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Swedish prosecutors said a total of seven witnesses had been interviewed over the summer

A UN report due for release in 2014 has added the colour purple as the highest level for global warming - increasing the threat to natural systems.

The future husband of Swedish Princess Madeleine has said he is "a little nervous" about the forthcoming Royal wedding.

Up to five companies are keen to buy Saab, one of the bankrupt Swedish carmaker's three administrators said on Sunday.

A pioneering city guide that matches tourists with local 'soulmates' gives our writer the inside track on Stockholm's secret places.

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key molecular switch in cellular ageing.

An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden's main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute, media reported.

Sweden's <i>Dagens Nyheter</i> said on Wednesday it had launched the world's first "newspaper" telephone: a cellphone offering the daily's subscribers direct and free access to its website. "We want our readers to be able to follow the news," Thorbjoern Larsson, <i>Dagens Nyheter</i> editor-in-chief and publisher, said.

Christmas is hectic for all but particularly for Santa, who must live in Kyrgyzstan and make his rounds at lightning speed if he is to deliver gifts to all the world's children on time, a Swedish consultancy has concluded. Between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Santa Claus's route around the planet includes stops at 2,5-billion homes.

British writer Doris Lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Prize for Literature for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism, politics as well her youth in Africa. Lessing, who will be 88 next week, is only the 11th woman to have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1901 and only the third since 1996.

Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for Physics for work that led to the miniaturised hard disk, one of the breakthroughs of modern information technology. Fert (69) and Gruenberg (68) were lauded for discovering a principle called giant magnetoresistance, or GMR.

MP3 players/recorders detect some respiratory sounds better than traditional stethoscopes and could prove handy replacements in the future, two researchers told an international conference on respiratory diseases. By pressing a microphone directly to the chest, the researchers were able to record a whole range of respiratory sounds with different patterns.

Motorists in Sweden are accustomed to seeing elks along the roadside, but the discovery of a dead camel on the shoulder of the E22 autoroute left more than a few eyebrows raised, media reported on Monday. "But as the police patrol arrived at the scene it turned out to be completely true," police officer Lars Lindwall told Swedish news agency TT.

A Swedish couple were dismayed to find a 4cm-long bat in their breakfast cereal, the Swedish news agency TT reported on Saturday. The couple in Tanum, in western Sweden, were already part way down the packet when they made their unappetising discovery, the agency said.

Swedes earning tax-free money on internet games such as <i>World of Warcraft</i> and <i>Second Life</i> may have to think again after Swedish authorities said on Wednesday they are planning a clampdown. "We're not interested in ordinary gamers; 99% of them play for the sake of playing," a tax official said.