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 A man from central Sweden has been convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl - and filming the incident on his phone. https://www.thelocal.se/20140626/man-sentenced-for-filming-rape Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:47:00 +0200 man-sentenced-for-filming-rape A man has died after he was run over by two trains on two separate tracks in the southern Stockholm suburb of Huddinge on Wednesday night, after witnesses say he fell on the tracks. https://www.thelocal.se/20131127/man-hit-by-two-trains-near-stockhom Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:11:00 +0100 man-hit-by-two-trains-near-stockhom The Swedish authorities could step in and confiscate a cat called Ove and try to get him to breed with a Stockholm woman's cat, after she reported a contract breach and fears her love-sick pet cat will start misbehaving soon. https://www.thelocal.se/20130814/49642 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:56:00 +0200 49642 Police have called several students in for questioning after an apparently home-made explosive device blew up in the hand of a teacher at a Stockholm school, with the blast injuring at least eleven students and two more adults on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20130130/45912 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:50:00 +0100 45912 An explosion at a school in suburban Stockholm on Wednesday has left at least nine students and two teachers injured, according to police. https://www.thelocal.se/20130130/45902 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:20:00 +0100 45902 Police shot one man and arrested four on Friday after an armed robbery on a jewellery store in a Södertälje shopping mall one hour south of Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20130105/45434 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:02:00 +0100 45434 A man caught taking pictures of bikini-clad women and children at a beach near Stockholm has been acquitted, as the court ruled the victims were unaware of the pictures being taken until after the secret-snapper was exposed. https://www.thelocal.se/20111205/37732 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:00:00 +0100 37732 Police are investigating a suspected murder after a man was found dead near a road in the Stockholm suburb of Huddinge on Sunday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20110109/31328 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:38:00 +0100 31328 Corpses at the morgue of the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, have started to rot due to a breakdown in procedures related to renovation of the facility. https://www.thelocal.se/20100126/24602 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:00 +0100 24602 A high-ranking Stockholm-area politician has been fined for attempting to purchase sex from an underage girl involved in a high-profile teen sex ring. https://www.thelocal.se/20091110/23170 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:38:00 +0100 23170 Swedish emergency services are to launch an internal investigation after a one-year-old boy who received second degree burns was denied an ambulance, reported Aftonbladet newspaper. https://www.thelocal.se/20090809/21188 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:23:00 +0200 21188 The commander on duty of a Swedish detention centre has been charged after a 29-year-old inmate was forcefully stripped, handcuffed, and doused with a fire hose. https://www.thelocal.se/20081114/15686 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:55:00 +0100 15686 A woman's body has been found in a park in Huddinge, a suburb of Stockholm. Police believe she was murdered. https://www.thelocal.se/20070725/7994 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:25:00 +0200 7994 An man being held at a remand centre near Stockholm was left out all night in an exercise yard, as temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees centigrade. https://www.thelocal.se/20070215/6415 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:37:00 +0100 6415 A mail truck carrying valuables was robbed on Monday in Dalarö, south of Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20060725/4417 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:18:00 +0200 4417