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After guiding Sweden to their first major football tournament for six years, Swedish coach Erik Hamrén has promised that Sweden approach at Euro 2012 will be to "try to win... with as positive and attack-minded play as possible".

Swedish ferry the Stena Spirit was involved in an accident in the Polish harbour of Gdynia on Thursday morning which left a damaged crane and three port employees requiring hospital treatment.

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TTXGP European Championship Season Opening in Sweden this weekend. Reigning Champion MUENCH once again aims for Championship In line with the 2012 TTXGP European Championship, all e-motorcycles teams will officially participate in their first race on May 18th, 2012 and May 19th, 2012.

The article in Patch 's "Where in Encino?" series, on the historic oak tree stump on Louise Avenue, caused many of you to write in with your memories of the old oak.

Swedish trade union Unionen has opened legal action against a firm from Pitea in northern Sweden on behalf of two employees fired after posting "threatening" comments against a manager on Facebook.

Eight teenagers were arrested on Wednesday night on suspicion of offences including throwing stones at police, vandalism and setting fire to a school in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta.

Swedish police on Wednesday launched a new search operation for a 26-year-old Czech man believed to have gone missing near Jokkmokk in northern Sweden after apparently abandoning his white Ford Mustang.

Swedish trade union Unionen has opened legal action against a firm from Piteå in northern Sweden on behalf of two employees fired after posting "threatening" comments against a manager on Facebook.

Nuclear Blast Records has announced the signing of Swedish doom metal kings WITCHCRAFT .

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Young people are forced to choose an educational path early in life. International trends in the educational sector have led to reduced opportunities to change direction later on, according to a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sweden needs to change rules that strip foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH).

Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.

With Sweden's comedian of the year Al Pitcher releasing his first book this week, The Local catches up with him to find out more, and we preview our first ever "Local Lockdown" video segment.

The highly publicized appeal of a Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics convicted of child pornography crimes was brought up in Sweden's Supreme Court on Wednesday, to an auditorium filled to the rafters.

Close to 3 million Swedes will be watching the upcoming stock market debut of Facebook with added interest after news emerged Thursday that a major Swedish pension fund planned to invest in the social networking site.

William Petzäll, an independent Swedish MP who quit the Sweden Democrats last year amidst a battle with substance abuse, was convicted on Wednesday of drugs crimes.

A man in Sweden who went to a Stockholm beauty clinic to have fat reducing treatment has reported the salon after his agonizing 25 minute procedure became a "catastrophic" experience.

A Fiat 500 frozen in time by Google Maps in front of Volkswagen's headquarters in Sweden has been hailed as a public relations coup for the Italian automaker, despite an alternate explanation for the pic from its German rival.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.

William Petzall , an independent Swedish MP who quit the Sweden Democrats last year amidst a battle with substance abuse, was convicted on Wednesday of drugs crimes.

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, invites business people, students, innovators and other individuals to apply for the first IFS Innovation Award-"from idea to business value". IFS is looking for a conceptual idea of how to apply technology in a new and innovative way to increase business value.

A Swedish woman who went on a sun-soaked retreat sporting a newly acquired bikini and came back with serious burns under her breasts is suspecting that the underwiring in her bra caused her bust injury.

Six out of ten mosques in Sweden gave women advice about how to deal with spousal abuse and polygamy that contradicted Swedish law, a new investigation has revealed.

A Swedish woman who went on a sun-soaked retreat sporting a newly acquired bikini and came back with serious burns under her breasts is suspecting that the underwiring in her bra caused her bust injury.

The lawyer of the Swedish safari guide charged with the murder of 13 people in the Central African Republic, has blamed Ugandan rebels for the gruesome killings.

A man who in April pretended to be a policeman and asked a "cute" Swedish woman for her phone number was arrested by police on Tuesday for impersonating a police officer.

The growth of the Swedish economy is vulnerable due to its exposure to weak European economies, International Monetary Fund wrote in a report released on Tuesday.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully today announced the closure of the Stockholm embassy in Sweden as part of $10 million of savings in the Ministry's European posts.

Sadness brought extended family together in Bastad today as the Swedish and Danish royals gathered for the funeral of the late Count Carl Johan Bernadotte.

MusicPix.net recently conducted an interview with bassist PA r SundstrA m of Swedish metallers SABATON .

The "Swedish" national who was arrested in Kenya on suspicions of having links to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabaab turned out not to be Swedish at all but Swiss.

The guests at an exclusive hotel in central Stockholm were forced to leave on Tuesday afternoon, with six fire engines currently fighting the blaze in the adjacent building.

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On Tuesday the suspected serial killer Peter Mangs denied the court's charges of the murder of 20-year-old Trez West Persson and the attempted murder of 22-year-old Xhafer Dani.

An African citizen resident in Örebro was arrested in central Sweden on Monday on the suspicion of intelligence gathering activities against Sweden's national security.

A Swedish teenage girl, shopping at a discount department store in southern Sweden, was allegedly subjected to shopping cart rage when a 40-year-old woman rammed her with her trolley after a perceived insult.

Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is facing a storm of criticism from several quarters after using the term "ethnic Swedes" in response to a question about Sweden's high level of unemployment.

University of Colorado environmental studies professor Roger Pielke Jr. has been awarded an honorary doctorate of philosophy from Linkoping University, one of Sweden's top universities.

Well played, Fiat. By paying attention to when Google's fleet of camera cars were snooping around Sodertalje, where Volkswagen's Swedish operations are headquartered, Fiat zinged their rival good.

This exceptional penthouse loft is located in Ostermalm, a city district of Stockholm, Sweden.

Legendary Swedish grinders NASUM played the first concert of their "farewell" tour this past Friday, May 11 at Kulturhuset in Orebro, Sweden.

Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is facing a storm of criticism from several quarters after using the term "ethnic Swedes" in response to a question about Sweden's high level of unemployment.

A new doctoral thesis from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, explores the issue of double taxation in connection with international transactions.

A doctor in southern Sweden has reported a woman to the police after she blackmailed him for over one million kronor following their love affair.

Striker Johan Elmander is called up to Sweden's 23-man Euro 2012 squad despite a fracturing a metatarsal playing for Galatasary.

Reticulated dragonet have been found in Väderöarna – "Weather Islands" – off the west coast of Sweden. It is not often that a new species of fish is discovered in Sweden.

With 6.6% of voters backing them, the Sweden Democrats have grown to be Sweden's fourth-largest party, showed the latest voting poll from research institute Sifo.

Eric XIV of Sweden John III of Sweden Katharina Vasa Cecilia, Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern Magnus, Duke of stergtland Anna Maria, Countess Palatine of Veldenz Sophia, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg Elizabeth, Duchess Mecklenburg-Gadebusch Charles IX of Sweden 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death.