https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedish apparel juggernaut H&M made its Academy Awards debut on Sunday night, in the shape of American actress Helen Hunt's midnight blue gown on the red carpet. https://www.thelocal.se/20130225/46398 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:15:00 +0100 46398 A man from northern Sweden has been fooled into paying large sums of cash to have money "laundered" after a trickster convinced him that having the stained notes cleaned would earn him millions https://www.thelocal.se/20120229/39410 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:30:00 +0100 39410 More than one hundred Swedes who were defrauded of tens of millions of kronor by a group of phony stockbrokers will likely never see their money again. https://www.thelocal.se/20091118/23348 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:02:00 +0100 23348 A well-dressed Swedish fraudster treated bank employees to cake as thanks for helping him make off with 12 million kronor ($1.75 million) in cash and gold. He has now been sentenced to eight years in prison. https://www.thelocal.se/20091116/23294 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:00 +0100 23294 Sweden's inflation rate continued to fall in July as consumer prices dropped for the fourth straight month, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20090811/21238 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:52:00 +0200 21238 A cunning internet con artist posing as a love-struck woman from Ghana has succeeded in defrauding a number of Swedish men of hundreds of thousands of kronor. https://www.thelocal.se/20090715/20682 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:47:00 +0200 20682 Inspired by Barack Obama’s ascendency to the White House, Cyndee Peters, a legendary Stockholm-based gospel singer from North Carolina, has rented out the city’s famed Konserthuset for a musical gala to honour the United States’ 44th president. https://www.thelocal.se/20090115/16946 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:13:00 +0100 16946