Vastmanlands, Sweden News

Eight years into their career, the Hives rose from garage rock stalwarts to one of the trendiest bands of the early 2000s, along with the Strokes and the White Stripes.

A study commissioned by the National Public Health Institute has found that the number of obese and overweight ten-year-olds is higher in Bollnas, Vasteras and Ystad than in Karlstad and Umea.

Imagine a world in which you can discuss health concerns with a nurse or talk to your child's teacher about his progress, all through your TV.

A Swedish newspaper has finally resolved the gripping YouTube mystery of an errant frisbee that struck a young man's face, causing him to spill a drink down the front of his shirt and go ballistic.

Tonight's W.A.S.P. concert at Sigurdsgatan 25 in Vasteras, Sweden was cancelled due to "technical issues" . W.A.S.P. will hit the road in the U.S. in February 2010.

Candlelight Records has set a January 26, 2010 North American release date for "After" , the new album from former EMPEROR vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn .

The Svea Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a prison sentence for Thomas Jisander , who was convicted in 2008 for embezzling 20 million kronor in the so-called Trustor affair.

Swedish thrash metal band CARNAL FORGE returned to the studio in June month to record the vocals for a new track called "Blood War" . The song will appear on the band's next album, tentatively due in January 2010.

Entrepreneurism and free markets work. Johann Norberg from Sweden at Cato institute says entrepreneur is a hero.

A number of motorists were left needing hospital treatment on Thursday morning as icy road conditions caused accidents across Sweden.

A loose monetary policy that created lots of cheap money, government interventions into the housing market, and the hubris of Wall Street firms deemed "too big to fail" combined to send the world economy into a tailspin, argues Swedish author Johan Norberg.

What is your idea of economics? What good is this branch of social science for the ordinary, non-business people? For many, economics evokes the notion of opportunity, employment and financial security.

Another child has been infected with a strain of multiresistant bacteria at the same hospital in central Sweden where three newborns died from similar infections in August.

Sweden has awarded a contract extension to Saab to continue its ongoing logistics support services for the Swedish armed forces.

Sept. 15, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of the collapse of U.S. financial giant Lehman Bros., which caused deep, worlwide reverberations.

Four people - including the wife of the victim - have been arrested for their involvement in the murder of a 45-year-old business man outside his home in Fagersta in central Sweden in April.

A baby that was infected with a deadly strain of multiresistant bacteria was kept in a ward with other premature babies for almost an entire day, according to a report in the Aftonbladet newspaper.

A 55-year-old man has died from suspected swine flu , the Vastmanland regional health authority has announced.

Three newborn children have died at Vasteras hospital in central Sweden following infection with a strain of multiresistant bacteria.

After three previous attempts this week, the Discovery space shuttle has finally blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang and six Americans on board.