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Malmö Eurovision hype from Abba to Zlatan

Lifestyle: 16 May 13
From Bonnie Tyler and a Ukrainian giant, to a song by Avicii and Abba legends and a rumoured appearance by Malmö-native Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden's Eurovision Song Contest packs a glitzy punch without the hefty price tag. READ »

UK's 'humble gardener' sows Swedish TV career

Society: 22 Apr 13
John Taylor is perhaps best known as the man with the green thumbs and a slight English accent on a weekly gardening show on television. He tells The Local how he made a career out of "digging holes" in Sweden. READ »

'Fairness of Sweden's rental queues is a myth'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Mar 13
Finding a place to live is key for integrating immigrant families in Sweden, but Swedish housing policy throws a spanner in the works for even the most enterprising immigrant families, argues local Liberal Party politician Robert Hannah. READ »

Report prompts child poverty debate in Sweden

Society: 18 Jan 13
The Swedish children’s rights organization Bris has abandoned its use of the term “child poverty” after an investigative news report sparked a heated debate about the topic. READ »

Elderly woman's maggot-infested leg amputated

Society: 30 Dec 12
A Stockholm nursing home has been accused of severe neglect after a 95-year-old resident was rushed to hospital with a maggot-infested wound. READ »

Zlatan short-listed for prestigious literary prize

Sport: 22 Oct 12
The autobiography of Sweden's star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has made it onto the short-list for the August Prize, a prestigious Swedish literary award. READ »

Sweden Democrat in teen sex crime castration call

Politics: 11 Sep 12
The head of a Sweden Democrat party district and member of the party’s election committee used the party's website to call for the castration of four young boys suspected of sexual crimes. READ »

Swedish grocers revel in Ramadan profits boost

Business & Money: 20 Jul 12
Swedish food retailers are expecting a record turnover in the weeks to follow, with Muslim fasting month Ramadan beginning on Friday, a festival only bested by Christmas in terms of turnover for Malmö grocers. READ »

Teen girl 'agreed to be kidnapped', suspect freed

National: 19 Jul 12
A 32-year-old man from southern Sweden suspected of kidnapping a teenage girl he met online was released on Wednesday after two weeks in custody when it emerged the girl had willingly participated in the stunt. READ »

Zlatan Ibrahimovic buys Swedish 'hunting' island

Society: 9 Jun 12
Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has bought an island in Lake Mälaren west of Stockholm, the latest addition to his extensive property holdings. READ »

Cop blames colleagues' racist slurs on 'stress'

National: 23 Apr 12
Racist slurs uttered by Malmö police officers while responding to disturbances in the city's Rosengård district can be attributed to "stress", according to an officer who was present at the December 2008 incident. READ »

Police may have pics of Malmö teen's murderer

National: 21 Apr 12
The person who murdered 15-year-old Ardiwan Samir in Malmö on New Year’s Eve may have been caught on camera near the crime scene. READ »

Minstrels and ministers make bad bedfellows

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Apr 12
Art installation or not, politicians have no business taking part in minstrel shows, argues Carmen Price, an American freelance writer based in Stockholm, in reaction to the 'racist' cake controversy involving Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth. READ »

Police arrest three over slain Malmö teen

National: 16 Apr 12
Three teenagers have been arrested in Malmö under suspicion of the murder of 15-year-old Ardiwan Samir in the Rosengård district on New Year’s Eve. READ »

Man held for setting his wife on fire

National: 2 Apr 12
A man in Malmö in southern Sweden is suspected of having set his wife on fire following a domestic dispute stemming from her request for a divorce. READ »

Sweden's 'immigrants' find Big Apple success

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Mar 12
Frustration with being shut out of the Swedish job market has prompted several Swedes with immigrant backgrounds to seek – and find – success in the melting pot that is New York City, contributor Rafaela Stålbalk discovers. READ »

Three in four Rosengård children 'live in poverty'

National: 12 Mar 12
In the Malmö district of Rosengård over 70 percent of children are living in relative poverty, according to fresh figures from Statistics Sweden, which measures the growing economic divides across the country. READ »

Another side of Malmö's infamous Rosengård

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Mar 12
While Malmö's Rosengård neighbourhood is often the subject of negative headlines, the multi-ethnic district is slowly becoming a model for positive change in Sweden's third largest city, contributor Patrick Reilly discovers. READ »

Disgruntled 'Black Cobra' threatens hairdresser

Society: 9 Feb 12
A man in southern Sweden has been charged with assault after threatening to ‘bring in his gang’ to a local hairdressing salon after being refused a haircut. READ »

Man dead after new Malmö shooting

National: 31 Jan 12
Malmö was rocked by another fatal shooting on Tuesday night after a man was gunned down in a car and later died in hospital, marking the city's third gun fatality since the start of the year. READ »

Malmö takes a stand against growing violence

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 12
The grieving father of a murdered 15-year-old, attempting to climb down into his dead son's grave, was a sombre reminder of the consequences of the escalating violence in southern Sweden, reports contributor Patrick Reilly. READ »

Hundreds gather for slain Malmö teen's funeral

National: 11 Jan 12
Hundreds of Malmö residents turned out on Wednesday to follow the casket of 15-year-old Ardiwan Samir, who died after being shot on New Year's Eve, in a march arranged by the boy's family as a protest against violence. READ »

Wounded Swedish teen dies from injuries

National: 1 Jan 12
The 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head and chest in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, late on Saturday night, has died in hospital from his injuries. READ »

'Sweden can't afford to lose clever immigrants'

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Nov 11
Sweden can't afford to keep discriminating against those living in the suburbs and thereby missing out on the payback of years of investment in education and skills, journalist Carlos Rojas argues. READ »

'Full truth' in Zlatan's autobiography

Sport: 3 Nov 11
Sweden’s arguably biggest football star of all times, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, is releasing a biography of his journey from a troubled Swedish suburb to the very top of world football. READ »

Malmö police to learn 'polite' Arabic

National: 5 Sep 11
Police who patrol Malmö's Rosengård district are being offered a special Arabic language class to help them better understand and communicate with local residents in the predominantly immigrant area. READ »

Swedish cop: gays a 'cancer on society'

Society: 2 Sep 11
A police officer in Malmö in southern Sweden is under investigation after having called homosexuals a “cancer on society” in reference to a lesbian colleague who also serves as the department's hate crimes educator. READ »

Masturbating man reported for 'moaning louder than an animal'

Society: 11 Aug 11
A man has been reported to the authorities by his neighbours in Malmö after they tired of his noisy masturbation habits, which they report can disturb the peace at any time of the day or night. READ »

Religious conflict on the rise in Sweden: study

National: 10 Aug 11
Sweden is one of the ten countries worldwide where social hostilities related to religion are increasing the most, according to a newly published American study. READ »

Kidnapped Swede found with captors in lay-by

National: 8 Aug 11
Five men barged into a flat in the Rosengård suburb of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, early on Monday morning kidnapping one man after incapacitating two others. The man was later found in a car outside Jönköping. READ »

Malmö police station attacked by gunfire

National: 18 Jun 11
The police station in Malmö district Rosengård, in the south of Sweden, was fired upon early Saturday morning. No one was physically injured. READ »

Malmö schools slammed by inspectorate

Education: 8 Mar 11
Schools in Rosengård in Malmö in southern Sweden have come in for stinging criticism from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate, with more staff training and contact with home required. READ »

Zlatan voted Sweden's most popular sportsman

Sport: 29 Dec 10
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, AC Milan star and captain of the national team, is by far the most popular sportsman in Sweden, a new survey published on Wednesday showed. READ »

Explosion destroys store in Malmö suburb

National: 22 Nov 10
A powerful explosion ripped through a convenience store in the Rosengård area of Malmö on Monday morning. READ »

A populist lexicon: freedom fries and the Swedish far-right

Analysis & Opinion: 18 Nov 10
The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson exposes the orthodoxy and self-serving folksy truisms of far-right PC in a lexicon of populist platitudes. READ »

Multicultural football team unites Malmö

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. READ »

New shooting in Malmö reported on Saturday

National: 1 Nov 10
Police in Malmö spent the weekend investigating a shooting that occurred in the city on Friday night, but was not reported until Saturday evening. READ »

Malmö still in fear as gunman remains at large

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Oct 10
As police in Malmö continue their hunt for a gunman suspected in nearly 20 shootings targeting people with immigrant backgrounds, the AFP's Nina Larsson finds the city's residents remain on edge. READ »

Ex-gang members hunt Malmö gunman: report

National: 25 Oct 10
Ex-members of criminal gangs in Malmö in southern Sweden have taken up the hunt for an unknown gunman thought to be responsible for nearly 20 shootings targeting people with immigrant backgrounds. READ »

Malmö gunman keeps city on edge

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Oct 10
As Malmö police warn the immigrant residents to exercise caution after a spate of apparently random shootings, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson talks to local leaders about fear, caution and how residents are reacting to the situation. READ »

Police warn immigrants after Malmö shootings

National: 21 Oct 10
Police in Malmö issued a warning on Thursday urging residents with immigrant backgrounds to exercise caution as officers continued to investigate a number of related shootings targeting immigrants. READ »

Malmö shooter targeting immigrants: police

National: 20 Oct 10
Police in Malmö now believe that a more than a dozen unexplained shootings which have taken place in the city this year may be connected. All the victims are believed to have immigrant backgrounds. READ »

Two held for threatening pimping trial prosecutor

National: 11 Oct 10
A man and woman have been arrested for making threats in connection with a pimping trial underway in Malmö involving a 14-year-old girl. READ »

Threats force judge out of teen pimping trial

National: 28 Sep 10
The presiding judge in the Malmö district court trial of ten men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, has been forced to withdraw due to threats against her and her family. READ »

Ten face trial in teen pimping scandal

National: 27 Sep 10
The trial of ten men 10 men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex opened in Malmö district court on Monday. READ »

Ten charged in Malmö teen pimping scandal

National: 15 Sep 10
Charges were filed on Wednesday in Malmö against 10 men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex. READ »

'Well-meaning Swedes treat migrants like pets'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 10
With a xenophobic political party knocking on the door of the Riksdag, Swedish journalist Lars Åberg examines why, despite good intentions, many Swedes still view immigrants like household pets. READ »

Vilks takes fight to Facebook foes

National: 8 Jun 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks has joined a Facebook group entitled "Kill Lars Vilks" in order to engage in discussion with his antagonists as part of his ongoing art project to explore the bounds of free speech. READ »

Swedish Rail Destinations: Malmö

Travel: 2 May 10
Sponsored Article: Once in the shadow of its larger, more glamorous neighbour Copenhagen, the construction of the Öresund Bridge means Malmö today forms the proud gateway to Sweden. READ »

Fires and rioting after Malmö suburb unrest

National: 29 Apr 10
Unrest erupted in the Malmö district of Rosengård on Wednesday evening with police forced to seal off the area before regaining control of the situation. READ »

Youth gang forces Malmö pre-school closure

Society: 26 Apr 10
A pre-school in Malmö's Rosengård district was shut down on Monday morning in the interests of staff safety following an extended period of threats and harassment from a gang of local youths. READ »

Man shot in Malmö as gang war intensifies

National: 18 Apr 10
A 24-year-old man with ties to Malmö's criminal underworld was shot and injured in the southern part of the city on Saturday evening as police fear a fresh escalation of violence. READ »

Cops fined over racist remarks

National: 25 Mar 10
Two police officers have each been docked five days' wages for racist slurs made during disturbances in Malmö's Rosengård district in December 2008. READ »

Barcelona Christmas gift for Zlatan's first club

Sport: 22 Dec 09
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's first club FBK Balkan have got an early Christmas present of 1.5 million kronor ($206,000) courtesy of FC Barcelona. READ »

Crime figures falling in Rosengård: police

Society: 18 Dec 09
An increased police presence has led to a distinct reduction in crime figures for flashpoint Malmö suburb Rosengård, according to local media reports. READ »

Malmö gets sucked in to world of comics

Lifestyle: 6 Nov 09
The Local's Charlotte Webb sits down with World of Comics festival co-ordinator, Caroline Lund, to talk masks and multiculturalism in Malmö. READ »

Ex-moderate Muslim to form 'anti-Zionist' party in Sweden

Politics: 3 Nov 09
A once moderate Muslim spokesperson who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists. READ »

Left-wing activists held over Stockholm car fires

National: 29 Oct 09
Stockholm-area police arrested nine left-wing activists on Wednesday in connection with a string of disturbances in the southern suburb of Fittja. READ »

Stockholmers 'fund the rest of Sweden': report

Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing. READ »

Woman murdered in Malmö shootings

National: 10 Oct 09
A man and a woman in their twenties were found with gun-shot wounds to the head in Malmö in the early hours of Saturday morning. The female victim later died from injuries sustained. READ »

Swedish integration policies 'a failure'

Politics: 23 Sep 09
Immigrants to Sweden continue to flock to a few, high-immigrant concentration areas, new statistics show, prompting one politician to conclude the country's integration politics have failed. READ »

Cockroach surprise for Swedish property mogul

Society: 16 Sep 09
A Stockholm-area investment executive received a package of live cockroaches in protest of his firm’s perceived negligence in upgrading run-down apartment buildings in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood. READ »

Study to assess values of Swedish police cadets

National: 14 Sep 09
The attitudes and values of Swedish police cadets are to be assessed before and after they complete their training, following a number of noteworthy racist comments by police officers in recent months. READ »

Residents thwart Rosengård street festival

Society: 23 Aug 09
A street festival held in the Rosengård district of Malmö deteriorated into a fight on Saturday evening as activists were forced out by area residents. READ »

Malmö hit by wave of car fires

National: 10 Aug 09
More than ten cars were set alight in a series of arson attacks across Malmö on Sunday night. Police were unable to confirm on Monday whether the attacks were linked. READ »

Migration Board bans 'racist' lawyer

National: 15 Jul 09
An asylum lawyer from Skåne in southern Sweden has been blacklisted by the country’s migration authorities following revelations about his personal blog on which he referred to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”. READ »

Police officer gives Rosengård youths the finger

National: 5 Jul 09
A police officer has been re-assigned and reported for making insulting gestures with his middle finger at youths in the suburb of Rosengård in Malmö. READ »

Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer

National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”. READ »

No charges for cop's racist remarks

National: 19 Jun 09
Prosecutors have abandoned their investigation into the case of a Malmö police officer who uttered racist slurs during disturbances in Malmö's Rosengård district in December. READ »

'Curfews and police' can curb Rosengård fires

National: 7 May 09
A prominent Liberal Party Riksdag member on Wednesday called for targeted curfews and more police in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood just hours before a communal refuse facility in the area burned to the ground. READ »

Politicians call for Rosengård curfew

National: 1 May 09
Politicians from the Moderate and Sweden Democrat parties in Malmö are calling for a nighttime curfew for youth in the Rosengård neighbourhood. They claim the situation in the area has become untenable. READ »

Rosengård firefighters call it quits

National: 28 Apr 09
Months of facing thrown rocks and threats during calls to the Rosengård neighbourhood in Malmö have caused local fire chief Henrik Persson and others to step down. READ »

Rosengård: Integration in the eye of the storm

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 09
Malmö suburb Rosengård has come to symbolise Sweden's struggles with integration. AFP's Marc Preel examines a community grappling with its identity after a winter marred by rioting and clashes with the police. READ »

New Rosengård fires 'revenge': police

National: 20 Mar 09
Police in Malmö claim a recent wave of deliberately set fires in the city’s heavily-immigrant Rosengård neighbourhood constitutes an act of retaliation for recent arrests. READ »

Probe into Malmö police racism reopened

National: 5 Mar 09
Prosecutors in Malmö have decided to reopen an investigation into racist remarks made by police officers in December. READ »

Swedish teen fined for oinking at police

National: 4 Mar 09
A Swedish teenager who made oinking noises as he walked past two police officers has been convicted for the insult and ordered pay a fine. READ »

Demo against police racism in Malmö

National: 1 Mar 09
Over one hundred demonstrators marched in Malmö on Saturday in protest against police racism. READ »

Police Academy to investigate racism charges

National: 21 Feb 09
The Swedish National Police Academy (Polishögskolan) is to be investigated after details emerged of a culture of racism at the school. READ »

Couple suspected of khat smuggling arrested in Malmö

National: 19 Feb 09
Police in Malmö have arrested a man and a woman on narcotics charges after finding the pair had two suitcases filled with amphetamine-like substance khat. READ »

Sabuni offers to meet with Rosengård youth

Politics: 13 Feb 09
Sweden’s integration minister Nyamko Sabuni wants to visit the homes of young people from the predominantly immigrant suburb of Rosengård in Malmö. READ »

Police crimes unit launches 'Niggersson' investigation

National: 10 Feb 09
The Swedish National Police-related Crimes Unit has launched a criminal investigation against the Malmö police officers that used the fictional names "Neger Niggersson" and "Oskar Neger" (Negro) for internal training purposes. READ »

Ten arrested at Malmö pro-Israel demo

National: 8 Feb 09
Ten people were arrested in connection with a pro-Israel demonstration in Malmö on Sunday. The city's main square was closed as the demo met with anti-Israel protesters. READ »

Inquiry 'to restore confidence in police'

National: 8 Feb 09
Sweden's national police commissioner, Bengt Svensson, has launched an independent inquiry into racism within the police force in Skåne following a series of revelations over the weekend. READ »

Racist stereotypes used in police training

National: 7 Feb 09
"Neger Niggersson" and "Oskar Neger" (Negro) are two names used by Skåne police in their internal training, it has emerged. Meanwhile the chief prosecutor has ruled that police officers caught using racist language on film have no case to answer. READ »

Malmö police chief 'knew of racist remarks'

National: 6 Feb 09
Malmö police chief Ulf Sempert has reported himself following admissions that he has previous knowledge about racist comments made on board a police bus but chose not to react. READ »

Officers reassigned after racist remarks

National: 5 Feb 09
Three Malmö police officers have been reassigned for yelling racial slurs in reference to a suspect detained during disturbances which hit the city’s Rosengård district in December. READ »

Row breaks out over Rosengård report

National: 30 Jan 09
Three academics who demanded to see the source material behind a controversial new report on religious and political extremism in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård have been told that the material no longer exists. READ »

Rosengård 'growing more radical'

Society: 28 Jan 09
A majority of Rosengård's inhabitants believe the troubled Malmö suburb has undergone a serious political and religious radicalization over the past five years, a new study shows. READ »

Master keys to Malmö flats missing

National: 24 Jan 09
The master keys to almost 900 apartments in the suburb of Rosengård in Malmö are missing. The keys were stolen during riots in the city in December but the managing agent, Newsec, has not yet changed the locks. READ »

What's on in Sweden: January 16 - 22

Lifestyle: 15 Jan 09
What's on in Sweden: New York theatre company and world class jazz in Stockholm; Emergenza festival in Gothenburg; Josh Rouse in Malmö. READ »

Alphabet soup: Sweden’s many languages

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jan 09
Learning Swedish is a noble pursuit. When in Rome and all that. But mastering the majority mother tongue is only the beginning, as many more languages loom large on the horizon, writes Alec Forss. READ »

Police hire protection in Malmö suburb

National: 31 Dec 08
The police have contracted a security firm to help with the surveillance and protection of the police station in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård. Rioting youths and vandals have recently targeted the station. READ »

Rosengård riots abate after two violent nights

National: 20 Dec 08
The streets of Malmö’s Rosengård district were relatively calm on Friday evening, as the hundreds of youth who rioted earlier in the week refrained from engaging in renewed clashes with police. READ »

Police prepare for renewed rioting

National: 19 Dec 08
Riot police from Stockholm and Gothenburg are being sent to provide back-up for their colleagues in Malmö as tensions in the southern city continue to flare. READ »

Rioting breaks out in Malmö suburb

National: 19 Dec 08
Scores of young people rioted on Thursday night in Rosengård, the Malmö suburb in which tensions have been running high since the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre. READ »

Unrest continues near vacated Malmö mosque

National: 18 Dec 08
Fresh disturbances erupted on Wednesday evening near the basement location which had previously served as a mosque in Malmö's Rosengård district. READ »

Magazine names Sweden's ten worst landlords

Society: 9 Dec 08
Six out of Sweden’s ten worst landlords, as listed in Hem & Hyra magazine’s annual ranking, come from the same highly criticized company. READ »

Spy tricks in cancer woman eviction case

Society: 3 Dec 08
Malmö's council-owned housing company MKB has admitted to using "classic" TV tricks in its bid to evict a 69-year-old woman with multiple illnesses. READ »

Politician quits over refugee threats

Politics: 2 Dec 08
A politician in southern Sweden is leaving his post on a local council after receiving numerous threats for suggesting that the municipality accept three unaccompanied child refugees. READ »

Sweden held by Portugal in World Cup qualifier

Sport: 12 Oct 08
Sweden were held to a goalless draw by Portugal in their group 1 World Cup 2010 qualifier in Stockholm on Saturday. READ »

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