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Woman runs herself over with own car

Society: 27 Jan 12
A woman in suburban Stockholm was dragged for nearly 10 metres under her own car after she managed run herself over on Friday morning in what police believe was a failed attempt to deal with some apparent engine trouble. READ »

Man jailed for slaying teen on football pitch

National: 5 Jan 12
A 29-year-old man has been jailed for twelve years for killing a teenager on a football pitch in Stockholm last July in an unprovoked attack. READ »

Stockholm drops controversial care firm

Science & Technology: 14 Nov 11
The city of Stockholm said Monday that it would scrap its contract with Carema Care while the government launched an inquiry in the wake of growing concerns about the health care company's management of several elderly care homes. READ »

Police arrest one as Stockholm youths 'riot'

National: 9 Aug 11
Swedish police have confirmed that they arrested one person following clashes with a group of young people in a Stockholm suburb on Monday but played down a link to the riots rocking London. READ »

Two women stabbed in Stockholm suburb

National: 29 Jul 11
Police have detained a 28-year-old man on suspicion of having stabbed two 20-year-old women Thursday night in the north Stockholm suburb of Hässelby. READ »

Teen stabbed to death on Stockholm football pitch

National: 12 Jul 11
An inebriated 29-year-old man attacked a group of teenagers playing football in Hässelby in western Stockholm on Monday night, leaving an 18-year-old dead from stab wounds. READ »

Unusually busy night for Sweden's police force

National: 11 Jun 11
The start of the summer holiday season in Sweden was marked with an unusually high amount of criminal activity according to the police. READ »

Chef hurls meat cleaver at fleeing thief

National: 13 May 10
A chef at a Stockholm restaurant rushed out of his kitchen on Thursday afternoon and threw a meat cleaver at a departing thief as his restaurant was robbed for the second time in a week. READ »

Fire causes woman to leap from fourth floor

National: 7 Dec 09
A woman jumped from her fourth floor apartment to escape a fire at an assisted living facility in northwest Stockholm early on Monday morning. READ »

Two men held for Stockholm murder

National: 17 May 09
Two men have been detained on suspicion of murdering a man in an apartment in Hässelby strand in western Stockholm on Saturday night. READ »

Beach-going boas disrupt Stockholm sunbathing

National: 12 May 08
The unseasonably warm weather wasn't the only thing which surprised a woman headed to the beach in the Stockholm suburb of Hässelby on Sunday afternoon. READ »

A thin man in fat city

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Apr 08
Travelling back to his home town of Los Angeles, David Bartal finds that Sweden still has a long way to go when it comes to unhealthy food at bargain prices. READ »

Kiosk destroyed by wheel loader joyrider

National: 30 Mar 08
A kiosk in western Stockholm was destroyed on Sunday by a joyrider driving a wheel loader. READ »

Three arrested for suspected gang rape near Stockholm

National: 20 Mar 08
A 19-year-old woman suffered a suspected gang rape on Wednesday in the suburb of Hässelby, northwest of Stockholm. READ »

Jail for girl gang muggers

National: 7 Jul 07
Over a period of four months six girls aged between 17 and 20 robbed fourteen elderly women in the Tensta, Rinkeby, Sundbyberg and Hässelby suburbs of Stockholm. On Friday four of the girls were jailed by Solna district court. READ »

HIV Brit's 'youngest victim was 12'

National: 8 Jun 07
The youngest victim of a British man suspected of infecting at least two young girls with HIV was just twelve years old, according to police. Explicit pictures and videos of his encounters with many young girls were recovered from his apartment. READ »

British man admits infecting girl with HIV

Society: 7 Jun 07
A British man has admitted infecting a young girl he met in an online chatroom with HIV. Using the screen name Hot Boy, the man is suspecting of seducing a large number of teenagers and exposing them to the virus. READ »

Woman dies after knife attack

National: 19 Nov 06
A woman died on Saturday night after a knife attack at her Stockholm apartment. The father of her two-year-old child has been arrested on suspicion of her murder. READ »

Three rapes reported in Stockholm

National: 27 Jul 06
Three women reported being raped on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning in different parts of the Stockholm area. READ »

Police strike against Stockholm brothels

National: 28 Nov 05
Thirteen men are in custody following simultaneous raids on eleven addresses across Stockholm on Sunday. Five of the locations were brothels using women from Eastern Europe. READ »

5,000 rental apartments in Stockholm "lost" each year

Society: 5 Nov 04
Stockholm's property rental market is shrinking dramatically as the sale of rental apartments to private owners increases. And, as usual, it's children and immigrants who bear the brunt of the shortage. READ »


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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 »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

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Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"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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Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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A duvet cover designed to look like cardboard boxes, on sale at a luxury department store in Stockholm, has some arguing that the city's homeless are being exploited for profit.
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Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley explains how ‘three bespectacled English guys’ plan to make Swedes laugh
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Move over Bugs – a Swedish bunny is rapidly becoming the most popular rabbit in the world!
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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