Being broke need not mean social death in Sweden - as long as you are well-educated. But for Americans and Russians having a good all-round education is no substitute for having cash, according to a new survey on status symbols in the three countries.
Liza Minnelli collapsed during a show in Gothenburg on Wednesday night. The singer and actress was performing at the city's Scandinavium arena when she was taken ill just before 11pm.
Swedish football club Helsingborg's British manager Stuart Baxter has quit the club in protest at how the board is running the club, according to reports.
Swedish customs officers have been accused of secretly installing GPS transmitters on people's cars to detect if they are crossing the border to Finland to fill up on cheap Finnish diesel.
The festive season looks set to bring good tidings for retailers, with a new survey showing Swedes plan to increase the amount they spend on Christmas presents.
A female passenger received a nasty surprise on Monday afternoon when the driver of the bus she was travelling on exposed himself to her and started to masturbate.
Antonia Ax:son Johnson, Sweden's richest woman, has lost a long-running battle with the tax authorities, and now faces paying wealth tax on 290 million kronor. The Supreme Administrative Court of Appeal denied her leave to appeal previous decisions from lower courts.
Swedish men are becoming more aware of environmental issues, according to a new survey. Blanket media coverage of climate change has led Swedes in general to become more environmentally-conscious consumers.
Swedish house prices fell in the autumn, but rising interest rates mean homes in Sweden are still becoming less affordable to the average Swede, according to new figures from Swedbank.
The Swedish automaker Volvo, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, said Thursday it had recalled a total of 56,000 cars worldwide due to two separate problems linked to airbags and engines.
A figurehead from the prow of a 19th century ship once kept by a Swedish farmer as a scarecrow is expected to fetch up to $150,000 when it goes on sale at Sotheby's New York auction rooms in January.
A German architect has beaten off strong international competition to design Stockholm's new public library. Heike Hanada's ten-floor design was described by the jury as "a new, visible public building."
Swedes do not work hard enough - at least in the eyes of many millionaires. But the well-off readers of Connoisseur magazine do not consider that they themselves work too little.
Uppsala and Lund Universities are among the best academic institutions in the world, according to a new British survey. Uppsala was the top-ranked Swedish institution in the Times Higher Education Supplement's annual World University rankings.
Two teenage boys have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of conspiring to kill the headmaster of their school, in an attack seemingly inspired by Wednesday's shooting in Jokela, Finland.
