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Teacher held after having sex with teen students

National: 12 Feb 12
A 24-year-old teacher has been remanded into custody on suspicion of child rape after admitting that he had sexual relations with a number of teenage pupils. READ »

'Vodka-mobile' selling booze to Swedish kids

Society: 10 Feb 12
Police in Stockholm are looking to beef up efforts to put the brakes on a “vodka-mobile” that delivers hard liquor to school children in the Swedish capital who place their orders via text message. READ »

Sweden to cut dropout rate by shortening school

Education: 10 Feb 12
The government is hoping to reduce the number of Swedish high school dropouts by offering a shorter course of study for students who "lack the prerequisites" to finish high school, angering opposition politicians. READ »

Rape accusations stun Swedish high school

Education: 10 Feb 12
An employee at a high school near Uppsala, in eastern Sweden, has been detained by police on suspicion of rape and sexual harassment of several students, much to the shock of his colleagues. READ »

Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind

Lifestyle: 9 Feb 12
From classic Scandinavian functionality to naked men and lambs, Stockholm Design Week has something for everyone. Here's The Local's pick of the weirdest and best designs on display this year. READ »

Swedes' anti-gay flyers not free speech: court

Society: 9 Feb 12
Sweden’s Supreme Court was right to convict four men of hate crimes for distributing "offensive" homophobic flyers at a school, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. READ »

Two Swedes arrested for sex crimes in New York

Science & Technology: 9 Feb 12
Two high-ranking Swedish executives with an e-commerce start-up have been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager in a New York hotel room at the weekend. READ »

'Deadly' train crossing claims third victim

National: 8 Feb 12
A man died after he was hit by a train in Stenungsund in western Sweden on Tuesday afternoon at the same location where two Swedish teenagers were killed by a train in September 2010. READ »

Girl to friend: 'I think I've got a knife in my throat'

National: 7 Feb 12
Police continue to hunt for the man suspected in the stabbing a 10-year-old girl outside of her school in Gothenburg on Monday. As the girl recovers in hospital, local residents remain on edge following the attack. READ »

School rapped over bullying victim's suicide

Education: 6 Feb 12
A 15-year-old girl from southern Sweden took her own life after several years of bullying during which her school's idea of combatting the problem had been to make her go tell the other students that their taunts upset her. READ »

Agency to cancer victim: 'go to social services'

Science & Technology: 6 Feb 12
A young Swedish mother, recently diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, was told by the National Social Insurance Agency that she was not eligible for sickness benefits. READ »

10-year-old girl stabbed in the throat at school

National: 6 Feb 12
A 10-year-old girl had her throat slashed with a knife outside a school in Gothenburg in western Sweden on Monday morning, according to police. READ »

Ice and snow cause motorway mayhem

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. READ »

Löfven won’t block profits in care sector

Politics: 3 Feb 12
New Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven has ruled out the possibility of forbidding companies from making profits in the care sector. READ »

Gun violence 'most common' in Malmö

National: 2 Feb 12
Guns are three times more common in Malmö compared to Stockholm when it comes to reported killings and attempted killings, new figures show. READ »

Europe's banks set for years of 'shrinkage': Borg

Business & Money: 2 Feb 12
Swedish finance minister Anders Borg warned that Europe's financial sector was headed for a decade of tough reforms that would leave it much smaller, but more robust. READ »

Indian grad student missing in Blekinge

National: 1 Feb 12
Police in southern Sweden are looking into the disappearance of a 26-year-old Indian graduate student from the Blekinge Institute of Technology who was last seen leaving his apartment on Thursday night last week. READ »

Sweden 'an important partner': US ambassador

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Feb 12
Recently installed US ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski speaks to The Local's David Landes about US-Swedish relations and taking Swedish lessons from his two-and-half year old daughter. READ »

Swedish schools aim to ditch books by 2013

Education: 1 Feb 12
The Stockholm suburb of Sollentuna plans to get rid its schools of text books entirely by next year in favour of tablet computers like the iPad, but Sweden’s education remained sceptical about the proposal. 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 »

Fees bring flurry of 'fake' colleges to Sweden

Education: 31 Jan 12
After the introduction of tuition fees to Swedish universities, the country has been experiencing an influx of fictitious schools requesting to establish themselves in Sweden. READ »

Principal stopped kids from getting marks that were 'too low'

Education: 27 Jan 12
The principal of a school in western Sweden is under investigation for unilaterally scrapping the marks given to a class of eighth graders because they were too low in comparison to other schools in the area. READ »

Preschool worker 'locked children in the dryer'

Education: 26 Jan 12
A former pre-school employee in Borås in western Sweden is facing charges of molestation for a series of offences, including punishing young children by locking them in a drying cupboard and pulling their hair. READ »

Meeting your neighours, the Swedish way

Analysis & Opinion: 24 Jan 12
While Swedes may have a reputation of being somewhat shy and reserved, that doesn't mean it's impossible to become friends with your Swedish neighbours, writes US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt. READ »

Delousing mishap sparks Stockholm hostel blaze

Society: 24 Jan 12
A youth hostel caught fire on Tuesday in central Stockholm after staff attempted to delouse mattresses by stowing them in a sauna and turning up the heat. READ »

Swedish police: white van child-snatchers 'an urban myth'

Society: 22 Jan 12
Swedish police have confirmed that rumours of a man driving around in a white van seeking to snatch kids from schools in the Stockholm areas is nothing more than an 'urban myth'. READ »

Sweden mulls jail term for forced marriage

Society: 21 Jan 12
Forcing someone into marriage against their will could soon carry a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, according to an inquiry tasked with formulating a law criminalizing the practice under Swedish law. READ »

Cops quiz 11-year-old over gang attacks

National: 20 Jan 12
An 11-year-old boy has been brought in by police in connection with a series of knife point robberies in Malmö. Victims were unaccompanied women, and police suspect a pre-teen gang to be behind the attacks. READ »

New gun law proposal frustrates Swedish police

Society: 20 Jan 12
Swedish police are disappointed after a government proposal suggesting a tightening of legislation still failed to grant police the ability to wire tap suspects in cases of less serious weapons crimes. READ »

Finding student accommodation in Sweden

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
If you're moving to Sweden to study, then you'll need to find somewhere to live. Here are a few tips on finding student accommodation in Sweden. READ »

How to apply for a Swedish Master's program

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
Some 600 master’s degree programs at Swedish universities are taught entirely in English. Here's an easy guide for how to apply. READ »

Do I need a visa?

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
Whether or not you need a visa or a residence permit depends on where you come from. This is what you need to know. READ »

Quality of Swedish unis 'too low': minister

Education: 17 Jan 12
Sweden’s education minister Jan Björklund has slammed the quality of the country's higher education system as he unveiled plans to revamp the way university quality is monitored. READ »

Online sale of free school permit sparks outrage

Education: 16 Jan 12
A permit to run a publicly-funded, privately-managed free school is being sold on a popular Swedish buy-sell site, exploiting a legal loophole and angering politicians. READ »

'Serial rapist' spreads fear in Lund

National: 14 Jan 12
A number of attempted rapes against girls, some as young as ten, have spread fear in Lund, in southern Sweden, and police now believe a single perpetrator lies behind all of the attacks. READ »

Sweden's teachers free to ban Islamic veils

Education: 11 Jan 12
Teachers in Swedish schools can, in certain situations, prohibit students from wearing Islamic veils that reveal only their eyes, the country's school's agency has ruled. READ »

Swedish ad agency behind sex school hoax

Society: 11 Jan 12
The news about the Austrian sex school AISOS, which spread like wild-fire through the international media, was staged by a Swedish advertising agency. READ »

Appeals court acquits Swedish 'exorcist'

Society: 10 Jan 12
A Swedish man sentenced to prison for abusing his wife through having her “exorcised” of evil spirits, has had his conviction thrown out on appeal. READ »

Swedish sex hashtag takes Twitter by storm

Science & Technology: 9 Jan 12
When Swedish radio host Gurgîn Bakircioglu created a hashtag in Swedish, asking people to describe their sex lives with a film title, he had no idea that the topic would trend and become the second most tweeted topic on Twitter. READ »

Abductee 'had a crush' on female suspect

National: 9 Jan 12
The 25-year-old man who was abducted and held in an abandoned school in northern Sweden was in love with the 23-year-old woman suspected of kidnapping him, according to the suspect's father. READ »

Tuition fees change Sweden's student population

Analysis & Opinion: 6 Jan 12
With tuition fees for non-EEA students in effect, the makeup of Sweden’s non-European student population is shifting and the pressure is on for universities to deliver services worth selling, argues contributor Sven Hultberg Carlsson. READ »

Missing man was held in abandoned school

National: 5 Jan 12
When police found the abducted 25-year old man on Wednesday afternoon, he was being held in a former school building, in a remote location near Umeå, in the north of Sweden. READ »

'Serial' rapist charged in southern Sweden

National: 3 Jan 12
A 23-year-old man from Blekinge, in southern Sweden, has been charged with six rapes on a total of five teenage victims, of which two are under fifteen years of age. READ »

Rise in shootings puts strain on Malmö police

National: 2 Jan 12
After the latest incident where a 15-year-old died from shot wounds to the head and chest on Sunday evening, police say that the situation in Malmö is “strained” due to a steady rise in violence in the area. READ »

Mother who killed sons found 'mentally ill'

National: 30 Dec 11
A 30-year-old mother who admitted to killing her young sons in September in Sigtuna, north of Stockholm, has been found mentally ill after undergoing a forensic psychiatric evaluation. READ »

Agency slams immigrant language class failings

Education: 29 Dec 11
Many of Sweden's municipalities fail to place newly arrived immigrants in Swedish language classes within the time frames stipulated by law, a new investigation has found. READ »

Somalis 'shut out' of Sweden's health system

Science & Technology: 28 Dec 11
Many Somalis in Sweden feel dismissed when visiting a doctor in Sweden, according to a new study, which shows that many end up looking abroad for medical treatment as a result. READ »

Teacher fined for 'naked shower' texts to student

Education: 22 Dec 11
A newly licenced teacher who sent sexually suggestive text messages to a 15-year-old Swedish girl during his traineeship has been barred from teaching after being convicted of sexual molestation. READ »

Record sentence for Stockholm puppy torturer

National: 21 Dec 11
A 22-year-old man from southern Stockholm got 15 months in prison on Wednesday for ”sadistically” torturing a puppy to death, a sentence that may well be the longest ever in an animal cruelty case in Sweden. READ »

Sweden's 'youngest' file sharer, 16, found guilty

Science & Technology: 21 Dec 11
A now 16-year-old boy who had been turned in by his school for downloading films was convicted of violating Sweden's copyright laws by an appeals court on Wednesday, overturning a lower court's acquittal. READ »

'It often feels like Christmas in Sweden is only about presents'

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Dec 11
Rampant holiday consumerism is hard to avoid, writes US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt, as she struggles to reconcile competing Swedish and American Christmas traditions in finding gifts for her children. READ »

'Fake' Michael Jackson record sold in Swedish charity auction

Society: 19 Dec 11
A platinum copy of the record “Thriller”, supposedly once owned by pop icon Michael Jackson, was auctioned off for charity by Sweden's state broadcasters at the weekend, despite lingering questions about the record's authenticity. READ »

New 'mythbuster' website to fight racism in Sweden

Politics: 19 Dec 11
The Swedish government has launched a new website to combat the proliferation of inaccurate and often racist myths about minorities and immigrants in Sweden. READ »

Teacher's teen sex text leads to child porn stash

National: 15 Dec 11
A school teacher from southern Sweden was charged on Thursday after the investigation into a sex-themed text message he sent to a 13-year-old student revealed over 6 hours of child porn material on his computer. READ »

Swedish seniors stay active through exercise

Lifestyle: 14 Dec 11
Swedish senior citizens, some well into their 90s, are staying fit and active by taking up regular exercise even long after reaching retirement age, the AFP's Pia Ohlin reports. READ »

Shock deportation leaves Swedish town reeling

Society: 14 Dec 11
A village in northern Sweden is in shock after all five members of a local family that had lived in the community for ten years were apprehended by police on Tuesday morning and deported to Armenia. READ »

Swedish 'sex school founder' admits faking it

Society: 13 Dec 11
A Swedish artist recently named as head of “the world’s first international sex school” in Austria has admitted the project was an elaborate hoax. READ »

Swedish school rocked by daytime stabbing

Education: 13 Dec 11
Two people were arrested Monday afternoon following the stabbing of a 19-year-old man in connection with a fight at a high school in southern Sweden. READ »

Sweden's best Christmas beers: a selection

Lifestyle: 9 Dec 11
For many Swedes, Christmas celebrations just aren't complete without a tasty glass of Christmas beer. Beer blogger Darren Packman offers some tips on some of the best Christmas beers available in Sweden this season. READ »

Sweden presents plan to combat extremism

National: 9 Dec 11
The day before a massive right wing demonstration is set to take place in Sweden and shortly before the anniversary of the Stockholm suicide bombing, the government on Friday presented their new plan to combat extremism. READ »

Parents reeling after attempted kidnapping

National: 9 Dec 11
Parents in Falun, in central Sweden, are keeping closer tabs on their children after a man tried to drag a 13-year-old boy into a car on Thursday. READ »

A truly international education at the heart of Berlin

Education: 7 Dec 11
If you want to study, but dread the bureaucracy and red tape of a traditional academic institution, and fancy a spell in one of Europe’s most dynamic cities at the same time, the ECLA in Berlin could be just the place for you. READ »

Swedish town in fear of face-slapping 'saviour'

Society: 6 Dec 11
A 40-year-old man in southern Sweden, known locally as the "Saviour" because he likes to bless people by laying his hands on them, has recently got into trouble due to his habit of striking those who resist. READ »

Women arm wrestlers bring home the gold

Sport: 4 Dec 11
When the dust had settled after the last match of the world championship in arm wrestling in Kazakhstan on Saturday, ten Swedish women held no fewer than twelve medals in different classes - four gold, seven silver, and one bronze. READ »

Björklund questions schools' special status

Education: 2 Dec 11
The rules regarding the funding of Sweden’s three national boarding schools could be changed, after an application by a fourth school brought attention to their favoured status. READ »

Rule change makes schools ban Lucia photos

Society: 2 Dec 11
Parents in Linköping, southern Sweden, will not be allowed to take photos of their pre-schoolers' performance in the Lucia celebrations next week, to protect them from having their pictures published on social media. READ »

Stockholm stabbing suspect refuses to speak

National: 2 Dec 11
The 20–year-old, held on suspicion of knifing a teenager at a Stockholm high school on Wednesday, has been questioned by police but denies all allegations and refuses to answer any questions. READ »

Man held over Stockholm student stabbing

National: 30 Nov 11
A hooded man attacked and seriously injured a student with a knife at a high school north of Stockholm on Wednesday morning. A man in his twenties was later arrested in connection with the incident. READ »

Swedish artist teaches sex to Austrians

Society: 30 Nov 11
Controversial Swedish artist and former presenter of erotic TV, Ylva-Maria Thompson, is to teach Austrian couples about sexual relations, according to a report. READ »

How Stockholm students are at the heart of Nobel week

Education: 29 Nov 11
Studying at Stockholm University gives you the chance to rub shoulders with Nobel laureates on the night they receive their prize - and you might even get the chance to attend the banquet itself. READ »

Schools agency: kids taught 'to take a beating'

Education: 29 Nov 11
After reviewing the prestigious boarding school Lundsberg, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate has given the foundation until the end of February to prove that they can rid the school of bullying. READ »

Ex-staff speak out about bullying claims

Education: 27 Nov 11
The two former staff members at Swedish boarding school Lundsberg, currently investigated after revelations of bullying and violence, have come forward explaining what made them report the school to the Schools Inspectorate. READ »

Swedish boarding schools put under review

Education: 24 Nov 11
All of Sweden's national boarding schools will be investigated by the Schools Inspectorate after reports of systematic bullying and violence among students. READ »

Police probe boarding school 'nipple burning'

Education: 24 Nov 11
Prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg, alma mater of Prince Carl Philip and many other high society members, has been reported to the police after a bullying scandal which involved the burning of a pupil's nipples. READ »

Wordfeud: Swedes' latest smartphone addiction

Science & Technology: 23 Nov 11
Swedes just can't seem to get enough of Wordfeud, a Scrabble-like smartphone app that has sucked up countless hours of free time, and may have even sparked a new trend in online dating, contributor Aila Stefansdotter-Franck discovers. READ »

Ten reasons to spend winter in Sweden

Travel: 23 Nov 11
While Sweden seems to be at its most captivating during the warm summer months of June to August, here’s an insider tip — the country is just as beautiful during the height of winter. Here are 10 reasons to visit Sweden during winter. READ »

Stockholm International School celebrates its 60th anniversary

Education: 22 Nov 11
Stockholm International School has seen thousands of students pass through its doors since it was founded in 1951. To mark its fiftieth birthday, Maggie Dankiewicz, Valerie Evers, Caroline Engström-Roberts and the students of Grade 5 tell of its fascinating history. READ »

New calendar features hot Swedish 'med studs'

Society: 22 Nov 11
Twelve male Swedish docs-to-be from university town Uppsala, north of Stockholm, have shed their shirts for charity to produce a topless calendar for 2012. READ »

Swedes and English: when things go wrong

Lifestyle: 21 Nov 11
Swedes are generally thought of as speaking English fairly well, but for some, the pressure to perform can be too much, as The Local's latest selection of video clips aptly demonstrates. READ »

Swedish actor Lars Brandeby dies

Society: 21 Nov 11
Swedish comic actor Lars Brandeby died on Sunday evening at a hospital in Gothenburg following a period of illness. READ »

Dirty diaper 'terror' keeps Swedish town on edge

Society: 18 Nov 11
A town on the east coast of Sweden has been struck by a wave of unusually smelly crimes, where dirty nappies are pilfered from bins, unwrapped by the perpetrators and strewn around public places. READ »

Bringing Gaelic football to the Swedes

Lifestyle: 16 Nov 11
A book on Gaelic football in Sweden by Stockholm resident and Irishman Philip O'Connor has received award nominations in his home country. Speaking to The Local, he tells of his expat experience and his passion for this little-known sport. READ »

'Missing' Swedish teen was held by police

National: 15 Nov 11
A mother had to wait five days to find out that Swedish police had arrested her 18-year-old son, by which time she had already reported him as a missing person. READ »

Sweden acts to curb corporate tax-avoidance

Business & Money: 14 Nov 11
Finance minister Anders Borg announced plans on Monday to close loopholes in the Swedish tax code following criticism that healthcare companies are using complicated schemes to avoid paying taxes in Sweden. READ »

School head on rape claim: 'boys will be boys'

Education: 14 Nov 11
A high school in Täby in northern Stockholm has been reported to the Equality Ombudsman over allegations that the principal played down rape allegations as "stuff that boys do". READ »

Convicted killer seeks to adopt teen girl

National: 14 Nov 11
A Swedish man serving a life prison sentence for murdering a man because he was homosexual has filed a petition to adopt an 18-year-old girl as his daughter. READ »

Student's nipples burned with electric fly swatter

National: 10 Nov 11
A bullying scandal has rocked prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg, alma mater of Sweden's Prince Carl Philip and many others among the upper echelons of Swedish society. READ »

German theologian: Pippi Longstocking is racist

Society: 9 Nov 11
Sweden's beloved Pippi Longstocking children's books have found themselves at the heart of a racism row after a German theologian demanded additions to prompt parents to skip over or explain certain passages. READ »

Ten Swedish brands everyone should know

Lifestyle: 8 Nov 11
While Ikea, H&M, and Ericsson are all well known Swedish brands, here's a list of ten more products and brands from the land of the midnight sun that any self-proclaimed Swedophile should also know. 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 »

Stressed mothers have obese kids: study

Science & Technology: 7 Nov 11
Stressed out mothers increase the risk of obesity among their children, a new Swedish study has shown. READ »

Schools' shortcomings not remedied: agency

Education: 6 Nov 11
Despite glaring reports from the National School Board and the Schools Inspectorate over the past several years, many of Sweden’s municipalities have failed to address the complaints. READ »

School sued after pupil bullied on YouTube

Education: 4 Nov 11
A school in southern Sweden that failed to help a student who suffered two years of physical and verbal abuse from fellow students, who posted some of the incidents on YouTube, has been sued by Sweden's child welfare watchdog. READ »

6,000 pre-school kids hurt each year: report

National: 2 Nov 11
Over 19,000 children attending pre-schools in Sweden 2008-2010 were injured so badly that they required emergency care, according to figures releases on Tuesday. READ »

'An Amazing Race for the Clinically Insane'

Travel: 31 Oct 11
Hanging from the side of a less-than-100%-reliable three-wheeler may not be the most comfortable way to see India, but it’s surely one of the most exhilarating. READ »

Stockholm set for first ever Halloween parade

Lifestyle: 31 Oct 11
It's close to winter, and something evil's lurking in the dark, after a call to all monsters, ghosts, and resurrected rock stars to haunt the streets of Stockholm as Sweden hosts its inaugural Halloween parade, The Local's Joel Linde explains. READ »

Swedish lunch lady in pole dance protest

Society: 28 Oct 11
Students and staff at a Swedish school were shocked to see one of the school cafeteria staff unzip her pants and commence in an erotic pole dance in response to complaints about poorly prepared Swedish pancakes. READ »

Dad forced daughter to feign mental illness

National: 27 Oct 11
A Swedish father stands to face charges for having cashed in over 25,000 kronor ($3,850) a week to take care of his daughter based on a faked diagnosis for mental illness for more than a decade. READ »

Washington DC kids get a taste of Swedish food

Society: 26 Oct 11
Some 45,000 school children in the Washington DC area will get the chance to savour some wholesome Swedish food on Wednesday in an initiative by the Nordic embassies in the US capital. READ »

Teen alcohol programme has 'no effect': study

Society: 24 Oct 11
A nationwide programme aimed at tackling drinking among young people, used in 190 Swedish municipalities, has 'no effect' at all on drinking habits, according to a new study. READ »


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