They say nothing in life can be certain apart from death and taxes, but if there's a third certainty, it must be Swedish bureaucracy. Here's how to register a death, arrange a funeral and figure out who inherits what.
A woman was found dead in a hostel in central Gothenburg on Thursday, and police found a suspected poisonous and explosive powder at the scene during the investigation.
Around 92,000 people resident in Sweden died last year, a decrease compared to the past three decades. But one cause of death still kills more people than anything else in the country.
Two doctors from Sweden's National Board of Forensic Medicine have published a paper warning about the risks involved in a type of penis enlargement surgery that uses fat transfer after a man died in Stockholm during one such procedure.
Two Swedish researchers made global headlines on Thursday after unveiling a 'death risk' calculator that claims to estimate how likely it is that Brits will die over the next five years.
A nurse in southern Sweden has been reported for abuse at a senior care centre after she allegedly waved to a colleague with the hand of a recently-dead resident.
A Swedish man elected to keep the news of his death short and sweet, instructing a funeral agency to publish an obituary containing only the words 'I am dead', grabbing national headlines in the process.
A woman who came across a trail of blood in the snow in western Sweden made a gruesome discovery at a local recycling station, finding the severed head of an elk among bags of old newspapers.
Forty-eight reindeer were killed in an instant in northern Sweden after being run over by a speeding train they tried in vain to outrun, transport officials said on Tuesday.
Two workers died on the job in Sweden on Wednesday in two separate accidents involving cranes, less than a week after two workers died after drowning in coal tar at a coke plant.
An 84-year-old woman in western Sweden committed suicide on Thursday by throwing herself off her own balcony during a meeting with case officers there to determine whether she could live in an elderly home.
Journalist and musician Kristian Gidlund passed away on Tuesday after succumbing to a fight against cancer. His life and death touched millions of Swedes via his blog "In this body of mine" and makes the drummer from Dalarna our choice for Swede of the Week.
After a 19-year-old Swedish woman was stabbed to death in the Netherlands, local police have arrested a 22-year-old man believed to be the woman's ex-boyfriend.
The father of a two-year old boy who was found dead in a car in southern Sweden, after being left alone for eight hours, has been handed a suspended sentence for manslaughter, avoiding both a fine and imprisonment.
A 91-year-old man died on Tuesday after he got stuck under his own ride-on lawnmower in a garden in western Sweden. The man was known to use the vehicle as means of transport.
A total of six people died in traffic accidents in Sweden over the Midsummer weekend, with three people dying Sunday evening in a head on collision on the E10 motorway near Överkalix in the far north.
Prominent members of Finland's Swedish-speaking minority revealed they have received death threats, sparking a protest on Wednesday and shaking the image of harmony between the country's two major linguistic groups.
