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Top flight footballer sentenced for rape

National: 12 Mar 10
Yannick Bapupa, a Congolese professional football player with Swedish top flight club Kalmar, has been sentenced to two years for the rape of an 18-year-old woman. READ »

Sweden reacts with joy and caution to Saab sale

National: 27 Jan 10
Unbridled enthusiasm and cautious optimism, along with a dash of outright scepticism, marked the editorial pages of Swedish newspapers on Wednesday in reaction to news of Saab Automobile’s sale to Spyker Cars. READ »

Winter keeps its grip on Sweden into the New Year

Science & Technology: 1 Jan 10
It will be a cold and wintry start to 2010, with up to 20 centimetres snow set to blanket much of the country's east coast and below zero temperatures for most of the country, according to meteorological agency SMHI. READ »

Calm weather expected for Christmas Day

Science & Technology: 25 Dec 09
A yuletide calm has settled over Sweden for Christmas, both on the roads and in the skies. READ »

Gävle goat succumbs to flames

National: 23 Dec 09
Yuletide arsonists have once again successfully set the famous Gävle goat ablaze. Police received a call around 3am on Wednesday that the Christmas goat in the eastern Swedish town was on fire. READ »

Wolves fair game as Sweden sets cull

Society: 18 Dec 09
Swedish authorities have broken with a 45-year tradition and given the all clear for hunters to kill a total of 27 wolves next year in a bid to control the country's burgeoning lupine population. READ »

Snow wreaks havoc on Sweden's roadways

Science & Technology: 17 Dec 09
Heavy snowfall and high winds continued to disrupt traffic in many parts of Sweden into Thursday afternoon. READ »

Labour market storm subsiding: job agency

Jobs: 9 Dec 09
The worst appears to be over for the Swedish labour market, according to the country’s employment agency, which projects that unemployment will stop rising in the second half of 2010. READ »

Barbro Holmberg rushed to Florida hospital

National: 8 Dec 09
Tiger Woods' Swedish mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg is reported to be in a stable condition after being admitted to a Florida hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning. READ »

Ericsson announces major Swedish lay-offs

Business & Money: 8 Dec 09
Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson has announced a wave of redundancies which will affect nearly 1,000 workers in Sweden. READ »

Elin Nordegren's mother in surprise US trip: report

Society: 7 Dec 09
Barbro Holmberg, the mother of golfer Tiger Woods’ Swedish wife Elin Nordegren, has unexpectedly cleared her schedule for the week and traveled to the United States, according to Swedish media reports. READ »

Sweden gives green light to controversial wolf hunt

National: 3 Dec 09
Hunters in Sweden will be allowed to take aim at wolves for the first time in 45 years following a Riksdag decision to control the predators’ population, wildlife officials said on Wednesday. READ »

Councils pay out billions to cash-strapped Swedes

Business & Money: 30 Nov 09
Social assistance payments to Swedes struggling to make ends meet jumped by 19 percent during the third quarter, new statistics show. READ »

Government keeps new Stockholm- Arlanda rail link on track

Society: 26 Nov 09
It will soon be possible to take a Stockholm commuter train directly to Arlanda airport, after the government on Thursday gave the go ahead to Uppsala and Stockholm to cooperate on a commuter rail route connecting the two counties. READ »

500 refugee children in urgent need of housing

National: 16 Nov 09
As housing shortages for refugee children reach crisis levels, Swedish migration authorities have decided to more than double the number of municipalities assigned to receive young asylum seekers. READ »

Ping pong prisoner's pricey claim for injured pinky

National: 24 Oct 09
A prisoner serving time in Gävle jail has received a pay out of 18,300 kronor in compensation, after injuring his little finger during a game of table tennis. READ »

Man held for setting ex-wife on fire

National: 13 Oct 09
A 51-year-old man has been remanded into custody after setting fire to his ex-wife in Gävle in eastern Sweden. READ »

Immigrants fuel upswing in company start ups

Business & Money: 9 Oct 09
Foreign-born residents of Sweden are helping to boost the booming figures of new business start ups across the country in recent years, a new report indicates. READ »

Swedish hospital performed eye surgery on wrong woman

Society: 6 Oct 09
A 70-year-old Swedish woman who went to hospital for a cataract examination ended up having surgery on her eyelid by mistake. READ »

Upward swing for Swedish entrepreneurs

Business & Money: 2 Oct 09
The number of company start ups around Sweden rose significantly in September, up 18 percent in comparison with the same month of last year. READ »

Hope for woman denied right to adopt after kidney transplant

Science & Technology: 25 Aug 09
A woman with a single functioning kidney has been given new hope in her long battle for the right to adopt children as Sweden's highest administrative court rules that her case deserves a fresh hearing. READ »

Escape attempt at high-security hospital

National: 13 Aug 09
Säter high-security psychiatric hospital in central Sweden was the target of an escape attempt on Thursday morning. Two people were arrested as they smashed their car into a fence. READ »

Rest home resident dies after swallowing false teeth

Science & Technology: 15 Jul 09
Health authorities in eastern Sweden have reported their own inaction to the National Board of Health and Welfare after an 85-year-old man swallowed his false teeth and died. READ »

Royal dish rags hit Swedish stores

Society: 12 Jul 09
A plethora of souvenirs commemorating the engagement between Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling has begun to flood the market. At Designforum, a shop in Gävle, a royal dish rag has become a best seller. READ »

Reptile lunched on Swedish girl's finger

National: 7 Jul 09
A 13-year-old girl had her fingertip badly bitten by a spectacled caiman at a wildlife park in eastern Sweden on Monday. READ »

Swedish cops bare all for undercover operation

Society: 24 Jun 09
Two Swedish police officers stripped down naked and were offered “extra” treatment on recent visits to massage parlors. READ »

Four killed in holiday traffic accidents

National: 20 Jun 09
At least four people have been killed and several others have been severely injured in Midsummer traffic accidents around the country. READ »

Test sites named for Swedish language-learning bonus

Society: 11 Jun 09
Thirteen Swedish municipalities have been chosen to participate in the first phase of a plan to reward newly arrived immigrants who perform well in state-funded language classes. READ »

Swedish major facing sack over boozy African sex romp

National: 1 Jun 09
A major in the Swedish armed forces serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo is in danger of losing his job as a result of his excessive drinking and sexual relations with a local woman. READ »

Swedish press: file sharing still ahead of the law

National: 18 Apr 09
The Swedish press weighs in on prosecutorial victory yesterday in the Pirate Bay case. Although the guilty verdict was not surprising, they write, the harsh sentencing was. READ »

Swedish football: A beginner’s guide to the Allsvenskan

Lifestyle: 2 Apr 09
With the Swedish football season kicking of this weekend, Nic Townsend separates the title hopefuls from the relegation woefuls in a team by team analysis of the Allsvenskan. READ »

Gang leader studies fraud law in prison

Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense. READ »

Emergency operator mistook choking man to be drunk

Society: 24 Mar 09
Sweden’s emergency service telephone system, SOS Alarm, has been reprimanded after an operator mistakenly judged a man to be drunk when in reality he had passed out from choking on food. READ »

Swedish millionaire duped by crooked ‘clairvoyant’

Society: 19 Mar 09
The multimillionaire ex-wife of a Swedish tycoon has lost a large part of her fortune to a phony clairvoyant in exchange for a bottle of “holy water” and some pigeon feathers. READ »

Layoffs hit Sweden's schools

Education: 11 Mar 09
Teachers are in danger of losing their jobs in roughly one third of Sweden’s 290 municipalities. READ »

Swedish chimp's attacks show primate planning prowess

Science & Technology: 10 Mar 09
A chimpanzee who collected rocks to throw at visitors to a zoo in eastern Sweden shows that primates plan for the future in ways similar to humans, according to a Swedish researcher. READ »

Prime Minister rejects artist's tattoo proposal

Society: 19 Feb 09
Fredrik Reinfeldt has politely declined a suggestion from an unemployed Swedish artist that the Prime Minister tattoo his chest with an image designed by the artist himself. READ »

Sweden's colleges catching more cheats

Education: 18 Feb 09
The number of students expelled from Sweden’s colleges and universities for cheating increased by nearly 30 percent last year, according to a recent study. READ »

Newspaper rich lists: public service or invasion of privacy?

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Feb 09
Income details are public property in Sweden - so much so that neighbourhood rich lists are regularly published in the press. Paul O’Mahony peers behind the figures to examine attitudes to a practice that is coming under increasing fire. READ »

Book returned to library after 37 years

Society: 2 Feb 09
A repentant borrower has returned a book to a library in a town in eastern Sweden 37 years after it first went missing from the shelves. READ »

Six men flee Migration Board detention centres

National: 26 Jan 09
A total of six men escaped from detention centres run by Sweden’s Migration Board on Sunday evening in two separate incidents. READ »

'Reinfeldt could score voter coup with chest-piece tattoo'

National: 16 Jan 09
An out of work artist from Gävle in eastern Sweden has a novel suggestion for Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to help him overcome any perceived lack of support among the country’s young people. READ »

Swedish schools to offer 'elite' courses

Education: 15 Jan 09
Sweden’s National Agency for Education on Thursday named 10 high schools to participate in a new initiative designed to give top performing students a chance to take university-level courses. READ »

Flames finally consume Gävle Christmas goat

Society: 27 Dec 08
The Gävle goat went up in flames early Saturday morning, after being set alight by unknown assailants, according to police READ »

Gävle goat survives to Christmas

Society: 24 Dec 08
Despite vandals managing to get to and burn some of its smaller siblings, the traditional Gävle goat has managed to survive until Christmas. READ »

Gävle goat's little brother torched

National: 19 Dec 08
It has become something of a Swedish Christmas tradition for the famous Gävle goat to be burned by vandals. Now its smaller counterpart has suffered a similar fate. READ »

Sweden to prioritize deportations in 2009

Politics: 17 Dec 08
Swedish police are mulling chartering special planes in anticipation of the government’s wishes to step up the pace of deportations of the thousands of unsuccessful asylum seekers estimated to be in the country. 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 »

Thousands lack power after heavy snow

National: 13 Dec 08
After heavy snowfalls across Sweden on Friday thousands of people were left without electricity on Saturday morning. Icy road conditions were forecast for Saturday in Stockholm and northern areas. READ »

Jailed man destroys evidence with help of mobile phone

National: 10 Dec 08
A prisoner in Gävle in eastern Sweden made several calls home to his girlfriend from his cell after police in the town failed to detect that he had smuggled in a mobile phone in his sock. READ »

Winter storm blows over Sweden

National: 24 Nov 08
Traffic problems, flight delays and power outages were left in the wake of Sweden’s first major winter storm, which headed out to the Baltic Sea early on Monday morning boasting hurricane force winds. READ »

Sweden taking in record numbers of immigrants

National: 18 Nov 08
As the flow of immigrants into Sweden reaches record levels, growing numbers are choosing to live in communities featuring universities rather than in cities traditionally known for their large immigrant populations. READ »

Gävle goat a sitting duck

Society: 7 Nov 08
After a joyous two years of life in protective armour, Sweden's iconic Gävle goat will have to fend for itself this Christmas. READ »

Tough break for small-bladdered train passengers

Society: 4 Nov 08
Passengers on a train running between Borlänge and Gävle in central Sweden couldn’t believe their ears on Sunday afternoon when the conductor explained why the train’s toilets had been shut off. READ »

Snow chaos on Swedish roads

National: 31 Oct 08
A trail of stranded trucks dotted the roads of Sweden on Friday as the first major snowfall of the season caught drivers unawares. READ »

French Nobel laureate receives Swedish literature prize

Society: 26 Oct 08
Nobel prize-winning French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was in Sweden on Saturday to receive the Stig Dagerman prize for his work drawn from his vast world travels, jury members said. READ »

Huge doping ring uncovered in Sweden

National: 21 Oct 08
Swedish police rounded up 40 people on Tuesday in series of pre-dawn raids across the country in an effort to crack a massive doping scam. READ »

'More beer please': Swedish towns struggle to find catchy mottos

Society: 18 Sep 08
Several Swedish towns have discovered that spending a lot of money on a snazzy town slogan may not always bring about the intended result. READ »

Stockholm population reaches highest level since 1960s

Society: 14 Aug 08
High immigration figures have contributed to increased population figures across Sweden. READ »

Moderates challenge councils over independent schools

Education: 8 Aug 08
Moderate party education representatives want to see a centralization and simplification of the independent schooling system. Councils should lose the right to delay the opening of new schools, they argue. READ »

Rail chaos after SJ booking system fault

National: 22 Jul 08
A bug in rail operator SJ's booking system caused chaos on trains between Gävle and Stockholm on Sunday. The bookings problem is widespread across Sweden. READ »

20-year-old dies after police cell suicide bid

National: 11 Jul 08
A young man has died after hanging himself from a toilet door while in police custody in Uppsala. It is the second suicide this year in the town's police cells. READ »

Teen fined for online porn pic

Society: 23 May 08
A 15-year-old boy has been fined for posting a pornographic picture on a social networking page belonging to his former girlfriend without her consent. READ »

'Sweden can no longer defend itself'

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. READ »

Chinese students cheated over college fees

Education: 6 May 08
Several Chinese students from China have paid thousands of kronor to agencies in China to attend a Swedish university, despite the fact that the school is tuition free. READ »

Two critically injured following knife attack

National: 2 May 08
Two men received life threatening stab wounds following a confrontation in the central Swedish town of Sandviken late on Thursday night. READ »

Car vandals seek redemption

National: 20 Apr 08
Erik and Olle finished off a night out in Gävle in June 2006 by vandalizing 21 cars. This week the pair have been busy making amends. READ »

Health workers union steps up strike pressure

Business & Money: 16 Apr 08
The Swedish Association of Health Professionals (Vårdförbundet) approved an additional round of industrial action on Wednesday. READ »

‘World’s oldest tree’ discovered in Dalarna

National: 11 Apr 08
Swedish researchers have uncovered a stand of spruce trees with an 8,000-year-old tree root system in Dalarna, making it among the oldest in the world. READ »

Ten-year-old Dalarna girl missing

National: 6 Apr 08
A ten-year-old is missing in Dalarna. The search for the girl continues after she went missing after football training on Saturday afternoon. READ »

Court rules in favour of man and his snakes

National: 26 Mar 08
An environmental court ruled there is nothing wrong with a man keeping 47 snakes--20 of which are poisonous--in his apartment. READ »

'Sexist' Left Party politician in Women's Day row

National: 7 Mar 08
The Left Party has changed its International Women’s Day programme after complaints surfaced that one of the speakers had threatened a female party colleague. (Photo: Left Party demo on March 8th last year). READ »

Woman strangled on safety device

National: 3 Mar 08
An 82-year-old woman was strangled to death last week when the cord of a security device fastened in her walker. READ »

One of Gävle Christmas goats burns

Society: 25 Dec 07
The large goat in central Gävle survived Christmas Eve. But its little brother wasn't quite so fortunate. READ »

Two die in apartment fires

National: 23 Dec 07
Fires in apartments in Gävle and Trelleborg claimed the lives of a man and woman on Saturday evening. READ »

Gävle hit by salmonella outbreak

National: 18 Dec 07
Twelve people in the Gävle region have contracted salmonella poisoning after eating infected eggs imported from Poland. READ »

Thore Skogman dies

Society: 10 Dec 07
Popular Swedish entertainer Thore Skogman has died at the age of 76. READ »

Santa pulls Christmas cracker

Society: 6 Dec 07
Last year a Swedish Santa Claus fell in love with a mother of two while delivering presents to her children. This year he will be kissing her under the mistletoe. READ »

Gävle Goat vows to survive Christmas

Society: 3 Dec 07
Crowds gathered on the streets of Gävle on Sunday to witness the return of the giant goat that has stood in the town every Christmas since 1966. But will it survive the inevitable arson attempts? READ »

Murder suspects cleared on technicality

National: 29 Nov 07
A legal technical error has led to two men being cleared of the brutal murder of a 35-year-old daycare teacher. READ »

Reinfeldt: public services go before tax cuts

Politics: 25 Oct 07
Public services and welfare are a higher priority than further tax cuts, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has told members of his Moderate Party as he opened its annual conference in Gävle. READ »

Dead baby not murdered

National: 20 Oct 07
A prosecutor in Gävle has dropped the investigation into two women from the town who were suspected of killing a newborn baby. The corpse was found in a rubbish tip on Friday. READ »

Dead baby found in rubbish tip

National: 19 Oct 07
A mother and a grandmother accused of killing a baby were released on Friday after the infant's body was found in a Gävle rubbish tip. They are still under suspicion, say police. READ »

Mother and grandmother accused of killing baby

National: 16 Oct 07
A woman has been arrested in central Sweden on suspicion of killing her new-born baby. Her mother, in her sixties, has also been arrested. READ »

Moderates split over refugee issue

Politics: 12 Oct 07
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has received criticism from his Moderate Party colleagues in Skåne. The rift comes after Reinfeldt rejected a proposal to direct newly arrived refugees to areas in which they are likely to find work and accommodation. READ »

Snow warning issued for central Sweden

National: 11 Oct 07
Many parts of central Sweden are bracing themselves for the first snow of the season, with motorists warned to expect slippery conditions. READ »

Three charged for brutal murder of daycare teacher

National: 21 Sep 07
Two men and a woman have been charged in connection with the brutal murder last year of a 35-year-old daycare teacher. The woman was hit in the head with an axe and drowned in a bog. READ »

First bear killed in hunting season

National: 21 Aug 07
The first bear has been killed in Sweden's bear hunting season, which got underway on Tuesday morning. A rising bear population in Sweden has led to raised hunting quotas this year. READ »

Murdered woman's husband killed eight years ago

National: 24 Jul 07
A 51-year-old woman who is thought to have been murdered in Söderhamn last Friday was shot in a previous attack eight years ago - when the father of her youngest son was killed. READ »

Swedish house prices continue to rise

National: 16 Jul 07
The average Swedish house has increased in value by 9 percent in the last twelve months. In the last quarter alone the average increase across the country was 4 percent, according to Statistics Sweden. READ »

Swedish robbery suspect arrested in Ireland

National: 12 Jul 07
A 31-year-old Swede has appeared before the Irish High Court following his arrest last week in connection with a 2005 bank robbery in Gävle. READ »

Deportee stabs policewoman in throat

National: 10 Jul 07
A policewoman was stabbed in the throat on Tuesday afternoon by a 31-year-old Kosovan man who was about to be deported from Sweden. READ »

Boys die in moped crash

National: 7 Jul 07
Two 17 year old boys died when their motorcycles collided in Friggesund, 40km west of Hudiksvall, early on Saturday morning. READ »

Stowaways arrive in Sweden after boarding wrong ship

National: 3 Jul 07
Three Moroccan stowaways who dreamed of a new life in Europe are facing a long trip home after arriving in Sweden - not Holland, as they intended. READ »

US tourist detained in Sweden as asylum seeker

Society: 27 Jun 07
An American woman who came to Sweden on vacation has ended up in a detention centre, classed as an asylum seeker against her will. "I don't want to live here; I don't want to work here," she tells The Local. READ »

Child bitten by snake at pre-school

Society: 8 Jun 07
A child and an employee at a pre-school in central Sweden have been bitten by adders within a few days of each other. READ »

Police push for brighter uniforms and loaded guns

Society: 23 May 07
Swedish police officers may soon begin wearing brighter uniforms in a bid to look less like a military organization. But their guns should always be loaded, according to a new report. READ »

Björklund's leadership bid gains momentum

Politics: 22 May 07
Jan Björklund appears ever more likely to become the next leader of the Liberal Party with party branches almost unanimous in their support of his candidacy. Only Gotland deviated from the norm at Monday's branch meetings. READ »

Swedes still dying from Chernobyl radiation

Lifestyle: 4 May 07
It is now two decades since the world's worst nuclear power accident at Chernobyl, but people in parts of northern and central Sweden are still dying from cancer caused by the radiation. And the worst could still be to come, reports Rami Abdelrahman. READ »

Gambling monopoly 'targets the poor'

National: 8 Apr 07
Sweden's state-owned gambling company, Svenska Spel, has been accused of targeting people living in poor areas. Poorer suburbs of Stockholm have high numbers of gaming machines, while richer areas have none. READ »

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