Sweden

Sport

Snow continues to blight Sweden Rally as Ogier dominates

Bad weather seemed poised to steal the headlines on Saturday in the Sweden Rally but Sebastien Ogier stormed ahead for Volkswagen although only five

13/02/2016

Sport

Table tennis: Jan-Ove 'Evergreen Tree' Waldner retires

Former Olympic table tennis champion ‘‘Jan-Ove Waldner’‘:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ove_Waldner played his final competitive match on Thursday

12/02/2016

Sport

Rally Sweden shortened due to clement weather

Unseasonal temperatures have caused havoc with Rally Sweden – the second stop of the new season. Warm weather has left the event with very little ice

11/02/2016

Sweden

Sweden: masked men threaten to attack migrant children

Amid growing tensions over immigration in Sweden, pro and anti demonstrators have taken to the streets of Stockholm. The country of 10 million

30/01/2016

Sweden

Nearly half of Swedens' 2015 asylum seekers to be expelled says minister

Of the more than 160,000 people who sought asylum in Sweden in 2015, a record number, between 60,000 to 80,000 may be “heading home”

28/01/2016

Sweden

Sweden boosts police resources after refugee centre stabbing

The prime minister of Sweden is promising more resources for police after a female worker at a refugee centre was stabbed to death. The knife attack

26/01/2016

World

Collective responsibility key to addressing refugee crisis, says Swedish prime minister

Kjell Stefan Lofven has been the Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014 and the leader of the Social Democrats in the country since 2012. In this wide

23/01/2016

My Europe Series

Sweden's warm welcome for refugees starting to cool

Million, Snegh and Feven are happy children, together and feeling safe again

22/01/2016

Sweden

Trial of doctor accused of drugging, raping and locking victim in bunker

The trial has begun of a Swedish doctor accused of drugging, raping and holding a woman in a self-built bunker for almost a week. The defendant

18/01/2016

Sweden

Swedish police to investigate sexual assault cover-up claims

Swedish police have begun investigating allegations of a cover-up of sexual assaults at a Stockholm music festival last August. It comes after

12/01/2016

Sweden

False alarm at Stockholm's Arlanda airport

Some disruption was reported at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport after a security alert early on Tuesday. Sweden’s The Local reported that police were

05/01/2016

Sweden

Sweden imposes border checks to stem flow of migrants

For the first time since the 1950s Sweden is imposing border checks on rail and road travellers entering the country from neighbouring Denmark. It’s

04/01/2016

Sweden

Sweden jails two men for life for crimes in Syria

Two men have been jailed for life in Sweden for committing acts of murder in Syria. They are the first to be jailed for terrorist crimes committed in

14/12/2015

Economy

Sweden 'on way to becoming cashless society'

Cash is falling out of favour in Sweden, according to a research study at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Many Swedes like people

14/12/2015

Sweden

Ecuador signs deal with Sweden for Assange questioning

Ecuador and Sweden have agreed to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned by Swedish authorities at Ecuador’s embassy in London where

14/12/2015

Sport

Lindsey Vonn wins giant slalom as Mikaela Shiffrin crashes out

America’s Lindsey Vonn held her nerve to win a World Cup giant slalom in Sweden on Saturday for her fourth consecutive victory. The overall World Cup

12/12/2015

Sweden

Lavish Stockholm banquet celebrates achievements of Nobel prize winners

A lavish banquet has been held in Stockholm for the winners of this year’s Nobel prizes. The awards – in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and

11/12/2015

Sweden

Nobel prize banquet needs to be 'fit for a king'

In Sweden, Nobel Prize winners received the awards for literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and economics, as stipulated in the will of the

10/12/2015

Sweden

Sweden introduces border controls

Sweden has introduced temporary border checks in an effort to control the increasing flow of immigrants in to the country. The measures came into

12/11/2015

Sweden

Stockholm blast thought to have been caused by gas leak

A gas leak is now thought to have caused an explosion heard shortly before noon on Friday in Stockholm. Initially witnesses said they had heard a

06/11/2015

Sweden

Two weeks of danger end with Syrian family's arrival in Sweden

For refugees arriving in Sweden for the first time on the high-speed train it is a taste of the comfort promised by the West. But this has been a

04/11/2015

Sweden

Police evict Roma from camp in Malmö

Police have forcibly removed about 100 people from a make shift Roma camp in Sweden’s southern city of Malmö. Dozens of officers arrived before dawn

04/11/2015

Musica

Hitchcock's 'Notorious' becomes opera in Sweden

As 2015 marks the centennial of Ingrid Bergman's birth, Gothenburg's opera house honors the late Swedish actress with a version of 'Notorious', Hitchcock's cult film.

29/10/2015

Sweden

Sweden to hide refugee centres after several attacks

Sweden’s migration authorities have decided to hide the locations of buildings earmarked for housing refugees after attackers have set on fire more

29/10/2015

Sweden

Sweden pays tribute to school attack 'hero'

An emotional crowd gathered on Wednesday (October 28) at the funeral of Lavin Eskandar, killed last week in a sword attack on a Swedish school. The

28/10/2015

Sweden

Sweden school attack: sword attacker had racist motive, say police

The masked swordsman who stabbed two people to death at a school in Sweden had a racist motive and had planned the attack. That is according to

23/10/2015