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The offshore financial dealings of the rich and famous have been exposed by a cache of 11.5 million leaked records, an international coalition of media outlets said.

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize in literature for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage”.

Two people were killed and one seriously injured in a knife attack at an Ikea store in the city of Vasteras, Sweden, about an hour west of the capital, Stockholm, police said yesterday.

A shooting inside a restaurant in Sweden’s second largest city has left two people dead and injured up to 15 more.

GERMANY: A court has ruled that a tenant who likes to pee standing up does not owe his landlord money for damages caused by splashing or missing his target altogether.

A group of leading European broadcasters were in Ireland for the past two days as guests of the Irish Film Board (IFB).

THE Government thinks we are too thick to understand the site value tax.

Trustees of bankrupt Saab Automobile said today that they have received several potential bids from international and Swedish investors looking to rescue the car maker from insolvency.

A COURT in Ethiopia yesterday sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism after the two illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group in a case that has been criticised by media rights groups.

European leaders have urged Egyptian authorities to protect reporters covering the country’s crisis.

Wikileaks supporters are downloading increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile - a development that could challenge even internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.

SWEDEN’S election was heading for a nail-biting finish yesterday with a TV exit poll and partial results showing a far-right party challenging the centre-right government’s majority in Parliament.

Fulham are set to step up the search for their new manager – with Ajax boss Martin Jol and Sven-Goran Eriksson reportedly now heading the club’s shortlist.

Fulham's hopes of luring Sven Goran Eriksson to Craven Cottage could be in jeopardy after the Swede revealed he is considering an offer to extend his contract as Ivory Coast manager.

All the ships trapped in thick ice in the Baltic Sea have now been freed.

Actor Stellan Skarsgard says that he is no big fan of Dan Brown’s writing and accepted a role in 'Angels and Demons' only after reading the script based on Brown’s book.

A forecast based on the first partial results in Sweden’s parliamentary election today showed the Social Democratic-led bloc in a dead heat with the centre-right opposition alliance, national broadcaster SVT said.

Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT today faced ridicule for mistakenly showing a porn movie in the background of a news broadcast over the weekend.

Two female television producers from Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT are missing after failing to return from a safari to the Kalahari desert in Botswana, the network said today.

Swedish police are to re-question some witnesses in the unsolved case of the 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme after new information emerged in a TV documentary, the lead investigator said today.

Little progress has been made in terms of women’s equality in the workplace and portrayal in the media, a EU conference concluded today, on the eve of International Women’s Day.

Sweden greeted the new year with a national day of mourning today, flying flags at half mast and lighting candles for 3,500 of its citizens still missing in Thailand.

Technicians at Sweden’s state television have unearthed an unexpected delight for rock lovers – a complete original recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert in Stockholm from 1969 on a tape long thought to have been destroyed.

The European Union’s massive democratic exercise of electing its new parliament was marked by widespread apathy and protest votes as citizens of the 25 EU nations punished their governments for everything from high unemployment to involvement in Iraq.

In a rare interview on Swedish television, reclusive film director Ingmar Bergman has said he hates to watch his own movies and regrets that his fame has meant that collaborators are afraid to give him honest criticism.