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Missing French exchange student found dead

National: 24 Jan 13
The 23-year-old French exchange student who had been missing for two weeks in southern Sweden was found dead on Wednesday night, with police stating that they no longer suspected any foul play. READ »

Elderly Swede sought after sex with sheep

Society: 26 Jul 12
A man reported to be in his 60s is suspected of animal cruelty after having been caught red-handed having sex with a tied up sheep in a field in southern Sweden. READ »

Indian grad student found dead

National: 14 Apr 12
A 25-year-old Indian graduate student at the Blekinge Institute of Technology who was reported missing in late January, has been found dead in Ronneby harbour. READ »

Gang leader fails to turn up for trial, found dead

National: 15 Mar 12
A 49-year-old leader for Swedish motorcycle gang Outlaws in southern Sweden never turned up for his own trial on Tuesday. Six hours later he was found murdered. READ »

Indian grad student missing in Blekinge

National: 1 Feb 12
Police in southern Sweden are looking into the disappearance of a 25-year-old Indian graduate student from the Blekinge Institute of Technology who was last seen leaving his apartment on Thursday night last week. READ »

Swedish Gripen planes headed to Libya

National: 2 Apr 11
The first three JAS Gripen fighters to be used in the UN-backed no-fly zone over Libya took off from Blekinge on the southern coast of Sweden on Saturday. READ »

Sunshine returns after heavy storms

National: 18 Jul 10
Intense thunderstorms led to power cuts and flooding in parts of Sweden on Saturday, as the entire island of Gotland was left without electricity. READ »

Swedish Armed Forces rejects ad films criticism

National: 15 Jun 10
National service comes to an end in Sweden on June 30th, and a series of advertisements aimed at stimulating interest in the military have come in for criticism for allegedly painting a false picture of life in the armed forces. READ »

Pilot strike grounds Swedish flights

National: 7 Jun 10
Pilots working for four regional Swedish airlines went out on strike early Monday, affecting a large number of domestic flights with the threat of a broader strike affecting international and charter flights on Wednesday. READ »

Swedish Armed Forces cuts troops and bases

National: 6 Mar 10
The Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) has proposed to scale down the country's domestic defences, closing at least one air force base, eliminating one troop regiment and halving training resources for home defences. READ »

Alfa Laval to trim 300 jobs in Sweden

Business & Money: 12 Jan 09
Swedish industrial giant Alfa Laval announced plans on Monday to lay off 1,000 workers globally in the next six months, including 300 redundancies in Sweden. READ »

More than 200 jobless following UIQ's bankruptcy

Business & Money: 8 Jan 09
The recent demise of Swedish mobile phone software company UIQ has kept bankruptcy administrators busy and led some former employees to start their own firms. READ »

Motorola buys into Sweden's UIQ

Business & Money: 15 Oct 07
American telecom equipment maker Motorola has announced plans to by 50 percent of Swedish tech company UIQ Technology. UIQ is currently wholly owned by Swedish-Japanese mobile phone company Sony Ericsson. READ »

Flights cancelled after SAS plane accident

National: 12 Sep 07
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) has suspended all flights using Dash 8-400 planes after a second accident in the space of a few days. Thirteen flights in Sweden are affected. READ »

Record low temperatures as August ends on chilly note

National: 29 Aug 07
The lowest August temperatures for more than sixty years have been recorded at Ronneby Airport in southern Sweden and northern Sweden sinks below zero, as August comes to a chilly conclusion across the country. READ »

Gotland steps back in time

Lifestyle: 10 Aug 07
Fiona Basile dons her tunic and watches Gotland turn back the clock hundreds of years for Visby's Medieval Week. READ »

Boy shot himself in stomach

National: 23 Jun 07
A 16-year-old boy is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the stomach on Friday. READ »

Blaze destroys Ronneby heritage building

National: 4 Dec 06
A fire broke out around 4pm at the Wiener café in Ronneby, one of the old wooden buildings in the famous Brunnsparken. The café could not be saved. READ »

Swedish cargo ship sinks in Baltic

National: 1 Nov 06
A rescue operation was underway in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday evening after a cargo ship with 14 people on board sunk in rough seas. At 8:30pm on Wednesday evening, six men had been rescued. READ »

Four dead after coastguard plane crash

National: 26 Oct 06
Rescuers say there is no hope of finding survivors after a coastguard plane crashed into a canal in southern Sweden. Four men were on board the plane, which crashed after apparently losing a wing. READ »

Armed man surrenders to police

National: 13 Jun 06
A man armed with a sawn-off shotgun gave himself up this morning after a four hour stand-off with police at his house near Ronneby. A woman and three children emerged from the house earlier. READ »

Arctic air grips Sweden

National: 3 Mar 05
As legions of Swedes head to the mountains for the winter sports week, cold air from northern Russia and the Arctic gives many parts of Sweden the coldest March day since records began. READ »

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