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Swedish cannibal finds vampire love behind bars

Society: 30 Jan 12
After meeting at a high security ward “the Skara Cannibal” and the “Vampire Woman”, two infamous Swedish murderers, have found love and are hoping to get married. READ »

Woman fined for crotch grab assault

National: 27 Jan 12
A scorned Swedish woman who got back at her ex-husband by hijacking his Facebook account to indicate he was gay and then later attacked him by grabbing his testicles and biting him has been convicted for the assault. READ »

Breastfeeding mum in Swedish car wreck

Society: 12 Jan 12
A woman who was breastfeeding her weeks-old infant while behind the wheel is under criminal suspicion after crashing into a truck on a motorway in western Sweden. READ »

Naked man in 'pot-fuelled' train sex attack

Society: 23 Nov 11
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been detained after he allegedly smoked marijuana before stripping down naked on a train and demanding passengers have sex with him. READ »

Worker's hand minced in Swedish meatball mishap

Business & Money: 22 Nov 11
A worker at a Swedish meatball plant lost two fingers on Tuesday morning while trying to unjam a meat grinder at a processing facility in central Sweden. READ »

Activist wrote threat letters in his own blood

Society: 28 Oct 11
A 21-year-old animal rights activist from western Sweden is facing charges for sending various threat letters -- some written in his own blood. He is also suspected of setting a hamburger restaurant on fire. READ »

Thieves charged after pooping at crime scene

Society: 19 Oct 11
Three piles of human excrement left at a crime scene in central Sweden served as key evidence in the case against two men charged for tying up and robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year. READ »

Growing demands for Ohly to step down

Politics: 5 Jul 11
A growing number of leading Left Party members want to see the party's head, Lars Ohly, step down before the next election in 2014. Over half of district leaders want a new head, according to a Swedish newspaper report. READ »

Swedish 'cannibal' convicted of murder

National: 9 Mar 11
A 32-year-old Swedish man who decapitated his girlfriend and then ate parts of her body was convicted on Tuesday of murder. READ »

Swedish museum head in prison for bribes

Society: 26 Feb 11
A former museum head from Skövde in central Sweden has been sent to prison for accepting bribes. READ »

No crime suspected over Swedish actor death

Society: 1 Feb 11
Swedish police have closed an investigation into the fire that claimed the lives of Millennium trilogy actor Per Oscarsson and the actress Kia Östling, concluding that no crime had been committed. READ »

Swedish actor confirmed dead in house fire

Society: 5 Jan 11
The remains found in Swedish Millennium trilogy actor Per Oscarsson's burned home have now been identified. It is now clear that it was the actor and his wife who died in a fire on New Year's Eve. READ »

Swedish birds 'scared to death': veterinarian

Science & Technology: 5 Jan 11
A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark. READ »

Workers canned for 'disloyal' Facebook post

National: 3 Jan 11
Three workers at at a Volvo engine plant in central Sweden were given their marching orders after one of them described his place of work as a 'madhouse' in a Facebook status update. READ »

Remains found at site of Swedish actor's home

Society: 3 Jan 11
Fears mounted that actor Per Oscarsson, who appeared in the Swedish film adaptations of the "Millennium" trilogy, had died along with his wife after human remains were discovered among the ashes of their burned home. READ »

Swedish actor feared dead in house fire

Society: 1 Jan 11
Swedish actor Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia Östling are feared dead in a fire, as a relative discovered the couple's house burned to the ground yesterday morning. READ »

Swedish military called in to battle winter storm

Science & Technology: 24 Nov 10
The military was summoned to help control coastal flooding in southern Sweden as thick snow and fierce winds continued to play havoc with transport services across the country. READ »

Refugee child denied care by Swedish hospital

National: 24 Nov 10
A hospital in central Sweden refused to perform an operation on a 16-year-old unaccompanied refugee boy because the doctor didn't think the hospital would be reimbursed for the procedure. READ »

Man admits woman's murder on the phone

National: 13 Nov 10
A man called police on Friday evening and admitted to having killed a woman in an apartment in Skara in western Sweden. READ »

Nighttime skier crashes into promenading elk

Society: 18 Mar 10
A cross-country skier crashed into an elk on Tuesday evening while out exercising by torchlight near Skövde in western Sweden. READ »

Saab suppliers recall redundancy notices

National: 24 Feb 10
The completion of the purchase of Saab by Dutch firm Spyker has led to several subcontractors withdrawing notices of redundancy. READ »

Guilty verdict for child rape teacher

National: 22 Jan 10
A male high school teacher in Skövde, south west Sweden, has been found guilty of a string of sex crimes with a pupil and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. READ »

Teacher charged with sex crimes against pupils

National: 20 Nov 09
A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape. READ »

Suspected sheep slaughter in pizzeria

National: 6 Oct 09
Authorities in central Sweden have shuttered a pizzeria after a witness reported seeing four live sheep being led into the establishment’s basement. Police suspect one of the animals may have been slaughtered. READ »

Teen convicted for murder of 86-year-old

National: 3 Aug 09
A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later. READ »

Weak krona and ABBA key to Swedish theme parks turnaround

Business & Money: 2 Jul 09
The operator of three of Sweden’s largest amusement parks lost money in 2008, but the company’s CEO is confident of an upswing in profits for 2009 due in part to the weak Swedish currency. READ »

Sweden hit by wet and wild weather

Science & Technology: 2 Jul 09
A series of isolated, violent thunderstorms wreaked havoc across southern and central Sweden on Wednesday, flooding roads, damaging buildings, and killing three horses. READ »

Thief steals caravan complete with sleeping owner

National: 21 Jun 09
A thief made off with a caravan in Skövde in southern Sweden on Saturday night. To his surprise he later found that the caravan's owner was asleep inside at the time. READ »

Hungry ravens kill fourteen calves in central Sweden

Society: 13 May 09
An aggressive conspiracy of ravens is wreaking havoc on farmers in central Sweden, having killed more than a dozen animals in the last 3 months. READ »

Glass found in Falun sausage

National: 2 Apr 09
A fragment of glass has been found in a Falun sausage bought from a store in Karlsborg on March 20th. The new alarm comes after further reports of glass found in chicken products. READ »

Man arrested for running over police officer

National: 14 Jul 08
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a traffic police officer near Mariestad in central Sweden on Sunday. READ »

Nineteen-year-old charged over manure pit murder

National: 9 Jul 08
A young man has been charged the murder of 19-year-old Mikael Andersson, whose body was fished out of a manure pit near Skara in western Sweden in May. READ »

Mikael Andersson's body likely found

National: 26 May 08
Police believe they have found the body of 19-year-old Mikael Andersson from Lidköping who has been missing for about a week. READ »

New arrest in Mikael Andersson murder case

National: 25 May 08
A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Mikael Andersson from Lidköping. READ »

Police search for murdered 19-year-old

National: 24 May 08
Police are looking for the body of a 19-year-old man who disappeared from a party in Norra Lundby in western Sweden last weekend. READ »

Gothenburg mulls public perfume ban

Society: 21 Mar 08
The 49 municipalities in the Gothenburg region are considering introducing a complete perfume ban in the region's hospitals. READ »

Chicken theft nets fine and suspended sentence

National: 21 Mar 08
Animal rights activists have been fined and served a two-year suspended sentence for the theft of 12 hens. READ »

Woman fined for biting man's penis

National: 14 Nov 07
A 22-year-old woman has been found guilty of biting a man's penis at a fast-food outlet in Falköping in March. READ »

Ice causes road accidents

National: 26 Oct 07
Icy roads in southern and western Sweden caused a number of accidents on Friday morning, as temperatures plunged below zero. READ »

Stepfather appeals rape verdict

National: 5 Jul 07
A 40 year old man who was jailed for six years for having sex with his stepdaughter 200 times is appealing against the sentence - as is his victim and the prosecutor. READ »

Metal prompts Scan to recall meat

National: 26 Jun 07
Meat company Scan has advised customers to return certain products after it was found that they may contain small pieces of metal. "They have already been removed from the shelves," said a spokeswoman for the company. READ »

Motorist killed in collision with train

National: 19 Apr 07
A motorist was killed on Thursday morning when a train crashed into a car at a level crossing in western Sweden. READ »

Swedish countryside goes double Dutch

Society: 13 Mar 07
An increasingly number of Dutch people are moving from their crowded homeland to the open spaces of rural Sweden. Swedish regions are fighting to attract what is viewed as a very desirable immigrant group. READ »

Sahlin enjoys support of majority within party

National: 15 Jan 07
Mona Sahlin has the backing of enough party districts to ensure that she will succeed Göran Persson as the next leader of the Social Democrats. READ »

Church of Sweden sanctions burial of aborted foetuses

Society: 13 Dec 06
The Church of Sweden is to allow burial ceremonies for aborted foetuses. The procedure is to be called a 'pastoral ceremony' and will not be accompanied by a church service. READ »

Big Skåne redundancies from Swedish Meats

Business & Money: 18 Oct 06
Swedish Meats, the country's largest meat producer, will make nearly 400 people redundant as part of a reorganization of plants in southern Sweden. READ »

Guilty Sjödin refuses to resign

Politics: 13 Oct 06
Anna Sjödin says she won't quit as Social Democrat youth leader, despite being found guilty of drunkenly assaulting a bouncer at a Stockholm bar and using racial insults. READ »

Arrests over pre-school arson attacks

National: 22 Sep 06
Three people have been arrested in Skövde over a spate of arson attacks on pre-schools in the town. At least one of those arrested was a teenage boy, according to reports. READ »

Skövde schools in arson mystery

National: 13 Sep 06
Another nursery school was set on fire in Skövde on Tuesday night. It is the fifth such incident in three weeks in the area. READ »

Second pre-school fire in Skövde

National: 10 Sep 06
A nursery school in Skövde was ravaged by fire on Sunday morning - for the second time in three weeks. Police suspect arson. READ »

Persson 'disgusted' by Liberal violation

Politics: 5 Sep 06
Prime minister Göran Persson has said he is 'disgusted' by the attempts of people within the Liberal Party youth movement to access the Social Democrats' internal computer network. READ »

Press officer behind Liberals' computer scandal

Politics: 4 Sep 06
The Young Liberals employee who admitted to gaining unauthorized access to the Social Democrats' internal computer network was the organisation's press officer, Per Jodenius, it has emerged. READ »

Bert Karlsson sells up to Warner

Business & Money: 12 Jul 06
Warner Music is to buy Mariann Grammofon AB, the record company founded and built up by Swedish producer and TV celebrity Bert Karlsson. READ »

Animal hospital could do human x-rays

Science & Technology: 13 Jun 06
A novel solution is being considered to reduce lines at a hospital in south-western Sweden – send patients to have their MRI scans at an animal hospital. READ »

Poker sites used in fraud scheme

National: 20 Apr 06
Nine Skaraborg residents have each lost an average of 10,000 kronor playing internet poker - despite the fact that not one of them has ever visited the poker sites. READ »

Police identify bus crash dead

National: 28 Jan 06
See also:Eight dead in bus crash
Swedish police have started identifying those who died in a bus crash near Arboga on Saturday, as the death toll reaches nine. A further 26 people are in hospital with serious injuries. READ »

Row as Swedish billionaire snaps up fun park

Business & Money: 18 Jan 06
The sale of the Stockholm amusement park Gröna Lund to the billionaire inheritor of the retail chain Clas Ohlson is proving to be something of a rollercoaster ride. READ »

New problem with stolen number plates

National: 17 Jan 06
Car owners who have never so much as set foot in central Stockholm have nevertheless received demands to pay the congestion charge. Their number plates have been stolen and photographed on another car passing a payment point. READ »

Swedish food prices continue to fall

National: 7 Jul 05
Stockholmers can no longer bemoan the cost of herring and meatballs: for years the dearest place to buy food in Sweden, the capital is now the eleventh cheapest region in the country. READ »

Rape suspect officer investigated for secrecy breach

National: 13 Apr 05
A senior officer of the Swedish armed forces is being investigated for mishandling sensitive state secrets. The same man is already suspected of beating and raping his wife over a ten year period. READ »

Swedish Santa "a paedophile"

National: 1 Dec 04
Forgiveness is the theme in a Skaraborg parish as a convicted paedophile is selected as this year's Santa Claus and the congregation looks forward to this year's naivety. Sorry, nativity. READ »

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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

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Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »

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