Sweden News

“Call me a skeptic skeptic - I smell a hoax.”

The "death of manmade global warming theory" lasted 70 minutes last week, showing the amazing power of the Web to amplify, and then dismantle, fictions at light speed. via New York Times

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 10 Two Swedish teenagers were charged Friday with planning a shooting in imitation of a Finnish boy who killed eight people and himself people at his school. via Earth Times

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 10 About 50,000 people in Sweden -- including only 11 18-year-olds and a handful of younger teenagers -- have licenses for pistols and revolvers. via Earth Times

Swedish contract electronics manufacturing and prototyping group PartnerTech AB has sealed a deal with set top box specialist Pace Micro Technology to provide a fast-turnaround prototyping service for the ... via DesignLines

The number of convicted murderers being sentenced to life imprisonment has fallen dramatically following the Swedish Supreme Court's decision in March that the standard penalty for murder should be ten years in ... via The Local - Sweden's News in English

“We look forward to working across the Atlantic with you all, especially with the young people, because it's very important to us.”

De Pere and Amal, Sweden, are thousands of miles and seven time zones apart, but they have at least one thing in common. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

“These two boys are clearly inspired by the events in Finland”

STOCKHOLM, Sweden : Two teenage boys, allegedly inspired by the recent school shooting in Finland, were arrested Friday for conspiring to murder a school principal and a janitor, police officials and media ... via International Herald Tribune

“Half of chemistry is still undiscovered. We don't know what it looks like and that's the challenge”

Pekka Pyykko talks to Caroline Moore about relativistic effects and the thrill of theoretical chemistry Pekka Pyykko Pekka Pyykko is professor of chemistry at the University of Helsinki where he studies ... via Chemistry World

Swedish construction and civil engineering group Peab AB said on Friday that it has won a contract to expand the University Hospital MAS in Malmo, Sweden. via Customer Interaction Solutions

“Some politicians said I should get psychiatric help, others questioned whether I should be a parliamentary candidate because I am a religious person”

Denmark was the crucible for the Muhammad cartoon crisis that enraged the Islamic world. via Buzzle.com

Kam Leung emigrated from Indonesia to Australia in 2003. While the 24-year-old has earned enough as a cook in the Sydney suburb of Epping to think about buying a house, he says he won't vote on Nov. via Bloomberg

“It is now also common to recruit a head of security to deal with these questions. If an employee discovers phoney invoices for example, the security expert will report to the police. Then the employee won't risk being threatened”

To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. via The Local - Sweden's News in English

DEATH BREATH: Stockholm Concert Footage, Photos Available - Nov. 7, 2007 Fan-filmed video footage of DEATH BREATH - the Swedish old-school death metal project featuring former ENTOMBED drummer and main ... via BlabberMouth.net

Hoganas AB today announces that Per Engdahl will take up the position as responsible for the Hoganas Asia Region from the 1st of January 2008. via Earth Times

Like many other countries in Europe, Sweden is a multicultural nation. Karin Erlandsson, my guide from Malmo Tourism, Sweden's second largest city, pointed out that a total of 162 countries are represented ... via The Reporter

“They're both trying to mark their positions here.”

STOCKHOLM, Sweden : German truckmaker MAN AG has used its ownership rights to take a seat on the nomination committee of former takeover target Scania AB, the Swedish company said Wednesday. via International Herald Tribune

The Court of Appeal has upheld a District Court decision to sentence a 25-year-old man to 11 years in prison for the murder of a Croatian au pair in Gothenburg in April. via The Local - Sweden's News in English

“The same applies to China, where the outbound market is growing off a small base very rapidly. If they identify with our brand at home, it's good for our business.”

HONG KONG/MUMBAI - Global hoteliers are riding a building boom in Asia, and using plush new hotels as giant, living advertisements to lure newly rich Chinese and Indians to their U.S. and European properties. via International Business Times

New York Magazine agreed Tuesday to stop accepting sex ads after the local chapter of a women's rights group threatened protests outside the popular weekly publication. via The Star Online

A man is to be prosecuted for murdering a 20-year-old woman at a student residence in Jonkoping, southern Sweden, in September. via The Local - Sweden's News in English