Swedish police are mulling chartering special planes in anticipation of the government’s wishes to step up the pace of deportations of the thousands of unsuccessful asylum seekers estimated to be in the country.
Almost one third of people out of work in Sweden lack unemployment insurance and rely on dole payouts of a maximum 5,500 kronor ($715) per month after tax, according to new figures from the public employment agency (Arbetsförmedlingen).
Nearly 700,000 Swedes, or close to 8 percent of the population, used peer-to-peer file sharing programs in early 2008, according to new statistics.
The earthquake which rattled southern Sweden on Tuesday morning wasn’t as powerful as initially thought, according to new data about the tremor.
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Two doctors from Karlskrona in southern Sweden have been reprimanded for failing to spot the five centimetre piece chunk of a pencil lodged in the brain of a 14-year-old boy.
Sweden’s National Debt Office (Riksgälden) announced plans to purchase up to 15 billion kronor ($1.9 billion) and increase its share of foreign currency debt in an effort to reduce the costs of servicing Sweden’s government debt.
Nikita Fouganthine, the man responsible for the brutal murders of three people in a village in northern Sweden in 1988, is to be released from jail in February, a Helsinki court ruled on Wednesday.
Foreign aid minister Gunilla Carlsson said on Wednesday that Sweden is stopping aid to Rwanda for 2008 after the UN found evidence the country was supporting armed rebels in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In a bid to increase energy efficiency, a town in western Sweden is planning to connect the local crematorium to its district heating system.
An anesthesiologist who was asleep wearing earplugs while on-call at a Swedish hospital is facing disciplinary action after missing an alert that a patient’s heart had stopped.
