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.
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/ 29 January 2012
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.
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize for pioneering work on fibre optics and semiconductors.
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key molecular switch in cellular ageing.
A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay.
An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden’s main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute, media reported.
Asafa Powell edges the 100m world record-holder in Stockholm as SA’s Juan van Deventer set his first South African record at the meet.
Gay men and heterosexual women have similar shaped brains, says new study.
Police said on Wednesday they were interrogating a man who had entered a nuclear plant on Sweden’s south-east coast carrying highly explosive material. Sven-Erik Karlsson, spokesperson for Kalmar County Police, said police received a call from the Oskarshamn plant at 7.58am local time.
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/ 31 January 2008
A Swedish prosecutor filed charges on Thursday against four people suspected of running one of the world’s most popular websites for illegal downloading of films, music and computer games. The charges related to 20 music files, including the Cardigans’ record Don’t blame your daughter and The Beatles’ Let It Be.
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/ 12 December 2007
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.
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/ 5 December 2007
Fans of legendary Swedish disco group ABBA can dance down memory lane when the world’s first ABBA museum opens in Stockholm in 2009, featuring the quartet’s costumes, instruments and rare memorabilia. ”It will be an international museum with a lot of technological and multimedia aspects,” the project mastermind said.
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/ 3 December 2007
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.
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/ 29 November 2007
With little to attract tourists, a region in northern Sweden is pinning hope on a truly gargantuan wooden moose. When completed, the 45m-tall, 47m-long moose will have a restaurant in its belly, as well as a concert hall, conference rooms and a shop, project coordinator and local tourism promoter Thorbjorn Holmlund said on Thursday.
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/ 22 November 2007
Swedish feminists have continued their campaign to drop their tops at indoor swimming pools, reports said on Thursday. In recent weeks, they have challenged the ban against swimming topless and formed a network that has staged several protests. The campaign began after an incident in September.
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/ 15 October 2007
American economists Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday for laying the foundations of an economic theory that determines when markets are working effectively. Hurwicz, Russian-born but an American citizen, is 90 years old and is the oldest-ever recipient of a Nobel Prize.
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/ 11 October 2007
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.
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/ 10 October 2007
Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for pioneering work in surface chemistry that has become invaluable to industry, from fertilizers to cleaner cars. ”This science is important for the chemical industry,” the jury said in its citation.
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.
Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Martin Evans of Britain won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for their work in creating ”knockout mice”, the 21st-century testbed for biomedical research. The trio were honoured for discovering how to manipulate genetically mouse embryonic stem cells.
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/ 18 September 2007
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.
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/ 17 September 2007
Algeria’s ambassador to Sweden on Monday condemned death threats from al-Qaeda in Iraq against a Swedish artist who drew a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad and a newspaper editor who published it. ”I vehemently condemn this kind of practice … Islam has nothing to do with this, by any means,” Merzak Bedjaoui said.
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/ 3 September 2007
The Swedish government said on Monday it would donate almost -million to preserve the works and memory of legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman who died in July. The money will be used to host an annual international theatre festival organised by the Royal Dramatic Theatre and to make digital copies of his films.
Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film directors of the 20th century, died on July 30 at his home on the Swedish island of Fårö, his sister Eva told the TT news agency. He was 89. Bergman was widely acclaimed for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which won four Oscars.
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.
Iran will not freeze uranium enrichment to reach a truce with the United Nations over its nuclear programme, the Islamic republic’s Foreign Minister said Monday. Manouchehr Mottaki insisted Iran has a legal right to pursue nuclear technology and would spurn a Swiss initiative that calls for a freeze of Iranian atomic activities.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday his intelligence officials had information that BBC journalist Alan Johnston, kidnapped more than a month ago in Gaza, was ”still alive”. ”I believe he is still alive. Our intelligence services have confirmed to me that he is alive,” Abbas told reporters during a visit to Stockholm, saying he had received the information ”in the last three days”.
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/ 1 February 2007
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.