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Human rights group slams sex change laws

Science & Technology: 15 Jan 12
Sweden's forced sterilization for sex change candidates continues to spark debate, as Human Rights Watch has written a letter to prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, urging him to reconsider the law. READ »

Bomb threat closes Stockholm shopping mall

National: 28 Nov 11
Kista shopping centre in northern Stockholm was closed for several hours on Monday after a masked gang robbed a jewellery store and a suspicious package was later found in a stairwell. READ »

Court slows EU prostitute deportation efforts

National: 11 Oct 11
A Swedish court has ruled that prostitutes from other European Union countries are free to operate in Sweden for at least three months, much to the dismay of the police. READ »

Swedish researchers in 'depression gene' find

Science & Technology: 28 Sep 11
Swedish researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg have managed to identify a gene which they believe has a strong connection to bipolar disorder. READ »

Top ten Swedish tech innovations

Science & Technology: 7 Sep 11
Sweden is renowned for its innovation and strong research tradition and The Local has compiled a list of ten technological breakthroughs of the last decade. READ »

Sweden fails to close cardiac care gender gap

Science & Technology: 29 Aug 11
Female heart attack patients in Sweden still receive inferior treatment than men, according to a new study. READ »

Police return stolen bike after 15 years

Society: 23 Aug 11
A woman in Gävle, in eastern Sweden, was surprised to receive a call from the police saying that the bike she reported stolen 15 years ago had been found. READ »

Norwegian man jailed for kidnapping rich Swedes

National: 22 Jun 11
A 45-year-old Norwegian man on trial for kidnapping, robbing and extorting several million kronor from wealthy Swedes was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday. READ »

Car crash kills four

National: 6 Jun 11
Four people died in a car accident in central Sweden late Sunday night, when their vehicle left the road, crashed into a tree and burst into flames. READ »

'Sweden must do more to utilise foreign grads'

Society: 20 Apr 11
The government must do more to ensure that Sweden takes advantage of the benefits brought by highly educated foreigners who come to the country, Sweden's national auditor has argued. READ »

Sweden deported family to wrong country

National: 11 Apr 11
A family deported to Uzbekistan after Sweden rejected their application for asylum is set to return to Sweden after Uzbek authorities concluded that they were not from the central Asian country. READ »

Sweden in 'historic' deal on immigration policy

Politics: 3 Mar 11
Sweden's centre-right Alliance government and the Green Party have reached an agreement on changes to the country's immigration policies specifically designed to diminish the influence of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats. READ »

Drivers in court following Paris-Malmö taxi trip

National: 16 Feb 11
Two taxi drivers from Paris have been charged with human trafficking for driving a group of Afghan asylum seekers from France to Sweden. READ »

Swedish actor confirmed dead in house fire

Society: 5 Jan 11
The remains found in Swedish Millennium trilogy actor Per Oscarsson's burned home have now been identified. It is now clear that it was the actor and his wife who died in a fire on New Year's Eve. READ »

Bomber's explosives identified with FBI help

National: 16 Dec 10
Swedish investigators theorise that equipment problems may have caused the Stockholm suicide bomber to divert to a side street, potentially saving many lives. They also claim to have identified explosive material used in the attack. READ »

Sweden attack message 'very serious': Reinfeldt

Politics: 13 Dec 10
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt believes that everyone should take "very seriously" the message urging more people to commit acts of violence in the audio file that news agency TT received on Saturday. READ »

Suicide bomber was 'unknown' to Säpo

National: 13 Dec 10
Swedish intelligence officials on Monday said they are "98 percent" certain about the identity of the man who blew himself in central Stockholm on Saturday, adding he was "completely unknown" to intelligence agencies. READ »

Man arrested after Stockholm killing

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. READ »

'Wrong' Björn Andersson elected to local Swedish council

Politics: 25 Nov 10
Björn Andersson from eastern Sweden was surprised to learn he had been elected to the local town council despite never having been a candidate. READ »

Driver charged in murder of Swedish honeymooner

National: 22 Nov 10
The driver of a taxi carrying a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and killed in South Africa while on her honeymoon has been charged as in connection with her murder. READ »

Police baffled by man with 'no identity'

National: 21 Nov 10
Police in Gothenburg have been unable to identify an injured and confused man found wandering around the city’s harbour on Sunday morning. READ »

Tax agency reports boom in ID card applications

National: 10 Nov 10
The Swedish Tax Agency has seen a sharp rise in applications for identification cards following changes which allow cross-checking of personal information with the Migration Board. READ »

Record number appeal Swedish election result

Politics: 11 Oct 10
The Swedish Election Authority has received a record number of appeals from individuals requesting that all or part of the 2010 general election be redone. READ »

Tensions high as Vilks finishes disputed lecture

Society: 7 Oct 10
Four people were refused entry to a lecture given by controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks at Uppsala University on Thursday. Vilks was attacked when he first gave the lecture in May. READ »

How to vote in the Swedish elections

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 10
Voting may not seem that complicated, but doing so in a different country can be. The Local has thus endeavoured to help any first-time voters by covering some of the basics about how to vote in Sweden. READ »

Fredrik, 35, overjoyed as police find mountain bike stolen 12 years ago

National: 22 Aug 10
Police in Gävle in eastern Sweden have recovered a mountain bike that was stolen from a student twelve years ago – in a town 1,350 kilometres further north. READ »

Malmö makes hunting illegals harder for cops

Society: 17 Aug 10
The municipality of Malmö will no longer print the personal identification numbers of marrying couples on the lists of upcoming civil weddings in a move which will make it harder for border police to hunt for illegal immigrants at weddings. READ »

Missing Swedish tourist found dead in San Diego

Society: 20 Jul 10
A Swedish man in his 30s has been found dead north of San Diego, after disappearing while out jogging last Thursday. READ »

'Antiquated' sex op laws must change: report

National: 30 Jun 10
The Swedish Health and Welfare Board has called for an end to the requirement that all those seeking to change gender must be single and sterilised in a new report which argues that existing legislation is out of date. READ »

Swedes think Daniel will do good job: poll

National: 9 Jun 10
Seven out of 10 Swedes believe that Daniel Westling will do a 'good job' as a prince of Sweden, following his marriage next week to Crown Princess Victoria. READ »

Man ages 12 years after Swedish court decision

National: 7 Jun 10
A Swedish court has ruled that a Cambodian man should be allowed to change his tax agency birth date records, thereby adding 12 years, arguing that "existing erroneous information is just as false as new erroneous information". READ »

Half a million Swedes to fill giant gene bank

Science & Technology: 30 May 10
Scientists are hoping that genetic data gathered from half a million Swedes will help improve our understanding some of the world's most pressing public health problems. READ »

Tax agency grants day's grace

National: 4 May 10
The Swedish Tax Agency has extended the deadline for the submission of tax returns for those unable to file online on Monday after the system proved unable to cope with the high demand. READ »

Tax agency swamped with online declarations

Business & Money: 3 May 10
The Swedish Tax Agency website struggled to cope on Sunday as large numbers of people filed last minute online declarations, with many greeted with a message to try again in 15 minutes. READ »

Wrong man exposed over car park killing

National: 8 Apr 10
A storm of comments and accusations circulating on the internet in the wake of revelations over the 23-year-old suspect in the Landskrona car park killing has afflicted a man in Denmark who has no connection to the case. READ »

Boy convicted of rape reports TV show

National: 6 Apr 10
A 15-year-old boy convicted of two rapes in the village of Bjästa has reported SVT's investigative programme Uppdrag Granskning to the broadcasting watchdog, claiming the show had made it too easy to identify him. READ »

EU slams Sweden over Spanish name refusal

Society: 30 Mar 10
The Swedish tax agency has been instructed by the EU commission to revise its procedures for approving surnames after a Spanish-Swedish couple were refused the right to give their son both their names. READ »

Foreigners buying more Swedish summer houses: report

Business & Money: 30 Mar 10
Foreigners own 33,168 summer houses in Sweden, an increase of four percent on 2008 and nine percent on 2007. Germans, Danes and Norwegians dominate the statistics, a new report shows. READ »

Lottery player wins record jackpot

Society: 28 Mar 10
A national lottery contestant in Helsingborg in southern Sweden hit the jackpot on Saturday evening with a record 214.6 million kronor ($29.5 million) win. READ »

Tax agency opens e-declaration service

National: 23 Mar 10
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) has announced the opening of its internet declaration service, enabling those with electronic identification to declare their taxes online from Tuesday. READ »

US immigrant sent on Swedish bank run-around

National: 4 Mar 10
When US citizen Sylvie Acra arrived in Sweden and began her search for a job she decided it would be wise to open a standard bank account, but after three visits to three major Swedish banks she remains dissatisfied. READ »

More Moderates resign over internal vote fraud

Politics: 19 Feb 10
Two Moderate Party politicians in Stockholm have handed in their resignations amid an ongoing internal vote-rigging probe. Stockholm mayor, Sten Nordin expressed his 'disappointment'. READ »

Nine-year-old sold drugs to Malmö police officer

National: 18 Feb 10
A nine-year-old boy in Malmö has been caught trying to sell a bag of amphetamines to an undercover police officer. His father has been arrested for using his young son as a drugs courier. READ »

Ingrid, 79, declared dead by Swedish tax authorities

National: 9 Feb 10
79-year-old Ingrid Ståhl of Malmö in southern Sweden found out to her surprise that she had been registered as dead after a mistake by the Swedish Tax Agency. READ »

Swedish customs crack cocaine gang plan

National: 22 Jan 10
Customs officers in Gothenburg have unravelled a scheme that saw cocaine being smuggled into the country from Costa Rica. The gang used stolen identification from pensioners and the disabled to receive drug parcels. READ »

Norwegian mafia tied to car trunk murder case

National: 11 Jan 10
Police in Oslo are to investigate suspicions that Norwegian drug gangs may be connected to the grisly find of two burned bodies in the boot of a car in western Sweden last week. READ »

Give young transsexuals special ID cards: doc

Society: 7 Jan 10
Young Swedes who suspect they are transsexuals ought to be issued special ID cards allowing them to hide their undesired gender during their trial phase as the opposite sex, a leading child psychiatrist argues. READ »

Warning follows spate of fake police robberies

National: 6 Jan 10
Swedish police have issued a warning via their website after criminals have been caught using false police identification to lure their way into people's homes before running away with cash and valuables. READ »

Frozen body discovered in Stockholm

National: 19 Dec 09
A dead man was found on Friday morning partially frozen into the ice on Sickla canal the the neighbourhood of Hammarby sjöstad in southern Stockholm. The body has not yet been identified. READ »

Plot thickens over Russian pantyhose probe

National: 16 Dec 09
The mystery surrounding why exactly a Swedish diplomat was selling smuggled pantyhose in a Moscow kiosk grew on Tuesday as the Swedish foreign ministry alleged the Russian media portrayal of the incident was a deliberate smear attempt. READ »

Malmö mystery man 'sounds Dutch': linguist

National: 15 Oct 09
A man in southern Sweden who has called on the public to help him rediscover his identity probably has either Dutch or Flemish as his native language, a prominent forensic linguist tells The Local. READ »

Fiancé held for Falun woman's murder

National: 22 Sep 09
The fiancé of a woman missing in Falun in north-central Sweden, was remanded in custody on Tuesday by the Dalarna District Court on suspicions of having killed the woman he was set to marry. READ »

New train tickets aim to beat black market

Business & Money: 1 Sep 09
Swedish Rail (SJ) will on Wednesday move to broaden its personalised ticket system in a bid to thwart the black market in cheap tickets and improve customer service. READ »

Ransom demanded for missing Arctic Sea

National: 16 Aug 09
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that a ransom has been demanded for the missing cargo ship Arctic Sea, which disappeared off the Swedish coast last month. READ »

Pirate Party to stand in local elections

Politics: 13 Aug 09
Sweden's Pirate Party has announced that, in addition to standing in next year's general election, it will also be represented in local council elections. READ »

Sex change ops under review in Sweden

National: 30 Jul 09
The Swedish health and welfare board has launched a review of the healthcare available to transsexuals seeking to change their gender in response to criticism by interest groups. READ »

Lesbian couples cause run on Swedish sperm banks

Science & Technology: 23 Jul 09
A shortage of healthy sperm and a spike in demand from lesbian couples has caused a backlog of artificial insemination applications at Swedish fertility clinics. READ »

Dramatic rise in identity theft

Society: 20 Jul 09
Cases of identity theft in Sweden have shot up by 79 percent over the past three years, a new survey published on Monday shows. READ »

Abortion register splits Alliance parties

Politics: 19 Jul 09
A proposal to include the identities of women in a national abortion register has divided the governing Alliance coalition parties. READ »

Outrage over 14-year- old's nipple piercing

Society: 8 Jul 09
The mother of a Swedish teenager is fuming at the ease with which her daughter was able to get her nipple pierced, sparking calls for the introduction of age limits on piercing in Sweden. READ »

'Kiss man' jailed and released

Society: 27 May 09
A 37-year-old exchange student referred to in the Swedish media as "the kiss man" has been sentenced to two months in jail for sexual harassment. But he was immediately released having already spent the equivalent time in custody. READ »

Voter uncertainty ahead of EU elections

Politics: 23 May 09
One out of three Swedish voters is unsure how he or she will vote in the EU parliamentary elections in two weeks. The outcome is uncertain, according to a new opinion poll by Sifo and Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper. READ »

Swedish web service to manage online life after offline death

Science & Technology: 22 May 09
A Swedish design student has plans to launch a service that would allow people to send a final Tweet or Facebook status update from beyond the grave. READ »

Boyfriend blames ADHD for genital tattoo abuse

National: 5 May 09
A Swedish man has claimed that his attention deficit disorder (ADHD) is to blame for the aggravated assault of his girlfriend which extended to tattooing his name and ID number on her sexual organs. READ »

Man's body discovered near Uppsala

National: 29 Apr 09
A dead man was discovered around lunch time on Tuesday near an Iron Age graveyard outside of Uppsala in central Sweden. READ »

Swedish police in major paedophile sting

National: 23 Apr 09
A man in Uppland in central Sweden is suspected of raping a minor and exploiting more than 70 young girls who were coerced into exposing themselves on the internet. READ »

High speed Swede in court in Germany

National: 15 Apr 09
A man described as one of Sweden’s most notorious criminals appeared in a German court on Wednesday after being arrested following a wild car chase involving a stolen Porsche and up to 24 police cars. READ »

Man dies in Malmö hotel fall

National: 10 Apr 09
A man died on Thursday evening after falling out of a fourth floor window at a central Malmö hotel. Police are not ruling out murder. READ »

Immigrant ID cards set for June launch

National: 3 Apr 09
Immigrants living in Sweden will be able to receive national identification cards from the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) from June 1st, it was announced on Friday. READ »

Kissing man arrested in southern Sweden

Society: 28 Mar 09
The so-called kiss man that has showered unwanted attention on women in the southern Swedish town of Lund has been arrested. READ »

Ex-cop charged for 'neglecting' to return evidence

National: 9 Mar 09
A former Gothenburg-area police officer was charged on Monday for having pilfered several pieces of police evidence and taking out a loan in another person’s name. READ »

June date set for immigrant ID cards

National: 9 Jan 09
Immigrants to Sweden will likely have to wait at least another six months before being able to receive Swedish national identification cards from the Swedish Tax Agency. READ »

Physio cautioned for ovary examination

Society: 22 Dec 08
A physiotherapist has been cautioned for improper conduct in connection with an examination of a patient's knee complaint. The examination included an extended 'rummaging' around the female patient's ovaries. READ »

State rail operator in ticketing u-turn controversy

National: 8 Nov 08
Swedish state-owned rail operator SJ has performed a u-turn and made changes to its controversial ticketing system. Travellers will from next year be obliged to carry identification in a push to tackle ticket touts. READ »

Scam artist targets English-speaking jobseekers

National: 23 Sep 08
An experienced scam artist has been targeting English speaking jobseekers in Sweden, luring them with promises of non-existent jobs, police say. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius reports. READ »

Immigrants to be issued ID cards

Society: 9 Sep 08
After months of silence, the government on Tuesday confirmed that Sweden’s Tax Agency will be asked to take over responsibility for issuing national identification cards. READ »

Court: German woman 'guilty of murder'

National: 26 Aug 08
A Swedish court has ordered a German woman suspected of the brutal murder of two toddlers to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, an indication that the court finds her guilty as charged. READ »

Government proposes animal offenders list

National: 28 Jul 08
A new register of all those forbidden from keeping animals has been presented in a new proposal from the Ministry of Agriculture, Riksdag & Departement reports. READ »

Genocide suspect held near Stockholm

National: 16 Jul 08
A Rwandan man suspected of genocide and violation of international law was arrested today in the Stockholm suburb of Täby. READ »

Store refuses to sell cigarettes to pensioner without ID

Society: 7 Jul 08
A pensioner in northern Sweden has vowed never again to set foot in his local supermarket after being asked to prove he was over 18 when buying a pack of cigarettes. READ »

New system proposed for personal ID numbers

National: 10 Jun 08
Sweden is running out of personal identity numbers (personnummer), but a government commission has suggested a new system featuring numbers which no longer contain a person’s exact date of birth. READ »

Is Italy in the EU? - A Swedish ID card farce

Analysis & Opinion: 13 May 08
Getting an ID card might not seem like rocket science but Riccardo Bevilacqua from the Division of Applied Nuclear Physics at Uppsala University has found splitting atoms easy by comparison. READ »

Deportation costs escalate

National: 20 Apr 08
The costs of deporting failed asylum seekers from Sweden has escalated. 116 million kronor ($19.5 million) was spent on deporting unsuccessful asylum seekers in 2007. READ »

Muslim woman receives damages for headscarf slight

National: 12 Apr 08
A 20-year-old Malmö woman has been awarded damages after she was asked to leave a bus for wearing a veil. READ »

Six sentenced to prison for human smuggling

National: 11 Apr 08
A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced six men to up to three years behind bars for illegally smuggling people from countries including Iran and Iraq into Europe. READ »

The path to Swedish asylum: A smuggler speaks

Lifestyle: 19 Mar 08
Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden. READ »

Dirty cameras a boon for speed merchants

National: 13 Mar 08
Two out of every three drivers caught speeding by one of the country's 900 permanent speed cameras managed last year to escape identification. READ »

Schools employing sex offenders

Education: 10 Mar 08
At least 75 convicted sex criminals have worked as substitutes in Swedish schools and daycare centers since 2003. READ »

Identity of murdered girl remains uncertain

National: 19 Feb 08
Police have not yet been able to confirm the identity of a young woman believed to have been the victim of a brutal murder in Mora. READ »

Air passengers asked to show the finger

Travel: 29 Jan 08
Passengers on SAS flights from Stockholm and Gothenburg will in future have to give their fingerprints when checking in bags, the airline says. READ »

Four indicted after major weapons seizure

National: 22 Jan 08
Four people have been indicted in Malmö on arms trafficking charges following what customs officials describe as one of the largest weapons seizures ever made in Europe. READ »

Beer-buying pensioner asked for proof of age

National: 31 Oct 07
A pensioner buying a crate of light beer in northern Sweden couldn't believe his ears when a supermarket cashier ask to see some ID. READ »

Underwear campaign bottoms out in Sweden

Society: 24 Aug 07
An underwear company's campaign to find 'the world's most beautiful bum' has provoked a hostile reaction in Sweden. But is the search for the perfect bottom a "porn trap" for young girls or a bit of harmless fun for men and women alike? READ »

European ID 'must be accepted in Sweden'

National: 19 Jul 07
People from European Union countries must be allowed to identify themselves in Sweden using ID documents from their home countries, the European Commission has said. But plans to start issuing Swedish ID to people from other EU states could be illegal, it adds. READ »

Overweight arm wrestler disqualified for cheating

Sport: 21 Jun 07
Reigning world champion Arsen Liliev has been disqualified from the European Championships in Arm Wrestling after he found a novel way to meet the weight requirements. READ »

'Bouncer beat me - police arrested me'

National: 29 May 07
Sweden's top legal official recently announced plans to launch an investigation into collusion between Swedish police and bouncers. For Briton Russell Cutress, the problem feels all too familiar. READ »

Drunk driver claimed to be his own brother

National: 30 Mar 07
There was little brotherly love on display when a man in Uppsala attempted to use his sibling's identity to avoid a conviction for drunk driving. READ »

Politicians demand inquiry into Swedish passport fraud

Politics: 23 Mar 07
Sweden's current and former justice ministers have called for an investigation into the number of Swedish passports that have been issued using identical personal identification numbers. READ »

Sweden a haven for digital identity theft

Business & Money: 19 Mar 07
Only the USA has more underground economy servers than Sweden, according to a new report. Stolen information is sold from these servers for use in identity theft. READ »

More than ever living with protected identities

Society: 18 Mar 07
'Honour-related' threats and threats against witnesses are behind a dramatic rise in the number of people in Sweden living with secret identities. And over a third of them are under 18. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

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?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »

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