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.

A masked man who attacked a school in southern Sweden, injuring at least one person, has been shot by police.

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Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, has died aged 67.

A man has died after at least one gunman opened fire on a cafe in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, which was hosting a freedom of speech debate.

A Russian military jet nearly collided with a commercial passenger airplane in international airspace near southern Sweden on Friday, Swedish authorities said, but Russia insisted its jet had kept at a safe distance.

Six months after staggering through college, and confused as to my future prospects, I took a working post in southern Sweden. 

Residents in Clontarf, Dublin, woke up this morning to discover they'd been invaded - again - by a horde of vikings, 1,000 years after the last Battle of Clontarf.

The savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts that hit Britain also struck western Europe, causing at least 15 deaths.

The savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts that hit Britain and western Europe, causing at least nine deaths, including six in Germany.

Farmers in Sweden have found a new ally in protecting their sheep from wolves – llamas.

Rihanna has been forced to cancel a show in Sweden due to exhaustion for a second time this week.

Heavy snow caused chaos across Europe today, shutting down airport runways, forcing fast trains to a crawl and leaving cars skidding through icy, slushy streets on a weekend where many people were trying to head home for the holidays.

SWEDISH police have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of a series of shootings of people with immigrant backgrounds in southern Sweden.

Swedish police have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of a series of shootings of people with immigrant backgrounds in southern Sweden.

The home of a Swedish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog has been hit by a suspected arson attack, police said today.

A woman and three children died in a house fire in southern Sweden, police said today.

A plane with 63 people on board lost air pressure after an object hit its windshield and was forced to make an emergency landing at Sweden’s Landvetter airport, officials said today.

A bitterly cold winter storm gripped parts of Europe today, leaving at least three sailors dead after a ship sank and thousands of travellers stranded at airports, on snowy mountain roads and in remote villages.

THE MOST frequently mentioned name in the history of science is that of the botanist Carl Linné.

Two passenger ferries collided today in a Danish port, injuring four people and damaging the ships that ply a narrow strait between Denmark and southern Sweden.

SWEDISH authorities are trying to solve the puzzle surrounding a man calling himself a “stateless American” who was found floating on a raft in the waters between Denmark and Norway on Friday.

Swedish authorities were today trying to solve the puzzle surrounding a man calling himself a “stateless American” who was found floating on a raft in the waters between Denmark and Norway yesterday.

A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in wild birds in southern Sweden, authorities said today.

Birgit Nilsson, whose prodigious voice, unrivalled stamina and thrilling high notes made her the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the post-Second World War era, has died. She was 87.

A 35-year-old man with a loaded pistol in his luggage has been arrested at an airport in southern Sweden, police said today.

A Swedish man who was assumed dead after disappearing off the Norwegian coast two years ago stunned authorities this week when he showed up at a routine traffic stop in Sweden.

They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of a home for the elderly in southern Sweden had to deal with both when a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises.

A Ryanair Boeing 737 with 111 people aboard made an emergency landing in southern Sweden after an engine failure, rescue officials said today.

A Swedish judge who admitted soliciting prostitutes at a brothel was today fired by a disciplinary board.

A rejected asylum seeker surrendered today after holding his own son hostage for 24 hours at a hospital in southern Sweden, officials said.

Two people were killed and some 14,000 homes were without power after a winter storm lashed Sweden.

Fierce storms left more than 250,000 homes and businesses across northern Europe without power today as crews from Russia to Ireland began cleaning up the wreckage.

At least ten people were killed and hundreds of thousands were without power when a storm with hurricane-strength winds swept through northern Europe late yesterday and early today.

At least two people were killed and 40 were injured after a commuter train collided with a truck at a crossing in southern Sweden today.

ABOUT 47,000 chickens were destroyed at a farm in southern Sweden yesterday, after routine tests found at least one of the birds had salmonella, a bacteria that can cause illness in humans.

A camel on the run stopped traffic on a road in the middle of a snowstorm in southern Sweden.

A massive blackout hit Italy today, cutting power to millions of Italians who woke up to find their phone lines silent and their televisions black.