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Pirate Swede in 'biggest ever' hacking trial

National: 20 May 13
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is on trial once again in Sweden for his role in committing what prosecutors believe may have been the largest data breach in Swedish history. READ »

Ten secrets to a smooth transition to Sweden

Society: 15 May 13
Moving to Sweden as a foreigner can leave even the toughest expats in bitter tears of frustration. But it doesn't have to be that way. British journalist and contributor Tatty Good reveals the secrets to a smooth transition. READ »

Nordea tracked clients in secret 'black book'

Business & Money: 13 May 13
One of Sweden's biggest banks kept a secret registry with thousands of names of people described as "jokers" and "gangster accountants" in what is being called a "black book" of clients the bank didn't want to do business with. READ »

Pirate Bay co-founder charged for hacker attack

Science & Technology: 16 Apr 13
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was one of four people charged in Sweden on Tuesday on suspicions they hacked into several Swedish agencies and companies and attempted to transfer money out of the Nordea bank. READ »

Charities suffer amid mobile payments muddle

Science & Technology: 28 Feb 13
Swedish charities and NGOs are suffering a downturn in SMS donations, after Sweden's four main mobile network operators introduced mandatory online registration for mobile phone money transfers. READ »

'Undocumented migrants are not the problem'

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Feb 13
Hunting down undocumented immigrants like animals is immoral and a waste of police resources, argues socialist weekly Arbetaren’s editor-in-chief Daniel Wiklander. READ »

Authorities scramble to kill off fictional Swede

Society: 11 Dec 12
The Swedish Tax Agency scrambled this week to block a personal identification number, linked to Wednesday's date, which could have given a newborn boy a health record that included a pregnancy and prostate cancer at the same time. READ »

Foreigners to help plug Jokkmokk brain drain

Lifestyle: 7 Dec 12
Jokkmokk in Sweden's far north is hoping to entice foreigners to make their home on the Arctic Circle by offering cheap housing and a helping hand, all in a drive to help repopulate the area, The Local's Ann Törnkvist discovers. READ »

Living woman reported dead in central Sweden

Society: 11 Oct 12
A family in southern Sweden was “deeply concerned” after receiving letters from local authorities about their elderly mother, who had mistakenly been reported dead. READ »

'Complex bureaucracy is depriving Sweden of foreign talent'

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Sep 12
If Sweden wants to remain an attractive destination for students, researchers and skilled workers from other countries, the current tangle of bureaucracy and conflicting rules must be corrected, write representatives of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Number blunder makes man 'father' of two

Society: 7 Jul 12
A 29-year-old old Swedish man recently came home from the maternity ward with his newborn daughter and was surprised to learn that he was the father of not one, but two, children, according to records with Swedish authorities. READ »

'Give foreign PhDs a clear path to residency in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 16 May 12
Sweden needs to change rules that strip foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH). READ »

Paedophile site probed for privacy violations

National: 7 Nov 11
A new website set up by a Swede with ties to neo-Nazi groups and featuring the names and contact information of dozens of convicted child sex offenders has been reported for data privacy violations. READ »

Swedish password hacking scandal widens

Science & Technology: 26 Oct 11
A password hacking scandal which on Tuesday exposed login details of 90,000 Swedes, including several journalists and celebrities, has widened to include 180,000 users on nearly 60 websites. READ »

Refugee jobs reform 'not working': report

National: 14 Sep 11
Sweden's much touted integration policy reform has failed to ensure that refugees start the process of finding work before receiving welfare benefits from local authorities, a new study has shown. 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 »

Homeless in Uppsala: a foreign student’s tale

Lifestyle: 28 Sep 10
More than a month after arriving in Sweden, many foreign students are still struggling to find permanent housing. Contributor Amy Keresztes, an American studying at Uppsala University, shares her tale of frustration. 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 »

Paedophile site reported for privacy violations

Society: 18 Jan 10
A website featuring personal information about Swedes convicted of sex crimes involving children has been reported to the police by Sweden's Data Inspection Board. READ »

In defence of the eighties generation

Lifestyle: 27 Oct 09
Lazy, self-entitled and spoiled. These are just a few of the choice adjectives employed to describe the generation born in the 1980s, the first generation since Hemingway's to be characterised as “lost.” But just how accurate is the stereotype, asks The Local's Charlotte Webb. READ »

Eritrean beats deportation threat in Swedish lottery win

Society: 6 Sep 09
A 28-year-old Eritrean national living illegally in Sweden collected a 1.2 million kronor ($167,000) lottery prize on national television Saturday morning. 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 »

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 »

Tax agency ready for June 1st ID card rush

National: 29 May 09
After two and half years of waiting, immigrants arriving in Sweden will finally be able to obtain Swedish national identity cards, and the tax agency is expecting to accept a flood of applications starting June 1st. 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 »

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 »

Dutch woman barred from borrowing books

Society: 11 Dec 08
A Stockholm-area library is facing a discrimination lawsuit for refusing to let a Dutch woman check out more than two books because she wasn't Swedish. READ »

Family bedevilled by girl's beastly ID number

Society: 8 Sep 08
A couple from Umeå in northern Sweden is upset about state authorities branding their newborn baby girl with the sign of the devil. 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 »

Hospital in HIV needle mix up

National: 19 Feb 08
A nurse at Sahlgrenska University Hospital injected a patient with a syringe previously used on a patient infected with HIV. READ »

Hackers hit Swedish student discount card sites

National: 27 Jan 08
Information on nearly one million students may have been compromised. READ »

Learning Swedish: accept no substitutes

Lifestyle: 10 Oct 07
Swedes might speak great English, but there's no substitute for getting your tongue around the Swedish language. Fiona Basile finds that learning the lingo needn't be a nightmare. READ »

Say a little prayer for Sweden

Lifestyle: 11 Aug 06
Christianity in Sweden has a long history, but you won't find many Swedes in the pews on a Sunday. But that doesn't mean Swedish religious groups don't have the capacity to cause a stir, as Christine Demsteader reports. READ »

Persistence pays: getting a job in Sweden

Lifestyle: 4 Aug 06
With Swedish unemployment higher than in many other countries , getting a job in Sweden isn't easy – but it is possible. Janelle Larsson asks employers how foreigners can maximize their chances. READ »

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Denmark wins Eurovision 2013 in Malmö
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Award-winning Swedish photographer cleared of manipulation
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A Congolese-Swedish pastor explains the roots to recent cases of parents exorcising demons from their children in Sweden
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H&M backs Bangladesh building safety accord
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Swedes slam American Apparel over 'sexist' ads
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Housing crunch forces more young Swedes to live with mum and dad
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'Not all discrimination in Sweden is racism'
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