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Sweden's Christmas goat succumbs to flames

National: 2 Dec 11
The giant 13 metre tall Christmas goat, erected in Gävle on Sweden's east coast, went up in flames early Friday morning after an attack by unknown assailants. READ »

Swedish town erects giant Christmas goat

National: 27 Nov 11
Advent Sunday means it is time for the inauguration of the famous 13 metre tall Christmas goat (Gävlebocken) in the main square of Gävle, on the east coast of Sweden. READ »

'We were all Americans, at least for a while'

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. READ »

Union backs conductor who kicked girl off train

National: 4 Aug 11
A union has leapt to the defence of the train conductor who was suspended after throwing an 11-year-old girl off a train on Wednesday because the girl didn't have a ticket. READ »

'Ass attack' downs Swedish model's blog

Society: 1 Aug 11
Hackers used a graphic photograph of a man's naked buttocks to attack a popular website about Stockholm's nightlife, singling out some of the site's popular female bloggers in the cyberattack. READ »

'Jack Nicholson' surprises Swedish music festival fans

Society: 13 Jun 11
Fans attending the Summer Rock festival in southern Sweden cheered on Saturday by what they thought was a surprise appearance by legendary Hollywood actor Jack Nicholson. READ »

Cybersex Swedes claim they did 'nothing wrong'

National: 13 May 11
The two Swedish IT-experts jailed for life in the Philippines for running a cybersex den say they are living a nightmare among hardened criminals and maintain that they have done nothing wrong. READ »

Palme conspiracy theories refuse to die

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Like many other high-profile murders, the killing of Olof Palme has spawned more than it's fair share of conspiracy theories, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

Gävle Goat survives Christmas Eve

Society: 25 Dec 10
The Gävle Goat has survived Christmas Eve and is still standing in the town's main square. READ »

The Lowdown: Christmas in Sweden

Lifestyle: 23 Dec 10
Jellied pigs’ feet, Donald Duck and a goat-riding gnome may not be your typical global Christmas symbols, but for Swedes they’re all part of the fun, writes Jennifer Heape. READ »

Gävle goat targeted in foiled helicopter heist

Society: 17 Dec 10
Two mysterious men attempted to bribe a guard to leave his post watching over the giant goat in Gävle in eastern Sweden in an attempt to kidnap the iconic Christmas symbol using a helicopter. READ »

Dead goat scares recycling depot visitors

Society: 31 Oct 10
Several people received a shock over the weekend when they headed to their local rubbish tip in Orsa in central Sweden when a goat's head peered at them through a refuse bag in the recycling container. READ »

Peruvian author wins Nobel literature prize

Society: 7 Oct 10
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the Nobel prize in Literature 2010, it was confirmed on Thursday. 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 »

Scrapping tracker may negate Pirate Bay fines

Science & Technology: 17 Nov 09
The Pirate Bay file sharing site has decided to shut down the tracker that allows users to share digital files with one another in a move that could negate the court ordered fines facing two of the men behind the site. READ »

Malmö gets sucked in to world of comics

Lifestyle: 6 Nov 09
The Local's Charlotte Webb sits down with World of Comics festival co-ordinator, Caroline Lund, to talk masks and multiculturalism in Malmö. READ »

Swedish anti-piracy law keeps downloaders on the defensive

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Aug 09
Four months after Sweden implemented a new law to crack down on internet piracy, the AFP’s Marc Preel discovers that the debate continues about the measure’s long-term implications for file sharers and copyright holders alike. READ »

Swedish hospitals fail to report patient injuries

Society: 13 Jul 09
County authorities systematically disregard the legal requirement to report patient injuries to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, according to a Swedish press report. 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 »

Latvia police probe targets Swedish banks

Business & Money: 8 May 09
Aggressive methods employed by Swedish banks for collecting money from borrowers in Latvia are the subject of a police investigation, according to the Latvian prime minister. 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 »

Untangling the role of Swedish banks in Latvia's financial woes

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Mar 09
As economies in the Baltic states falter, The Local’s Juris Kaza looks at why so many observers have placed much of the blame for Latvia’s financial woes on Swedish banks. 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 »

Winter city guides for parents and kids: Malmö

Lifestyle: 18 Nov 08
Jennifer Heape checks out what Malmö has to offer in terms of entertainment and activities for families with kids this winter. READ »

Swedish bestiality ring exposed

National: 11 Nov 08
A Swedish newspaper has exposed a network of self-proclaimed zoophiles who meet regularly in locations around the country to have sex with animals. 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 »

Blue tongue disease continues to spread

National: 15 Sep 08
Authorities in western Sweden on Monday morning discovered the latest in a series of cases of animals infected with blue tongue disease at a farm in Halland. READ »

Blue tongue disease hits Swedish farm

National: 8 Sep 08
Two animals infected with blue tongue disease have been destroyed, as Sweden’s agricultural ministry gears up to prevent a wider outbreak of the feared livestock disease. READ »

Bacterial infection claims 2-year-old's life

Science & Technology: 8 Jul 08
A two-year-old girl from Stockholm has died after becoming infected with the EHEC bacteria. READ »

Lenin returns to Stockholm

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Apr 08
More than ninety years have passed since Vladimir Lenin stopped off in Stockholm to buy an overcoat shortly before returning to Russia to start a revolution. David Bartal met up with him for a chat. READ »

Going out in Gothenburg - April 25 - 27

Lifestyle: 24 Apr 08
Where to go out in Gothenburg this weekend? Monthly Magazine has the answers. 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 »

Lessing argues for Africa's 'unheard voices'

National: 7 Dec 07
Nobel Literature Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her Nobel lecture to argue that the future of literature lies in knowledge-hungry developing countries, rather than in the apathetic west, writes Charlotte West. 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 »

'You can't eat when your tongue's hanging out'

Lifestyle: 28 Sep 07
Kathleen Harman takes her (male) overseas guests to some of Stockholm's flashier nightspots, but finds that the sight of tall, blonde women is enough to put her companions right off their food. READ »

Deadly impressive: Stockholm's woodland cemetery

Lifestyle: 24 Aug 07
Tipping Point: Kathleen Harman has always enjoyed a good cemetery, so was immediately drawn to Stockholm's Skogskyrkogården, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What she found was a work of stunning Swedish simplicity. READ »

'Don't mention the E-word'

Analysis & Opinion: 4 May 07
Europe is still an infected issue in Swedish politics - particularly on the left. The anti-European stance of the Left and Green parties poses a problem for Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin, argues Jonas Morian of the Social Democratic Press Association. READ »

Goats blamed for barn blaze

National: 18 Feb 07
For years Sweden's goats have watched with dismay as their proudest symbol, the Gävle straw goat, is burned to the ground at Christmas. Now, representatives of Sweden's caprine community have got their own back. READ »

Gävle Goat survives festive season

National: 2 Jan 07
In early December experts were called in to protect a giant straw animal. This goat will not burn, they said. And they were right. READ »

Gävle goat survives Christmas

National: 25 Dec 06
He stands tall and proud, the very model of inflammability. He is the Gävle goat and 2006 will be remembered as the year he made it through Christmas without being burned to bits by merry arsonists. Can he make it to the end of the year? READ »

Introducing...Christmas Tomte

Lifestyle: 18 Dec 06
He's the the man every Swedish kid wants to arrive laden with gifts on Christmas Eve. Unlike Santa Claus, Christmas Tomte won't come down the chimney. He's also half-goat. 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 »

Gävle Goat gets best birthday present ever

National: 4 Dec 06
The Yule Goat is an ancient Nordic symbol. In the town of Gävle, however, the goat has mainly symbolised an annual call to arson. But this year a new sponsor has ensured that the fire-starters will have their work cut out. READ »

Liberals 'wanted journalist to dig the dirt'

Politics: 12 Sep 06
The Liberal Party wanted the media to chase scandals about the Social Democrats, and handed a journalist login details to the governing party's network. That's according to a sacked Liberal press officer. READ »

Swedish women turn to moose hunting

Lifestyle: 30 Aug 06
A record number of women are expected to take part in Sweden's annual moose hunt when it opens next week, and there are some famous faces among those cocking their rifles in the great outdoors. READ »

New child abuse commission after Bobby death

National: 5 May 06
The Swedish government is to set up a new commission to investigate when children die after being abused. The minister in charge has named it 'Bobby's Law' after a ten-year old boy from Småland. READ »

No police action over Reinfeldt smear emails

Politics: 7 Mar 06
Sweden's Moderate Party may never know if there were more Social Democrat HQ workers involved in the email smear campaign against party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt. The police are keeping well clear of the whole affair. READ »

Leave my party, Ohly tells critics

Politics: 5 Jan 06
Troubled Left Party gathers for conference
If you want to criticise the Left Party, then you can't be a member. That was the message from leader Lars Ohly in a speech at the party conference in Gothenburg. He's telling us to go to hell, say rebels. READ »

Santa and gingerbread man get Gävle's goat

National: 4 Dec 05
Two arsonists, a Santa and a gingerbread man, are suspected of burning down the giant straw Christmas Goat in Gävle on Saturday night. Only seven goats have survived Christmas since 1966. READ »

Falun gears up for World Cup cycling

Sport: 3 Aug 05
It may have already lost two bids to host the Winter Olympics but the tiny Swedish town of Falun remains doggedly determined to become a leading centre for European sporting events, and perhaps one day get the Olympics after all. READ »

Nurse appeal fails in baby death case

National: 10 May 05
A nurse convicted of negligently causing the death of a baby failed in her attempt to get the verdict quashed. Instead, she got an extra fine. Her union says she's being made a scapegoat. READ »

Persson calls for economic liberalisation

Business & Money: 3 May 05
Swedish prime minister Göran Persson demands progress in the WTO round of trade liberalisation talks to be made at a special gathering on the sidelines of an OECD meeting in Paris this week. READ »

Persson passes the buck for Swedish tsunami reaction

Politics: 12 Jan 05
The prime minister says civil servants are to blame for his failure to act quickly after the South East Asian disaster. But critics ask why he needed a fax from Bangkok to realise the situation was serious. READ »

?Nazi? terror suspects deny plot

National: 11 Jan 05
Four people accused of a right-wing terror plot throw accusations at each other as their trial opens in Västerås. And one defendant claims that he didn’t know that a photo he had taken was of Göran Persson’s home. READ »

Director slams Swedish TV

Lifestyle: 13 Aug 04
More public argy-bargy at Swedish Television as fired director Filippa Pierrou speaks out. READ »

Escapism: fugitives caught

National: 30 Jul 04
For two days Sweden watches while the police throw everything they've got at the tricky task of tracking down convicted killer Tony Olsson, who escaped from prison with three others on Tuesday night. READ »

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