An Australian team are staging an audacious bid to get their hands on former Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic before his career ends. But how good are their odds?
Australian nurse Kai Foley was stabbed to death in an attack in Gothenburg less than a year after moving to Sweden for love. A 28-year-old man has now been jailed for murder.
Police in Gothenburg are trying to piece together the final hours of an Australian citizen who died from severe stab wounds after being found in a central area of the Swedish city.
A Swedish man died and his friend was seriously injured on Tuesday after they rode a shopping trolley down a steep road in Sydney, reportedly travelling at 80 kilometres an hour.
Australia's opposition demanded on Wednesday that Sweden should not be excluded from a major new submarine-building programme, countering Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government.
A 26-year-old Swedish woman has been named Australia's best intern and is set to travel 3000km across the country to take part in a series of adventures as part of her prize.
Censors in Australia have effectively banned a Swedish film due to scenes of child nudity, with anyone caught selling or showing the film in public risking hefty fines and up to ten years in prison.
Australian Rules Football - often described as a mix between rugby and soccer - enjoys a keen following in Sweden, and after Stockhom's Solna Axemen claimed this year's premiership on the weekend, The Local's Josh Liew finds out more.
Australia officially made Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg its first honorary citizen on Monday in recognition of the thousands of Jews he saved from the Holocaust, many of whom came to live Down Under.
Australia paid tribute on Monday to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, by making him the country's first honorary citizen.
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has dismissed as "fantasy" claims by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that Sweden's case against him is a conspiracy to have him extradited to the United States.
After a video appeared of a croc-teasing Swedish tourist being hit in the face by a “flying” crocodile, Australian experts claim the Swede was never in danger.
Sweden's ambassador to Australia took an Australian columnist to task for defending WikiLeaks-founder Julian Assange against rape allegations, documents recently released by the whistleblower website reveal.
The Australian ambassador to Sweden Paul Stephens speaks to The Local's <b>Oliver Gee</b> about the “outdated” image of Australia, the ongoing trial of Julian Assange, and life as the coach of an Australian rules football team in Stockholm.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in an interview published Monday he has hired a legal team to establish whether he has a case to sue Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation.
A Swedish woman who filmed a terrifying video of her Australian friend's bungee-jump gone wrong in Africa was certain that she was witnessing her friend's death.
The Australian Embassy has requested the repatriation of the skulls and skeletons of seven indigenous Australians currently in the possession of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
An Australian blogger with a passion for Saab cars who, in the words of Saab board chair Victor Muller "played a key role in saving Saab" has been rewarded with a job at the Swedish automaker.
The mother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange condemned Thursday a court order for his extradition to Sweden as "political and legal gang rape", the Australian Associated Press reported.
