In a stirring speech, King Carl Gustaf called on Sweden’s nine million people today to draw together amid the uncertainty over the nation’s death toll in the Asian tsunami.

More than 1,000 Swedish tourists may have been killed by the devastating tsunamis, Prime Minister Goeran Persson said today.

Improving transatlantic ties between Europe and the US was a key issue for many leaders today whomever US voters send to the White House.

World leaders expressed horror at the bloody climax of Russia’s hostage crisis today, saying the barbaric attack on school children showed terrorists have sunk to new lows.

Prime Minister Goeran Persson today appointed a new foreign minister to replace Anna Lindh, who was stabbed to death last month while shopping with a friend in a Stockholm department store.