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National: 19 May 13
Emmelie De Forest of Denmark takes over from Sweden's Loreen as the Eurovision Song Contest champion, capping a spectacle that kept Malmö and the rest of Europe cheering on Saturday night.
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National: 18 May 13
The 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Final is live in Malmö, southern Sweden. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Europe's biggest pop music spectacle.
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National: 18 May 13
The Sörmland County Council in central Sweden 'accidentally' hired a convicted criminal who had served a long prison sentence for threatening to blow up oil storage tanks and had to pay 1million kronor in severance pay to get rid of him.
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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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Education: 17 May 13
The president of the Stockholm School of Economics, one of Sweden's most prestigious universities, has been forced out in response to a scandal over his hiring of a high-ranking official who'd been convicted of insider trading.
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Sport: 17 May 13
Sweden edged Olympic champions Canada 3-2 in a penalty shootout on Thursday night to set up semi-final clash against arch rivals Finland at the ice hockey World Championships.
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Business & Money: 17 May 13
Solna, a suburb just north of Stockholm, is the best place to live in Sweden, according to a new ranking published on Friday by Swedish news magazine Fokus.
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Business & Money: 17 May 13
A Swedish man is facing a five-million kronor ($750,000) add-on to his tax bill after the authorities took a proper look at his account on the professional networking site LinkedIn.
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National: 16 May 13
One of the two Swedish women who accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes has turned to her personal blog to talk about the ordeal for what is believed to be the first time.
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Lifestyle: 16 May 13
Beyond the sequinned hemlines, Sweden's Eurovision host Petra Mede is a woman who pulled no punches as a comedian, and is now trying to balance her spunk with Saturday's demands for a happy-go-lucky pop fest, making her an easy pick for Swede of the Week.
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Society: 16 May 13
The second TEDxStockholm event of 2013 was held in Södermalm on Wednesday evening, and The Local headed to the scene to hear the talks, meet the organizers, and learn more about why Sweden needs ideas worth spreading.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 May 13
With the internet abuzz with news of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy, The Local speaks with a Swedish breast cancer survivor about the lose-lose equation she faced when she pondered removing her breasts.
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Lifestyle: 15 May 13
Tasked with tracking down Sweden's Eurovision entrant Robin Stjernberg for an interview, The Local's Patrick Reilly describes the thrill of the chase, the Euronuts in the way, and talking Swedish baked goods with the pop star himself.
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Business & Money: 15 May 13
Swedish retailer Coop has refuted complaints by US sneaker brand Converse that Coop stores are selling unauthorized pirated copies of the iconic footwear.
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Business & Money: 15 May 13
More than half of Swedes in their twenties are stuck living at home with their parents in major metropolitan areas, with observers blaming politicians for abdicating any responsibility for dealing with lack of housing.
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National: 14 May 13
With several recent cases of parents attempting to exorcise their "witch" children in Sweden, Congolese-Swedish pastor Josef Nsumbu explains the kindoki belief at the heart of the abuse.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 May 13
Media and politicians in Sweden need to do a better job explaining that not all discrimination is based on racism. There are ways people can overcome it to climb the social ladder, argues liberal commentator Nima Sanandaji.
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Lifestyle: 14 May 13
With Ireland's Eurovision entry something of a dark horse for pop glory, The Local's Patrick Reilly talks to the one Irishman in town who is guaranteed to light up the stage in Malmö Arena.
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Business & Money: 14 May 13
Legendary US sneaker brand Converse has asked a Swedish court for permission to search outlets of Swedish retail chain Coop in a bid to clear near-perfect pirated copies of the iconic shoes off the shelves.
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National: 14 May 13
Police fatally shot a 69-year-old man in an apartment in north Stockholm on Monday evening after responding to calls that a man armed with a machete was menacing the neighbourhood.
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National: 13 May 13
A Stockholm shopkeeper has been jailed for two years for locking up three teenage boys in his store's cellar for ten hours, where he mimicked aspects of water boarding on one of them.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 13
With the Eurovision final just days away, The Local's Patrick Reilly heads behind the scenes where Bonnie Tyler, Sweden's Robin Stjernberg, and a swarm of international reporters are jostling for space in the Malmö Arena.
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Politics: 13 May 13
US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Sweden on Tuesday, with the Swedish government stating on Monday that he would be discussing Syria and the Middle East peace process.
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National: 12 May 13
Smoke billowing from a fire at a refuse station in southern Stockholm has caused a slew of calls from concerned residents across the city to the emergency services, including one falsely claiming that the Royal Palace was ablaze.
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National: 11 May 13
A Stockholm bus driver has been sentenced to community service after having been caught robbing a sleeping passenger on a night bus.
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National: 10 May 13
Six teenage boys aged 15 to 17 are facing trial for raping a 15-year-old girl in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March.
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National: 10 May 13
Swedish police are investigating attempted murder after a shooting at a central Stockholm strip club on Thursday night.
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Society: 10 May 13
Find out how an American comic, an Irishman, and an acclaimed Swedish belly dancer plan to add a dash of Las Vegas spice to the smörgåsbord of Eurovision festivities taking place in Malmö.
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National: 9 May 13
Rail travel between southern Sweden and Stockholm continued to face some delays after a mystery fire cut off traffic at Flen an hour south of the capital.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 May 13
Swedish theatre director Catta Neuding has long sung the virtues of private money in the cultural sector. She tells The Local why many of her colleagues see her as a norm-breaker.
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Society: 9 May 13
A night out with an ex-boyfriend who stalked her online for two years leaves love columnist Emilia Millicent with questions about what the limits are, now that information is everywhere.
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Education: 8 May 13
The importance of understanding today’s networked society starts in the classroom. Over the last year, the Stockholm International School (SIS) has made a major investment that truly begins with I and ends in T.
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National: 8 May 13
A limousine-service app has accused the Swedish authorities of bureaucratic bullying, engaging thousands of users to protest on its behalf, while some fans have dismissed the company's complaints as a PR ploy.
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Society: 8 May 13
Stockholm inaugurated its first Spanish-language home for the elderly on Tuesday, as the capital's aging immigrant population prompts care-givers to diversify into new niche markets.
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Society: 8 May 13
Die-hard Abba fans from around the world flocked to Stockholm on Tuesday for the official opening of the Abba museum, an attraction likely to pull in the Money, Money, Money for the Swedish tourism industry.
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Travel: 8 May 13
From Eurovision to the Abba museum to Bruce Springsteen, May is shaping up to be a very musical month in Sweden. And with temperatures rising and summer holidays fast approaching, the timing seems right for a rundown of Sweden's hottest summer music festivals for 2013.
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Business & Money: 7 May 13
Two Swedes have launched an app that lets even the most tone-deaf user feel like an accomplished music composer, revolutionizing the way melodies can be created and saved.
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Society: 7 May 13
Sweden will recognize the sweeping accomplishments of Senegalese star griot Youssou N'dour alongside Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, both of whom were announced on Tuesday as winners of the 2013 Polar Music Prize.
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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
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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National: 6 May 13
Sweden's Justice Ombudsman announced on Monday it will not investigate the alleged racial profiling carried out by Stockholm police in the city's public transit system during a push to deport illegal immigrants.
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National: 6 May 13
The black market for first-hand rental contracts in Stockholm is alive and well as Swedes desperate for a place to live won't report illegal sales to the police, an investigation has revealed.
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Lifestyle: 6 May 13
With the Abba Museum opening on Tuesday, The Local's Oliver Gee gets a sneak peak behind the scenes, has a quick word with Björn Ulvaeus, and tries to find out if Stockholmers are willing to sing their favourite Abba song on camera. Hint: they are.
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Lifestyle: 6 May 13
A Philippine doctor's tale of how watching Abba on a small black and white TV 30 years ago turned his life upside down, leaving him no choice but to cross the planet for the opening of the Abba museum in Stockholm.
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National: 6 May 13
A mystery man came to the rescue when a 7-year-old boy was run over and wedged beneath a car in eastern Stockholm on Sunday evening, with police labelling the unknown rescuer a hero.
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Business & Money: 6 May 13
Having thrown down the towel in Swedish class, new Stockholmer Paul Davies picked up a brush and razor to build His Swedish Career on trendy Swedish men's new-found love of a full beard.
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Society: 5 May 13
A company within Sweden's home care services could have mistreated migrant workers by making false promises about work conditions, according to a Swedish media report.
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Travel: 5 May 13
The world's first museum dedicated to Sweden's iconic disco group Abba is set to open in Stockholm on Tuesday, offering visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the 1970s foursome with a little help from modern technology, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert reports.
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Education: 4 May 13
Stockholm University plans to launch a fast-track teaching course in a bid to counteract the shortage of qualified science teachers in Swedish schools.
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Society: 4 May 13
A sceptre and crown used in the sixteenth-century funeral of King Johan III were stolen during an overnight robbery at the Västerås Cathedral in central Sweden.
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Business & Money: 3 May 13
Swedish music streaming service Spotify has acquired Swedish music discovery app Tunigo, the company announced on Friday.
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Lifestyle: 3 May 13
Celebrating Antipodean military history may seem an odd crowd-puller at the Swedish horse races, but not only has the Täby Gallop Racing Club for Anzac day seen visitor numbers surge 20 percent every year, it has reunited families.
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Science & Technology: 3 May 13
A Viking-era rune stone has been "rediscovered" near Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago after a group of university students stumbled across the historic rock that had been hiding in plain sight for nearly 300 years.
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National: 3 May 13
Firefighters found three bodies in a flat in Sundbyberg, just north-west of the Swedish capital Stockholm, after an explosion early on Friday that is now being investigated as a suspected case of murder.
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Lifestyle: 2 May 13
In his latest column on Swedish music, Paul Connolly finds out how Abba paved the way for other Swedish music and offers up his choices for Swedish album and gig of the month.
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Sport: 2 May 13
The 32-year-old goalkeeper of Stockholm's AIK football club, Ivan Turina, was found dead in his flat on Thursday morning.
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Society: 1 May 13
Walpurgis Night (Valborg) celebrations led to drunkenness and violence around Sweden, with a rape of a minor reported in Uppsala and 98 cases of assault and nine fires reported in Stockholm.
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Science & Technology: 1 May 13
A girl born without a windpipe has become the youngest patient in the world to receive a bio-engineered organ after doctors implanted her with a special tube grown from her own stem cells in a surgery led by a Karolinska Institute professor.
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Education: 30 Apr 13
The Stockholm School of Economics, one of Sweden's most prestigious universities, has been hit by scandal after a high-ranking official was sacked when it emerged he'd been convicted of insider trading in Greece.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Apr 13
With three years in Sweden under her belt, US-native and parent Rebecca Ahlfeldt debates the pros and cons of taking Swedish citizenship.
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Travel: 30 Apr 13
Three Swedish restaurants are among the top 100 in the world, according to a new ranking published in the UK on Monday.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 13
Swedish clothing chain H&M plans to open 50 stores in India in the hopes of tapping into the country's growing middle-class market.
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Science & Technology: 29 Apr 13
Swedish engineers are set to lower the first segment of the massive Citybanan train tunnel into the Stockholm bay of Riddarfjärden, in what the transport authority is calling an immensely difficult technological operation.
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 13
Swedes are turning away from file-sharing sites like The Pirate Bay in favour of "safer" illegal streaming sites for new movies and TV shows, with experts claiming that Swedes would pay for content if a better solution was available.
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Science & Technology: 29 Apr 13
A Swedish court has ruled that Västerbotten County must share its blood-donor registry in order for researchers to track down donors whose blood may be linked to a lung condition that can be fatal.
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Business & Money: 28 Apr 13
A planned strike by Swedish public sector workers was called off on Sunday following a pay deal between employers and the unions.
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Society: 28 Apr 13
An elderly Stockholm couple grew so tired of the noises emanating from their neighbour that they took revenge by booming Iron Maiden at top volume, leading to a charge of harassment.
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Politics: 27 Apr 13
Veronica Palm, who was widely criticised for her role in the Omar Mustafa affair, was re-elected by the Social Democrats in Stockholm after an at times fractious annual general meeting on Saturday.
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Sport: 27 Apr 13
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reindfeldt called on society to take a stand against the hooligans ruining Swedish football following the resignation of the coach of Stockholm club Djurgården citing fan threats.
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Politics: 27 Apr 13
Former justice minister Thomas Bodström has roundly criticised his party the Social Democrats, arguing that the Omar Mustafa affair was handled poorly and that the party is outdated and undemocratic.
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National: 26 Apr 13
Worshippers at the Fittja mosque in southern Stockholm on Friday heard Sweden's first-ever call to prayer, which brought some congregation members to tears of joy.
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National: 26 Apr 13
The Stockholm woman charged in the US with conspiracy to commit espionage for Cuba is married to a Swedish foreign ministry official, Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday.
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Politics: 26 Apr 13
The Sweden Democrat who replaced an MP disgraced for oinking at a security guard has himself been found to have referred to a group of black people as monkeys on Facebook.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Apr 13
Young seasonal workers hired to scare people in the haunted house at Stockholm's Gröna Lund amusement park have told their own horror stories of beatings and groping by visitors to the popular theme park.
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Politics: 26 Apr 13
A former US government employee now living in the Swedish capital has been charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for Cuba, the US Justice Department announced on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 13
Electrolux's net profits suffered a 28-percent drop in the first quarter, the Swedish home appliance giant reported on Thursday, citing sluggish demand in Europe and a strong krona.
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Education: 25 Apr 13
A Stockholm high school is set to open a third changing room for transsexual pupils and those who don't want to define themselves as being male or female, a move believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
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Society: 25 Apr 13
Swedish police raided Justin Bieber's tour bus after officers reported a "suspicious" odour when the pop star boarded the vehicle ahead of his concert in Stockholm on Wednesday night.
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National: 25 Apr 13
Convicted murderer Peter Mangs had his attempt to overturn his life sentence quashed on Thursday by a local appeals court, which also found him guilty of an additional three attempted murders.
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Lifestyle: 25 Apr 13
Swedish writer Johanna Langhorst is this week's Swede of the Week, after she wrote a book in defence of the Stockholm suburb Tensta, even though her family left after almost two decades when her teenage son was robbed twice.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 13
Swedish telecom company Ericsson announced its first quarter profit had been weighed down by restructuring costs in the past year.
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Business & Money: 24 Apr 13
Nordea, the Nordic banking giant partially owned by the Swedish state, posted a two-percent increase on quarterly profit on Wednesday, with net profits of over 9 billion kronor ($1.36 billion) exceeding analysts' expectations.
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Science & Technology: 24 Apr 13
Breast cancer patients who drink two or more cups of coffee per day have a lower incidence of relapse than women who shy away the drink, a new study from Lund University in southern Sweden has shown.
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Society: 24 Apr 13
Gävle district court convicted a 41-year-old man of unlawful threats on Wednesday after he told a Swedish journalist he deserved a "terrible death" for writing an article about a mosque in Stockholm.
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Politics: 23 Apr 13
Omar Mustafa has spoken out about the "Pandora's box of Islamophobic conspiracy theories" and the party's subsequent actions that made him quit his high-profile position in the Social Democrat party.
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National: 23 Apr 13
Swedish police have arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with the woman found murdered at a Stockholm hotel over the weekend.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Apr 13
In this instalment of The Lowdown, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson has a look at Omar Mustafa, who jumped into the news spotlight after his election to the governing board of the Social Democrats proved controversial.
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Science & Technology: 23 Apr 13
Dentists in Stockholm and the south are more than twice as likely to dole out antibiotics than their colleagues up north, prompting fears they are contributing to the rise in antibiotics-resistant bacteria.
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Travel: 23 Apr 13
A Stockholm museum in honour of Swedish super group Abba is only weeks away from being open to the public. Camille Bas-Wohlert finds out what fans of the legendary group can expect.
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Business & Money: 23 Apr 13
Stockholm's population is among the fastest growing among European cities, with a new report by the city's chamber of commerce suggesting that by 2030, the Swedish capital will overtake London as the fastest growing city in western Europe.
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National: 22 Apr 13
Two Swedish girls had to get medical attention after hundreds of euphoric Justin Bieber fans besieged the Grand Hotel in Stockholm to catch a glimpse of their idol on the Swedish stop of his Europe tour.
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National: 22 Apr 13
A bank robber in the making on Monday morning tried to force bank personnel in central Stockholm to hand him money, before having to leave empty-handed because the office did not deal with cash.
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Politics: 22 Apr 13
Russian fighter planes carried out training missions just outside the Swedish border over Easter; Sweden's military, however, was too slow to react and had to rely on help from Nato, according to a media report on Monday.
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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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Science & Technology: 21 Apr 13
Around 700 people from across Sweden gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to demonstrate against the government's minerals strategy and planned mining projects around the country.
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National: 21 Apr 13
Police suspect that a woman who was found dead in a four-star hotel in central Stockholm on Saturday afternoon was murdered.
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Politics: 21 Apr 13
Omar Mustafa has spoken out about his disappointment in the Social Democrat party, saying he felt let down by the leadership after being ousted from the party's governing board just a week after his appointment.
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Science & Technology: 20 Apr 13
Sweden's weather agency SMHI has warned that the floods that caused severe disruptions in and around Uppsala on Friday will intensify, and weather warnings were issued for the south, too.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera on Friday reported a first quarter decline in sales and profit amid strong competition and a drop in revenue from texting and traditional voice traffic in relation to data services.
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National: 19 Apr 13
Rail services from Stockholm to Uppsala have suffered serious disruption on Friday after the melting snow caused extensive flooding in the university town and surrounding areas.
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