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Switzerland and Sweden to meet in World Championship final Co-hosts Sweden will meet surprise package Switzerland in Sunday’s final of the world ice hockey championships following respective wins over Finland and the… 19/05/2013
Denmark’s folksy ballad wins Eurovision She had been the favourite, and in the end, there were no ‘teardrops’ on her face as Emmelie de Forrest made it a third Eurovision win for Denmark. “Of… 19/05/2013
Denmark wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2013The 2013 Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in Malmö, Sweden. After the two semi finals, earlier this week, 26 countries will be competing in the final… 18/05/2013
Sweden: Eurovision Song ContestLoreen of Sweden performs during the dress rehearsal for the final in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena Hall in Malmo. REUTERS/Jessica… 18/05/2013
Eurovision excitement at fever pitch Denmark are the hottest favourites for years at the bookmakers, but all 26 competitors know they are just hours away from the most important three minutes of… 17/05/2013
Eurovision: our tips and the bookmakers’ favouritesBookmakers have installed Denmark as their favourites to win Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest. The Danish entry, Only Teardrops by Emmelie de Forest, is… 17/05/2013
Malmö welcomes Eurovision thousands The Eurovision Song Contest returns to its spiritual home this week, as host city Malmö gets ready to transform itself into the ‘capital of… 17/05/2013
Eurovision: The final running orderThe running order for the Grand Final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest which takes place this Saturday in Malmö, Sweden has just been announced. France… 17/05/2013
Eurovision: The Big Five and…SwedenSince 2000, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom qualify automatically for every Eurovision Grand Final thanks to their status as the biggest… 17/05/2013
Arctic becomes focus of development concerns In an odd but not unexpected move, the Arctic Council has granted observer status to countries nowhere near the Arctic. The decision was made by the… 15/05/2013
Eurovision: Who made it through the first semi-final? The countdown to the final of a musical extravaganza has begun with Tuesday night seeing the first of two semi-finals to decide who will ultimately compete in… 15/05/2013
Swedish salmon sellers ignore EU ban over dioxins Swedish fish firms have illegally sold around 200 tonnes of Baltic salmon to the European Union, ignoring an EU ban due to toxic chemicals in the… 10/05/2013
Eurovision: Songs, Scandals and Sequins This year Sweden is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s the biggest one in the world: 39 countries are participating and the final is expected to be… 09/05/2013
Bonus interview: Björn Ulvaeus, former ABBA member In this interview with Björn Ulvaeus, the former ABBA member talks about the new ABBA museum in Stockholm but also about the Eurovision Song Contest and how… 09/05/2013
Bonus interview: David Goodman, Eurovision Song Contest expert David Goodman is a presenter at World Radio Switzerland who has followed the Eurovision Song Contest extensively. Here he explains how the contest has changed… 09/05/2013
Thank you for the music Almost 40 years after they shot to fame by winning the Eurovision song contest, ABBA’s very own museum is opening in Stockholm. It traces their careers from… 06/05/2013
Abba fans get first look at new Stockholm museum A group of lucky members of the ABBA fan club have been getting a sneak preview of a new museum dedicated to the band, which opens in Stockholm this week… 05/05/2013
Going for a song: Sweden cuts the Eurovision budgetKitsch doesn’t always come cheap. And as they don’t come much more kitsch than the Eurovision Song Contest, putting on the event can be quite an expensive… 03/05/2013
Manage your mussels Mussel farming is one of Europe’s major shellfish industries, with total net production averaging around 500,000 tonnes per year, and with the potential for… 29/04/2013
Volvo enjoys a trucking good spring Volvo has posted a surprise jump in first-quarter orders and said it is going to step up production thanks to a more stable market. The statement from the… 25/04/2013
FEMEN give Putin and Merkel an eyeful in HanoverRussian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel came face to face – or face to breast – with naked FEMEN activists as they toured an… 08/04/2013
The secret love of Sweden’s Princess Lilian Princess Lilian of Sweden, whose romance with husband Prince Bertil became one of the country’s best-known love stories, has died at the age of 97… 11/03/2013
Has Swedish feminism gone too far? In the gender equality stakes, Sweden is rated highly. But some Swedes feel it’s being taken to extremes. It has the highest proportion of working women in… 08/03/2013
IKEA pulls meatballs off menus after horsemeat found Sweden’s IKEA has become the latest retailer to stop selling some of its food products after finding traces of horsemeat. It has pulled its famous beef and… 26/02/2013
Sweden’s gender-violence shame Until a few years ago, violence against women in Sweden was almost a hidden subject even in a country often rated number one when it comes to gender… 22/02/2013
Right wing, right here, right now Is a new form of right-wing politics sweeping Europe? Beyond terrorist attacks and lone wolves like Norway’s Anders Bering Brevik, support for extreme… 13/02/2013
H&M sales shrink, shares rise H&M, the world’s second biggest clothing retailer, saw its shares risk on Tuesday, even as it posted a slight fall in like-for-like sales in December. To… 15/01/2013
Hirscher wins to reclaim lead Austria’s Marcel Hirscher overcame a shaky start to reclaim the overall World Cup lead in Croatia on Sunday. The defending champion trailed Jens Byggmark… 06/01/2013
Shiffren crowned Snow Queen American teenager Michaela Shiffrin won her second World Cup slalom of the season and her career on Friday after she won the prestigious floodlit classic in… 05/01/2013
Rebensburg skies to victory at Are giant slalom After a third place finish in Aspen and a second place finish in St Moritz, Olympic champion and German skier Viktoria Rebensburg finally bagged her first… 20/12/2012
Eurozone troubles prompt Swedish rate cut Sweden’s central bank has cut its main interest rate by 0.25 percent to offset the impact of the eurozone’s troubles. It is now at one percent – the lowest… 18/12/2012
Microprocessor companies set to split STMicroelectronics will quit ST-Ericsson by the third quarter of 2013. This announcement boosted the share price of the French-Italian chip maker to the top… 10/12/2012
Will new album mirror Emilia’s big, big hit? Swedish-Ethiopian singer Emilia Mitiku – discovered in the 1990s by the son of ABBA manager Stig Anderson – has released her new album, including single So… 28/11/2012
H&M loses sales mojo Investors are disappointed with clothing giant H&M’s October sales, which were unexpectedly low. Sales took a 5% hit compared to October last year. Total… 15/11/2012
International friendliesDidier Deschamps was all smiles on Wednesday night as Bafétimbi Gomis’s 67th minute strike handed France a 2-1 friendly win over Italy in Parma. Stephan El… 15/11/2012
Investors welcome SAS’ survival plan The share price of the biggest Scandinavian airline surged 8% in early trading. It closed up more than two percent. The carrier is 50% owned by Denmark… 12/11/2012
Airline lays out survival plan Scandinavian airlines – SAS – is set to cut 6,000 staff in a bid to remain in the air. The airline will also implement a programme of asset sales including… 12/11/2012
Myhrer claims Levi slalom Skiing through a heavy curtain of fog Sweden’s Andre Myhrer started the new season the way he finished the last when he won the opening men’s World Cup slalom… 11/11/2012
Dutch ING slashes jobs after profits drop The biggest Dutch financial-services company ING is to shed 2,350 jobs in its banking and insurance units after seeing a 64 percent drop in third quarter… 07/11/2012
Volvo trucking on Sweden’s Volvo was able to limit its losses on Wednesday in Stockholm as Europe’s stock markets rebounded later in the session. Shares of the world’s… 24/10/2012
H&M pockets disappointing profits Sweden’s H&M missed the profit forecasts for its fiscal third quarter even though the world’s second-biggest clothing retailer slightly improved its quarterly… 27/09/2012
Heatwave chills H&M’s sales Swedish clothing chain H&M has suffered in the August heatwave. Sales are down by four percent at the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, and in the… 17/09/2012
Man hit by train after robber leaves him to die – nocomment Video footage shows a man leaving an unconscious man to die on the underground train track after mugging him at a station in southern Stockholm. It was… 14/09/2012
Julian Assange & Wikileaks: Timeline of EventsDecember 2006: Julian Assange, a former Australian computer hacker, founds Wikileaks.org. The website aims to provide a platform for whistleblowers to post… 16/08/2012
Building the schools of tomorrow The way schools are designed can have a significant impact on the way children learn. Architects are now taking a fresh approach when it comes to creating… 14/08/2012
Ericsson joins slow sales club Ericsson, the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile telecommunications equipment suffered a sharp drop in sales of networks in the second quarter. Its net… 18/07/2012
Austerity helps budget focused H&M grow Hennes & Mauritz said its sales rose in June – up three percent from the same month last year on a direct comparison of stores. The Swedish budget fashion… 16/07/2012
Sweden holds borrowing rate Sweden’s central bank has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent and plans to keep it there for just over one year. But in a statement… 04/07/2012
EURO 2012 – Our top three goals The group stage of Euro 2012 is over and there have been some fantastic moments of football. Here is our brief and totally subjective look back at what we… 20/06/2012
France’s defensive frailties shown up by Sweden For some sections of the French press, victory over Sweden should have been a formality but Laurent Blanc’s 23-game unbeaten record always looked in danger… 20/06/2012
Euro 2012: France advance depite loss Former World Champions France made it through to the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 despite losing 2-0 to Sweden in Kiev. Les Bleus missed too many… 20/06/2012
England v Sweden: How it happened So England’s victory against Sweden keeps their hopes of going through to the next round very much alive, let’s see how it happened. The first goal came… 16/06/2012
EURO 2012: England 3 – 2 Sweden England and their fans breathed a sigh of relief at Euro 2012 on Friday night after they came from behind to beat Sweden 3-2 in Kiev in their second Group … 16/06/2012
Ukraine v Sweden: How it happened Ukraine’s Euro 2012 party started in style on Monday, with former European Player of the Year Andriy Shevchenko rolling back the years in Kiev. The 35 year… 12/06/2012
Euro 2012: Classy Ukraine outclass Sweden Former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko scored a brace of goals to hand co-hosts Ukraine a thrilling 2-1 win over Sweden at the Olimpiyskyi stadium in… 11/06/2012
Euro 2012 Preview: Sweden Sweden will look to build on their 3-2 win over Iceland when they take on Serbia on June 5 in what will be their last match in their preparations for Euro… 31/05/2012
Sweden euphoric after Eurovision win When Loreen, Sweden’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, broke all records during the selection stages, it is fair to say hopes were high – and rightly… 28/05/2012
March heatwave springs H&M sales Warm weather in March proved to be a money spinner for the Swedish budget clothing chain H&M, recording its biggest monthly rise in sales for five… 16/04/2012
Cotton costs hit H&M profit Sweden’s Hennes & Mauritz is blaming higher cotton prices in part for its smaller-than-expected rise in quarterly earnings. The world’s second-largest… 29/03/2012
A new bus that’s just the ticket You wait and wait and then three come at once, so the old joke about buses goes. But the bus has been getting a makeover. Umberto Guida, the co-ordinator… 23/03/2012
Tomorrow’s bus on today’s streets Welcome aboard as we take a ride on what the designers say is the ‘European bus of the future’. They claim it is more efficient and more ergonomic, with more… 23/03/2012
Anja Paerson to retire Swedish Alpine skiing star Anja Paerson announced on Monday that she will retire after this week’s World Cup finals, ending a 14-year career in which she won… 12/03/2012
The future is: hands-free driving Several European engineering firms are collaborating on new technology that would allow cars to drive you, rather than the other way round. The so-called… 01/03/2012
Scania cuts jobs and investment A slowdown in truck orders has led Scania to cut jobs and delay investment in the business. The Swedish lorry maker saw a boom in demand in 2010 and early… 01/02/2012
Malmö shows off its green regeneration Malmö, Scandinavia’s bridge to Europe, is Sweden’s third largest city with 300,000 inhabitants. About a third of them are immigrants. Malmö is a city in… 26/01/2012
Ericsson’s profits hit by slowdown Ericsson, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phone exchange equipment, said its profit halved in the fourth quarter of 2011. Telecoms operators invested… 25/01/2012
Eurozone fears prompt Swedish rate cut The eurozone’s problems have caused Sweden to cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percent to one and a quarter percent. The central bank said it… 20/12/2011
Saab reaches end of the road The Dutch owner of Saab has filed for bankruptcy, ending a nine-month battle to rescue the struggling Swedish carmaker. That comes after Saab’s former… 19/12/2011
No gender please, we’re pupils Some people think that educating boys and girls separately boosts academic success. Others feel that single-sex schools have no place in the modern world. And… 19/12/2011
Chinese buyers vow long-term financing for Saab Bosses of the Chinese companies that are buying Saab have been in Sweden and talking about its future. Under the agreed sale to China’s Pang Da and… 01/11/2011
Chinese firms snap up Sweden’s Saab A deal appears to have been struck for the Chinese firms Pang Da and Youngman to buy 100 per cent of the shares in the struggling carmaker Saab. Lawyers who… 28/10/2011
Saab’s future looking ever more shaky The Swedish car maker Saab has said it is terminating a 245 million euro investment deal with two Chinese companies. Saab’s owners said carmaker Zhejiang… 24/10/2011
End of the road for Saab? How close is Saab to reaching the end of the road? Several reports say the administrator in charge of the Swedish car maker’s restructuring under court… 11/10/2011
Scania puts brakes on production Swedish lorry maker Scania is to cut back production in Europe due to weakening demand. It will reduce output by 10 to 15 percent from November compared… 10/10/2011
US economists win Nobel prize The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics have been announced in Stockholm with the award going to US economists Thomas Sargent and Christopher… 10/10/2011
Court setback for Saab A Swedish court has rejected Saab’s application for protection from creditors, pushed the ailing carmaker closer to collapse. Saab had gone to the court to… 08/09/2011
Bankruptcy protection is Saab’s last hope Saab seems to be creeping closer to the end of the road. The Swedish carmaker, which is seeking to stave off its creditors, has filed for bankruptcy… 07/09/2011
Overconfidence in IVF threatening fertility rates Women are leaving it longer and longer to have children because of over-confidence in IVF treatment, according to Swedish researchers. They are warning… 12/07/2011
Sweden raises cost of borrowing again As expected Sweden’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate from 1.75 percent to 2.0 percent to try to rein in rising inflation. It is the… 05/07/2011
Saab near to return of Russian investor Near-bankrupt car maker Saab has moved closer to having Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov return as an investor. Antonov has to sell his shares in the… 04/07/2011
Womb transplant to go ahead in Sweden A team of surgeons in Sweden is hoping to perform the first successful womb transplant. The highly complex procedure, planned for next spring, will take… 30/06/2011
Chinese order is lifeline for Saab There is a glimmer of hope for Saab as a big new order will enable it to pay wages and suppliers and resume making cars. Last week Saab said it did not have… 27/06/2011
Saab crisis deepens as wages go unpaid Unions at Saab are threatening legal action if workers at the troubled car firm are not paid their wages by Monday. Saab says it cannot pay the employees… 23/06/2011
Graffiti: not a blot but pricy art in Stockholm Despite the Swedish capital’s zero tolerance approach to graffiti, a large auction of graffiti works is to be held in Stockholm. Graffiti used to be a… 25/05/2011
Spyker finds new Chinese rescuer for Saab Saab appears to have avoided collapse with a rescue deal involving China’s largest listed car distributor. Saab’s Dutch owner Spyker is to get as much as… 16/05/2011
Saab stake to be sold to China’s Hawtai Saab’s owner Spyker is selling 30 percent of the Swedish marque to Chinese car maker Hawtai for 120 million euros. The Chinese will also loan Spyker 30… 03/05/2011
Sweden ups interest rates to counter inflation Sweden raised its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent. It is the sixth increase in a row as the Swedish central bank moves to cap… 20/04/2011
Swedes convert body heat into central heating Some 250,000 passengers travel through Stockholm’s Central Station each day, producing a lot of wasted body heat. Special heat exchangers have therefore… 20/04/2011
Spyker cash crunch prompts Saab sale-leaseback talks Spyker, the loss-making Dutch owner of Saab, is addressing a cash crunch by moving to sell and then lease back the Swedish carmaker’s factories and other… 11/04/2011
Volvo plans expansion to meet increasing demand Volvo Cars has announced expansion plans, including hiring 1,200 new workers. The Swedish carmaker – which was bought by China’s Geely from Ford last year –… 29/03/2011
Sweden hosts challenging new Iranian art show Iranian art is at the heart of a new event in the Swedish town of Goteborg. Iran today holds one of the most thriving, controversial art scenes… 22/03/2011
Horsemeat forces meatballs off the menu at IKEAThe Swedish furniture giant is the latest company to fall foul of the horsemeat scandal. Meatballs have been pulled from their shelves after Czech inspectors… 25/02/2013
Cleaner not to blame for Swedish train crashSwedish prosecutors have cleared a cleaner of responsibility for a crash in a Stockholm suburb, in which a train ploughed past the end of the line into an… 19/01/2013
Three die in 100 vehicle motorway pile-upSnow has continued to cover large parts of Europe, causing a massive pile-up on a motorway bridge in Sweden which left three people dead. Police estimated… 15/01/2013
Cleaner drives Swedish train and crashes into buildingPolice in Sweden are investigating why a cleaner at a rail depot in a Stockholm suburb drove an empty train – with disastrous results. It smashed through… 15/01/2013
Salvation Army band set for Eurovision glorySwitzerland will send a Salvation Army band to next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The group Heilsarmee was picked to go to next May’s event in Sweden by a… 17/12/2012
Snow chaos hits SwedenSudden snowstorms in Sweden caused transport chaos on Wednesday just as winners of this year’s Nobel prizes were due to arrive. The country’s main airport was… 06/12/2012
Racist sniper jailed for life in SwedenA gunman who shot dead two people during a spate of attacks on foreign-looking indiviuals in the Swedish city of Malmo has been jailed for life. Peter Mangs… 23/11/2012
Sweden’s Princess Madeleine to wedPrincess Madeleine has announced her engagement to British-American boyfriend Christopher O’Neill. 30 year old Madeleine, the youngest child of King Carl… 25/10/2012
Sweden issues warning over dyed porkSweden’s National Food Agency has issued a Europe-wide warning after tonnes of dyed pork meat were discovered being sold as more expensive beef. The agency… 17/10/2012
