May 28, 2012
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Lifestyle: 13 Apr 12
With an English version of his debut novel finally hitting bookstores, celebrity Swedish defence lawyer and best-selling author Jens Lapidus tells The Local's David Landes why defending criminals beats a full-time career as a writer.
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National: 19 Mar 12
The 31-year-old mother who pushed her two young sons into a lake in central Sweden and watched them drown was convicted of murder on Monday and sentenced to closed psychiatric care and deportation.
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Society: 4 Mar 12
A Swedish estate agent has received a warning for the handling the sale of a room used for housing bikes, prams and rubbish after describing the property as a ‘studio flat’.
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National: 23 Feb 12
Sweden has a new princess. Crown Princess Victoria has given birth to a daughter, announced the happy father from Stockholm's Karolinska Hospital early on Thursday morning.
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Society: 2 Feb 12
A post on Facebook as well as a 42 cannon salute are among the ways the next heir to the Swedish throne will be welcomed into the world, as the Royal Court readies for Crown Princess Victoria to give birth in early March.
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National: 18 Jan 12
The trial against the 31-year-old mother charged with murdering her two sons by pushing them in the water and watching them drown opened in Sweden on Wednesday.
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Lifestyle: 7 Jan 12
Some people will always hesitate to reveal the name of their hometown, whether it's due to tragic history, bad reputation, or that the name itself is enough to make anyone blush. The Local’s Joel Linde has gathered a few of the latter from all over Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 11
Scientists who exhumed bodies from a tomb believed to contain Magnus Ladulås, who reigned as Swedish king from 1275 until 1290, were surprised to learn that the bodies are at least 200 years too young to be those of the fabled king and his family.
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National: 8 Dec 11
After police apprehended three men, following a car chase in Stockholm on Tuesday, officers discovered a large stash of explosives in their vehicle.
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National: 3 Dec 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf was aware of friend Anders Lettström's attempts to silence the scandals described in a tell-all book published last year, Lettström claimed in tape recordings released on Saturday.
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Lifestyle: 1 Dec 11
As the Christmas season approaches in Stockholm, it is very likely that festive food is uppermost in your mind. Luckily, contributor Gwen Ramsey has put together a list of great options for filling your holiday hamper.
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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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National: 19 Nov 11
On Saturday morning, smoke forced passengers to evacuate from a subway train in a tunnel near Fridhemsplan in central Stockholm. Police are still unsure what caused the smoke.
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Lifestyle: 4 Nov 11
As the daylight in Stockholm dwindles, finding a place to catch up with friends is all the more important for beating back the winter blues. Luckily, contributor Gwen Ramsey has put together a list of great options for your next fika.
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Lifestyle: 21 Oct 11
Looking for someplace new to grab a drink in Stockholm after a long day at the office? Contributor Gwen Ramsey has some suggestions that will help you get out of your After Work rut.
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National: 3 Oct 11
Commuter trains in the south of Stockholm were hit by widespread disruption on Monday morning after weekend work on the Stockholm City Line tunnel project was not completed in time.
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National: 1 Oct 11
Two Swedish journalists are planning to go to jail of their own accord in a bid to draw attention to the plight of other writers in captivity.
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Sport: 26 Sep 11
The Local's partner club Långholmen FC are getting ready for the biggest night in the young club's nine year history on Wednesday when they take on Sollentuna United in the final of the prestigious Stockholm Cup.
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National: 22 Sep 11
The 30-year-old mother who is suspected of having murdered her two young sons, whose bodies were recovered from a lake in Sigtuna north of Stockholm on Monday, confessed to their killing on Thursday afternoon.
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National: 19 Sep 11
The mother of two boys, aged four and eight-years-old, who were found dead on Monday in a lake near Sigtuna north of Stockholm after going missing on Sunday night, is being held by police on suspicion of murder.
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National: 28 Aug 11
Police are trying to establish the identity of the driver of a Russian diplomatic car who fled from the scene of a three car crash in Stockholm in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jul 11
With the summer sun in the ascendancy, it’s time to lather on the sunscreen, pack a picnic, and head out to explore some of the 50,000 playgrounds on offer across Sweden. The Local’s Karen Holst tips some of the country’s best.
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National: 2 May 11
Prominent Green Party official Anders Wallner was made to wait for an ambulance despite having sustained serious stab wounds in an attack in Stockholm on Sunday, one his companions has claimed.
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National: 2 May 11
Prominent Green Party official Anders Wallner was stabbed early Sunday morning near a Stockholm metro station.
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National: 1 May 11
Well-wishers gathered at the royal palace in Stockholm on Saturday as King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrated his 65th birthday and vowed not to retire from his royal duties.
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Society: 28 Apr 11
Regular visitors to a Stockholm-area public swimming pool have expressed their outrage over the refusal of fellow bathers to get naked.
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Lifestyle: 21 Apr 11
It's been 50 years since the centuries-old Vasa warship was hoisted up from the depths of Stockholm harbour, but as contributor Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius discovers, preserving this national treasure has been the Vasa's greatest battle.
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Lifestyle: 15 Apr 11
While the National Museum's new "Lust & Vice" exhibition has titillated the viewing public, it has incurred the scorn of an art world used to seeing sex exploited for financial gain, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson writes.
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Science & Technology: 12 Apr 11
Researchers have begun exhuming the remains of Magnus III Ladulås, who reigned as Swedish king from 1275 until 1290, in order to perform DNA tests to ascertain the identity of those with whom he is buried.
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Stockholm: 9 Apr 11
The property at one of Stockholm’s most exclusive addresses has been sold after several months on the market.
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Lifestyle: 8 Apr 11
Nearly 70 museums and cultural institutions across Stockholm will open their doors to the public for free on Saturday in a bid to bring the city's cultural offerings to a wider audience, contributor Anita Badejo discovers.
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Lifestyle: 30 Mar 11
To celebrate the start of the new football season, Långholmen Football Club is hosting a sparkling international party at a top Stockholm venue. As the club’s proud partner, The Local has five pairs of tickets to give away.
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Lifestyle: 25 Mar 11
Like most capitals, Stockholm offers plenty of watering holes for the homesick expat looking for a “taste of home”, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Society: 18 Mar 11
A Japanese rock group in Sweden when their homeland was struck by disaster has organised a series of charity concerts across Europe to raise money for earthquake and tsunami relief.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 11
Confidential information about possible winners for the Nobel Prize in Medicine has disappeared from a member of the committee.
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Science & Technology: 21 Feb 11
People with a particular genotype associated with obesity may have three times higher a risk of developing dementia than those who do not, according to a study by Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.
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Science & Technology: 10 Feb 11
Winter has returned to central Sweden, with heavy snowfall of up to 20 centimetres expected on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 10 Feb 11
Sweden does not generate enough rubbish and 600,000 tonnes of foreign refuse were imported in 2010 to meet demand from district heating plants.
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National: 5 Jan 11
A man was taken to hospital in Stockholm on Wednesday morning after being knocked unconscious by a falling icicle.
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Business & Money: 14 Dec 10
Prices for apartments in Sweden have climbed to their highest levels ever in the last quarter, a property agency has revealed.
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National: 28 Nov 10
A 17-year-old boy has been remanded into custody on suspicion of having shot to death a 22-year-old man in central Stockholm on Friday evening.
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National: 27 Nov 10
A person was shot dead in a car in central Stockholm on Friday night, killed by a man on the street who has now been arrested.
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Science & Technology: 28 Sep 10
While devoid of any high-charged drama, the opening day of the Pirate Bay appeals court trial nevertheless included a few unexpected developments.
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Business & Money: 2 Sep 10
Trading in the shares in Nordic paper giants Holmen, Stora Enso and Norske Skog has been halted on Thursday amid rumours of a partial merger.
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National: 12 Aug 10
A TV producer has denied being the pilot of a helicopter used in a spectacular robbery at a Stockholm cash depot - telling the court he was high on drugs on the night in question.
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Lifestyle: 20 Jul 10
There is no need to leave the the big smoke to beat the heat -the city is teeming with hot places to take a cool dip. Emy Gelb has been checking them out.
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Lifestyle: 8 Jul 10
After mustering the courage to venture out of Stockholm's inner city, Emy Gelb found Färgfabriken's new eco-inspired artsy outside space, complete with super plant-infused drinks, well worth the trip.
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Travel: 1 Jul 10
HostelBookers invites you to explore the beaten path outside Stockholm by taking day trips to Uppsala, Västerås and Drottningholm, writes Madeleine Wilson.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jun 10
The Öresund bridge celebrates its 10th birthday this week. The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson takes a look at how the link has changed Sweden's third city and its relations to its neighbours.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding.
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Society: 19 Jun 10
Crown Princess Victoria and fiancé Daniel Westling received a toaster and a wooden horse as wedding gifts when officials converged on Stockholm City Hall for a reception on Friday afternoon.
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National: 18 Jun 10
Want to follow events in Stockholm on Crown Princess Victoria's wedding day? The Local's got it covered.
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Society: 18 Jun 10
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Friday opened the more ceremonial state proceedings of the impending royal wedding, when he hosted a government reception at Stockholm City Hall.
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Sport: 16 Jun 10
Långholmen FC notched a new historic first after recording their first win in Division 3 with a well-earned 2-0 victory over fellow national league newcomers Mälarhöjden
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Travel: 11 Jun 10
Sponsored article: The antiquity of Gamla Stan, the forests of Djurgården, the cliffs of Södermalm and of course the surrounding blue sea: all these elements combine to help make Stockholm one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
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Lifestyle: 10 Jun 10
What’s on in Sweden: Cookin' Koreans in Stockholm, Thoughtful Brits in Gothenburg, KISS plays Malmö plus Magnus Betnér, in English, in Linköping.
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Lifestyle: 10 Jun 10
Jazz singer Gretchen Parlato's first concert in Sweden is special for a number of reasons, least of all because her maternal grandfather was Swedish.
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Society: 2 Jun 10
Kalmar municipality in southern Sweden turned to a medium to help banish an ethereal being from a home for children with learning difficulties, with staff reporting that the uninvited guest has now left the building.
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Sport: 6 May 10
Långholmen claimed their first points of the season after holding Vagnhärad, who will be bitterly disappointed that they did not take more from the match against a weakened Stripes.
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Politics: 20 Apr 10
The left-green opposition wants to hold a referendum on the Bypass Stockholm traffic link that will cost the state around 27 billion kronor ($3.75 billion) and has been strongly criticised on environmental grounds.
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Lifestyle: 19 Apr 10
Billed as the world's tallest volleyball team, Linköping went into this weekend's Swedish title decider knowing its mix of local lads and gigantic Australians would need to put in a towering performance to see off gutsy Falkenberg. Ben Kersley followed the action.
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Business & Money: 12 Apr 10
A Stockholm hotel has been named among the 66 coolest new hotels on the annual hotlist published by a leading US travel magazine.
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National: 11 Apr 10
Police in Gothenburg sought to ward off clashes on Sunday as neo-Nazi demonstrators opposed to the construction of a new mosque met with resistance from counter-demonstrators.
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Politics: 31 Mar 10
Stockholm city council has defended its policy of privatising municipal-owned housing, which has come under fire after a couple of recent apartment sales led to windfalls for their new tenant-owners.
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Sport: 25 Mar 10
In a decision with some parallels to the landmark Bosman ruling, the Swedish Football Association has granted The Local's partner football club Långholmen FC a dispensation from regulations requiring a quota of Sweden-bred players.
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National: 24 Feb 10
Police were called to a Stockholm bus terminal on Tuesday night as tempers flared among the 1,000 hard-hit travellers trying to get home as transport problems continued to afflict many areas of Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 22 Feb 10
Darren Packman, one of Sweden’s leading beer experts, give his tips on what you should (and should not) be pouring into your beer glass.
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Society: 23 Jan 10
Church leaders in Storuman, northern Sweden, are facing a barrage of protests from local worshippers after deciding a sexual connotation linked to the name Kåtakyrkan was no longer fitting and should be changed after 30 years.
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Business & Money: 18 Jan 10
The first private pharmacy since 1971 opened for business in Sweden on Sunday following an inauguration by Swedish Health and Social Affairs minister Göran Hägglund.
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Society: 4 Jan 10
Things didn’t go as planned for a 42-year-old man when he tried to retrieve his car after it crashed through the ice on a lake near Lidköping in central Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 14 Dec 09
New 4G mobile services are now available for customers of Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera in Stockholm and Oslo, the company announced on Monday.
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Stockholm: 26 Nov 09
A reader wants to find a nice sauna that you can book for group in and around Stockholm. But which one? Peter Vinthagen Simpson has the answer.
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Society: 25 Nov 09
A former prison on the outskirts of downtown Stockholm has been honoured as the 2009 hostel of the year by the Swedish Tourist Association.
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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.
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Stockholm: 20 Oct 09
In our regular column answering readers' questions about Stockholm, Peter Vinthagen Simpson gives tips on where to find good Argentinian cuisine in Stockholm.
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Society: 12 Oct 09
The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from Stockholm parks are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.
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Sport: 5 Oct 09
The Local's partner football club Långholmen FC earned promotion to Division 3 on Sunday in a dramatic final day of the season that saw the Stripes overtake the pre-game table toppers with a 3-1 win over Reymersholms IK.
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Lifestyle: 24 Sep 09
What's on in Sweden: Alela Diane (US) and football derby in Stockholm; International Book Fair & French acrobats in Gothenburg; Ane Brun (NO) in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 16 Sep 09
What's on in Sweden: Beer festival & Tom Jones (UK) in Stockholm; International Book Fair in Gothenburg; Hello Saferide in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 9 Sep 09
What's on in Sweden: World Cup baseball & Cirque du Soleil in Stockholm; Coco Chanel & All Time Low (US) in Gothenburg; Macy Gray (US) in Malmö.
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National: 3 Sep 09
The government has approved the controversial Bypass Stockholm traffic link that will cost the state around 27 billion kronor ($3.75 billion). The project has been strongly criticised on environmental grounds.
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Society: 31 Aug 09
Art student Anna Odell has been fined by Stockholm District Court after acting out a faked suicide attempt as part of an art project.
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National: 24 Aug 09
The trial has begun of Swedish art student Anna Odell, who was charged with false alarm, violent resistance and fraudulent practice after a faked psychosis she acted out as a part of a final year art project.
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Science & Technology: 14 Aug 09
Marine biologists have been thrilled to hear of two porpoise sightings in the Baltic Sea in recent days. The blunt-snouted mammals, relatively common off Sweden's west coast, have become almost extinct in the Baltic.
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Lifestyle: 13 Aug 09
What's on in Sweden: Culture and youth festivals in Stockholm; International music festival and continental market in Gothenburg; Music & arts festival in Malmö.
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National: 9 Aug 09
A spectator discovered a dead body during the Powerboat Scandinavian Gran Prix competition in Gothenburg on Saturday afternoon.
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Travel: 28 Jul 09
The historic town of Kalmar has plenty to offer travelers who dare to venture off the well-worn road which leads to the more-high profile Baltic island situated nearby, The Local’s Marge Thorell discovers.
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Lifestyle: 23 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Stockholm Pride & Opera al fresco in Stockholm; eccentric variety show in Gothenburg; Möllevången music, theatre & arts festival in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 16 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Jazz festival, humour exhibition & Globe tours in Stockholm; 60s & 70s art exhibition in Gothenburg; Tibetan monks & Backa folk & world music festival in Malmö/Österlen.
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Lifestyle: 9 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Jazz Festival & Britney Spears in Stockholm; Deep Purple (UK) in Gothenburg; Bennie Man (JAM) & Bollywood in Malmö.
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National: 6 Jul 09
A 19-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to nine years in prison after shooting a man to death and burning the body in a Stockholm suburb.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Millennium trilogy tour and roots festival in Stockholm; BB King in Gothenburg; Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band (UK) in Malmö.
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National: 22 Jun 09
A 36-year-old man suspected of murdering a woman on Kungsholmen in Stockholm at the weekend was on furlough from a lengthy prison sentence at the time of the killing.
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Lifestyle: 18 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Morrissey & Midsummer fun in Stockholm; AC/DC & Euro 2009 U-21 football in Gothenburg; Yasmina Reza's ART in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 11 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Neil Young & Ikea exhibition in Stockholm; Euro 2009 U-21 football in Gothenburg; Orchestra Baobab in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 4 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Lewis Black and Early Music Festival in Stockholm; Beer festival & World Cup football in Gothenburg; Buju Banton & Mandela exhibition in Malmö.
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Lifestyle: 28 May 09
Football blogger Scot James explains why Långholmen FC is his club of choice in Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 28 May 09
What's on in Sweden: Bruce Springsteen and Dylan Moran in Stockholm; Speedway Grand Prix in Gothenburg; The Eagles in Malmö/Lund.
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Lifestyle: 20 May 09
What's on in Sweden: Ingmar Bergman theatre festival in Stockholm; International performance art in Gothenburg; Ghostface Killah and Funda Arar in Malmö/Lund.
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Travel: 15 May 09
Sponsored article: Having long been defined by its industrial and maritime history, Göteborg has since reinvented itself. The old ports and warehouses have been replaced by cafes, bars, and one of the liveliest cultural scenes in the region.
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Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
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