Malmo, Sweden News

Israel embarked on its charmed 2009 Davis Cup run with a 3-2 first-round win over Sweden that will be remembered more for its attendant political controversy than any on-court action.

Five Afghan teenagers found wandering in a cold Swedish forest on Christmas Eve had been kicked off a train, authorities say.

Immigration cops decked an asylum-seeking groom with pepper spray before he could say 'I do' in a suspected bogus marriage.

Astrid Svangren, Vad jag minns..., 2009 © Courtesy of the artist and ELASTIC, Malmo and Garlleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.

What's on in Sweden: Choral Christmas in Stockholm, a New Year's Eve run in Gothenburg and get your skates on in Malmo.

Young Swedes have ever more fluid definitions of sex and sexuality, according to a new study from Malmo University in southern Sweden.

By Joydeep Gupta, Copenhagen, Dec 18 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday got a taste of what the average New Delhi resident has to go through every so often - his cavalcade was stuck in traffic as the Danish police cordoned off the route taken by US President Barack Obama, according to one of the officials travelling with the prime minister.

Sad to read this week that we're at the end of the line for Sweden's Saab - as GM failed to find a suitable buyer and decided to shut the company down.

The world has descended on Copenhagen ... or it certainly feels that way. Rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty suddenly took on a new meaning as space dried up at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen, where climate-change negotiations are taking place.

At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the question, when it comes to the world of faith, is not, "Who is in the Danish capital for 11 critical days in December?" but "Who is not here?" - writes Peter Kenny On the streets of Copenhagen, the world's faith leaders and many hundreds of organizations linked to them are all blasting out ...

Jeremy Kalin is in Denmark along with a group of other young lawmakers to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen-based architectural firm of Bjarke Ingels Group , featured in Record's Vanguard issue has expanded its partnership as of December 1. Ingels, who founded the firm in 2005, now has five full partners: Thomas Christoffersen, Jakob Lange, Finn Nrkjaer, Andreas Klok Pedersen, and David Zahle.

Bristol's council leader Barbara Janke is flying out to Copenhagen next week for a mini-summit on global warming.

Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder and chief executive officer of Boston-Power Inc., participated in the Technology Working Group at the Road to Copenhagen Conference in Malmo, Sweden, yesterday, the company said.

A PROFESSIONAL dancer who began his career at a Scarborough ballet school has died aged 43.

Police in Sweden arrested seven people on Monday morning for their suspected role in a human trafficking network.

One in four Swedes is in favour of prohibiting the building of more minarets in the country, a new poll shows.

What's on in Sweden: Backstreet Boys are back in Stockholm, The Gothia Barber Girls harmonise in Gothenburg and Pete Doherty serenades Malmo.

No doubt that when the year's-best lists roll out later this month, the morose, atmospheric electronica project Fever Ray will earn accolades as one of the 2009's most stylish - and spooky - musical acts.

Patrik Lundstrom, chief executive of Obducat AB, has announced his intention to leave the nano-imprint lithography supplier.