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HDTV slow to arrive in Sweden
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HDTV slow to arrive in Sweden

The World Cup Finals are just around the corner and there are still no high definition-ready digital boxes to go along with that new, expensive plasma or LCD TV sitting on your living room wall.
Police blog investigated over youth leader article
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Police blog investigated over youth leader article

Stockholm police are to investigate whether a policeman has committed a crime by writing on the internet about the furore surrounding Social Democrat Youth leader Anna Sjödin, who was involved in a brawl at the Crazy Horse bar in Stockholm last weekend.
Teens face mobile stress
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Teens face mobile stress

Mobile phones are a scourge, damaging teenagers who believe that they must always be reachable and who are kept awake by SMS signals through the night. That's the view of Swedish doctors who have warned that increasing numbers of teenagers are suffering from insomnia caused by their mobiles.
Net sex trickster "assaulted 38 girls"
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Net sex trickster "assaulted 38 girls"

The trial of a 30 year old man who is accused of sexually assaulting 38 girls he met through the internet has begun in Malmö. He kept a computer database of 150 girls, the youngest of whom was just 12 years old when the alleged abuse took place.
"Pirate Party" targets Swedish election
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"Pirate Party" targets Swedish election

A new political party focused on decriminalizing so-called Internet piracy and making copyrighted material free for all is planning to run in Sweden's next general elections, the head of the party said on Tuesday.
16,000 kronor fine for file sharing
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16,000 kronor fine for file sharing

The 28 year old man at the centre of Sweden's debate on illegal file sharing has been found guilty of breaking the country's copyright law and fined 16,000 kronor (2,000 US dollars) by Västmanland district court in Västerås.
Sweden and US to cooperate in space
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Sweden and US to cooperate in space

Sweden's foreign minister Laila Freivalds and the American ambassador Teel Bivins have signed an agreement which breathes new life into cooperation between the Swedish National Space Board and NASA.