At least two schools, a police station, and 15 cars were set ablaze in Stockholm on Thursday night as riots in the suburbs of the Swedish capital continued for the fifth straight night.
On the eve of the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, the AFP's <b>Camille Bas-Wohlert</b> looks at how the legacy of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel inspires immigrant children near Stockholm.
A 12-year-old boy attacked a police officer with a knife in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Tuesday, sparking a brawl that sent two officers to hospital.
A Swedish citizen has been arrested in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on suspicion of terrorist offences. The man is believed to have connections to Somalian terror group al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda.
A man in his twenties has been arrested on suspicion of rioting after Tuesday night’s serious disturbances in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby. Police are now examining footage from security cameras and expect to make further arrests.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt cautioned that the riots that blighted the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Monday and Tuesday needed to be brought quickly under control.
Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab.
A series of investigations have shown that there was no malicious intent behind a fire that claimed the lives of seven people in a Stockholm suburb this summer.
The 13-year-old girl that was badly burned in the fire in an apartment in Rinkeby in western Stockholm on Saturday evening has died of her injuries. The fire has now claimed seven victims.
A 42-year-old Somali woman and five of her daughters, aged one to 16, have died in a fire that broke out in an apartment in Rinkeby in western Stockholm on Saturday evening.
The woman in charge of several suburban Stockholm pre-schools was sentenced on Monday by the Solna District Court to five years in prison for defrauding the city of Stockholm out of millions of kronor.
The home of a family living in an apartment block in Rinkeby in west Stockholm was attacked in the early hours of Friday morning. At 3.30am, somebody arrived at the front door, poured flammable liquid through the letterbox and started a fire.
A group of five teenage girls have been accused of a wave of vicious attacks against old women in Stockholm. Fifteen women have been mugged by the gang, according to police.
