In Sweden, not even a soon-to-be-married princess can get away with breaking the traffic rules.

Clapping solemnly, dignitaries in Norway paid tribute to Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo – with an empty chair.

Stockholm has been dressed up in flowers, flags and royal portraits for today’s fairytale wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and gym owner Daniel Westling.

Stockholm has been dressed up in flowers, flags and royal portraits for today’s fairytale wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and gym owner Daniel Westling.

Princess Madeleine of Sweden has broke off her engagement to lawyer Jonas Bergstrom, the Royal Court announced today.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

Jazz veteran Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich were awarded Sweden's top music prize from the country's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony on Monday.

American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, honoured in Sweden for his work on how information stored within a gene is copied and transferred to the parts of cells that produce proteins.

The surviving members of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin received the prestigious Polar Music Prize from Sweden’s king today in the city where they recorded their final studio album 27 years ago.

Led Zeppelin and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev were today named winners of the 2006 Polar Music Prize.

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees was tonight awarded a £290,000 (€430,000) science prize with two Americans.

Prince Rainier III of Monaco is to be laid to rest today beside his late wife, the American film star Grace Kelly, in the cathedral where they were married a half century ago.

MONACO prepared to say farewell to long-time ruler Prince Rainier with a solemn funeral in the Mediterranean statelet’s cathedral, attended by a smattering of European royals and political figures.

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.

This year’s Nobel Prize laureates gathered in Stockholm today to reap the rewards of their often lifelong work and research.

They have made, as Alfred Nobel declared more than 100 years ago, some of the greatest discoveries and contributions to help mankind.

Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria has joined the army.