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Swedes' snap wins 'most awkward ever' family pic

National: 3 Feb 12
The first prize in a worldwide competition to find the most awkward family photos, recently awarded by a British newspaper, went to a Swedish couple in northern Sweden, whose take on a pregnancy snap has raised a few eyebrows. READ »

Pantless prisoner walks out of Swedish jail

Society: 19 Jan 12
A bare-legged ex-convict walked out of a Swedish prison without any pants or shoes on Tuesday after being denied extra money to buy new clothes. READ »

Convicted killer jailed for raping 12-year-old girl

National: 13 Dec 11
A 41-year-old man previously convicted of murder was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl in a stairwell in Stockholm in July. READ »

H&M defends marketing lingerie with fake models

Business & Money: 6 Dec 11
Swedish clothing retailer H&M has defended its use of computer-generated bodies adorned with the heads of real models in order to sell swimwear and lingerie. READ »

Thief caught with loot down his underwear

Society: 29 Nov 11
A 26-year-old tourist to Malmö, southern Sweden, was recently arrested after being caught with 16 stolen mobile phones stuffed down his thermal underwear. READ »

Politician surfed for porn on office computer

Society: 22 Nov 11
A high-ranking local politician from western Sweden, currently facing charges for buying sex, was found to have made thousands of visits to numerous pornographic websites from his office computer. READ »

Rape threat OK for military drill, gay slur not

Society: 8 Nov 11
The Swedish military has condemned that a participant in a recent hostage survival exercise was accused of being a homosexual, but ruled there was nothing wrong with officers threatening to rape his girlfriend. READ »

Staff bra sizes on display at Swedish lingerie shop

Society: 1 Nov 11
The Swedish branch of a Scandinavian lingerie chain is under fire after making employees wear name tags displaying both their bust circumferences and cup sizes. READ »

Advert slammed for portraying women as 'pure sex objects'

Business & Money: 18 Oct 11
The Jack & Jones clothing retailer has been rapped by Sweden's advertising watchdog for a “sexist” ad campaign which utilised scantily clad women to market a line of men's clothing. READ »

Woman jailed for brutally raping another woman

National: 12 Oct 11
A Swedish woman has been convicted of beating and raping a female neighbour in western Sweden following a laundry room dispute. READ »

Swedish female soldiers get belated bra boost

Society: 10 Oct 11
Swedish military officials have hailed as a “milestone” the fact that new female recruits can now be issued bras in accordance with recommended guidelines. READ »

H&M set to sell Beckham-branded undies

Society: 28 Jul 11
H&M is teaming up with football icon David Beckham on a new line of branded men's underwear, the Swedish fashion giant announced on Wednesday. READ »

Björn Borg shares his underwear with McEnroe

Business & Money: 6 Jul 11
Swedish tennis-legend-turned-designer Björn Borg will be sharing his underwear with former rival John McEnroe. The sports duo will be joining forces, in the launch of a limited edition underwear collection marketed through a Facebook experiment. READ »

Naked Scandinavians too much for Facebook

Business & Money: 30 Mar 11
An image of two naked men in an autumnal Scandinavian wood was erased from Swedish underwear giant Björn Borg's Facebook page after being deemed 'pornographic'. READ »

'Freddie Ljungberg is a very famous player - and I like his underwear'

Sport: 28 Dec 10
South Korean international Cha Du Ri admitted on Monday that he's a fan of Celtic target Freddie Ljungberg's fashionable choice of underwear as well as the Swede's stylish game. READ »

UK police search home of Swedish suicide bomber

National: 13 Dec 10
British police are continuing the search of a home northwest of London on Monday in connection with Saturday's bombings in Stockholm in light of reports that the perpetrator used to live in the area. READ »

Swedish man sliced in sex play snafu

Society: 7 Dec 10
A Swedish couple's recent attempt to spice up their sex lives went horribly wrong, putting the man in hospital and his girlfriend in handcuffs. READ »

Swedish cop warned over 'temporary massage parlour'

Society: 11 Nov 10
A shirtless Swedish police officer who was caught massaging a scantily-clad woman in the back of a Gothenburg police station has been disciplined for damaging the public’s confidence in the police. READ »

Swedish officers fined for flying painted penis

Society: 13 Sep 10
Two Swedish non-commissioned officers have been docked pay for painting a flying penis on a white flag adorning their boat during a naval exercise in the Stockholm archipelago. READ »

Brothers indicted for Vilks arson attack

National: 1 Jul 10
Two brothers suspected of setting fire to the home of the Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks were charged with arson on Thursday. READ »

University slams 'sexist' student party

Society: 23 Mar 10
The Umeå University student union has found itself fighting accusations of sexism after revelations that a party organised by business students featured lightly-clad girls, chocolate sauce and pole dancing. READ »

Springtime skiing - just a bus ride from Stockholm

Travel: 19 Mar 10
If watching the Olympics gave you an itch to hit the slopes, consider Romme Alpin, a bus ride from Stockholm, says Davrell Roberts Tien. READ »

Driver reported for kicking gay man off bus

Society: 2 Mar 10
The discrimination ombudsman (DO) has asked Stockholm local transport authority, SL, to adequately compensate a gay man after a bus driver ordered him to leave the bus. READ »

Murder in the laundry room

Analysis & Opinion: 24 Feb 10
Hideous underwear, tales of dead cats, speakers of ancient Aramaic, and anonymous threats: Paddy Kelly has been to the laundry room and lived to tell the tale. READ »

Cartwheels in underwear leave schoolgirl with frostbite

Society: 22 Jan 10
A schoolgirl in northern Sweden is recovering from frostbite injuries to her fingers and toes after turning cartwheels in the snow in her underwear as part of a day of events organized by her high school's student union. READ »

MP makes indecent Christmas party proposal

Politics: 18 Dec 09
Social Democrat member of parliament Per Svedberg awoke shamefaced this week after making lewd advances in a state of undress to a female colleague at a Riksdag Christmas bash. READ »

H&M hands out free panties to promote new lingerie line

Society: 2 Dec 09
Swedish discount fashion retailer H&M gave away women's undies to guests attending the Paris launch of a new lingerie line designed by French designer Sonia Rykiel. READ »

Female Swedish soldiers renew calls for fireproof undies

Society: 19 Nov 09
Women in the Swedish army are demanding the provision of military underwear designed for female forms after 30 years of having to slip into something less comfortable. READ »

Boy found guilty of murdering sister

National: 9 Nov 09
A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty by Ystad district court of murdering his 19-year-old sister on a farm outside Sjöbo in southern Sweden. READ »

Swedish actor backs 'jocks for well hung men'

Business & Money: 16 Oct 09
Swedish stage and film actor Mikael Persbrandt has put his money where his mouth is and invested in a firm selling underwear for well-developed men. READ »

Sweden's Princess Madeleine in underwear 'bomb' scare

Society: 15 Oct 09
A mysterious package addressed to Sweden’s Princess Madeleine at the World Childhood Foundation in New York prompted a response from the police’s bomb squad on Tuesday. READ »

'Flammable' bras hold back Swedish female conscripts

Society: 22 Sep 09
The bras issued to women who join the Swedish military catch fire easily and are prone to coming undone, making them inappropriate for the battlefield, claims a conscripts’ rights group. READ »

Wife held for murder of Swedish 'oil millionaire'

National: 9 Sep 09
Four people - including the wife of the victim - have been arrested for their involvement in the murder of a 45-year-old business man outside his home in Fagersta in central Sweden in April. READ »

Golfer's wet ball prompts revealing underwear challenge

Business & Money: 12 Aug 09
Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson's recent golf course strip show has prompted underwear maker Björn Borg to pick up the pace in its photographic hunt for international pant-wearing “Swedish exports”. READ »

Swedish man attacked by tattooed girl gang

National: 16 Jul 09
Police in central Sweden are on the hunt for a gang of tattooed women who sexually molested a 50-year-old man as he was riding by on his bicycle. READ »

Troublesome kids locked in isolation cells

Society: 24 Jun 09
Solitary confinement is used as a form of punishment for children as young as 11-years-old by Sweden’s state-operated centres for troubled youth, a new investigation has revealed. READ »

Swedish air force captain demands fireproof bras

Society: 10 May 09
The commander of the Swedish helicopter fleet in Linköping, group captain Micael Bydén, has demanded that his female crew members be equipped with fireproof brassieres. READ »

Court finds Swede’s under-robe rubbing ‘not masturbation’

Society: 7 May 09
A woman from Lund in southern Sweden accused her 38-year-old neighbour of making unwanted advances, but a court ruled the man may simply have had an itch. READ »

Foster parents 'hung boys from hooks'

National: 6 May 09
The plight of three young brothers who were allegedly placed in sacks and hung from hooks in the attic of a foster home in central Sweden has led to charges against the couple in whose care the boys were placed following the death of their mother. READ »

Ljungberg adds Swedish sex appeal to Seattle Sounders

Lifestyle: 20 Apr 09
Football player enthusiast Charlotte West reveals her deep admiration for the ball juggling skills of male model midfielder Freddie Ljungberg. READ »

Nordea sold thongs and lingerie

Society: 29 Jan 09
The head office of Sweden's state-owned bank Nordea got its knickers in a twist this week on discovering that the website of its Polish subsidiary was selling thongs and see-through lingerie. READ »

Fab abs: Sweden’s rippling bodies of work

Lifestyle: 23 Jan 09
Robert La Bua casts an eye over the multibillion-kronor industry behind the faces - and torsos - of Sweden's male models. READ »

Post office thief bags underwear and toy phone

National: 5 Jan 09
A man has been charged with the theft of thousands of letters and packages while employed at a post office sorting terminal in southern Sweden. READ »

Sweden emerges from weekend chill

National: 5 Jan 09
Temperatures dropped to below -30 degrees Celsius in parts of northern Sweden at the weekend, as the country experienced its coldest weather of the winter so far. READ »

The Lowdown: Winter clothing

Lifestyle: 14 Nov 08
There's a notable chill in the air and it's only going to get nippier over the coming months. With snow due in much of Sweden on Saturday, it's time to start wrapping up, writes Jennifer Heape. READ »

What are your survival tips for the Swedish winter?

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Nov 08
Every week a panel of readers will give their views on the state of play in Sweden. This week: woolly undies and trips to Spain are among the suggestions for getting through the winter. READ »

Luke Perry hops in the sauna for new Swedish film

Society: 15 Sep 08
Filming has started in Sweden on a new movie featuring American actor and former teenage heartthrob Luke Perry, best known for his portrayal of Dylan McKay on the hit television show Beverly Hills 90210. READ »

Toxic chemicals found in Björn Borg underwear

Business & Money: 19 Aug 08
Björn Borg men's briefs have been found to contain shockingly high levels of a toxic chemical banned in the EU. READ »

Gang forces Swedish conscript to strip in public

National: 24 Jul 08
A group of men threatened a Swedish conscript in downtown Enköping on Wednesday night before making off with the man's clothes. READ »

Politician says critics ‘jealous they didn’t see my body’

Society: 13 May 08
Centre Party politician Mats Hallsten had his candidacy for municipal county chair stopped in part because of his involvement in a scantily clad comedy group. READ »

Underwear with condom pockets takes top prize

Business & Money: 7 May 08
Condom pockets in men's underwear have proved a winning formula for a group of young businessmen from southern Sweden. READ »

Swedish soldiers accuse French of 'torture'

National: 3 Apr 08
Swedish public television has aired a documentary accusing French soldiers of torturing a militia member in the Democratic Republic of Congo. READ »

Teacher to student: 'we don’t want to see your ass'

National: 20 Mar 08
12-year-old Alexander Quint’s low-hanging pants have caused school administrators to ban him from eating in the school’s cafeteria. READ »

Professor resigns after sex offence conviction

National: 4 Mar 08
A professor convicted of groping a teenage girl has resigned from his job at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. READ »

Man caught taking secret snapshots of teenager

National: 1 Mar 08
A 40-year-old man has been caught red-handed taking secret snaps of a 17-year-old girl in a store in Linköping. READ »

Gender equity hits below the belt for Swedish patients

National: 22 Feb 08
Male and female patients in Swedish hospitals will soon wear the same underwear. READ »

Beltran to Bodström: 'Have you been taking cocaine'

National: 14 Jan 08
Opera star Tito Beltran launched a verbal attack on defence lawyer Thomas Bodström at Ystad District Court on Monday morning. READ »

Stars gather for celebrity rape trial

Society: 10 Jan 08
Singer Carola Häggkvist is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at the trial of opera star Tito Beltran. READ »

Opera star rape suspect slams Sweden

Society: 7 Jan 08
Opera star Tito Beltran has described Sweden as "worse than Chile during the dictatorship". READ »

Opera star Beltran denies rape charges

Society: 5 Jan 08
Swedish tenor Tito Beltran has spoken out for the first time in response to accusations that he raped an 18-year-old nanny. READ »

Swedes buy green - but still love Christmas consumption

Society: 15 Dec 07
Swedes are set to pay top-dollar for a clean, environmentally-friendly conscience this Christmas – but are not about to change their high-consumption habits. READ »

From panties to pies

Lifestyle: 23 Nov 07
Tipping Point:Kathleen Harman had to pay homage when a legendarily saucy British underwear chain opened in Stockholm. The trauma left her young son in need of the home comforts of the city's most traditional konditori. READ »

Plastic surgeon jailed for rape

National: 10 Sep 07
The 53-year-old plastic surgeon at the centre of a high profile case has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for rape. READ »

Eating my way through Sweden's winter

Lifestyle: 31 Aug 07
Tipping Point: Detecting a chill in the air, Kathleen Harman decides it's time to add a layer of blubber. Thankfully, traditional Swedish food is more than up to the job. READ »

No sex please, we're Swedish, underwear firm told

Society: 28 Aug 07
A competition launched by German underwear maker Sloggi to uncover the world's most beautiful bottoms has been slapped down in Sweden after media protests against the supposedly pornographic event. READ »

Underwear campaign bottoms out in Sweden

Society: 24 Aug 07
An underwear company's campaign to find 'the world's most beautiful bum' has provoked a hostile reaction in Sweden. But is the search for the perfect bottom a "porn trap" for young girls or a bit of harmless fun for men and women alike? READ »

Kapp-Ahl bids for Lindex

Business & Money: 13 Aug 07
Swedish clothing chain Kapp-Ahl has made a bid for rival Lindex, offering 7.013 billion kronor ($1.3 billion), or 102 kronor per share. READ »

Male witch threatened to kill flatmates

National: 25 Apr 07
A man who howled like a wolf and claimed to be a witch may face a lengthy prison sentence after exposing his flatmates to a night of terror. READ »

King beats off Italian panty challenge

Business & Money: 13 Apr 07
The Swedish royals have beaten off accusations of illegally trading on the good name of an Italian underwear maker. READ »

Underwear ads slammed as 'too sexy'

Society: 13 Apr 07
A men's underwear ad has been ruled sexist for featuring scantily clad women and depicting them as "mere objects for male sexuality". The boxers also bore a symbol for a 'woman magnet'. READ »

Introducing... Malin Baryard

Lifestyle: 2 Apr 07
Introducing... is The Local's weekly glance at the big fish in the brimming pond of Swedish celebrity. This week we take a seat in the arena to watch show jumper Malin Baryard clear the fences and forget to wear her jodhpurs READ »

Mild March a record breaker

Science & Technology: 1 Apr 07
The fine March weather may have broken temperature records and consigned the thermal underwear and gloves to the cupboard for many - but a chilly Easter is on its way. READ »

Introducing... Panos Papadopoulos

Lifestyle: 26 Mar 07
His youthful odyssey brought him to Sweden in the 1970s, since when Panos Papadopoulos has established himself as the nation's swimsuit king. But now the Miss Sweden organizer has dropped the swimsuits from the competition, as Paul O'Mahony explains. READ »

Why is Brazil playing Ghana in Stockholm?

Lifestyle: 26 Mar 07
The Brazilian football team is in Sweden - but it is not playing the Swedish national side. Instead, Ronaldinho and chums have played Chile in Gothenburg and face Ghana in Stockholm. Eddie de Oliveira finds out why. READ »

New briefs cheaper than laundry

Society: 26 Mar 07
Staff at Lund University Hospital could save taxpayers 1 million kronor a year if they stopped washing patient underwear and bought them new briefs instead. READ »

Introducing...Victoria Silvstedt

Lifestyle: 26 Feb 07
The Local takes a long, lingering look at Victoria Silvstedt, the former child skiing star now known worldwide for her frequent lapses into semi-nudity. READ »

Thai G-string ad 'is sexist'

Society: 22 Feb 07
An Icelandic photo agency has been reported for an ad depicting a Swedish businessman sitting at a bar in a Bangkok sex district. 'Swedes have more international experience,' the ad says. READ »

Cheating partners given away by DNA

Society: 5 Feb 07
A Swedish company is helping its customers to find out whether their better halves are worse than they first thought. Suspicious spouses can get dirty underwear tested for rivals' DNA. READ »

Meet the Johanssons: Sweden's average family

National: 23 Jan 07
Being average is supposed to be the ultimate goal of a true disciple of the Law of Jante. The Swedish nation is therefore no-doubt thrilled by the results of a survey profiling the average Swede. READ »

Sexy coffee ad offends prudish Swedes

Society: 28 Nov 06
Lavazza has received a rap on the knuckles from a Swedish watchdog for an advert featuring a scantily-clad woman. "Her shirt is unbuttoned and her bra is visible," the advertising ethics council says. READ »

Hennes gets back to bare necessities

Society: 21 Nov 06
Swedish clothing chain Hennes and Mauritz reinstates its traditional Christmas underwear campaign, this year featuring French actress Emmanuelle Béart. "Pornification," says Gudrun Schyman. READ »

Absolut uses red light district to sell vodka

Society: 8 Nov 06
Swedish state-owned Absolut Vodka has withdrawn a campaign in Hamburg's best-known sex district. The company denies it used prostitution as a marketing tool, but Sweden's equality chief is critical. READ »

Fashionistas the new queens of Swedish blogging

Lifestyle: 3 Nov 06
Five of the most widely read blogs in Sweden are about fashion. Engla Harjunpää, 24, is one of those making the biggest waves, and advertisers are queuing up to appear on her site. READ »

Introducing... Bingo Rimér

Lifestyle: 30 Oct 06
He's Sweden's answer to Hugh Hefner, and is now turning his hand to the tiresome business of selling ladies' underwear. Being Bingo sure is a tough way to earn a living. READ »

Ljungberg to shed his Calvins

Business & Money: 21 Sep 06
Fredrik Ljungberg is to end his successful four-year career modelling underwear for Calvin Klein. "It has been fantastic, but four years is enough," says Freddie. READ »

Björn Borg brand rakes in money

Business & Money: 17 Aug 06
The company that owns the rights to the brand of former tennis star Björn Borg saw a five-fold increase in second quarter pretax profits. READ »

Famous faces to lift Swedish stores

Business & Money: 28 Jun 06
Elizabeth Hurley has been recruited to front a new campaign by Swedish clothing chain MQ. And underwear purveyor Lindex recruits Ingrid Bergman's daughter Isabella Rosselini. READ »

School bans low-hanging pants

Society: 6 Apr 06
It might be the height of fashion among teens, but that doesn't cut any ice with librarians at a school in southern Sweden, who say it's time to cover up the rear-end cleavage. READ »

Swedish transport bosses ban boobs

National: 6 Feb 06
An ad campaign from Sweden's Lindex hits the buffers as Stockholm's transport network refuses to show posters of women in bras. Not because of the pics, but because of the slogan. READ »

Coldest winter for ten years on its way

National: 20 Oct 05
This winter, for the first time in ten years, the temperature is going to be below average. And the difference will be greatest in southern Sweden. READ »

Man freed after sex with 13 year old girl

National: 13 Sep 05
SEE ALSO: FOUR BOYS SUSPECTED OF GROUP RAPE
A 22 year old man who had sex with a 13 year old girl on several occasions has been found not guilty of rape and child abuse. The Sollentuna court said she looked older than she really was. READ »

Lindex sells Twilfit underwear stores

Business & Money: 4 Jul 05
Swedish clothes retailer Lindex has sold its Twilfit underwear subsidiary to entrepreneur Anders Arnborger, it has been announced. READ »

Reijmyre glassworks struggling to survive

Smörgåsbord: 15 Feb 05
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Lindex to stretch itself

Smörgåsbord: 24 Jan 05
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Nutritious panties to cheer up glum Swedes

Science & Technology: 3 Nov 04
Feeling tired? Listless? Generally worried about life? So are more Swedes than ever before. What they need are some vitamin-enriched underpants. READ »

Persson eyes closer ties with Finland

Smörgåsbord: 7 Oct 04
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Olympics Special

Sport: 20 Aug 04
Sweden is a small country with big sporting expectations. But does it have the athletes to deliver the goods? The Local separates the Olympians from the Tourists in Sweden's team - so now you can go table tennis-crazy too. READ »

Don't call us...

Business & Money: 6 Aug 04
More evening telesales calls than ever before - but don't think that going ex-directory will spare you the irritation. READ »

A man like that is hard to find

Society: 18 Jun 04
A record number of dollar millionaires in Sweden - and potentially many more behind the sofa. Swedish single men could do with some lessons in spending, though. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

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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