candidate Anna Maria Corazza-Bildt says her platform has sprung from personal experiences at an unlikely place: the grocery store. READ »

Eating fish makes teenage boys smarter: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 9 Mar 09
Teenage boys who eat fish at least once a week score higher on intelligence tests, according to a Swedish study. READ »

Record thickness for Sweden's ozone layer

Science & Technology: 3 Mar 09
The layer of ozone above Sweden in February reached a thickness not seen in decades, according to the Swedish meteorological institute SMHI. READ »

Sweden assists Montenegro with napalm disposal

Science & Technology: 12 Nov 08
Sweden is helping Montenegro dispose of 26 tonnes of napalm that was stored at a military facility in the Bay of Kotor, a popular tourist destination on its Adriatic coast. READ »

Toxic chemicals found in Björn Borg underwear

Business & Money: 19 Aug 08
Björn Borg men's briefs have been found to contain shockingly high levels of a toxic chemical banned in the EU. READ »

Kenyan activists urge Lundin to delay drilling

Business & Money: 21 Jul 08
Kenyan activists on Monday called for Swedish oil firm Lundin Petroleum to hold off its plans to search for oil and natural gas in the north-west Lake Turkana basin due to health concerns. READ »

Malmö researchers solve eczema riddle

Science & Technology: 16 Jul 08
Researchers in Malmö have solve the riddle behind the recent eczema 'epidemic' in northern Europe. Dyes used in imported Chinese furniture are to blame. READ »

World's first ecolabelled fuel soon a reality

Science & Technology: 4 Jul 08
New initiatives for the labelling and certification of biofuels have been presented in Sweden. READ »

Killer slugs to meet their match

National: 19 Apr 08
The Swedish Chemicals Agency has approved the use of tiny roundworms to fight the scourge of the Spanish 'killer' slugs. READ »

Akzo Nobel completes takeover of ICI

Business & Money: 2 Jan 08
Akzo Nobel announced on Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of British peer ICI. READ »

Probe into Swedish-only workplace idea

National: 22 Dec 07
Whip out those dictionaries just in case Swedish becomes compulsory at work. READ »

EU regulators approve Akzo Nobel's takeover of ICI

Business & Money: 14 Dec 07
EU antitrust regulators have approved Akzo Nobel's purchase of British peer ICI READ »

Akzo Nobel shareholders approve takeover of ICI

Business & Money: 5 Nov 07
Shareholders in Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints group Akzo Nobel on Monday approved the company's proposed takeover of British peer ICI. READ »

Abuse of Tamiflu can create resistant strains

Science & Technology: 3 Oct 07
Swedish scientists say that Tamiflu - the frontline weapon in any bird-flu pandemic - cannot be broken down by sewage systems and this could help the virus mutate dangerously into a drug-resistant strain. READ »

Swedish terror suspect appears before New York court

National: 26 Sep 07
A Lebanese-born Swedish man arrived in the United States Tuesday to face terrorism-related charges after being extradited by the Czech Republic. "Mr. Judge, are you a better judge than a judge in Sweden? They don't judge me in Sweden," he told the New York court. READ »

Swedish terror suspect extradited to United States

Politics: 25 Sep 07
A Swedish terror suspect has been extradited from the Czech Republic to the United States almost two years after his initial arrest. READ »

Scientists: pesticides cause asthma

Science & Technology: 17 Sep 07
Farmers' use of certain pesticides can cause asthma, a breakthrough study presented in Stockholm at an international conference on respiratory diseases showed. READ »

Akzo Nobel makes new bid for ICI takeover

Business & Money: 6 Aug 07
Dutch-Swedish chemicals group Akzo Nobel said Monday it had made a new takeover offer for British rival Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), valuing the company at 111 billion kronor. READ »

Stockholm prepares for terror attack

Lifestyle: 24 Apr 07
Terrorists are expected to attack Stockholm on Wednesday. But don't panic - it's only an exercise to prepare Sweden's emergency services to deal with a real emergency, reports Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius. READ »

Car explodes on Rosengård

National: 23 Apr 07
A car belonging to a cleaning company exploded on the Rosengård housing estate in Malmö on Sunday evening. The firm's owner has previously been the subject of threats, police say. READ »

Akzo Nobel sells unit to US company

Business & Money: 12 Mar 07
Dutch-Swedish pharmaceutical group Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its Organon BioSciences drugs unit to US rival Schering-Plough for €11 billion. READ »

Woman finds maggots in muesli packet

National: 9 Jan 07
A woman in southern Sweden opened her bag of fruit muesli to find that maggots had managed to multiply within. "It was so disgusting." READ »

SCA increases China share

Business & Money: 27 Dec 06
Swedish paper and packaging company, SCA AB, has purchased the remaining 7.5 percent of shares in SCA Packaging Asia for about 45 million Swedish kronor. READ »

Gävle goat unscathed after arson attack

National: 15 Dec 06
The last straw for the Gävle goat? Hardly. Thursday night's failed attack barely even charred the first straw. READ »

Phophorous 'could be banned from detergents'

National: 4 Jul 06
With the Baltic Sea in an ever more parlous state, Sweden's environment minister promises to look into banning the use of phosphorous in washing powders. READ »

Six years for kidnap nightmare

National: 23 Jun 06
A 24 year old man was sentenced to six years prison by Malmö district court on Thursday for kidnapping a man in April and tormenting him for 24 hours. READ »

Tools on sale in Sweden could cause cancer

Science & Technology: 10 Jun 06
Electrical tools on sale in Swedish DIY superstores appear to contain high levels of a substance known to cause skin cancer. READ »

Hundreds evacuated as Tyresö fire rages

National: 26 Mar 06
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes overnight in Tyresö outside Stockholm after a massive blaze broke out on a nearby industrial estate. A high risk of explosion is obstructing the work of the fire service. READ »

EU chemical rules "do not go far enough" - Swedish minister

Smörgåsbord: 13 Dec 05
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Hinduja brothers cleared in Bofors bribery case

Smörgåsbord: 31 May 05
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Blaze destroys chemical site in Gothenburg

National: 11 May 05
A fire destroyed a site owned by a chemical company in Gothenburg on Wednesday morning. In an interesting tactic, the fire brigade didn't waste water putting the fire out - in case it took pollutants into the nearby river. READ »

Investigation begins after acid cloud panic

National: 7 Feb 05
4,500 Helsingborg residents spend the weekend indoors as an acid cloud looms nearby following a leak at a local chemical plant. READ »

Swedish farmer faces prosecution for dumping dead pigs

Smörgåsbord: 9 Dec 04
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Malmö boy "planned school attack" - again

National: 26 Oct 04
A 17 year old boy said to be "obsessed with the Columbine massacre" is held by police - for the second time - as they investigate claims that he was planning a similar attack. READ »

School massacre averted

National: 28 May 04
Malmö police thwart an attack planned for the anniversary of the Columbine killings, while a girl is stabbed in a Sigtuna classroom. READ »

Storm in a coffee cup

Science & Technology: 7 May 04
Gothenburg was buzzing with the the evil bean last week while a bunch of Stockholmers got their kicks more naturally. Well, sort of. READ »

Sick joke: breast cancer email is nonsense

Science & Technology: 2 Apr 04
Womens' fears over deodorant warnings put to rest by experts - and how exercise can help beat the disease. READ »

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