Suspense mounts: Nobel season starts today
This year’s Nobel Prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the Peace Prize could go to Egypt’s Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo’s poor, Afghan burqa opponent Sima Samar or American scholar
Swedish convict fools jailers by getting friend to serve term
A man convicted of smuggling in Sweden outwitted his jailers by sneaking in a friend to serve most of his yearlong sentence, prison officials said Friday.
The identity of the false convict was discov
Al-Qaeda trains Norwegian to attack
European security officials say a Norwegian man has received terrorist training from al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen and is awaiting orders to attack the West.
Western intelligence officials have long
Swedish zoo worker killed in wolf attack
A woman zookeeper died after she was savaged in a wolf enclosure, Swedish public radio said on Sunday.
The 30-year-old woman was alone with eight wolves at Kolmarden Zoo, one of the largest in northe
Volvo Q1 profit down, but better than expected
Volvo, the world's second-largest truck maker, reported on Thursday a slight drop in first quarter net profit, though the figure was better than analysts had expected.
From January to March, Volvo po
It's everyone for himself on sinking ships
A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is ‘a myth’ and more men generally survive such disasters than women and
Syria crops sheltered in Arctic doomsday vault
Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural dis
Isinbayeva sets new indoor pole vault world mark
Russia's Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva set a new indoor pole vault world record on Thursday with a clearance of 5.01metres.
The 29-year-old had held the previous best of five metres set in Donet
WikiLeaks eyes leak showing Sweden's Bildt is US spy: Report
WikiLeaks aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy as part of a 'smear campaign' to stop Sweden from extraditing founder Julian Assange to the United St
Swede rescued after months in snow-covered car: Police
A man was pulled alive from a snowed-in car on a deserted forest road in northern Sweden where he had been stranded and without food for at least two months in freezing temperatures, police said on Sa