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 Swedes are paying tribute to one of the Nordic country's most beloved artists and comedians, Robert Broberg, who passed away in the early hours of Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20150721/sweden-remembers-popular-folk-legend Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:57:06 +0200 sweden-remembers-popular-folk-legend As The Local launches in Denmark we catch up with some Danes who have swapped smørrebrød for smörgås to find out the pros and cons of life over on the Swedish side of the bridge. https://www.thelocal.se/20140625/bridge-malmo-copenhagen Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:59:00 +0200 bridge-malmo-copenhagen Coca-Cola said it would have been "too provocative" to include Muhammad in a Swedish publicity campaign in which the US beverage giant replaced its curlicue logo with some of the most common names of young Swedes. https://www.thelocal.se/20130503/47696 Fri, 03 May 2013 17:12:00 +0200 47696 A local politician and university lecturer who sent a racist email to a student has been readmitted to the Centre Party in Rättvik, central Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20130309/46632 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:05:00 +0100 46632 Veteran Swedish athletics coach Peter Eriksson has come under fire in the UK for "ridiculous" decisions about which athletes will represent Britain at the upcoming European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20130220/46294 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:08:00 +0100 46294 A grandmother's quick walk with her dog through a park in western Sweden took longer than expected last week after she stopped to help another woman give birth in the grass. https://www.thelocal.se/20110817/35588 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:44:00 +0200 35588 Charges stemming from sexually suggestive text messages sent to a 15-year-old Swedish girl by a teacher-in-training will not likely stop him from receiving his teaching licence. https://www.thelocal.se/20110314/32576 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:16:00 +0100 32576 Ida Ingemarsdotter and Charlotte Kalla combined to hand Sweden the gold medal from the women's team sprint event at the world Nordic ski championships on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20110302/32364 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:02:00 +0100 32364 Retailing giant Ikea will launch a section to sell used Ikea products with Swedish online classified ad site Blocket. https://www.thelocal.se/20100830/28668 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:03:00 +0200 28668 Sweden has laid claim to a rare animal sensation this week: the birth of two tapirs at different zoos, a male and female respectively, out of about only 30 around the world in captivity annually. https://www.thelocal.se/20100719/27876 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:33:00 +0200 27876 Nine people were injured early on Saturday morning when a bus drove into a ditch on the E6 motorway, north of the village of Tanumshede in Bohuslän in western Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20100327/25762 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:22:00 +0100 25762 When pest control workers were asked to help remove a dangerously long icicle hanging from a building in Norrköping in eastern Sweden, they took the unusual step of shooting it down with a rifle. https://www.thelocal.se/20100213/24964 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:01:00 +0100 24964 An artist from southern Sweden has been charged with assault for spray painting four women while in a drunken stupor. https://www.thelocal.se/20100112/24332 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:47:00 +0100 24332 The day after scooping up one of Sweden’s most prestigious athletic awards, biathlete Helena Jonsson won the season-opening World Cup 15km race in Östersund in northern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20091203/23624 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:44:00 +0100 23624 Swedish military commanders have come under fire for punishing a group of conscripts by forcing them to pull down their pants and crawl in the grass. https://www.thelocal.se/20091019/22750 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +0200 22750 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. This is Fuglesang's second space mission. https://www.thelocal.se/20090829/21758 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:20:00 +0200 21758 An aggressive conspiracy of ravens is wreaking havoc on farmers in central Sweden, having killed more than a dozen animals in the last 3 months. https://www.thelocal.se/20090513/19432 Wed, 13 May 2009 17:19:00 +0200 19432 Sweden’s main crime prevention agency has proposed fighting football hooliganism using methods similar to those employed to fight organized drug gangs. https://www.thelocal.se/20080915/14330 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:07:00 +0200 14330 The ombudsman against discrimination due to sexual orientation (HomO) is taking the case of a lesbian couple from northern Sweden who claim they don’t have equal access to artificial insemination procedures. https://www.thelocal.se/20080902/14074 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:00 +0200 14074 Wrestler Ara Abrahamian took bronze on Thursday in the men's Greco-Roman wrestling competition in Beijing, but the Swede threw his medal away in protest following a highly controversial semi-final defeat. https://www.thelocal.se/20080814/13690 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:49:00 +0200 13690