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Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says.
Swedish museum officials returned the remains of five indigenous Maori people to New Zealand on Wednesday as part of a broader move in Europe to repatriate remains taken from burial grounds.
A Swedish woman who was sentenced to life for a double murder in California will be released in 2011, a Swedish court ruled Monday.
With a solemn ceremony in Stockholm's antiquities museum, Sweden marked the return of 22 skulls looted from a native Hawaiian community more than a century ago.
Michael Phelps plans to wear the old-style swimsuit that will become the standard next year at the upcoming European World Cup meet in Stockholm.
Sweden and Finland on Thursday approved a Baltic Sea pipeline project that would ship Russian natural gas to Germany, clearing two key obstacles for construction to begin next year.
Ford Motor Co. has picked a consortium led by China's Geely Group as the preferred bidder to buy its Swedish Volvo Cars unit, the U.S. automaker said Wednesday.
Swedish appliance maker Electrolux AB on Monday reported a 93 percent rise in third-quarter profit as cost cuts and increased prices on its products helped it defy weak market demand.
Swedish media says a Norwegian businessman has bought late filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's secluded island home for an undisclosed sum.
Swedish truck maker AB Volvo on Friday reported a third-quarter net loss of 2.9 billion kronor ($423 million), due to a steep drop in sales in Europe and the U.S., but said demand was stabilizing, particularly in Asia.
Thomas Enqvist is the new captain for Sweden's Davis Cup team.
The Swedish government has approved the early release of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a war crimes tribunal.
Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB on Thursday said profits tumbled 71 percent in the third quarter, worse than markets expected, as cash-strapped mobile operators cut spending on their networks.
Organizers say French director Luc Besson and American actress Susan Sarandon will be honored at the Stockholm film festival.
Mats Wilander has quit as captain of Sweden's Davis Cup team.
The Canadian Auto Workers president says the union is confident Chrysler Corp. will excel after discussing the company's future during a lengthy meeting.
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday said its losses widened to euro164 million ($245 million) in the third quarter, mainly due to plunging sales, but reassured the market by announcing it had secured new financing from external investors.
Dole Foods is withdrawing a defamation lawsuit against a Swedish filmmaker after complaints in Sweden that it was trying to limit free speech, the company said Thursday.
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo on Tuesday received the first ever $1 million dollar Birgit Nilsson award at a formal award ceremony in Stockholm.
Rene Ngongo, honored with the "alternative Nobel" this week, grew up in a Congo where he could marvel at the wealth of animals and trees.
Two activists from Congo and New Zealand and a doctor from Australia on Tuesday won the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for work to protect rain forests, improve women's health and rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.
It's the moment of glory that scientists, writers and champions of peace worldwide dream of.
A Swedish court ordered two suspects in last week's dramatic helicopter heist at a cash depot in Stockholm to remain in custody.
DAWN.COM | Business | Pakistan slips five places in global corruption listISLAMABAD: In its Corruption Perception Index for 2009, the Transparency International has placed Pakistan at the 42nd place, slipping five places from 2008 when it was at 47.
Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage GoAfter discovering the Pirate Bay logo hadn't been registered with the patent office, a Swedish company took the opportunity to claim it as their own in order to commercially exploit it.
Iconic Pirate Bay Ship Logo Hijacked By Private CompanySeen by millions of people worldwide, the ship design used by The Pirate Bay is one of the most recognizable logos on the Internet today.
Sweden's Lutheran church names first lesbian bishopStockholm) Sweden's Lutheran church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave clergy the right to wed same-sex couples.
Swedish ferries equipped with 'sinking' life ringsMany of the life buoys on Swedish passenger ferries have a defect that causes them to sink when they hit the water.
Fury over three-year-old's retouched school photoThe father of a three-year-old girl from northern Sweden is outraged that school photographers have retouched his daughter's school picture for the second year in a row.
Premature Births Are Fueling Higher Rates of Infant Mortality in U.S., Report Says Unhealthy America The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the most traction is this:
No penalty for man who filmed naked childrenA 29-year-old counselor caught secretly filming naked children at a Swedish summer camp won't be punished for his crimes.
Blood libeler Bostrom not sorry, lies to Ha'aretzDo you think the IDF killed people to get body organs?
University blasts in Pakistan and the future of IslamLund, Sweden - When the Taliban attacked the International Islamic University in Pakistan this week, many were shocked that militants were targeting an Islamic school.
'Organs Libel' Journalist in Israel for Dimona GatheringSwedish journalist Donald Bostrom, who gained infamy in August for claiming that IDF soldiers harvested organs from Arab rioters, landed in Israel on Sunday for the Dimona Conference.
Quack doctor indicted over cabbage cure for cancer A man in his fifties in western Sweden has been indicted on twelve charges of fraud and sex offences after allegedly treating cancer patients with herbs and vegetables and sexually abusing a woman with Parkinson's disease.
Charges filed for torture- like parenting methods A Stockholm-area couple have been indicted for using torture-like methods to raise their children, including hitting them with shoehorns and stabbing them with knives and forks.
Sweden church allows gay weddingsThe Lutheran Church of Sweden - the country's largest - is to conduct same-sex marriages from next month.
Why Left Wing Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism In a clear demonstration of just how "progressive" they really are, the Anti-Israel left is hard at working trying to revive the medieval blood libel.
Swedes divided over bunny biofuelResidents in Stockholm are divided over reports that rabbits are being used to make biofuel. The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say.
Burning bunnies for biofuel?The Swedes, those latter-day descendants of bloodthirsty Vikings, have found a new use for rabbits: heating fuel. According to Der Spiegel, stray rabbits in Stockholm are being shot, frozen and then shipped to a heating plant to be incinerated.
Stockholm's bunnies burned to keep Swedes warmSwedes solve two problems with one solution. Too many bunnies, not enough heat? Burn the bunnies!
Radio New Zealand News : Stories : 2009 : 10 : 14 : NZ man to receive 'alternative Nobel' awardA New Zealander is one of four recipients of the Right Livelihood Awards in Sweden.
Missing dot sends Sweden tumbling off internet Sweden effectively fell off the internet last night when maintenance to Domain Name Systems damaged every single .se web address. The problem happened at quarter to ten last night and took just less than an hour to fix.
Stockholm's rabbits burned to keep Sweden heatedThe bodies of thousands of wild rabbits culled each year from Stockholm's parks are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.
It's not easy not being BushIt's already a truism that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for being not-George W. Bush. This talking point gets repeated as if it's a witty put down. It's supposed to trivialize the win. The implication is that Obama won just for showing up.
The Amazons of ScandinaviaAccording to The Local, the Chinese media have started carrying reports about a mysterious Sapphic settlement in Sweden: The town, supposedly founded in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods by a wealthy widow, boasts 25,000 residents and a medieval castle, according to the Chines …
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