kiruna

offbeat

Shed in restaurant used as hotel room

A hotel in northern Sweden came up with a novel solution to overbooking - placing guests in sheds in the dining room.

kiruna

Kiruna prepares to relocate

Sweden's northernmost town of Kiruna will move its centre a few kilometres away to save it from sinking into the ground due to underground cracks created by iron ore mining, officials said on Tuesday.

integration

Turkish pair end Kiruna standoff

A Turkish husband and wife ended their 11-hour standoff against Swedish police late on Monday after hours of threatening to commit suicide inside the Migration Board office in Kiruna, Sweden.

integration

Asylum seekers in Kiruna suicide threat

A couple from Turkey seeking asylum in Sweden threatened to set themselves on fire in the Board of Migration's offices in Kiruna on Monday.

space

Lift off from Sweden for space tourists

Space tourists could soon be heading into orbit from Swedish soil under plans announced on Wednesday.