Americans living in Sweden who are registered Democrats voted online or at a Stockholm coffee shop on Tuesday, casting their ballots for presidential candidate Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the most dramatic U.S. primary election in decades. Expatriate Republicans voted for their candidate of choice via absentee ballots.
Being broke need not mean social death in Sweden - as long as you are well-educated. But for Americans and Russians having a good all-round education is no substitute for having cash, according to a new survey on status symbols in the three countries.
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has been threatened with a US lawsuit for not issuing a profit warning earlier, ahead of its unexpected fall in earnings in the third quarter.
A man who previously lived in Sweden as an asylum seeker, and is now imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, has been officially classed by US authorities as an 'enemy combatant'.
A Swedish prisoner who has been on the run for ten years was secretly given work in the United States by his own sister, the Harvard-educated CEO of a Swedish multinational.
"It is a real beauty" - that's President George W. Bush's verdict on the brush cutter he was given by Fredrik Reinfeldt during the Swedish Prime Minister's visit to the White House.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has been discussing climate change and energy policy with President George W Bush at the White House, in the high-point of his visit to the United States.
Fredrik Reinfeldt is to meet California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during his visit to the United States next week, the Prime Minister's office has announced.
Getting a driving licence in Sweden involves jumping through endless hoops for the second time, but Swedes going to the other side of the Pond also need to start from scratch. However, the time and cost are only a fraction and the difficulty level is much lower.
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has played down fears that building part of a US missile shield in Europe could heighten tensions with Russia, which fiercely opposes the system.
A story in the Swedish press alleging that the Bush administration had banned an album featuring Swedish singer Eva Dahlgren was fabricated, it has emerged.
Today sees the climax of a three-day official bash to celebrate the inauguration of the House of Sweden, which houses the new Swedish embassy, in Washington DC. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia are on location in Georgetown to provide the pomp, while glam poppers The Ark will camp it up on the shores of the Potomac River.
The American government has said it is removing Swedish citizen Ahmed Yusuf from its list of people suspected of links to terrorism. The decision means that a travel ban will be lifted and the freeze on his bank accounts ended.
Sweden's Left Party is demanding that Sweden stop arms exports to the United States, Britain and other countries with troops in Iraq. Leader Lars Ohly also said that the country's military should stop all cooperation with Israel, citing current Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Sweden's justice minister Thomas Bodström has said he would welcome an investigation into allegations that police raids against file-sharing site The Pirate Bay followed threats of sanctions from the United States.
The United States warned Sweden earlier this year that if the country did not act to stop illegal file sharing it would face tough sanctions from the World Trade Organization, a Swedish official said Tuesday.
George W. Bush is Swedish. Partly, at least, according to the Swedish Colonial Society, which has researched the president's ancestors going back ten generations.
