FOUR founders and financiers of filesharing site The Pirate Bay, who last year were sentenced to a year in prison, opened their appeal bid to get the verdict overturned in Stockholm yesterday.

A SWEDISH art student was fined 2,500 kronor (€245) for faking mental illness for an art project.

A Swedish art student was fined 2,500 kronor (€245.45) today for faking mental illness for an art project.

Swedish security police said tonight they had arrested a man suspected of being a spy, but did not give any details on the case.

Former ABBA members Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson went to court today in a failed attempt to settle a dispute about who wrote the script to one of their musicals, Swedish media reported.

A court in Stockholm today rejected the defence’s request for a review of the psychiatric evaluation of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh’s confessed killer, prompting prosecutors to demand a sentence of life in prison.

Swedish prosecutors today charged a man with the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, setting the stage for a trial later this week.

A Swedish mobile phone company engineer who sold secrets to the Russians was jailed for eight years today.