What a difference one teenage girl and one year makes.

Sweden’s greatest unsolved murder mystery has taken another twist — revelations that the Swedish crime blockbuster novelist, Stieg Larsson, had sent police evidence linking prime minister Olof Palme’s 1986 murder to South Africa.

While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange battles to stay in Britain, Sweden is incensed he has belittled one of the world’s most respected justice systems and questioned a nation famed for welcoming — not extraditing — political refugees.

England’s World Cup rivals Sweden have appointed scouts to watch each of their three opponents in Germany this summer.

Two British scientists and an American researcher today won this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.