Volvo said on Monday it would recall 29 299 of its cars worldwide due to a problem with the gear shift.
An ultra-right wing group calling for an end to "genocide in South Africa" burned a SA flag during a protest march to the embassy in Stockholm.
China’s largest private-run car maker, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, agreed on Sunday to buy Ford Motor’s Volvo car unit for $1,8-billion.
Three scientists who produced an atom-by-atom map of the mysterious, life-giving ribosome won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday.
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.
Swedish group Volvo posted a second consecutive quarterly loss on Friday after a collapse in demand due to the financial crisis.
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.
Sony Ericsson on Friday said it would cut 2 000 more jobs after it swung to a loss of €293-million in the first quarter of the year.
Landfills are a potential source of power but authorities are not doing enough to harness it, writes Faranaaz Parker.
Internet traffic in Sweden — previously a hotbed of filesharing — has fallen dramatically following the introduction of a law banning online piracy.
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/ 17 February 2009
The world’s leading maker of wooden toys, Brio, renowned for its colourful trains, is on the verge of bankruptcy, the company warned on Tuesday.
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/ 14 February 2009
The most high-profile anti-piracy case in recent years begins on Monday when four men behind the world’s largest filesharing website will stand trial.
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/ 10 October 2008
Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work on conflict resolution.
Two Americans and a Japanese researcher won the 2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for the discovery of a glowing protein in jellyfish.
Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles.
An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden’s main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute, media reported.
Michael Phelps, swim your heart out. When it comes to SMSing, no one can beat My Svensson — at least in her native Sweden.
Swedish graphic artist and illustrator Bjorn Berg, known for his illustrations of several of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren’s books, has died aged 84.
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.
A drunken 78-year-old Swede stole a dinghy after a night out in the Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back to Sweden, but fell asleep halfway.
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.
Freer trade could bring benefits worth up to -billion a year to the world economy, according to a study on Thursday that dismisses growing unease about globalisation. The report, by two economists in Australia and Britain, also suggested greater immigration to rich nations from developing countries would raise economic growth.
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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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/ 31 October 2007
It’s not everyone’s dream destination, but in Sweden thousands of visitors each year head to remote coastland to view the nation’s nuclear power plants. At Forsmark, one of the country’s three nuclear plants, tourists wear protective clothing and carry dosimeters, which monitor their radiation exposure.
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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.