On the eve of Thursday's announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature, punters seemed to favour a winner from other countries than the United States.

Filipa Reinfeldt, a Moderate Party politician and wife of Sweden's Prime Minister, has been named to the board of a minority owner in one of the country's major daily newspapers.

The day after his funeral, friends and family of Ahmed Ibrahim are still wondering why the 23-year-old was stabbed to death in a Stockholm suburb and why the case has drawn such limited attention.

Christine Schurrer, on trial for the murder of two toddlers, admitted in court today that she lied or withheld the truth during questioning in an effort to keep details from police.

As anticipation mounts in the final hours of the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Swedes remain captivated by the spectacle of US politics.

An early boost in U.S. stock indexes tailed off to the close Monday with major boards ending with modest declines.

Debate in Sweden is growing ever hotter over a proposed law that will make it easier for law enforcement to track down those suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted material from the internet.

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Sweden's largest morning paper, Dagens Nyheter , formally applied for state-sponsored press subsidies on Friday.

The Swedish union of journalists has accused the EU Commission of colluding with media firm Bonniers against the system of press subsidies.

I can't imagine the British government, or the British newspaper industry, following the model for dealing with failing newspapers in Sweden where state subsidies are handed out to papers that lose sales.

The Swedish government has announced a raft of new proposals to fight the sex trade and organized crime.

Police suspect Swedish neo- Nazi groups of burning down a Stockholm cultural centre and setting fire to an apartment occupied by a young family in two separate arson attacks in the last week.

Child healthcare in Stockholm has declined to the levels of the 1950s, according to a leading paediatrician, who is advising families with sick children to move out of the Swedish capital.

NEW YORK Any user of a handheld device will now be able to access production figures on the go via MWM CopyTrack software from the Pittsburgh-based MWM System Inc.

Osama bin Laden is on record saying he would never bomb Sweden - so why is it introducing one of the most draconian anti-terror laws in Europe? Sweden has long been known as a model liberal democracy.

CT Mobile Puts Production Data into Handheld Devices Editor & Publisher - Dec 11, 2008 ... New York's Daily News, Spain's El Mundo, Australia's Fairfax group, Finland's Helsingen Sanomat and Sweden's Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet.

David Landes takes a look at how Sweden's papers reacted to the idea of charging fees to non-European students who wish to study at Swedish universities.