Archive for Wed, 09 May 2012 - The Local - Sweden's news in English

H&M

H&M defends bikini ad amid skin cancer worries

OFFBEAT

Swedish teenage girl hurt in freak wolf attack

A fifteen–year-old girl who was visiting Sweden’s Kolmården Safari park a few weeks ago had to be rushed to hospital after one of the wolves suddenly attacked her and bit into her thigh.

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Nine untranslatable Swedish words – caught on film

Five reasons why you can’t trust university ranking lists

SNOW

Secret diary reveals Swedish ‘snow man’ pain

MUSIC

Sweden to get rock-and-roll ‘Hall of Fame’

MANGS

‘You are a bloody racist’: suspect’s mother

What’s life really like when you swap the city for the country?

CHILD ABUSE

Man arrested after tying 6-year-old to fence

SWEDEN

‘Sweden isn’t a socialist hell hole after all’

OFFBEAT

Swede solves 100-year-old pee disease mystery

ABORTION

Doc denies abortion after husband intervenes