A man in his thirties was in police custody on Saturday afternoon on suspicion of murder and serious assault, after attacking six men with a knife in Alby, south of Stockholm.
The man who has long been considered responsible for the 1973 murder of Leonardo Henrichsen, a cameraman on the SVT news programme Rapport, is now facing prosecution in Chile. The legal organisation Codepu submitted its application for the prosecution of junior officer Hector Hernan Bustamante Gomez on Wednesday.
Around 100 people have been arrested after rioting broke out in Linköping during a neo-Nazi demonstration, police have said. One person was charged with intention to assault.
A Swedish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) convicted of accounting crimes says she will not give up her seat, despite her own Liberal Party's request for her to quit.
The Swedish Supreme Court (HD) has upheld a lower court’s sentence of one and a half-years’ imprisonment for a drunk driver who killed a grandmother and her grandchild in Flurmark, near Umeå in 2003.
A search for the gun used in the 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was called off on Saturday after coastguard divers failed to find anything suspicious in the Gavleån creek near Gävle.
The Swedish Prison and Probation Administration has begun to recruit staff for a new organization designed to combat the growing criminal network inside prisons and jails.
The Swedish government has authorized Sida, the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation, to contribute 82 million kronor to the United Nations appeal for humanitarian assistance in South Asia.
Police hunting the man who killed a boy and a woman in broad daylight on a street in Linköping a year ago say they could be close to a breakthrough in the case.
The Swedish government plans to introduce a law which will make it considerably easier for the police to take DNA tests. From next year, anyone held on reasonable suspicion of a crime will be required to provide a sample of their DNA.
Sweden's centre-right parties, which have not held power in Sweden since the Social Democrat victory in 1994, appear set to win the next election, according to election expert Sören Holmberg.
An 81 year old Sundsvall man who stabbed his wife to death should be sentenced to ten years in prison, demanded prosecutor Lisa Eriksson at the trial on Friday.
A 25 year old man suspected of attempted murder was arrested by police in the Gränby area of Uppsala on Friday morning. Police say the arrest was undramatic.
A 21 year old woman has been found guilty of murdering her 22 year old boyfriend, after he died from drinking vodka which she had laced with the drug GHB.
King Carl Gustaf will be counting his crowns in the future. According to a proposal in the autumn budget, the royal household’s private expenses are to be made public.
Germany's general election showed voters wanted more unity in society, Sweden's ruling Social Democratic Party said on Monday, putting a positive spin on the stalemate the vote produced.
A blaze which broke out at a mosque in Malmö on Saturday night is being treated as arson, with intention to murder. Police in Malmö say they are taking the attack very seriously.
A debate about asylum policy in the Riksdag, Sweden’s parliament, had to be broken off on Wednesday morning after a protest broke out in the public gallery.
A police station in Södertälje, near Stockholm, was hit by around fifteen shots from an automatic weapon on Sunday night, following a major confrontation between local youths and police.
