Three charged in people smuggling case
Three men have been charged for arranging to have 49 foreign citizens smuggled into Sweden.
Day: September 25, 2008
Malmö club and concert tips: September 26 – 27
Get your Malmö club compass pointing in the right direction with night life orienteering experts Djungeltrumman.
Pupil threatens to ‘shoot up’ school
A Swedish high school was evacuated on Thursday after threats of a planned shooting were uncovered, said police. Just two days after 11 people died in a Finnish school massacre, the school was cleared and all pupils sent home.
Stockholm weekend club guide: September 26 – 27
It’s the weekend, it’s the end of the month, and it’s time to find some good quality dancing shoes. Let Djungeltrumman's be your cobbler.
What’s on in Sweden: September 26 – October 2
What's on in Sweden: September 26th - October 2nd. Vintage clothes fair, New Model Army & Aussie comedy in Stockholm; International book fair & NHL hockey stars in Gothenburg; The Lemonheads and funky swamp rock in Malmö.
No reprieve for embattled Swedbank
Calls by Swedbank for Swedish financial authorities to implement a ban on the short selling of stock have fallen on deaf ears.
US Ambassador to Sweden unveils clean tech top 50
US Ambassador to Sweden Michael M. Wood unveiled his new list of Swedish alternative energy companies at the New York Green Summit on Wednesday.
Engla’s mother lashes out at lawyer of daughter’s killer
The mother of Engla Juncosa Höglund, the 10-year-old girl killed by Anders Eklund earlier this year, stormed out of the court room in tears on Thursday following comments by Eklund’s defence lawyer.
Cop cleared over savoury tart bribe
A policeman in Lund has been cleared by the Court of Appeal of charges of soliciting a savoury tart from a trombonist.
German woman ‘can be jailed’
A German woman accused in Sweden of killing two children and trying to murder their mother is sane, said a psychiatric assessment published Thursday, paving the way for a prison sentence.
Goverment getting closer to surveillance law compromise
A proposal to introduce a special court to decide when Sweden can monitor cross-border communications traffic is expected to help unify the governing parties around a new version of the country’s controversial surveillance law.
Teachers report sexism common in Swedish schools
A new survey shows that 73 percent of Sweden’s teachers feel they’ve experienced disturbing examples of sexism while on the job.
YouTube clip leads to arrest of Swedish teen
A 16-year-old boy from Köping in central Sweden was detained on Wednesday for violating Sweden’s weapons laws and endangering others after police were tipped off that the teen had uploaded a suspicious video clip on YouTube.