The former police officer turned parliamentarian Timo Vornanen has been on sick leave since his suspected involvement in a shooting incident outside a karaoke bar in Helsinki at the end of last month.
There were positive reactions among people at Stockholm Central Station, to the Swedish central bank's decision to lower their key interest rate. ”It will benefit both my economy and the economy of the whole country”, says Viktor...
Just over a year ago, researchers in Lund injected 7 million lab-grown braincells into a patient with Parkinson's disease. Today, Thomas Matsson is able to skate and go downhill skiing, and his golfing handicap is improving. ”It's an...
The police in central Gothenburg are using a new method to stop suspected criminal gang members from gathering in certain public places in the city. A law was passed in February which gave prosecutors, following an application from the...
Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, has cut its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.75%. Wednesday's interest rate cut is the first by the Riksbank in over eight years and is seen as a sign of renewed confidence that...
Much of the media coverage ahead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö has been on security measures, with a tense international situation combined with a high terror threat level meaning police are highly visible on the...
The Norwegian salmon farming company Lerøy Seafood Group estimates that approximately 14 thousand salmon over seven kilos have escaped from the aquarium of the subsidiary of Lerøy Midt in Reitholmen, Fillifjord. The farming area was one...
The Norwegian Parliament’s disciplinary committee is criticizing Norway’s police intelligence agency PST for failing to follow up warnings of a terrorist attack on the country’s Pride celebrations in Oslo in June 2022....
Artist Vilhelmina Trost is making a zoo-critical short film as her graduation project at Animationsakademin in Stockholm. Her intention with the film is to keep the conversation going about the morality of having animals in zoos. The...
The Sweden Democrats ran a so-called ”troll factory” to produce and spread propaganda in social media before the 2018 Swedish general election, TV4 programme Kalla Fakta reveals. The Sweden Democrats continue to operate anonymous social...
The contest's semi-final starts on Tuesday in Malmö, Sweden as hundreds of police officers gear up for anticipated protests against Israel's war in Gaza.
Two people have died in a fire at an apartment block in Östersund, early Tuesday. The two who died are said by police to be a man and a woman in their seventies. Emergency services received the alarm shortly before 1:30 a.m. and the...
Only six percent of Sweden's roughly 1,000 judges who oversee criminal cases have gone on additional training courses to learn more about sex crimes, domestic violence or children in the judicial proceedings, a Swedish Radio P4 Halland...
Mari Järsk, Andri Guðmundsson, and Elísa Kristinsdóttir broke the Icelandic record in the Iceland Backyard Ultra in Öskjuhlíð today when they finished 51 laps. They have been running since nine o’clock on Saturday morning.
Norwegian police have been sent to Malmö in southern Sweden to help Swedish police with security at this week’s Eurovision Song Contest. Danish police are also taking part, because of terrorism concerns. Swedish broadcaster SVT,...
Norway’s powerful farm lobby is once again demanding far more state funding than even the current farmer-friendly government is offering. That sets the stage for more organized protests, at a time when consumers face empty egg...
A new government bill would allow Ukrainian refugees to enter into a labour market introduction programme, which would raise their daily allowances from 71 to 308 kronor. This would apply for those who have spent a year in Sweden, and...
The inflation at Svartsengi is stable and there are now about twelve million cubic metres of magma in the magma chamber. A slight increase in seismic activity at the magma channel has been seen in the last few days. This is what Minney...
The police presence in Malmö is high ahead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, being held in the city this week. Sweden's representatives this year are the Norwegian duo Marcus and Martinus. When asked about the controversy...
A Lieutenant General with the Finnish Defence Forces told the British business daily that Finland is stepping up its already high level of preparedness in the face of an "increasingly aggressive Russia".
Intelligence services around Europe are warning their governments of intensified Russian attempts at violent acts of sabotage across the continent, according to the Financial Times. Sweden's prime minister Ulf Kristersson confirmed to...
Some 1,500 musicians and industry professionals signed the open letter calling on the Finnish public to avoid this week's Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).
A high police presence, and cordoned off areas affecting traffic are some of the things locals and visitors to Malmö can expect during Eurovision week. Ulf Nilsson, Security Chief at the city of Malmö, underlines the no-handbag rule and...