Sweden’s H&M, the second-biggest fashion retailer in the world, has reported its steepest sales growth in three years in local-currency terms in its third quarter and said that its summer collections had been well received.

Swedish police officers shot and wounded a man who was banging a bag on the ground and claiming to have a bomb at a railway station in the city of Malmo, authorities and a witness have said.

19 people have been injured after an explosion ripped through two apartment buildings in the south of Sweden.

It will involve a series of engagements in Dublin, Westmeath, Galway and Clare, and include a meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and President Michael D Higgins.

Ikea has appointed the third head of its UK and Ireland business in under two years, as the flatpack furniture store targets city centres.

Two activists linked to the Russian protest group Pussy Riot have successfully appealed against their rejected asylum application and received shelter in Sweden, Swedish broadcaster SVT has reported.

Swedish royal treasure from 1611 that was stolen last year from a cathedral might have been found, officials say.

In its statement, Region Uppsala said it was so far "only a matter of suspicion", adding: "Other diseases are quite possible."

Sweden’s central bank says it wants all banks, and not just the biggest financial institutions, to be obliged to handle cash, as politicians seek ways to limit the country’s rapid development into a cashless society.

Sweden is recovering after a very tense election night. The centre-right and the centre-left blocs have effectively secured very similar shares of the vote, but neither have come away with quite enough leverage to form a strong government alone.

Ryanair passengers are facing even more disruption after pilots in Belgium announced that thye will hold a strike on August 10.

The recent dramatic protest by Swedish student Elin Errson, who delayed a flight in a bid to prevent an Afghan man from being deported to a perilous future in the country he had fled, is an excellent illustration of how to act responsibly – and shows us why there is no excuse for passivity.

A Swedish student activist has prevented the deportation of an Afghan asylum-seeker by buying a ticket for the flight scheduled to remove him and refusing to sit down, preventing the plane from taking off.

England have made it through to their first World Cup semi-final in 28 years thanks to goals from Harry Maguire and Dele Alli against stoic Sweden today.

While England’s supporters savour the satisfaction of ending their penalty hoodoo, a quite different test lies in store on Saturday in Samara.

Four mouth-watering ties to look forward to.

Sweden’s coach Janne Andersson reflected on his side’s unlikely journey to the quarter-finals of the World Cup – without talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovich — and said it is all about teamwork as exemplified by Emil Forsberg, who scored the game’s only goal.

Germany 2 Sweden 1

Toni Kroos scored deep into stoppage time to revive Germany's fading World Cup hopes with a dramatic 2-1 win over Sweden this evening.

A two-kilometre electrified road is being tested in Sweden to enable fossil-free transport.

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of preparing "an act of terror" in Sweden.

An internal fight among members of the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature is spilling on to the streets of Sweden.

Real-life "care bears" in Sweden have responded to human hunting by increasing the time they look after their cubs, researchers have found.

Victory tonight will see Ireland reach the finals for the first time since 2002.

Italy 0 Sweden 0

A powerful explosion outside a police station in southern Sweden has caused significant damage to the building.

The Danish owner of a home-built submarine said a missing Swedish journalist died onboard in an accident and he buried her at sea in an unspecified location, according to police.

A Swedish music festival that saw performances by Kanye West, Robbie Williams and Iron Maiden has cancelled 2018's event after a rape was reported.

A Swedish appeals court has increased the sentences for three men convicted over a gang rape which was streamed live on a closed Facebook group.

Police in Sweden are hunting for a driver who rammed a truck into a cab in Stockholm and then fled.

A Swedish airport has been evacuated according to local media reports.

Uzbekistan has provided information about the Uzbek man alleged to have killed four people when he drove a lorry into a crowd in the centre of Stockholm.

Even in a Europe challenged by Friday’s fatal truck attack in Stockholm and Saturday night’s controlled explosion in a subway in Norway’s capital Oslo the decision by the Basque separatist group Eta to surrender its weapons to “civil society” in France must be welcomed.