A 19-year-old woman from Ulricehamn in western Sweden has been indicted on a charge of attempted manslaughter after stabbing her boyfriend in the head, Borås Tidning reports.
King Carl XVI Gustaf's traditional Christmas radio broadcast dwelled on the positive expressing hope for a better world. The Swedish king expressed his concern however over the conflicts that plague the world.
Bad weather is threatening the traditional television broadcast of Donald Duck on Christmas Eve. Swedish viewers could be faced with a black screen when they settle down in front of the TV after having polished off their ham and meatballs.
An EU-wide warning has been issued by Italy over Swedish gingerbread, a Christmas speciality. The Italians claim the gingerbread, or pepparkakor as the biscuits are known, contain higher levels of the toxin coumarin than permitted under European rules.
By Christmas, Posten, the Swedish postal service, expects to have received more than 100,000 letters from children all over the world addressed to Santa Claus.
The number of packages sent by Swedes this Christmas looks set to reach record levels, with Swedish postal service Posten reporting that it handled 326,489 packages on Monday night.
Swedes are set to pay top-dollar for a clean, environmentally-friendly conscience this Christmas – but are not about to change their high-consumption habits, experts say.
A white Christmas has been all but completely ruled out for southern Sweden, with forecasters predicting that everything south of Dalarna will stay green over the festive season.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan launched a contest to track down Father Christmas somewhere inside the mountainous Central Asian state – a week after Swedish experts reported that he must be there.
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.
Fancy indulging in the Swedish tradition of eating saffron buns, or lussekatter, along with your Glögg this Christmas? If so, you might find it costs you.
Christmas is hectic for all but particularly for Santa, who must live in Kyrgyzstan and make his rounds at lightning speed if he is to deliver gifts to all the world's children on time, a Swedish consultancy has concluded.
A random encounter with a Swede is very likely to lead the unsuspecting novice into an impromptu hugging situation, according to new statistics from the Red Cross.
Amid the gingerbread and stocking stuffers, Swedish Christmas shoppers this year can also buy a hug or two as part of a Red Cross campaign aimed at helping the lonely through the holiday season.
Forget socks and ties - a GPS receivers is the gift that keeps on giving this Christmas. The Swedish Retail Institute is predicting that the handy navigators are set to become this year's most popular present when Swedes reach in under the Christmas tree.
Christmas is proving to be a busy period for Swedish robbers. In Stockholm alone three major raids took place on Saturday, while in Simrishamn in Skåne a forklift truck was used in a robbery on a jewellers.
Maybe Swedes have become more generous, or maybe the lack of snow has encouraged them to spend a little more on generating the Christmas spirit. Either way, in 2006 Swedish shoppers have spent more on Christmas than ever before, passing the magic 50 billion kronor mark.
Intestinal bacteria in the rice pudding, spore-forming bacteria in the jam and staphylococcus in the alternative Christmas menu's spring rolls: when Stockholm's environmental health inspectors carried out spot-tests of local restaurants' Christmas food, they found some unwelcome microscopic guests had joined the festivities.
Christmas travel plans were disrupted for a third day on Friday as thick fog led to more than 300 flights into and out of London Heathrow being cancelled.
