February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Kalmar":
National: 9 Feb 12
Swedish emergency response service SOS Alarm has reported the death of a teenage boy to the National Board of Health and Welfare after the ambulance never turned up and his parents had to drive him to hospital.
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National: 4 Feb 12
The E4 motorway was closed between Gävle and Söderhamn in northern Sweden on Friday afternoon after over 50 accidents were recorded in the icy conditions.
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Science & Technology: 2 Feb 12
Snow and temperatures well below freezing are expected to hit Sweden over the next few days with forecasters warning of a “snow cannon” ready to fire over the country.
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National: 23 Jan 12
Recently departed Social Democrat head Håkan Juholt said his inability to quickly put together a solid staff was one of his three biggest regrets from his ten-month tenure as head of the party.
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National: 22 Jan 12
A six-year-old girl who was rescued by her mother after becoming trapped under ice in a creek in southern Sweden last week has awoken after her extended ordeal apparently unhurt.
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National: 16 Jan 12
The mother of 6-year-old girl who was trapped under the ice in a creek in southern Sweden made a dramatic rescue of her daughter on Sunday, but not before the girl sustained serious injuries.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 12
A cargo ship ran aground in the Kalmar strait in the early hours of Wednesday and police suspect the captain and the chief officer of being drunk on duty.
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National: 1 Jan 12
Police were kept busy during the last evening of 2011 with celebrations all over Sweden getting out of hand and resulting in brawling and firework accidents.
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Society: 26 Dec 11
Many people went overboard in their Christmas merriment this year, with arrests for public drunkenness up across Sweden over the weekend.
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National: 25 Dec 11
Murders, break-ins and accidents made it a busy Christmas holiday weekend for the police and emergency services across Sweden this year.
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Business & Money: 24 Dec 11
The Stockholm stock exchange closed up slightly on the Friday before Christmas amid reports of an increase in the number of new companies registered in Sweden in 2011.
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National: 13 Dec 11
The four teenagers under suspicion of an arson attack that left a mall in southern Sweden in ruins have said it was a test to join a local gang. If found guilty they may be forced to pay damages of 33 million kronor ($4.8 million).
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 11
Icy roads and harsh weather conditions have caused several accidents on Swedish roadways over night, resulting in at least one fatality, and left thousands of residents without power.
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Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
Christmas markets are a feature of Yuletide in Sweden and The Local has put together a pick of the best, all featuring warm spiced "glögg" for the adults, and plenty of fun activites for the children.
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Politics: 25 Oct 11
As the eurozone crisis continues to dominate European political business, Gunnar Wetterberg, an analyst at white collar union Saco, has stated the case for a Nordic Union and currency, to counter the threat of a euro collapse.
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National: 15 Oct 11
Four teenagers, aged between 15 and 18, are suspected of being behind the violent fire that ravaged a major shopping centre in Kalmar in southern Sweden on Thursday night.
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Lifestyle: 13 Oct 11
Sweden is home to hundreds of castles featuring tales of bloodthirsty royals, quirky millionaires, adult-rated films, and other untold secrets. Check out The Local's selection of some of the country's more memorable manors.
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National: 13 Oct 11
A major shopping centre in Kalmar in southern Sweden was ravaged by fire on Wednesday night in a blaze police believe was intentionally set.
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Science & Technology: 30 Sep 11
Just when all but a few hardy souls had fished out their thicker coats from their wardrobes, the city of Hudiksvall measured a record high temperature of 25.6 degrees with the weekend promising more of the same.
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Society: 15 Sep 11
An elk drunk from eating fermented apples in southern Sweden ended its binge by making off with a family's swing set and hiding it in the woods.
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National: 11 Sep 11
The Baltic island of Öland isn't an island after all, ruled the European Union, thereby depriving Öland of subsidies granted to other islands. The reason for this surprising ruling: the Öland Bridge.
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Society: 25 Aug 11
A hunting dog in southern Sweden proved it had a nose for more than wild game after it caught a whiff of what turned out to be a marijuana plantation hidden deep in the forest.
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Lifestyle: 19 Aug 11
Gobbling crayfish is a 500 year old tradition in Sweden but the annual August crayfish parties can be a minefield for a first-timer. Contributor Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius advises on how to slurp like a native.
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Society: 17 Aug 11
Inmates at a detention centre in Kalmar, in southern Sweden, have written a letter of complaint to the board about the "poor channel selection" on the centre TVs.
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National: 19 Jul 11
Two men who had met up to settle a score between them through a game of “last man standing” were sentenced to five years in prison by a Swedish court on Tuesday for attempted murder despite their pleas of self defence.
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National: 4 Jul 11
Police are still working to determine the cause of a powerful explosion in a residential building in southeastern Sweden on Friday, where at least one person died and more explosives have been found.
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National: 17 Jun 11
The courtroom drama featuring conflicting accounts about the 2005 killing of Abbas Rezai in Högsby continued on Friday, with the daughter of the couple suspected in the killing saying she knew her family planned to kill her and her boyfriend.
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National: 13 Jun 11
The re-trial of the so-called Högsby 'honour killing' opened in southern Sweden on Monday with the parents of the man previously convicted for brutally stabbing, beating, and scalding the 20-year-old victim to death now also under suspicion.
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Travel: 10 Jun 11
Ancient walled cities, storm-tossed islands and a dose of Bergmanesque atmospherics. The islands of Gotland and Öland make for a spectacular summer visit.
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Society: 3 Jun 11
A Swedish sailor called sea rescue services on Thursday morning believing his wife had fallen overboard when in fact she had never been on the boat.
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Politics: 11 Apr 11
A Sweden Democrat member of parliament has escaped censure from the party hierarchy despite linking group rape to men with foreign backgrounds and arguing that their "culture of gender inequality" was to blame.
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Business & Money: 6 Apr 11
There is a large discrepancy between managers in city areas of Sweden and the rest of the country, as well as between genders and the public and the private sector, a new report presented Wednesday shows.
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National: 2 Apr 11
Two men received gunshot wounds Friday night in Kalmar in the southeast of Sweden. Police suspect the men shot each other.
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Lifestyle: 1 Apr 11
April is here, which brings the start of the Swedish professional football season. With play set to kick off on Saturday, contributor Nic Townsend takes a look at which teams are expected to vie for the Allsvenskan title.
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Business & Money: 28 Mar 11
Airlines operating domestic routes in Sweden skies apply terms and conditions in contravention of passengers' legal rights, according to a new report from the National Consumer Agency, which has threatened action.
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Education: 23 Mar 11
Stockholm School of Economics has overtaken Karolinska Institutet in an annual ranking of Sweden's top 30 universities and colleges.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Mar 11
The choice of Håkan Julholt as candidate to take over as leader of the Social Democrats, while answering one question, leaves much about the party's future unresolved, The Local's David Landes discovers.
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Politics: 10 Mar 11
Håkan Juholt, current chair of the Riksdag's Committee on Defence, has been put forward as the Social Democrats' top choice to become the party's new leader, the chair of the party's nomination committee announced on Thursday.
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Science & Technology: 19 Jan 11
What was supposed to be a routine dental cleaning spiraled out of control for a patient in central Sweden when the end of the dentist's tool came loose.
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National: 3 Jan 11
A 65-year-old Swedish woman froze to death following a special New Year's Eve service at historic Kalmar castle in southern Sweden after somehow being locked inside the fortress walls.
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Science & Technology: 25 Dec 10
Snow, freezing temperatures and driving winds continue to cause chaos in parts of southern Sweden.
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National: 24 Dec 10
Residents in several counties in southern Sweden have been told to stay off the roads on Friday, while trains were nearly back on schedule following a series of weather-related disruptions earlier in the week.
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National: 23 Dec 10
Train traffic on southbound lines out of Stockholm came to a complete halt on Thursday afternoon, while many roads were impassable.
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Science & Technology: 19 Dec 10
Swedes were coping with yet another round of fierce winter weather on Sunday as a band of snow showers moved north across the country, sending cars off the roads and dumping up to 20 centimetres of fresh snow in its wake.
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Society: 16 Dec 10
A mysterious pink powder thought to be rat poison deployed by a "drinking club with a running problem" inadvertently caused panic among dog walkers in Stockholm's Södermalm district this week.
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Science & Technology: 25 Nov 10
The winter 2010/2011 is set to be as cold and snowy as last year, as a slew of weather phenomena push cold air from the poles down over Sweden, experts predict.
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Science & Technology: 24 Nov 10
The military was summoned to help control coastal flooding in southern Sweden as thick snow and fierce winds continued to play havoc with transport services across the country.
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National: 23 Nov 10
The Swedish Transport Agency has called for car drivers to choose alternative transport as snowfalls and rain cause traffic problems across Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 22 Nov 10
Another blast of winter weather is set to sweep across much of Sweden in the coming days, bringing heavy snowfall and bone-chilling winds to many parts of the country.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 10
As Malmö continues to celebrate its Swedish championship gold medal, contributor Nic Townsend looks back at a season that ended quite differently than many observers of Swedens’ expected premier football league expected.
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Sport: 7 Nov 10
Malmö FF secured its 16th Swedish football championship on Sunday with a convincing 2-0 home victory over visiting Mjällby.
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Lifestyle: 5 Nov 10
With Malmö’s football club poised to win Sweden’s top-flight Allsvenskan football league, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson looks at how the team's multicultural make up has united a city that is so often cited as a negative example of the challenge of integration.
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National: 26 Oct 10
A district court in southern Sweden sentenced a man who lured 45 young girls and adolescents to pose in front of webcams to one year in prison on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 10
The year’s first snowfall has resulted in slippery roads in many parts of southern Sweden, with some areas received up to 10 cenitmetres of wet snow.
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National: 16 Oct 10
Swedish national rail operator SJ cancelled around 20 trains on Friday after cracks were found in a couple of wheels, affecting 4,000 passengers, with more interruptions expected over the weekend.
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National: 14 Oct 10
Twelve Swedes have been arrested in a global sting targeting illicit trade in Viagra-like impotence medication.
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Society: 12 Sep 10
A 24-year-old man died on Saturday after being gored by a bull in southern Sweden near Ruda in Högsby
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Politics: 8 Sep 10
More than 400,000 Swedes have already cast their vote for the 2010 elections, even though election day is more than 10 days away.
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National: 24 Aug 10
Hultsfredsfestivalen AB, the firm behind the iconic Swedish music festival which has filed for bankruptcy, is unlikely to offer refunds to any of the 5,000 ticket holders, administrators said on Tuesday.
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National: 20 Aug 10
A woman was found murdered near a small town in Kronoberg in southern Sweden on Thursday evening after a police search. A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.
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National: 31 Jul 10
A man in his early twenties has been found guilty of child rape after impregnating a 12-year-old girl he brought home from a party in Tranås in southern Sweden in January.
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Science & Technology: 19 Jul 10
Sweden has laid claim to a rare animal sensation this week: the birth of two tapirs at different zoos, a male and female respectively, out of about only 30 around the world in captivity annually.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jul 10
Hästveda in northern Skåne posted the year's high temperature in Sweden so far at a sizzling 34.5 degrees on Saturday.
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Society: 16 Jun 10
Dutch crime thriller writer Ton Theunis is the initiator of a project to establish a new "WitchWorld" theme park in Mönsterås, a rural municipality in southern Sweden.
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National: 6 Jun 10
While the Swedish national day is largely a low key affair, the upcoming royal wedding has lent an extra spice to the celebrations this year with the public invited to the palace to express their goodwill for the happy couple.
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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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National: 12 Apr 10
The police murder investigation against a doctor working at Växjö hospital in southern Sweden has been extended after his predictions over when patients would die were shown to be extremely accurate.
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Sport: 15 Mar 10
Swedish champions AIK got off to a slow start with a home draw against top-flight newcomers Mjällby. The 2009 runners-up IFK Gothenburg meanwhile opened the season with a flurry of goals, dispatching Kalmar 0-3.
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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.
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Society: 5 Mar 10
A pair of siblings in Kalmar in south east Sweden have been charged with incest and risk facing up to a year each in prison if found guilty.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 10
Billy Lansdowne, former football player and one of Sweden's most popular pundits, speaks to The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson about the state of the game and the launch of his new blog, Billy's Boot Room.
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National: 23 Feb 10
Hard-hit commuters can expect more of the same on Tuesday with snow causing delays, cancellations and limited services across the country.
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National: 18 Feb 10
Swedish municipalities are struggling to balance budgets as the cost of keeping streets and buildings free of snow continues to escalate as winter keeps its hold on the country.
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Education: 21 Jan 10
Some of Sweden’s best primary schools can be found in municipalities along the southeastern coast of the country, according to a new ranking by the country's main teachers union.
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Business & Money: 14 Jan 10
Analysts expect a slowdown in the Swedish residential property market in 2010 following a year in which apartment prices rose by 20 percent amid record low interest rates.
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National: 7 Jan 10
A 36-year-old Gothenburg businessman has been charged with paying for sex after three young women knocked on his hotel room door and offered him their bodies in return for cash.
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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.
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National: 1 Jan 10
The early hours of 2010 were marked by fights, drunkenness, and fires in many parts of Sweden, as a well as traffic accidents and stray rockets.
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Society: 28 Dec 09
Daniel Westling, who is set to become Prince and Duke of Västergötaland when he marries Crown Princess Victoria next June, can now also add “hottest hick” of the year to his list of titles.
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Society: 25 Dec 09
An 18-year-old robber caught an unusual case of the Christmas spirit on Wednesday night, turning himself in to the police shortly after holding up a kiosk in Västervik on Sweden’s east coast.
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Society: 24 Dec 09
The district court in Kalmar in southeastern Sweden has ordered a woman to pay 200,000 kronor ($28,000) in damages to her former landlord to cover damages caused by her 55 cats.
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Science & Technology: 16 Dec 09
Another blast of winter weather is set to barrel down across southern and eastern Sweden starting on Wednesday night, with strong winds and heavy snowfall reaching as far as the Baltic island of Gotland.
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Business & Money: 15 Dec 09
Thai berry pickers and Indian IT experts have been the primary recipients of work permits since Sweden's new labour force immigration laws came into force a year ago.
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Business & Money: 7 Dec 09
Passengers on Sweden’s national railway SJ have derided the company for poor service and punctuality, slapping SJ with one of the worst scores in the transit industry in a recent survey.
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Society: 1 Dec 09
A Swedish man suspected of killing his 63-year-old wife has been exonerated after forensic analysis revealed the woman’s death was caused by an elk.
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National: 6 Nov 09
Four men charged with gang-raping a 17-year-old girl have been acquitted by a Swedish court because prosecutors were unable to prove that the girl was in a helpless state at the time of the incident.
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Lifestyle: 3 Nov 09
As the Swedish championship gold medal makes its way to Solna, Nic Townsend looks back at another eventful season in Sweden’s premier football competition.
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Sport: 30 Oct 09
IFK Gothenburg welcome Stockholm team AIK to Gamla Ullevi stadium on Sunday in a title decider as the Swedish Allsvenskan championship goes down to the wire.
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Politics: 27 Oct 09
Sweden and its four Nordic neighbours should consider forming a federation in order to increase the region’s international weight, a Swedish historian proposes. The 'bloc of ice' would be headed by Denmark's Queen Margrethe.
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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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Society: 14 Jul 09
Thousands of well-wishers are expected to flock to Borgholm on the Swedish island of Öland to join in Crown Princess Victoria's 32nd birthday celebrations on Tuesday.
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Society: 9 Jul 09
Having settled a logo dispute with McDonald’s, an enterprising Swedish strip club owner is courting new controversy as he attempts to build an empire echoing that of the fast food giant.
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National: 4 Jul 09
A 31-year-old man was struck and killed by lightning in Persberg, outside Filipstad in western Sweden on Friday evening.
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National: 20 Jun 09
A man was stabbed to death on Friday during a fight on the island of Öland. But in many parts of the country, poor weather put a damper on the Midsummer festivities.
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Science & Technology: 18 Jun 09
Rain showers and traffic jams made for a slow and wet start to the holiday weekend on Thursday afternoon, with much of the country facing the prospect of a damp Midsummer holiday.
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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.
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Sport: 7 Jun 09
Denmark left Sweden's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in South Africa in 2010 hanging by a thread after a 0-1 win at Råsunda Stadium on Saturday night.
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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.
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National: 17 Apr 09
A fire onboard a passenger ferry used to house workers at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southern Sweden forced the evacuation 240 people late Thursday night.
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Society: 13 Apr 09
Stockholm's hotel rooms are already in short supply for the weekend in June 2010 when Crown Princess Victoria weds Daniel Westling. Travel firms are betting on a summer tourism boom for the capital.
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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 »
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 »
"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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