French cooks are in hot water for contributing to the decline of Sweden's ortolan bunting population. The rare birds are turning up on plates in southern France, according to a Nordic scientific journal.
UPDATED: Sweden's Princess Madeleine has given birth to a baby boy, two days after her brother Prince Carl Philip married Sofia Hellqvist in a busy week for the royal family.
A Swedish teacher's unconventional teaching methods have gone viral after she turned her pupils' raunchy graffiti into an educational lesson on sexual health.
Swedish prosecutors have submitted a request to British and Ecuadorian authorities to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London either later this month or July over rape allegations.
Sweden's male footballers won 3-1 at home to Montenegro on Sunday as they continued their bid to secure a place in the Euro 2016 tournament.
Two suspects, believed to be brothers, are being questioned over the murder of Swedish teenager Lisa Holm as police search a new area close to where her body was found.
Have you ever eaten seal meat? Taken a 6am boat to get to school? Or gone kayaking by moonlight, perhaps? The Local’s Solveig Rundquist visits the remote island of Harstena to get a taste of life in Sweden’s secret archipelago.
Cheaper prices have made it harder for Swedish hotels to profit on a recent the tourism boom, with six percent more rooms sold in the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2014.
Sweden's foreign minister Margot Wallström has hit out at the United Nations over its temporary suspension of Swedish whistleblower Anders Kompass.
American Jordan Nasser moved to Stockholm in 2008 after landing a job at fashion giant H&M. After six years he’s given up his career to become an author. He tells The Local why.
