Sweden’s Vasa marks 50 years out of the water
Half a century has passed since the sunken 17th century royal warship Vasa was brought to the surface, but the story of how one of Sweden's biggest failures became a national treasure still fascinates.
Day: April 24, 2011
Swede dies in avalanche in Norway
A 33-year-old Swedish skier died Saturday after he was carried away by a snow slide in Breidalen in western Norway.
Top Italian official blasts Ikea over gay advert
A top Italian official on Saturday called an Ikea advertisement with two gay men holding hands "in bad taste", invoking the ire of opposition parties and rights groups.
Boy survives Swedish campground ‘hanging’
An 11-year-old Norwegian boy was forced to stand on his tippy toes for 10 minutes to get air. Someone had hung him up in a tree at a camping site at Haganäset in Charlottenberg in Värmland County in western Sweden.