Published: 19 Mar 09 22:35 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/18336/20090319/
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Tingeling tingeling - It’s the song all of Sweden is singing. But laughing at Russia’s national anthem and emotionally charged symbols is just not funny, writes Sweden-based translator Anna Titova.
The case of the stabbing death of 23-year-old "Romario" Ibrahim Ali will be continued in the Svea Court of Appeal. Prosecutor Ewa Tvengström has appealed the acquittals of the three suspects in the case. READ »
Police and other emergency vehicles regularly exceed speed limits on Sweden's roads. Many are caught on camera. READ »
Former Abba member Björn Ulvaeus has gained permission to build a home and studio on Furillen, an island off Gotland. Ulvaeus has therefore been given an exemption from strict coastal planning regulations. READ »
A Polish man wearing a priest's cassock tried to smuggle 600 grammes of amphetamines through Trelleborg harbour in southern Sweden on Friday. READ »
Swedish vegetable prices have risen 15.6 percent over the past year and are at now at their highest for 15 years, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden. READ »
Swedish swimwear firm Panos Emporio has come out strongly in defence of its marketing material following allegations of sexism from a leading advertising watchdog. READ »
Researchers from Uppsala University have helped reveal that an old collection of fossils sitting in storage in the United States actually belong to a massive prehistoric predator previously unknown to archeologists. READ »
Police in Malmö claim a recent wave of deliberately set fires in the city’s heavily-immigrant Rosengård neighbourhood constitutes an act of retaliation for recent arrests. READ »
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