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'Underclass-safari' post lands official in trouble

Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
Christian Democrat party official Patric Rylander has found himself in stormy weather after calling for an ”underclass-safari” on his Facebook page, in response to a recent tour of swanky Stockholm suburb Saltsjöbaden. READ »

HIV-infected man jailed for unprotected sex

National: 25 Jan 12
A 20-year-old man from Malmö in southern Sweden was sentenced to eight months in prison on Wednesday for not telling eight women that he was infected with HIV before having sex with them. READ »

'Spank her arse' coaching tactics spark outrage

Sport: 13 Jan 12
An athletic club in southern Sweden has come under fire for a coach's use of sexually suggestive materials known as "Hot babes of the defence" to aid the training of a team of 14-year-old boys. READ »

Festivalgoers' pee pollutes Swedish river

Science & Technology: 12 Jan 12
A lack of available portable toilets for drug-taking attendees of an annual reggae festival in Uppsala in eastern Sweden left a local river with dangerously high levels of drug remnants, a new study has found. READ »

Shopping centre blaze was 'gang initiation'

National: 13 Dec 11
The four teenagers under suspicion of an arson attack that left a mall in southern Sweden in ruins have said it was a test to join a local gang. If found guilty they may be forced to pay damages of 33 million kronor ($4.8 million). READ »

Teen uses 'Zlatan' move to swipe cop's iPhone

Society: 9 Nov 11
A Spanish teenager was recently charged with theft after being caught with a stolen mobile iPhone, pick-pocketed from a Swedish police officer while showing off a Zlatan Ibrahimovic football move. READ »

Man paid teen boys to rape underage girl

National: 24 Oct 11
A 34-year-old man and two 16-year-old boys from central Sweden were charged with child rape on Friday, after the man had paid the two boys to rape a young girl and film the incident. READ »

Wall Street protesters march in Sweden

National: 16 Oct 11
Following a wave of Wall Street protests worldwide on Saturday, raised voices against corporate greed were also heard in Sweden, with demonstrations in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and several other cities. READ »

Teens arrested for Kalmar mall fire

National: 15 Oct 11
Four teenagers, aged between 15 and 18, are suspected of being behind the violent fire that ravaged a major shopping centre in Kalmar in southern Sweden on Thursday night. READ »

Sweden struggles to come to grips with high school hazing

Education: 19 Sep 11
Reports of young Swedish teens being subjected to humiliating, sometimes sex-themed games, have once again put the subject of high school hazing back into the spotlight in Sweden, The Local's Joel Linde explains. READ »

Top ten Swedish tech innovations

Science & Technology: 7 Sep 11
Sweden is renowned for its innovation and strong research tradition and The Local has compiled a list of ten technological breakthroughs of the last decade. READ »

Outrage over 'World of Warcraft' high school

Education: 3 Sep 11
A Stockholm-area high school has come in for stinging criticism after a spot inspection revealed students playing World of Warcraft for hours uninterrupted and using an X-Box gaming console as a substitute for gym class. READ »

YouTube 'game' sends Swedish teen to hospital

National: 3 Sep 11
A 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital with severe burns after classmates threw flammable liquids on him and then lit a match as part of a 'game' which entailed making films to be posted on YouTube. READ »

Sweden wrestles with legality of underage sex

Society: 29 Aug 11
Young Swedish teens who engage in consensual sex may find themselves dragged into court due to lingering uncertainties about how to interpret Sweden's child sex laws. READ »

Many Swedish teens fear start of new school year

Education: 19 Aug 11
One in three Swedish youngsters are worried about the start of the school year, with academic pressure and bullying fears among the most pressing concerns, a new survey shows. READ »

Firebombing teens target Gothenburg cops

National: 17 Aug 11
Several police came under attack in the Gothenburg district of Angered overnight as teenagers hurled Molotov cocktails at police vehicles. READ »

Gothenburg tram driver charged for racial slur

National: 5 Aug 11
A Gothenburg tram driver has been charged with racial agitation after uttering slurs into the trolley's speaker system in reference to a group of teenage boys. READ »

Woman attacks teens with bow and arrow

Society: 3 Aug 11
Police in Örebro in central Sweden are hunting for a woman who reportedly brandished a bow and fired an arrow at group of teenagers. READ »

Boy convicted for sex with 13-year-old girlfriend

National: 27 Jul 11
A 15-year-old Swedish boy has been convicted of child sex crimes for having sex with his 13-year-old girlfriend. READ »

Pro-life group recruits Swedish children: report

National: 13 Jul 11
Anti-abortionists from a youth movement are recruiting children by asking them to sign a petition to get a glass of juice, according to a Swedish media report. READ »

Swedish teens drink less alcohol

Society: 5 Jul 11
The percentage of Swedish 15-year-olds who drink alcohol has dropped to the lowest level in decades, and cigarette smoking among teens is also on the decline, according to a Swedish newspaper report. READ »

Swedish teens targeted in Lund flasher attacks

Society: 30 Jun 11
A series of flasher incidents have been reported in Lund in southern Sweden over the past two months, with police entertaining the theory that there are a number of different perpetrators are behind the early summer wave. READ »

Abba - tracing the steps of the giants of disco

Lifestyle: 30 Jun 11
The wide flares and glam beats of disco's heyday are here to stay, The Local's Clara Guibourg discovers, as she tags along on an Abba City Walk, and brings us along for the ride on a trip through 1970's Stockholm. READ »

Sweden to add truancy to school report cards

Education: 11 May 11
Despite criticism from several quarters, truancy will be displayed in the grade reports of all school children in Sweden, minister for education Jan Björklund has decided. READ »

Outrage over Swedish teens' sex dream essays

Education: 8 Feb 11
A class of grade eight students in southern Sweden was asked to write essays about their sexual fantasies and experiences for a school assignment. Getting high marks required writing with "passion." READ »

Swedish living rooms brace for Melodifestivalen invasion

Lifestyle: 4 Feb 11
What do a drag queen and teen-pop has-beens have to do with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt? It can only mean the 2011 Melodifestivalen is upon us, contributor Julie Blomberg Gudmundsson explains. READ »

Young Swedish workers abuse sick leave: study

Society: 3 Feb 11
An increasing number of young Swedes are taking sick leave even when they are healthy, a new study has revealed. READ »

Swedish sex-ed film reported to police over teen sex scenes

Society: 26 Jan 11
Animated sex scenes featuring Swedish teens in a new sex education film has led to the film being reported to the police for violating laws against endangering the moral upbringing of young people. READ »

New Swedish film puts sex back on the map

Lifestyle: 14 Jan 11
Sweden’s last official sex education film became a hit in XXX-cinemas around the world. Four decades later, it's time for the sequel, but the new film probably won't enhance Sweden's reputation for sin, The Local's Ben Kersley reports. READ »

Police probe suspected murder of Swedish teen

National: 6 Jan 11
A young man was found dead on the island Ekerö, just outside Stockholm. A young woman was also found severely injured. READ »

Porn-themed shirt lands Swedish pastor in hot water

Society: 14 Dec 10
A Stockholm-area pastor has been reported for misconduct after posting pictures of himself on Facebook wearing a t-shirt referencing a famed Swedish porn film while he was supervising a group of Swedish teens. READ »

Live Blog: election night in Sweden

Politics: 20 Sep 10
The Local's correspondents bring you all the latest news from the Swedish election, live from the main parties' headquarters in Stockholm. See the drama unfold live here. READ »

Two Swedish teens killed in train accident

National: 9 Sep 10
Two 18-year-old women died after being hit by a train just south of Stenungsund in western Sweden on Thursday afternoon. READ »

Berlitz provides the language boost for your career

Education: 7 Sep 10
Although Valérie Frohly had learned another Scandinavian language before moving to Stockholm, the French expat turned to Berlitz to help her further her career in an almost exclusively Swedish-speaking work environment. READ »

Ten more of the Swedes' quirkiest habits

Lifestyle: 3 Sep 10
Taking inspiration from comments make by readers of The Local, US exile Doug Lansky offers up ten more distinctly Swedish habits which often give expats plenty to talk about. READ »

Schoolgirls fined for bugging teachers

Education: 24 Aug 10
Two Stockholm schoolgirls have been taken to court after revealing on Facebook that they bugged their teachers during a grading conference. READ »

Study: Low IQ linked to suicide risk

Science & Technology: 4 Jun 10
A study involving a million Swedish men has shown that there is a higher risk of attempted suicide later in life among those with lower IQ at the age of 18. READ »

'Class and gender impact youth internet use'

Science & Technology: 20 May 10
Socioeconomic factors and gender play a significant role in how young Swedes use the internet, many of whom are as young as four, a new report on internet use among young Swedes shows. READ »

Appeals court confirms Stureby killing sentences

National: 5 Feb 10
The Svea Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentences for the two teenagers convicted in the killing of 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby last summer. READ »

Sweden to prescribe exercise to battle youth obesity

Science & Technology: 21 Jan 10
School nurses in Uppsala in eastern Sweden will soon begin prescribing children exercise in order to combat increasing obesity among teenage boys. READ »

Two teens held in probe of 18-year-old's killing

National: 4 Jan 10
Two 16-year-old boys have been detained in connection with last week’s murder of an 18-year-old woman in the Hjällbo district of Gothenburg after police traced the woman’s missing mobile phone. READ »

Afghan teens left in the cold by train operator

National: 29 Dec 09
The five Afghan teens found wandering in the cold near Sävsjö in southern Sweden had not been left in the forest by smugglers, it emerged on Monday, but had instead been kicked off a Swedish passenger train. READ »

Afghan teens dumped in Swedish forest

National: 28 Dec 09
Five chilled and hungry Afghan teenagers stumbled into a southern Swedish town on Christmas Eve after being left by smugglers in a deserted stretch of forest days earlier, a priest who had taken them in said Sunday. READ »

Teens sign up for jihad at Stockholm youth centre

National: 11 Nov 09
Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab. READ »

Police fire shots at suspected teen arsonists

National: 11 Nov 09
Police in a Stockholm suburb responding to a suspected case of arson on Tuesday night fired shots at a car carrying three teenagers who tried to run the police officers down as they attempted to flee. READ »

Juvenile care for Stureby teen killing

National: 26 Oct 09
The two teenagers found guilty for the death of 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby last summer have each been sentenced to 20 months in institutional juvenile care. READ »

Seduction on the streets of Stockholm

Lifestyle: 8 Oct 09
Wooed into learning the art of seduction, The Local’s Christine Demsteader follows a group of men in pursuit of a pick-up artist’s secrets in Stockholm. READ »

School torched following Swedish teens' failed hand gel tests

National: 30 Sep 09
Two teens playing with alcohol-based hand sanitizer inadvertently burned down a school in Södertälje, south of Stockholm. READ »

Teen girl kidnappers: 'strip now or die'

National: 15 Sep 09
Three Swedish teenage girls have been charged for kidnapping and stripping another 17-year-old girl who had once dated the ex-boyfriend of one of the kidnappers. READ »

Teens convicted for Stureby murder

National: 9 Sep 09
The two teenagers charged with killing 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby in June were found guilty on Wednesday by the Södertörn District Court. READ »

Overwhelming support for Reinfeldt over Sahlin

Politics: 4 Sep 09
60 percent of Swedes expressed faith in Fredrik Reinfeldt as prime minister in a new voter survey. Opposition leader Mona Sahlin has the confidence of only 20 percent. READ »

Afghan teens in Swedish asylum limbo

National: 29 Jul 09
A wave of teenage Afghan refugees has arrived in Malmö and other Swedish cities in recent weeks. Many remain in limbo as most Swedish municipalities refuse to accept them. READ »

Confession in killing of teenage girl

National: 10 Jun 09
The 16-year-old boy suspected in the weekend murder of a 15-year-old girl in Stureby south of Stockholm confessed to manslaughter on Wednesday and has been remanded in custody. READ »

Detention hearing for teen murder suspects

National: 9 Jun 09
Prosecutors want a Stockholm-area court to have two 16-year-olds suspected in the weekend murder of a teenage girl in Stureby south of the city remanded in custody. READ »

Outrage over teens' two-month detention without charges

National: 9 Jun 09
Two months after five teenagers were placed in a remand centre in Umeå in northern Sweden, the attorney for one of the youths is speaking out about the prolonged detention. READ »

'Mafia' ruined Swedish teens' shopping spree

Society: 3 Jun 09
Two Swedish teenage girls who took a family safe to finance a day of shopping allege their plans were spoiled when they inadvertently handed the safe over to someone with ties to the mob. READ »

Sweden set for sunny weekend weather

Science & Technology: 29 May 09
Swedes are gearing up unseasonably warm weather during the final weekend in May, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 30 degrees Celsius. READ »

Seven years for car-ride rape of Swedish teens

National: 15 May 09
A 30-year-old man who repeatedly raped two 17-year-old girls during a frightful 16-hour car ride through southern Sweden was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison. READ »

Teen girls convicted for 'torture-like' assault

National: 14 May 09
A court in Malmö convicted two 15-year-old girls from southern Sweden for the “torture-like” beating of another 13-year-old girl in a dispute over insulting text and internet chat messages. READ »

Adam Tensta: Sweden's great hip-hop hope

Lifestyle: 13 May 09
Sweden's rising hip-hop star Adam Tensta talks to The Local's Majsan Boström about bright musical prospects, growing up in a tough Stockholm neighbourhood, and recording in the same studio as boyhood idol Michael Jackson. READ »

Woman jailed for rape of teenage girls

National: 21 Apr 09
A 28-year-old Swedish woman has been convicted of rape after she and her boyfriend forced two teenage girls to engage in sex acts against their will over a 12-hour period. READ »

Prosecutor: giving the pill to teens aids rape

Science & Technology: 16 Apr 09
A Swedish prosecutor thinks that health professionals who prescribe birth control pills to girls younger than 15-years-old should be charged as accomplices to rape. READ »

Säpo to investigate chicken glass mystery

National: 1 Apr 09
Sweden's security police (Säpo) have been called in to assist national police in the investigation into a slew of recent incidents involving glass in chicken products. Meanwhile chicken is being taken off menus across Sweden. READ »

Lund team to look at how internet affects youth morals

Science & Technology: 27 Dec 08
Researchers at Lund University plan to work with The Pirate Bay and MySpace to learn more about how the internet affects the way Swedish teens build their norms and values. READ »

Do you know who I am?

Lifestyle: 23 Dec 08
When the Swedish tabloids appear more interested in the celebrities of London and Hollywood than their own home-grown offerings, is it any wonder that we foreigners can find it hard to learn who's who in Sweden, asks Ben Kersley. READ »

Sporty Swedish teens pose for charity calender

Sport: 2 Dec 08
A Swedish girls football club has decided to raise money by producing and selling calendars featuring girls as young as 15-years-old in “athletic poses”. READ »

Police: Swedish teens offering sex for booze

Society: 26 Nov 08
Swedish teenagers are resorting to increasingly perilous measures in order to get their hands on alcohol, according to police in Stockholm. READ »

Appeals court reverses Rödeby judgement

National: 20 Nov 08
A Swedish court of appeal has found a 51-year-old father from Rödeby in southern Sweden guilty of manslaughter and serious assault related to the shooting of two teenage boys in October 2007. READ »

Stockholm - the rat capital of Scandinavia?

Lifestyle: 8 Oct 08
Sleek design, spotless sidewalks and vast colonies of rats: It can only be Sweden, as Christopher Seymour finds out. READ »

Swedish teens shun condoms and cigarettes

Society: 25 Jun 08
Swedish teens drink and smoke less than their peers in most other countries, but when it comes to sex, young people in Sweden are far from being the most careful. READ »

Study: Swedish teens 'more stressed out' at school

Society: 24 Jun 08
Swedish 15-year-olds feel more pressure in school than their counterparts in other countries, according to a new study. READ »

High school drop-out rate raises concerns

Society: 17 Jun 08
Although more Swedish students are graduating from high school with their high school diploma, one in ten students drops out during the first two years. READ »

Community service for moped teens

National: 25 Apr 08
Four boys have been sentenced to community service for their part in the events that led to the shooting death in southern Sweden of a 15-year-old boy. READ »

Campogiani witness: 'I’ve lied about everything'

National: 15 Apr 08
A 16-year-old boy stunned the Stockholm Court of Appeals on Tuesday when he confessed to lying to police and in court about what he saw of the fatal beating of 16-year-old Riccardo Campogiani last October. READ »

Boys' faces slashed in knife attack

National: 7 Mar 08
Two boys in their late teens were had their faces slashed by a gang of teenagers in central Stockholm on Friday afternoon. READ »

Students convicted in bullying case

National: 21 Feb 08
Five teenageers have been convicted in Malmö for binding their classmate with duct tape last spring. READ »

Parents of teens 'should get time off work'

Politics: 18 Jan 08
Are the kids really alright? Politicians urge parents to take time to find out. READ »

Convicted teens released from custody

National: 14 Jan 08
Two teenagers found guilty of involvement in the death of 16-year-old Riccardo Campogiani were released from custody on Monday after facing new charges of assault and illegal threats. READ »

Convicted teens return to court on fresh assault charges

National: 14 Jan 08
Two teenagers found guilty last week of involvement in the death of 16-year-old Riccardo Campogiani will be back in Stockholm District Court on Monday, to face new charges of assault and illegal threats. READ »

Convicted teens back in custody

National: 12 Jan 08
Two teenage boys involved in the events that led to the death of 16-year-old Riccardo Campogiani have been taken back in to custody following a fresh assault. READ »

Christmas Eve stabbings in Stockholm

National: 25 Dec 07
A brawl involving several young people resulted with three men in the hospital and several questions as to what caused the violence. READ »

Teens caught in porn site card scam

Society: 21 Dec 07
Two 16-year-old boys went on a 40,000 kronor shopping spree after setting up a fake porn site to steal people's credit card details. READ »

Jobs of the future: head teacher and IT expert

Business & Money: 22 Nov 07
Good times ahead for engineers and occupational therapists. Not so good for librarians and others. READ »

Ericsson shares plummet over profit warning

Business & Money: 16 Oct 07
Ericsson shares fell 24 percent in opening trading on the Stockholm Stock Exchange after the telecoms equipment maker said its profits would be lower than expected. The fall wipes 100 billion kronor off Ericsson's value. READ »

Sweden comes to terms with huge youth demo

National: 13 Oct 07
Sweden was coming to terms Saturday with one of the largest demonstrations the country has ever seen – against growing binge drinking and violence among Swedish youth. READ »

Swedish teens tricked friend into posing nude for webcam

National: 1 Oct 07
Careful before you disrobe in front of your web camera - you never know who may be at the other end. Seven teenagers were found guilty on Monday of tricking a classmate into posing naked for films which were then uploaded onto the internet. READ »

Four teens arrested over man's death

National: 19 Jun 07
Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 50-year-old man whose body was found in an apartment near Stockholm on Tuesday. READ »

HIV man 'kept catalogue of sex with teens'

Society: 10 Jun 07
The HIV-positive British man charged with having sex with scores of underage girls kept a careful list of his victims, cataloguing their ages, addresses and even their leisure interests and boyfriends, it has been reported. READ »

HIV Brit's 'youngest victim was 12'

National: 8 Jun 07
The youngest victim of a British man suspected of infecting at least two young girls with HIV was just twelve years old, according to police. Explicit pictures and videos of his encounters with many young girls were recovered from his apartment. READ »

British man admits infecting girl with HIV

Society: 7 Jun 07
A British man has admitted infecting a young girl he met in an online chatroom with HIV. Using the screen name Hot Boy, the man is suspecting of seducing a large number of teenagers and exposing them to the virus. READ »

Teens 'should be able to keep treatment secret'

Society: 4 Jun 07
Teenagers in vulnerable family situations must be given the chance to seek help from psychiatric services without their parents being informed, Sweden's largest children's charity has demanded. READ »

Teen murder in central Stockholm

National: 11 May 07
A woman believed to be in her late teens has been found dead in a central Stockholm apartment. An 18 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. READ »

Teacher warned for racist remarks

National: 23 Mar 07
"Cleaning is not something for nice white girls," according to a teacher from Sandviken in eastern Sweden. On Thursday she received a formal warning. READ »

Sahlin accepts Social Democrat leadership

Politics: 17 Mar 07
Mona Sahlin has been confirmed as Social Democratic leader at a conference in Stockholm. Accepting the job, Sahlin vowed to fight for Social Democratic years and vowed to reform parts of the party organization. READ »

Sahlin set for coronation as Social Democrat leader

Politics: 17 Mar 07
Six months after a crushing election defeat, the Social Democrats are due to elect a new leader on Saturday. The event is expected to be a coronation for sole candidate Mona Sahlin. READ »

Man attacked by two teens in central Stockholm

National: 4 Mar 07
A man in his sixties is fighting for his life after being brutally assaulted by two teenagers in central Stockholm. The man was left unconscious after the attack, on the Klaraberg viaduct. READ »

Sweden's Supreme Court to rule on teen sex

Society: 2 Feb 07
Sweden's highest court is to review the case of a 17-year-old boy who had sex with a 14-year-old girl. READ »

Ericsson in major US broadband deal

Business & Money: 20 Dec 06
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has agreed to buy American company Redback networks, which makes broadband routers, for 2.1 billion dollars. READ »

Sherrybaby drinks in Stockholm's warm glow

Lifestyle: 27 Nov 06
Drugs film Sherrybaby and its lead actress Maggie Gyllenhaal scoop the gongs at the Stockholm Film Festival. But for Eddie de Oliveira, New York school drama Half Nelson stole the show. READ »

Fewer teens to be called into army

National: 3 Oct 06
All young Swedish men should in principle serve in the armed forces, but less than half of 17-year olds will be called up for military service next year. Now, most won't even have to attend a formal evaluation. READ »


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