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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a thumbs-up sign after police sensationally dragged him out of the Ecuadoran embassy in London in April 2019. (Reuters/Hannah McKay)

Swedish prosecutors interview new witnesses in Assange rape case

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

Sea levels are rising as a result of global warming. Photo: File

Purple takes climate change to the next level

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.

Princess Madeleine of Sweden is marrying commoner Chris O’Neill in Stockholm. (AFP)

Groom of Swedish princess admits to wedding jitters

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

Five possible buyers for bankrupt Saab: administrator

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

Being local for a day

Being local for a day

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

‘Masters of light’ win Nobel Physics Prize

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize for pioneering work on fibre optics and semiconductors.

US trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing

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

Pirate Bay file-share four guilty, get year in jail

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.

Woman goes down baggage chute at Swedish airport

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

Stockholm meet delivers records, 100m drama

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.

New light on gay brains

Gay men and heterosexual women have similar shaped brains, says new study.

Man found with explosives at Swedish nuclear plant

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,…

Swedish prosecutor indicts Pirate Bay file-sharing site

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…

World’s first ‘newspaper’ phone launched

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…

Take a chance on ABBA at new museum

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…

Santa Claus is coming to town — for 34 microseconds

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…

Coming soon: Sweden’s giant moose

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…

Swedish feminists want to drop their tops

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…

American trio wins 2007 Nobel Economics Prize

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…

Doris Lessing wins Nobel Literature Prize

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.…