The following articles have been tagged with "Scandinavia":
National: 22 May 13
A man long referred to as Sweden's most notorious serial killer after being convicted of eight murders has been cleared of two more of the killings, prosecutors announced on Tuesday.
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Sport: 18 May 13
Ice hockey World Championships co-hosts Sweden and Finland continue their long-standing rivalry on Saturday with a place in the gold medal match at stake.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 May 13
With Bruce Springsteen playing to sell-out crowds at Stockholm's Friends Arena, political scientist Stig-Björn Ljunggren explains why Sweden's old-school social democrats recognize themselves in The Boss's attempt to balance a political commitment with living in a consumer society.
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Society: 7 May 13
Best-selling Swedish book The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared will be made into a Disney movie by the end of the year.
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Society: 7 May 13
While a reunion of Swedish super group Abba may never happen, a new museum opening on Tuesday in Stockholm offers the next-best chance to witness the foursome on stage.
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Business & Money: 2 May 13
A plane from Scandinavian airline SAS carrying 253 passengers lost part of its wing when it collided with another aircraft at Newark airport outside New York on Wednesday.
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National: 21 Apr 13
Scandinavian Airlines SAS has had to pull 29 flights as German airline and airport personnel launch a 24-hour strike that has also led to 1,700 Lufthansa flights being cancelled on Monday.
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Society: 18 Apr 13
Scandinavian airline SAS has the cheapest airfares to several destinations in Europe and is on par with budget airlines such as Norwegian and Ryanair, new figures show.
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Lifestyle: 11 Apr 13
A hot new Swedish singer got a big boost this week from US pop star Katy Perry, whose social media shout-out helped Ellinor Olovsdotter, better known as Elliphant, reach millions of new fans, making her our pick for Swede of the Week.
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National: 10 Apr 13
The top Swedish labour tribunal on Wednesday found a Swedish lingerie shop guilty of gender discrimination after making female staff wear a pin stating their bra size.
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Education: 10 Apr 13
The education levels of Sweden's teenagers have dropped sharply over the past decade, according to a Unicef study into children's well-being across the industrialized world.
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Business & Money: 24 Mar 13
Microsoft Sweden, American Express and McDonald's are among the best workplaces in Sweden, according to a new survey by an international consultancy group.
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Lifestyle: 21 Mar 13
The Local chats with British comedian Paul B. Edwards about Swedish humour, the problems with anti-comedy, and the launch of his new English-language comedy show in Gothenburg.
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Society: 20 Mar 13
Organizers of the Hultsfred music festival announced on Wednesday that this year's three-day show would be shifted to Sigtuna in Stockholm County, just north of the capital city.
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Education: 14 Mar 13
With more students worldwide choosing to learn Swedish, The Local catches up with Marina Astashevskaya - a Swedish teacher in Russia - whose classes help bridge the gap between love-refugees and their families in Russia.
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Travel: 14 Mar 13
Wood-fired meals, new-Nordic cuisine, and classic seafood are on the menus at the Swedish restaurants that have received stars from the prestigious European guide.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Mar 13
Sweden is home to a vibrant community of file-sharing activists, but it is also at the forefront of a global recovery in music sales driven by streaming music services such as Spotify, AFP's Sören Billing reports.
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Science & Technology: 13 Feb 13
Sweden's licensed wolf hunt is effectively over for the season after a court decision on Tuesday left in place a lower court's ruling stopping the hunt.
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Education: 12 Feb 13
An estimated 18,000 students worldwide are taking university lessons in Swedish in the hope of broadening their job horizons to include the Nordic nation.
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Business & Money: 11 Feb 13
Swedish investment company Hakon Invest announced on Monday that it would buy the remaining 60 percent stake of supermarket chain Ica for 20 billion kronor ($3.1 billion) from Dutch retailer Royal Ahold.
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National: 9 Feb 13
After Swedish company Findus' withdrawal of its frozen single-portion lasagne, food retailers Axfood, Coop and Ica have pulled ready meals from supermarkets too, for fear they may contain horsemeat.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Feb 13
As The Local throws open the doors to its new office in Paris, founder Paul Rapacioli argues - purely coincidentally - that a daily diet of local news could change Europe’s destiny.
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Society: 5 Feb 13
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria made a surprise show-stealing appearance at Monday's Gay Gala in Stockholm to hand out the prize for Gay of the Year.
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Politics: 2 Feb 13
Sweden's immigration minister has said that the country needs to tighten rules for asylum seekers and other prospective immigrants to cut the number of people coming into the country.
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Lifestyle: 1 Feb 13
Three Swedish indie filmmakers, who unearthed an old Nordic folklore creature to spin an Evil Dead-inspired tale of gore and desperation, have secured Swedish distribution after successes in the US. The Local's Ann Törnkvist meets Tommy Wiklund and Sonny Laguna.
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Science & Technology: 1 Feb 13
Sweden is to resume its wolf hunt in what authorities have described as a bid to limit inbreeding, while environmentalists argued on Thursday that it violates EU law.
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Business & Money: 29 Jan 13
The Swedish Public Employment Service is urging out of work young Swedes to look for employment in crisis-hit countries like Spain and Greece, where youth unemployment is twice as high as Sweden's.
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Business & Money: 27 Jan 13
Scandinavian airline SAS has announced that a further 200 administrative jobs are set to be cut, on top of the 800 already announced at the struggling carrier.
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Science & Technology: 24 Jan 13
The International Energy Agency has proposed that the Nordic countries add more than 13,000 new wind turbines in order to achieve ambitious emissions-reduction schemes in the next three decades.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 13
Meteorologists are warning that next month in Sweden will be even colder than January, with temperatures set to plummet across the entire Nordic region.
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Lifestyle: 14 Jan 13
In The Local's new series My Sweden, where we profile readers' favourite hangouts, sights, and eateries in their own corners of Sweden, we talk to Lorelee Arias, a Mexican who has spent the past four months in Östermalm, Stockholm.
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Society: 14 Jan 13
Over 100 Stockholmers ignored below-freezing temperatures on Sunday and bared their legs for an afternoon on the city's subway system - all in the name of a bit of cheeky fun.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 13
Employees of the struggling SAS airline have expressed their anger that top managers have received bonuses to entice them to stay with the struggling airline only a few months after the airline was on the brink of bankruptcy.
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National: 8 Jan 13
The CEO of Ryanair visited Gothenburg on Tuesday, announcing the budget airline had plans for domestic flights in Sweden in the offing, while also denying SAS's claims they lie about take-off weights.
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Society: 8 Jan 13
A Swedish artist who stirred up controversy with a montage showing the Swedish queen wiping a swastika off the floor has been banned from buying pictures for future work by the near-monopoly news image bureau Scanpix.
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Business & Money: 7 Jan 13
Scandinavian airline SAS says Ryanair lies about the weight of its aircraft to reduce fees, giving the low-cost Irish carrier an unfair advantage over many of its increasingly irritated European colleagues.
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National: 7 Jan 13
Members of a family in western Sweden have claimed their migrant worker father is one of the men seated on a steel beam and having lunch high above the skyscrapers in the iconic picture from 1930s New York City.
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Travel: 3 Jan 13
Restaurant reviewers Zagat included two Swedish eateries in its top-ten list of the world's best eateries.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jan 13
After six months in Sweden, US native Joe Beaumier reflects on the difficulties foreigners who speak English face landing a job in Sweden when they're unable to speak advanced Swedish.
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Business & Money: 29 Dec 12
Scandinavian airlines SAS was on the brink of collapse in November, the company's board vice chair Jacob Wallenberg admitted in an interview on Saturday.
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Lifestyle: 28 Dec 12
With the call for a last minute Santa unanswered, The Local's Oliver Gee filled some big boots and learned the thrills and perils of being a Swedish Santa - while experiencing a very different Christmas to those back in Australia.
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Society: 18 Dec 12
A woman in eastern Sweden wants to take legal action after film officials translated the name of a dwarf in The Hobbit into her own “noble” Swedish name.
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Lifestyle: 17 Dec 12
After British comedian Ricky Gervais performed in Stockholm on Sunday night, The Local’s Oliver Gee reflects on why a liberal Swedish crowd took such delight in the mostly dark and, many would argue, offensive humour.
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Travel: 13 Dec 12
A construction crew bundled up in heavy parkas is bustling around an Arctic building site on the banks of the Torne river in northern Sweden as the 23rd Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel is erected one oversized ice cube at a time.
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Business & Money: 12 Dec 12
Scandinavian airline SAS announced it expected to be profitable in 2013 thanks to aggressive cost cutting, despite predicting the current quarter to be "extremely weak".
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National: 7 Dec 12
Swedish police on Friday said they had launched an investigation into an artist who says he used paint mixed from the ashes of Holocaust victims in work of art on display in Lund.
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Society: 5 Dec 12
The famed Christmas market in the British city of Lincoln will get a taste of Sweden on Thursday as a Swedish entrepreneur and a team of helpers set up red cottages and “turn Lincoln into a mini Stockholm”.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Nov 12
With the Sweden Democrats reeling from a racist video scandal, two political scientists look at whether other far-right parties in Europe can tell us if the party's much-touted makeover is more cosmetic than ideological.
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Lifestyle: 26 Nov 12
As London is swept up in "Scandimania", one Swede finds himself in the driver's seat as the only licensed Swedish cab driver in London. The Local finds out more about how Andreas Eriksson finally got the green light.
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Business & Money: 20 Nov 12
Sweden is seeking a buyer for cash-strapped Scandinavian airline SAS, in which the Swedish state holds 21.4 percent stake, Financial Markets Minister Peter Norman said on Tuesday.
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Society: 19 Nov 12
Despite Scandinavian airline SAS announcing on Monday that all eight unions had signed deals to save the company from bankruptcy, one analyst has predicted that the company needs to change tack if it wants to stay airborne.
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National: 19 Nov 12
With Scandinavian airlines SAS and unions working furiously to avoid potential bankruptcy, The Local brings you the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding the troubled airline.
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Society: 19 Nov 12
Scandinavian Airlines representatives met with union officials throughout Sunday night, with all but one of the trade unions signing new collective agreements in an effort to stave off the company's bankruptcy.
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Business & Money: 18 Nov 12
Despite intensive negotiations between Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, and union representatives on Sunday, the company and staff have not been able to reach an agreement and bankruptcy may be imminent.
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National: 18 Nov 12
A man has been charged with raising false alarm after faking a bomb threat in order to prevent a Malta-bound Scandinavian Arlines flight from taking off without him.
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Business & Money: 15 Nov 12
A last ditch savings plan to save SAS would make cabin personnel among the lowest paid in the Swedish job market, it emerged on Thursday. The airline denied the claim, however, amid reports it is closer to bankruptcy than previously thought.
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Business & Money: 13 Nov 12
Despite a flurry of worried phone calls from travellers, ticket sales for Scandinavian airline SAS continued to sell on Tuesday as many passengers ignored the airline’s current financial turbulence.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Nov 12
Aviation experts doubt a massive savings plan announced on Monday by Scandinavian airline SAS can save the company, with one analyst forecasting the airline would cease to exist within 12 months.
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Business & Money: 12 Nov 12
Scandinavian airline SAS announced plans on Monday to slash 3 billion kronor ($445 million) in costs, with at least 800 jobs to be cut in what the company's CEO has labelled "the final call" for the troubled airline.
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National: 11 Nov 12
According to reports in several Swedish media sources, Scandinavian Airline SAS is reported to be in a last minute bid to avoid bankruptcy with staff set to be told to take a pay cut or face losing their jobs.
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Business & Money: 9 Nov 12
Sweden, as well as Denmark and Norway, have asked for EU approval to guarantee new loans for Scandinavian airline SAS, a week after rumours swirled about the company's strained finances.
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Business & Money: 8 Nov 12
Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, is postponing its third quarter report due to ongoing negotiations regarding its revolving credit facility, the company announced on Thursday.
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Travel: 6 Nov 12
Travel guide Lonely Planet has hailed Sweden’s Gothenburg as the second best place in the world to visit for value of money, touting the city's "glitzy main drag", "edgy art" and charming neighbourhoods.
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Travel: 5 Nov 12
The unusual mix of Swedish food, drink, and crime thrillers has thrown this Nordic nation into London's spotlight. Contributor Paul Hughes has gathered the ultimate to-do list for those wanting to catch Scandimania in the British capital.
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Science & Technology: 31 Oct 12
Scandinavian airline SAS announced on Wednesday that flights to and from the east coast of the US have been reopened, after a two-day hiatus due to hurricane Sandy.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 12
Sweden has risen to be the third most prosperous country in the world, joining its Scandinavian neighbours atop an annual ranking of countries according to wealth and well-being.
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Business & Money: 30 Oct 12
Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, announced it was expecting profits as its trading resumed on Tuesday, following a shares suspension earlier in the morning prompted by media speculation that the airline was struggling financially.
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Business & Money: 30 Oct 12
Shares in Scandinavian airline SAS were suspended on Tuesday morning following media reports about the company’s strained finances, according to the Stockholm stock exchange.
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Science & Technology: 29 Oct 12
Flights between Sweden and the east coast of the US have been cancelled with the threat of Hurricane Sandy looming in New York and Washington on Monday.
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Business & Money: 28 Oct 12
Scandinavian airline SAS has moved to quash rumours that it is facing bankruptcy and that banks are considering not extending loans to the troubled carrier.
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Politics: 27 Oct 12
While protesters outnumbered those attending a speech by controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders in Malmö in southern Sweden on Saturday, the event passed off without incident.
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Education: 26 Oct 12
Swedes have the highest proficiency in English as a second language in the world, according to a new study which tested nearly 2 million people in 54 countries.
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Science & Technology: 26 Oct 12
A Swedish scientist has together with a Danish colleague discovered a new species of sea snake, while inspecting formalin-filled jars in a Copenhagen museum.
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Lifestyle: 23 Oct 12
The Vikings didn't only bring tools, trade and violence to Britain over 1,000 years ago - they also brought language and The Local has collected the ten most common English words with "Swedish" roots.
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National: 23 Oct 12
A Scandinavian Airlines pilot who failed a breathalyzer test prior to be scheduled to fly a plane out of Arlanda airport in May this year, has been cleared by the Attunda District Court.
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Education: 22 Oct 12
With three institutions in the top 100 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities and as home to the likes of Ericsson, Ikea, Electrolux, Spotify, Volvo and many more global corporations, Sweden is already an attractive proposition for the next generation of academics, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs.
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National: 21 Oct 12
A Swedish teacher from Gävle in northern Sweden has died in a motorcycle accident on the holiday island of Koh Lanta in Thailand.
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National: 14 Oct 12
Swedish banks report having seen a boost in foreign investors seeking safer investments away from the troubled eurozone.
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National: 14 Oct 12
Swedish dairy producers fear that massive hikes in tariffs on the import of cheese and meat into Norway will put an end to exports.
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Sport: 11 Oct 12
Sweden captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic says that he has yet to hit his peak form since his move to Paris Saint Germain from AC Milan and that he has more to offer ahead of Friday's World Cup qualifier against the Faroe Islands.
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Society: 8 Oct 12
Students in central Sweden have taken to Facebook in a show of support for their school's head cook whose food was recently deemed "too good" by local authorities.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Oct 12
While Swedish advocates of gender equality have found a new frontier - pushing for the gender-neutral pronoun, hen, not all experts agree it is a good idea, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert finds out.
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Lifestyle: 3 Oct 12
Many Swedish industries are crying out for foreign talent - and changes to migration laws have made moving here for work easier than ever.
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Business & Money: 27 Sep 12
Starbucks coffee shops may soon be a familiar sight on Stockholm streets as the US chain aims to beef up its presence in Scandinavia following a "milestone" deal with a Norwegian partner.
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Lifestyle: 27 Sep 12
With the Göteborg Book Fair running from September 27-30, The Local offer up eight great reasons to head to Sweden's second largest city and sink your teeth into some Nordic novels.
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Society: 24 Sep 12
Sweden’s lobster fishing season kicked off on Monday morning with eager fishermen taking to the seas early in the hopes of snagging themselves a traditional Swedish delicacy.
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Science & Technology: 13 Sep 12
Sweden's famed 17th century Vasa warship, housed in a Stockholm museum, is deteriorating faster than previously believed despite renewed preservation efforts, researchers have warned.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Sep 12
While Sweden is often held up as a shining example of the benefits of a generous welfare state, a new paper argues that free markets, rather than a large state sector, are the real key to Sweden's economic success.
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Sport: 7 Sep 12
Sweden's national football team beat its Chinese counterpart 1-0 in a largely empty Olympia stadium in Helsingborg on Thursday in a warm-up match ahead of the hosts' Word Cup qualifyer next week.
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Society: 5 Sep 12
Swedes working in bars and restaurants have a higher chance of becoming alcoholics than the rest of the population, according to a new study published Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 31 Aug 12
Just two weeks after US company Netflix announced plans to expand to the Nordic countries, TV-hit maker HBO on Thursday revealed plans to launch an internet-streaming service in the region later this year.
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Society: 29 Aug 12
One of Sweden’s most well-known icons, The Swedish Chef from The Muppets, may actually be speaking Norwegian – at least that’s what one US based online magazine has concluded.
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Politics: 29 Aug 12
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt warned on Tuesday of the "great risks" and possible tensions in Syria following President Bashar al-Assad's inevitable departure.
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Business & Money: 27 Aug 12
The deep financial crisis in Europe has led to more Greek citizens arriving in Sweden to seek employment, with twice as many coming 2011 compared to the year before.
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National: 20 Aug 12
The two men held in prison in Minsk, accused of helping Swedish PR agency Studio Total fly into Belarusian airspace to drop free-speech teddy bears, were released on bail on Friday.
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Society: 14 Aug 12
A new Swedish crime thriller published in Germany seems to have thrown up at least as many intrigues, malicious plots, and mysteries as it contains, as rumour abound in the German press as to the author’s ‘real’ identity.
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National: 13 Aug 12
The foreign ministry revealed Sunday that the Swedish embassy in Minsk has received a threat against the Swedish nationals in Belarus, less than a week after the Swedish ambassador and diplomats were expelled from the country.
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Politics: 11 Aug 12
Three Swedes behind the "teddy bear" stunt which has contributed to a full-blown diplomatic crisis between Belarus and Sweden, claimed on Saturday that they have been summoned to appear before the KGB.
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Politics: 8 Aug 12
All of the Swedish diplomats stationed in Belarus have now been expelled following the dismissing of the Swedish ambassador in what Sweden has claimed was linked to his pro-rights stance.
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Lifestyle: 1 Aug 12
Despite elk having become the stereotypical wildlife symbol of Sweden, spotting such iconic creatures can often be an imposing challenge for city-dwelling tourists. The Local's Joe Lynskey has a look at where to find them.
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