Thursday, July 17, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Highly educated migrants are underutilised in Sweden, says the employer organisation Almega's chief economist Patrick Joyce. According to figures from Statistics Sweden, 17,000 people born outside Europe aged between 25 and 65 emigrated...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Certain weather conditions, such as high pressure fronts, can cause a radio signal to travel further than it normally would.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The biggest hotel chain in the Nordic region, Scandic Hotels, have announced that they will soon start charging extra for breakfast. It's long been tradition in Sweden for hotels to include breakfast in the nightly rate. Scandic Hotels...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Migrants from outside Europe who leave Sweden often have a tertiary education, according to figures Statistics Sweden has collated for Radio Sweden. One factor for them deciding to leave Sweden could be difficulties finding work that...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Swedish rapper C.Gambino was shot in a parking garage in Gothenburg last summer, and later died from his injuries. Now three men have been handed long prison sentences for complicity in the rapper's murder, with one receiving a life...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Feedback heard from jobseekers reflect a common sentiment — they feel completely alone, a recruiter says.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
"Parents at least need to be by the edge of the pool. Watching from a couple hundred metres away is not supervision," lifeguard Daniel Kass said.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The growth in numbers of the once highly endangered species was spurred by hunting quota caps and bans on certain environmentally hazardous substances.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Unemployment in Sweden has risen from 6.6% to 6.9% in a year, according to the Public Employment Service's calculations based on the number of people registered with the service. Some sectors have been hit harder than others, for example...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
An Yle investigation finds that all of the interns at the Institute for International Affairs over the past five years had significantly more educational experience than Oliver Stubb.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Experts say the tick population has grown significantly as Finland’s environmental conditions have become steadily more favourable for them.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Iraqi police have arrested a key figure in the Foxtrot criminal organisation, reports Swedish Radio's P3 Krim programme. SVT was first to report on the arrest. The arrested man is in his mid-20s and can be linked to several killings in...Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
There are currently an estimated 46,000 Ukrainian citizens receiving temporary protection in Finland.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The months-long industrial dispute led to a significant decline in the national airline’s operating result for the second quarter of this year.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Finland's Social Democrats hold a strong lead over Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s National Coalition Party, according to Helsingin Sanomat.Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from Radio Sweden
New research on 'forest bathing', a practice originating in Japan, is being carried out in Stockholm. Previous studies show that people with stress-related illnesses and anxiety can benefit from forest bathing. The practice involves...Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Finnish Border Guard detained a former Wagner Group fighter from Russia in mid-June, after he illegally crossed the border and applied for asylum.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
English-speakers in Gothenburg who struggle with Swedish have been allowed to donate blood since February and the response since has been described as "very positive". More blood donor nurses are being taught English medical jargon to...Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
"He said that it was impulsive — a spur-of-the moment idea," detective chief inspector Mikko Minkkinen explains.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The contracts of 10 nurses and two doctors working in the region were terminated by local healthcare authorities during their probationary periods.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Population increases in the summer months are one of the factors leading to water shortages in popular Swedish tourist towns, according to a survey by Swedish Radio's local P4 channels. Among them is Borgholm on the island of Öland,...Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
An expert estimated that wet weather may have softened the road, and vibrations from drilling could have contributed to the collapse.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
A dentist with a degree from Syria but with a Swedish license was judged not to be qualified for a job by two employers because their degree was not from a Swedish university. The dentist complained and the Equality Ombudsman fined the...Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Both vehicles caught fire following the collision.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Swedish hard rock and metal music is now more successful abroad than Swedish pop, according to new figures from Spotify. Pop and dance music accounted for much of the Swedish music industry's international success in the 2000s. But now...Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
EU ministers for foreign trade held a special meeting on Monday. Meanwhile, the bloc's trade commissioner warns that all trade with the US is at risk of collapsing. The EU is continuing to negotiate with the US, but is simultaneously...Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Finnish president said Donald Trump's 50-day ceasefire deadline —and the threat of more sanctions — are key in forcing Russia to the negotiating table.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
‘Hot weather’ is when the daily high exceeds 27 degrees Celsius with an average temperature of at least 20 degrees, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The proportion of people identifying as right-wing is now at its highest level in the history of their surveys, according to the Finnish Business and Policy Forum.Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Södertälje is one of the Swedish municipalities worst impacted by illegal waste management and garbage dumping. Authorities there have for around a year worked with Italian anti-mafia police, who've dealt with similar offending — but the...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Prior to discharging the firearm, officers tried using a taser, a police dog and a less-than-lethal riot gun to subdue the suspect.Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
A Swedish district court today convicted a 16-year-old boy of, among other things, serious attempted blackmail and accessory to attempted murder. The teen who denied wrongdoing and was living in Spain at the time, is said to have...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The YouTuber arrived on Monday afternoon, bringing many fans to downtown Helsinki as he live-streamed the chaos surrounding him.Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Now is the season for swimming and spending time in the sea. But peeing in the waters of the Baltic Sea can have a negative environmental impact. Anna Björn, a biologist and manager of the Baltic Sea Science Center at Stockholm's Skansen...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Stockholm's metro is often dubbed the "world's longest art gallery," with 95 of its 100 underground and overground stations decorated with paintings, murals, engravings and other forms of artistic expression. But while the thousands of...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
While most of the country may bask in sunshine and heat, local conditions could vary dramatically in the southwest due to thunderstorms.Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
One reason the region has relatively heavier people is that there are more passenger vehicles there — with 612 cars for every 1,000 residents.Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Sweden's women's national football team pulled off a huge 4-1 victory against Germany in their last group match at Euro 2025 over the weekend. And now Sweden will face England in the quarter-finals on Thursday night. At the last Euros,...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The Swedish government says the White House's threatened 30 per cent import tariffs against the EU are "regrettable". Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson writes on social media that the government backs the European Commission's aim of a...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The planned facility by Finland's famed confectionery brand is expected to bring two million euros in additional tax revenue to the city of Lahti.Monday, July 14, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
One economist says the problem isn't that people don't want to work, but there aren't enough job openings in Finland.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Six men in Hrísey began a knitting course with retired textile teacher Svanhildur Daníelsdóttir on February 1st—and a seventh joined later. The project: to knit a traditional Icelandic lopapeysa sweater for themselves. They completed the...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
A heatwave is expected across much of the country tomorrow, according to Haraldur Eiríksson, meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, who says temperatures could exceed 20°C in all regions.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Negotiations dragged on for over six months, during which Finnair cancelled more than 1,200 flights due to industrial action.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The season is not only off to a strong start, but the fungi are appearing unusually early, says one mushroom expert.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Weather warnings for heat are in effect in the north, while in the south there are warnings for heavy rain and thunderstorms.Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
A firearm was discharged inside a hotel room in Reykjavík last night.Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
An agreement has been reached on the official adjournment of Parliament, according to Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir, Speaker of Alþingi. The final parliamentary session before the summer recess will take place on Monday, July 14.Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Þorsteinn Roy Halldórsson successfully defended his title, winning the Laugavegur Ultra Marathon for the second year in a row. Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir claimed victory in the women’s category for the fifth consecutive year.Saturday, July 12, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, chair of the Independence Party, says she views it as extremely serious that the People's Party requested a memo from the parliamentary office concerning the origin and use of Article 71 of the parliamentary...