The European Union is reportedly threatening to hold back Britain's final €5.6bn rebate payment from Brussels as part of negotiations over the so-called Brexit "divorce" bill.

Theresa May said she hoped the European Union would respond "positively" to her approach to Brexit as senior Brussels figures warned trade talks may not be given the green light in December.

Latest: A homemade bomb has been found in the hijacked truck used to kill four people and wound 15 others in Stockholm, according to local media reports.

An Irish-Swedish woman who witnessed yesterday’s suspected terrorist attack in Stockholm has recalled her fear when she heard the impact of a truck hitting a high street store.

Three people have died and 20 others are injured after a bus carrying students to a ski resort crashed in central Sweden, rescue officials said.

Figure is just half of last year’s record number of 163,000 arrivals

A knife-wielding masked man stabbed four people at a school in southern Sweden, killing a teacher and a student before being shot dead by police, authorities said.

A teacher has been killed and two students seriously injured after a masked man attacked a school in southern Sweden.

Thousands now expected to flood into Sweden to seek asylum.

Sweden has confirmed that a small foreign submarine illegally entered its waters last month, though it is still unclear which country was behind the intrusion, officials said.

Barack Obama has conceded it "may be appropriate" to choose an Ebola "tsar" to lead the US response against the disease.

Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced he will resign after his centre-right coalition lost a parliamentary election to a left-leaning opposition led by the Social Democrats.