Sweden's top medical university, the Karolinska Institute, has said it cannot expel a man accepted onto its medicine course who later turned out to be a convicted murderer. The man could now become licensed as a doctor in Sweden without a formal criminal check being carried out.
Designs for a Saudi-funded landmark mosque in Gothenburg have received the final go-ahead from Muslim leaders in the city, meaning building can start next spring.
Sweden has given in to EU pressure and made it easier to carry over capital gains tax when moving overseas by abolishing a rule that failed to recognize foreign forms of apartment ownership.
Frank Gehry, the architect behind world-famous buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, has joined the debate about the future of Swedish architecture, following an article published last week in The Local.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's closest aide is to take time out from her job. State Secretary Ulrica Schenström will be absent from her post for an unspecified period following days of negative media stories about an evening she spent in a bar with a TV4 political correspondent.
Police in Sweden are asking Iraqis to identify a woman they believe lured an Iraqi dissident to a hotel room in Stockholm, where he was murdered and his body cut into 48 pieces. The suspected temptress may have been working on the orders of Saddam Hussein's regime, police believe.
Low-hanging pants may be all the rage in the world of hip-hop, but one school in a chic part of Stockholm has caused a row after it told pupils to keep their waistlines at waist level.
Previously undiscovered medieval buildings have been found outside the Royal Palace in Stockholm, leading historians to revise their previous understanding of how the Stockholm of the late middle ages looked.
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party starts its annual conference on Thursday with a mountain to climb if it is to recover the poll rating it enjoyed when it was elected just over a year ago.
He was the Eurodance star who would keep Stockholm beautiful, but now after less than a year, Martin 'E-Type' Eriksson is stepping down from Stockholm's 'Beauty Council'.
The owners of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay have once again proven their ability to cause a nuisance for the international recording industry - by taking over the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
Pressure is growing on Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to boycott a meeting between European and African leaders if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe attends.
Stockholm has fallen five places on a list of the best places in Europe to base a company, but is still the most business-friendly city in the Nordic region, according to a new survey.
Don't get in the way of a Bridezilla on her wedding day. That is the lesson for a florist in northern Sweden after a bride broke into her shop to pick up her bouquet.
Danish low-cost airline Sterling is to start five new routes from Malmö, three months after Ryanair announced it was withdrawing from the southern Swedish airport.
Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström has quit as CEO of internet messaging company Skype, in a deal that will see him and his co-founders share a $530 million payout.
A notorious police murderer in one of Sweden's top-security jails has started a hunger strike over what he claims is guards' refusal to let him hug his relatives. But the prison service denies that they prevent prisoners having physical contact with their families.
Desmond Tutu has told an audience in Gothenburg that China must act to stop the violence of Burma's military junta. The former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town compared the struggle for democracy in Burma with the struggle to end South Africa's apartheid system.
Stockholm could face a cash shortage next year, after Sweden's largest cash delivery company had its licence revoked over concerns about staff training.
